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An official Ambassador for the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, Andres Roots (his real name!) is a slide guitarist from Tartu, Estonia whose music has received airplay on five continents and whose Golden Disc-earning 2016 LP “Roots Music” remains the only blues album ever to top the sales charts in the Baltics. In March 2025, Roots will be on the road in the UK to promote the live album "Royal Spa Blues", recorded in Royal Leamington Spa in July 2024.We had him on at Marsden Mechanics and he was AMAZING!
Over the years, the former Bullfrog Brown guitarist and songwriter has performed in the USA and throughout most of Europe, with the book “100 Years of Estonian Music” introducing him as the country's “internationally best-known player of pure blues”. Roots' current solo work has nevertheless invoked comparisons with not just the heyday of Mississippi Delta Blues but also with Davy Graham, Leo Kottke, Ry Cooder, and even acoustic Led Zeppelin.
"It’s almost as if muddy waters were flowing into the Gulf of Riga. Musicians of this sort run counter to all expectations, and upset various purists." - Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker, USA
"You could be forgiven for thinking your ears or eyes deceive you, given it sounds like either there are two musicians/guitars involved, or he has six fingers on each hand... Yeah; he’s a bit good." - Ross Muir, FabricationsHQ, UK
"Pushing the edges of true, pure, raw blues with an apparent self-assurance and ability... Delivering fresh blues with its own distinct innovative twist and purpose."- Iain Patience, Blues Matters!, UK
https://andresroots.bandcamp.com
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Smile Bar & Venue, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
