Name: Jim Bruce
Occupation: Travelling Bluesman
If you're travelling through Europe, you might come across a rare sight these days
a man dressed in black suit, white shirt ,black tie and wide-brimmed black hat playing old acoustic blues. Always fascinated by old-style acoustic
blues and ragtime guitar picking, Jim decided to make it his living quite late in life.
While in demand as a performer at private functions, he plays in the city streets two or three times a week " in the old tradition " and attracts guitar students of all ages.
His guitar style is driving and complex, incorporating both the ragtime styles of Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Blake Blind Boy Fuller and Big Bill Broonzy , and also the blues styles of Lightnin' Hopkins and Robert Johnson.
Jim plays his own composition in the video below ...
With a little help from a friend ......
Jim's Album Downloads
Wake Up, Walk Out
with Ken Mayall (nominated best blues harmonica player, UK 2000 )
A rich blend of blues and ragtime songs with virtuoso performances from Jim and Ken.
Songs ...
1. Livin' with the Blues - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
2. Mary - Lightnin' Hopkins
3. Baby's Gone - Brownie McGhee
4. Sportin' Life - Brownie McGhee
5. Statesboro Blues - Blind Wille McTell
6. Me and the Devil - Robert Johnson
7. This Road - Jim Bruce
8. Wallkin' Blues - Robert Johnson
9. That's Life - Ken Mayall
10. Key to the Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
11. Mobile Texas Line - Leroy Carr
12. Empty Chair - Ken Mayall
13. Every Day of the Week - Pink Anderson
14. So Much Trouble - Brownie McGhee
Click on Playlist below to see live versions of Livin' with the Blues, So Much Trouble and Baby"s Gone.
Download the album 'Wake Up, Walk Out "
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Download the album " Blues au Capitole "
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