Kai Strauss

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Kai Strauss (2017)

Kai Strauss (born May 15, 1970 in Lengerich (Westphalia) ) is a German blues musician , singer and guitarist.

Musical career

Kai Strauss is one of the small circle of European blues musicians who American colleagues and critics attest to have an authentic style. Musically raised in Germany's blues stronghold Osnabrück , Strauss toured Europe from 1995 to 2010 with the band The Bluescasters , which he founded, and the Texan singer and blues harp player Memo Gonzalez. Kai Strauss has been performing under his own name since 2010. Strauss' regular activities also include musical guest appearances on recordings or at concerts and tours by national and international artists such as B. Lurrie Bell (Chicago), Mike Wheeler (Chicago), Tony Vega (Houston), Big Daddy Wilson (Edenton, North Carolina), Matthew Skoller (Chicago), Christian Rannenberg (Germany) and others. v. a. In 2014 the guitarist and singer founded the formation Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All-Stars and has released four CDs and one LP in his role as band leader to date. According to the specialist magazine Bluesnews , Kai Strauss is now one of the big names in the European blues scene. Five German Blues Awards, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019, magazine covers and concerts in over 20 countries are further key dates in Strauss' career.,

Awards

  • 2014: Blues in Germany BiG Award "Best Album" Kai Strauss - Electric Blues
  • 2015: Blues in Germany BiG Award "Best Album" Kai Strauss - I Go By Feel
  • 2016: German Blues Awards "Best Band" - Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All-Stars
  • 2017: German Record Critics' Award: 1st place in the "Blues" category, best list 03/2017
  • 2018: German Blues Awards winner in the category "Guitar"
  • 2019: German Blues Awards "Best Band" - Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All-Stars

Discography

year Interpreter title Label Remarks
1995 The Bluescasters Drivin 'With ... BC 30395
1995 BB & The Blues Shacks Jive talk, slow walk Stumble, CD ST 04 / ET 09 Guitar on: Butterscotch
1996 The Pink Piano Allstars Fool's Paradise HVR 0596
1996 Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters Let's All Get Drunk And Get Tattoed Stumble CD ST 05 / ET 10
1997 Tommy Schneller Blown Away Out Of Space Records, 9702 Guitar on: Part Time Love
1998 Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters 10,000 miles Stumble CD ST 13 / ET 22
2000 Ludwig Seuss Be my guest Mystery LC 07682 as a guest musician
2002 Big bones So low Out of space as a guest musician
2003 Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters Big Time In Big D Continental Blue Heaven, CBHCD 2008
2003 Various artists Blue Monday Jam Anniversary Night Pogo pop
2006 Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters Live In The UK Crosscut Records , ccd 11092
2007 Doug Jay & The Blue Jays Under The Radar CrossCut Records, ccd 11094 Guitar on: Under The Radar and If It's Love
2007 Ludwig Seuss B3 bounce Downhill Records, Munich as a guest musician
2009 Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters Dynomite CrossCut Records, ccd 11099
2010 The Kai Strauss Band feat. Jeffrey Amankwa A good day 5 track promo EP
2012 The Kai Strauss Band This time Time zone TZ735 produced by Ali Neander ( Rodgau Monotones )
2014 Kai Strauss Electric blues Continental Europe, CECD 49 Guests: Sugar Ray Norcia , Darrell Nulisch , Sax Gordon, Keith Dunn, Christian Rannenberg , Doug Jay
2014 Chad Strentz Shake down TreeHouse44 as a guest musician
2014 Jerimiah Marques Down by the river TreeHouse44 as a guest musician
2015 Kai Strauss I go by feel Continental Blue Heaven, CBHCD 2027 Guests: Mike Wheeler, Sax Gordon, Tony Vega, Tommie Harris, Christian Bleiming
2015 Jimmy Reiter Told You So PogoPop / membrane Guitar on: Instinctively Wrong and The Only Thing That's Wrong With You (Is Him)
2015 Big Daddy Wilson Time Dixiefrog DFGCD 8775 Guitar on: Dead End Road
2016 Various artists 30 Years Blue Monday Blues Jam Pogo pop
2017 Kai Strauss Getting staff Continental Blue Heaven, CBHCD 2030 Guests: Big Daddy Wilson, Tony Vega, Sax Gordon
2017 Christian Rannenberg Old school blues piano stylings Acoustic Music (Rough Trade), 2017 as a guest musician
2017 Klaus Kilian Rough stuff Blues-O-Matic Records LP 01-17 as a guest musician, only available as a 10 "LP
2018 Kai Strauss The Blues Is Handmade Continental Blue Heaven, CBHLP 2030 A compilation with titles from the first three CD releases published only on 180g vinyl.
2018 Tommie Harris with the R&B Caravan feat. Kai Strauss Alabama Hambone Styx 1093 as a guest musician
2019 Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All Stars Live in concert Continental Blue Heaven, CBHCD 2032 Deluxe 2 CD Set, Fold-Out Digipack, Liner Notes by Otis Grand

literature

  • Michael Rauhut , Reinhard Lorenz (ed.): I've had the blues for a while - traces of music in Germany . With a foreword by Wim Wenders . Berlin: Links 2008. S. 327, 329. ISBN 978-3-86153-495-2
  • Volker Albold, Winfried Siebers, Uwe Zagratzki: The blue miracle: Blues from Germany . Eutin: Lumpeter & Lasel 2010, pp. 265-267. ISBN 978-3-9812961-5-0

Filmography

  • Why Do Germans Love The Blues? Documentary by Tino Gonzales, Micha Klinksik, Hubl Greiner, 2016
    The film premiered on the occasion of the Freiburg Blues'n Roots Festival 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BLUES JUNCTION Productions - The Best of 2014 ... So Far. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Super User: Freiburg Blues' N Roots Festival 2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 11, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fba.org
  3. ↑ Tom Carlsson: Osnabrücker Blueslawine - Mike Wheeler. Accessed April 11, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Tony Vega Band feat. Kai Strauss 2016 - Bluesology . In: Bluesology . ( bluesology.eu [accessed April 11, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Kai Strauss: The pure passion. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ bluesnews 84. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Blues Inspiration Stage - 29/07/2017 - LCTO. Retrieved July 26, 2017 (French).
  8. ↑ BiG Award 2014 “Best Album”: Kai Strauss - Electric Blues . In: Blues in Germany . February 1, 2015 ( big-blues.de [accessed July 26, 2017]).
  9. ↑ BiG Award 2015 “Best Album”: Kai Strauss - I go by feel . In: Blues in Germany . March 23, 2016 ( big-blues.de [accessed July 26, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Winners and Laureates 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; Retrieved July 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blues-baltica.de
  11. ↑ Alm: best list 3-2017. Retrieved on August 19, 2017 (German).
  12. ^ Baltic Blues eV: Winner of the German Blues Challenge 2018. In: www.blues-baltica.de. Baltic Blues eV, accessed on July 19, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ German Blues Awards 2019, winners. Baltic Blues eV, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Why Do Germans Love the Blues? In: HUBL GREINER . ( hubl.com [accessed July 26, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blues musician, singer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengerich (Westphalia)