Hans Theessink

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Hans Theessink at the Vienna City Festival (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Call me
  AT 32 04/12/1992 (4 weeks)
Crazy Moon
  AT 48 10/01/1995 (1 week)
Bridges
  AT 48 03/21/2004 (8 weeks)
Slow train
  AT 16 04/06/2007 (6 weeks)
Visions (with Terry Evans )
  AT 8th 04/18/2008 (5 weeks)
Birthday bash
  AT 20th 06/12/2009 (5 weeks)
Everyone Remixed
  AT 14th 08/05/2011 (8 weeks)
Delta Time (with Terry Evans & Ry Cooder )
  AT 31 05.10.2012 (4 weeks)
Wishing Well
  AT 27 04/19/2013 (3 weeks)
65 birthday bash
  AT 23 04/18/2014 (3 weeks)
True & Blue - Live (with Terry Evans)
  AT 15th 05/01/2015 (2 weeks)
70 birthday bash
  AT 35 April 19, 2019 (2 weeks)

Hans Theessink (* 5. April 1948 in Enschede , The Netherlands ) is a Dutch Blues - guitarist , singer and songwriter who in since 1982 Vienna lives. He interprets classical blues and folk songs as well as his own compositions.

Life

Inspired by recordings by blues musicians like Big Bill Broonzy and Leadbelly , Theessink taught himself to play guitar, as well as mandolin and banjo, in the early 1960s . In the 1960s he started as a street musician and performed with the Silly Skiffle Group in his home country and in neighboring Germany. In 1970 Theessink moved to Denmark as a teacher and made his first recording with Next Morning at Sunrise . Since then he has released numerous albums and performs regularly at important blues, jazz and folk festivals in Europe and America.

Theessink has been working with tuba player Jon Sass since 1986 . Theessink made appearances with his formation Hans Theessink & Blue Groove. In 1994 the solo album Hard Road Blues was released , on which only the voice and guitar of Hans Theessink can be heard. In 1995 the instructional video Hooked on the Blues was released in America . Charles Brown sings the Theessink song Love Sweet Love on the album Lifeline (1998) .

In 2001 he received the Golden Town Hall Man of the City of Vienna and has performed with the Hans Theessink Band since 2004 . In the CD Slow Train , published in 2007, Theessink also works with singers from southern Africa . At a concert in Vienna in 1979 he met his current wife and manager Milica Djokic and in 1982 moved to the Austrian capital.

A few weeks before his death, the singer-songwriter Georg Danzer gave him his favorite guitar with the addition that he should take good care of his "baby". On June 29, 2007, Theessink played this guitar live for the first time - including the Danzer song Freiheit.

Music genre

Theessink mainly plays on acoustic instruments and does not use digital effects in his recordings either. He is known worldwide as a significant stylistic innovator of acoustic country blues and is one of the few blues musicians to reach a wider audience in the German-speaking world. He has enriched his personal style with elements of “roots” traditions such as New Orleans jazz, folk, gospel, soul, Cajun and African music.

Discography

Theessink in the Wiener Konzerthaus (2012)
  • Next Morning at Sunrise (1970)
  • Class Lottery (1976)
  • Slow and Easy (1978)
  • Late Last Night (1980)
  • Antoon met 'n bok (1981)
  • Cushioned for a Soft Ride Inside (1982)
  • Titanic (1983)
  • All Night Long, together with Peter Ratzenbeck live at the Wiener Metropol (1985)
  • Baby Wants to Boogie (1987)
  • Johnny & The Devil (1989)
  • Call Me (1992)
  • Hans Theessink & Blue Groove: Live (1993)
  • Hard Road Blues (1994)
  • Crazy Moon (1995)
  • Hooked on the Blues (Guitar Instruction DVD) (1995)
  • Journey On (1997)
  • Blue Grooves from Vienna (1998)
  • RTL 3 - Guitar x 3 (1998)
  • Lifeline (1998)
  • Songs from the Southland (2003)
  • Bridges (2004)
  • Live in Concert: A Blues & Roots Revue (DVD) (2004)
  • Slow Train (2007)
  • Hans Theessink & Terry Evans : Visions (2008)
  • Birthday Bash (2009)
  • Jedermann Remixed (2011)
  • Hans Theessink & Terry Evans feat. Ry Cooder : Delta Time (2012)
  • Wishing Well (2013)
  • Slow Train (2013)
  • 65 Birthday Bash (2014)
  • Hans Theessink & Terry Evans: True & Blue - Live (2015)

literature

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  1. ↑ Hans Theessink in the Austrian charts
  2. ^ Peter Stachel: Hans Theessink. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Theessink, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Enschede , the Netherlands