A variety of original blues material recorded and written by young blues guitar virtuoso Krissy Matthews from the UK.

10 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Electric Blues, BLUES: Guitar Blues



Details:
Krissy came into the blues four years ago at the age of 11. Now 15 years old Krissy has performed various venues and festivals and managed to perform live on stage with John Mayall, Jeff Healey, Bernie Marsden and Larry Burton, as well as numerous other up and coming stars of the future. Krissy requarly tours in Scandinavia with his three piece rock blues band, which includes father Keith Matthews on Bass and Freddy Schaal on Drums. The live set is very heavily influenced on the late 60's. such as Jimi Hendrix and the Yardbirds, with high levels of energy put in by Krissy which feeds of the audience.

Blues Matters, the UK's biggest blues publication recently did a 7 page feature on Krissy and the blues.
Blues Autour Du Zinc fest in France recently described the band as "the highlight of the festival". Numerous other festivals such as the Monsteras Blues Festival in Sweden also said that. To celebrate the release of this CD, a Scandinavian summer tour for 2 weeks is booked in August as well as a European tour in October. The band will be getting over to the US next year. This year, 9 countries would have been played. These are UK, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Belgium, Germany and Holland.

Krissy has performed on various TV and Radio shows. These include twice on "God Morgen Norge", Norwegian breakfast TV, big articles in national norwegian papers such as Aftenposten, Dagbladet and Vaart Land. Krissy continues in Scandinavia to receive rave reviews from gigs and CD's, in alot of local and national papers. Norwegian BluesNews wrote up on Krissy on a double page. Radio shows include NRK Eldorado, NRK BluesAsylet, NRK Ostlendsendingen as well as numerous local others. English Radio included GTFM Blues Show, Wales and BBC Radio Northampton and Krissy is receiving great reviews in the british music magazines.

The first CD "Influences" is getting plays all across Europe and Scandinavia, although it was renamed "BluesBoy" for the Scandinavian Market. This is available on www.krissymatthews.com

This album was recorded February 2007 when Krissy was 14 at the Juke Joint Studios, Notodden, Norway.
Live on stage, the band is a 3 piece with the occasional hammond player sitting in, however, on the album keyboard and Sax player Mike Smith is on it, as well as some other subtleties

âWe went into "I'm Ready", and from the first note I was amazed. This kid was the real deal! He not only had the riffs, but he knew how to use them. After he finished, the crowd went nuts. This kid is definitely someone to watch...â Hitman Blues Band, USA

ââ¦a Blues Guitar Prodigyâ¦â Gloucester Blues Festival

ââ¦an artist to watch closely for in the futureâ¦â Blues in Britain

"...I could just tell, this guy has the feel..." Sherman Robertson

"...top of his class..." Blues Matters, UK

"...the future of british blues is very important, and with people like Krissy its looking very good..." Sam Kelly (5 times voted Britains best blues drummer)

"...sings soul live on stage like never before..." Oslo Paper

"...Oh Boy, this kid can play..." Hubert Sumlin

more info available on www.krissymatthews.com