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Alvin Youngblood Hart (55) hasn’t exactly been beating the boards of the Norwegian concert scene, but now he is finally ready for the Dark Season Blues. He has been called «The cosmic American lovechild of Howlin’ Wolf and Link Wray», and plays what he calls «hard americana».

Californian Hart is particularly inspired by blues pioneers including Blind Boy Fuller and Brownie McGhee. He released his debut album in 1996, the award winning «Big Mama’s Door». Apart from three tracks where he had some help from the master, Taj Mahal, this was an album which featured just Hart – his voice and acoustic guitar. Speaking of Hart, Mahal said that «The boy got thunder in his hands!».

Since his debut, he has only released four albums, the last of these in 2005. In 2006 he taught the actor Samuel L. Jackson to play guitar for the filming of «Black Snake Moan», and the year after he starred as a musician in «The Great Debaters», directed by Denzel Washington. When he isn’t playing, he spends time repairing old guitars in his wife’s workshop in Memphis. Over the last few years he has toured with Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory, which is a power-trio with Hart on the electric guitar, along with Fabio Drusin on the base and Silvano «Silver» Bassi on the drums.

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