Aynsley Lister: Aynsley Lister


Aynsley Lister : Aynsley Lister
RUF 1031

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10.00 Euro




Release date

2/1999

Release Notes

Aynsley Lister is the brightest new star on the current blues scene. A fine singer and a great guitarist, Aynsley has youth (he's still only 20 years old), good looks and outrageous amounts of talent on his side. That killer combination always has it's rewards and the singer/guitar player has now signed an international record deal with RUF RECORDS.

His eponymous, JIM GAINES-produced debut for the label (his third album release to date) is the result. If his earlyer albums (released on Tasty Records) laid the foundations for his current club and tour successes, Aynsley Lister confirms the guitarist as one of the artists (along with the likes of LARRY GARNER, BERNARD ALLISON, JOHNNY LANG and KENNY WAYNE SHEPERD) who have come to best represent the future direction of the blues into the next Millenium.

Based in Leicester began playing guitar at the age of 8, teaching himself to play from old blues records and listening to the recordings of the first wave of British blues heroes: "ERIC CLAPTON was a very big early influence" he told BLUEPRINT MAGAZINE "that's where I learnt a lot of my basic solo stuff from. That's where I got the framework of my lead guitar work and you can hear a few phrases even now."
He played his first semi-pro gig at age 13 and by 1994 when he visited California, was "sitting in" with a West cost blues band and playing support to COCO MONTOYA's new band at the famous Lou's Bar at Pier 49 in San Francisco.
As for many other young players, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN was also a major influence, though, as Aynsley told BLUEPRINT, "I have always tried to be an individual and do my own thing. I'd rather not join the queue to do the same as everyone else." That individualty has found him happily playing acoustic country blues as well as the "spine tingling" electric solo that have quickly become his trademark.

Appearing at the last year's COLNE R&B FESTIVAL, Aynsley was talent-spotted by THOMAS RUF, head of RUF RECORDS, who invited him and his band to tour as a european support act for american bluesman BERNARD ALLISON (son of the late great LUTHER ALLISON). A tour during that same year with WALTER TROUT resulted in Aynsley and WALTER jamming together on stage "We did a call and return thing, which was really brilliant" he says "It was the best thing I'd ever done and we became good friends." WALTER was so knocked out with Aynsley's playing that he has reprised that earlier jam session with a dynamic duet on the new album titled "Since I Met You, Baby".


Tracklist

  1. Got It Bad
  2. Angel O' Mine
  3. Without You
  4. She's A Woman
  5. Five Long Years
  6. Won't Take U Back
  7. Soundman
  8. Need Her So Bad
  9. Since I Met You Baby
  10. I Believe
  11. All Along The Watchtower
  12. Identity Blues