Henry Heggen

Henry Heggen at the Holsten Brewery Festival 2016

Henry Heggen (born January 20, 1955 in Jacksonville , Florida ) is a singer and blues harp player. The passion and intensity with which he stands on stage also earned him the nickname Mr. Natural of the Blues . Blues harp players like Big Walter Horton , Sonny Boy Williamson I. , Sonny Terry and Little Walter influenced his harmonic playing.

Career

Henry Heggen grew up in Florida and later in London. There he met Chris Turner and learned to play the harp from him. He got into his band Have Mercy . He came to Germany in 1976 with the jug band Have Mercy and stayed. They played on the street and a little later also filled clubs across Germany. In 1978 Have Mercy broke up. Just a year later, Günther Brackmann and Henry Heggen decided to use their acoustic power electrically. The B. Sharp band was born. With this band he toured Europe and played as support a. a. for Joe Cocker , Mitch Ryder , Bo Diddley and Johnny Winter .

Today he is one of the best known and most popular harp players in Hamburg . Many musicians from the Hamburg scene like to play with him, such as the blues legend Abi Wallenstein or Inga Rumpf , on whose last record he recorded a few pieces.

His main area of activity is currently the band The Crazy Hambones . The band plays the blues; Members are Micha Maass (drums, vocals), Brian Barnett (guitar, vocals) and Henry Heggen (harp, lead vocals).

Discography

1977: Have Mercy, Boodlam (LP)
1978: Blues Delivery, Reuter house blues (LP)
1981: The Blammers, Hammer Blues (LP)
1981: B. Sharp, 1st LP (LP)
1982: B. Sharp, Suffer (SL)
1983: B. Sharp, You're making me mad (LP)
1983: B. Sharp, You're making me mad (SL)
1984: B. Sharp, Christmas (SL)
1987: Vince Weber, Boogie on a blue song (CD)
1991: B. Sharp, Here come's the blues again (CD)
1991: Frumpy, News (harp on "when the night comes") (CD)
1993: Have mercy, Have mercy (CD)
1993: Abi Wallenstein, two times 2 (CD)
1994: The Whatkeez, If You Could Look Inside Of Me Now (CD)
1995: Christian Willisohn, Blues on the world (CD)
1996: Abi Wallenstein, Blues Avenue (CD)
1996: Inga Rumpf, In The 25th Hour (CD)
1998: Boogie House, Just for fun (CD)
1999: Abi Wallenstein & Friends, for Hinz & Kunzt (CD)
2000: Bluephoria, love so good (CD)
2001: Andy Hart, Mad man Blues (CD)
2001: Heggen's Heroes, Making love in lola - live (CD)
2002: Boogie House, Cotton Club-Jam (CD)
2003: Abi Wallenstein, Step in time (CD)
2004: Zwick Allstars, Live in Hamburg (CD)
2005: Inga Rumpf, Easy in my soul (CD)
2007: Crazy Hambones, Blowin the family jewels (CD)
2010: Hole in the Roll
2014: Heggen - Maass - Pertiet, b.live (CD)

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personal data
SURNAME	Heggen, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mr. Natural of the Blues (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German blues interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jacksonville , Florida