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Peter Karp Band (Blues, Nashville, TN) Chosen: One of the 75 Modern Blues & Blues Rock Artists you Must Hear (link)

“Peter Karp is a star. From his muscular slide guitar soloing to his observational and oh-so-true songwriting, and, most of all, that soulful expressive voice of his, dripping with innuendo. Dude’s entertaining as hell.” Goldmine Magazine

Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist-Producer-bigtime blues man Peter Karp, born in Bergen County, NJ has carved out one epic career for himself. He was moved to an Alabama trailer park at nine years old, but found his way back to the northeast as a young man. He made his mark playing CBGBs, The Mudd Club and Folk City in Manhattan, sharing the stage and learning from Mink DeVille, Stray Cats, David Johansen and George Thorogood. Then he up and quit to become a film director before returning to music fulltime in the 1990s, befriending Rolling Stones lead guitarist Mick Taylor who flew in from London to play on his The Turning Point album. His 2010 and 2012 duet records with Canadian firecracker Sue Foley brought him a whole new audience, then a stunning series of solo albums in ’17, ’18 and ’20 cemented his reputation. He’s spent the past years tirelessly playing venues and festivals to a burgeoning fan base in Europe and the US. Karp continues to carve out his own unique niche, with a sound born in the swamps of New Jersey and the trailer parks of southern Alabama.

His thirteenth career album, Jersey Town, is a gritty, fierce homage to the state and the place where he honed his storytelling skills and aggressive guitar chops. The sound is real, relentless, jubilant, dark, tenacious, hard, hollow, and smart-ass. Eleven original songs about the people he played for, real and imagined, night after night in every shot and beer joint up and down the NJ Turnpike.

“Guys like Peter Karp, James Taylor and Bob Dylan embody Americana Blues, and us English guys are inspired by it.” – Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones

“Karp is his own man, an artist who blends roots music styles into something that transcends blues, country, R&B and swamp, John Prine’s wordplay, Joe Ely’s rocking instincts, Billy Joe Shaver’s fatalistic outlook.” – J. Poet – Allmusic.com