{"id":4249,"date":"2013-03-22T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbar.cz\/?post_type=program&#038;p=4249"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T09:21:02","slug":"smokin%c2%b4-joe-kubek-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/program\/smokin%c2%b4-joe-kubek-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"SMOKIN\u00b4 JOE KUBEK \/ USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest guitarplayers Smokin&#8217; Joe Kubek and his band-partner Bnois King are coming on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of May after many years back to the Czech Republic, to play for us the texas blues and boogie &#8211; organised by Prague Intl.Bluenights. Kubek from Pennsylvania lived his childhood in Texas and released his first record in 1985. He also played as a musician in the band of Freddie King. Kubek went on to forge his aggressive guitar style fronting his own band, and backing many legendary blues artists throughout the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s, including Al &#8220;TNT&#8221; Braggs, Little Joe Blue, and others. For his debut album he waited till 1991 to come out, all in the <em>Steppin&#8217; Out Texas Style. <\/em>Kubek was through all his records sticking to the Texas electro blues, which is a little bit changing having the jazz singer and guitarist Bnois King at his side. They just recorded an unplugged album<em> \u201cClose to the Bone\u201d.<\/em> The magazine Blues Revue said<em>: \u201c<\/em><em>They are simply the best guitar tandem on this scene right now<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Kubek was here the last time in autumn 2005, at the festival Blues Alive in<em> <\/em>\u0160umperk. Last year he released a new album \u201cLet that Right Hand Go\u201d with unreleased records from 80s. Influenced by the hard-rocking blues of the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s, Kubek&#8217;s guitar playing smolders with the same fire that burned in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter, earning him the well-deserved nickname &#8220;Smokin&#8217; Joe.&#8221; These days, after the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan and in the time, where Jonny Winter is not playing much, is Kubek the king of the texas guitar styl.<\/p>\n<p>SPECIAL GUEST: GWYN ASHTON<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORT: SLOW FINGERS<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest guitarplayers Smokin&#8217; Joe Kubek and his band-partner Bnois King are coming on the 6th of May after many years back to the Czech Republic, to play for us the texas blues and boogie &#8211; organised by Prague Intl.Bluenights. Kubek from Pennsylvania lived his childhood in Texas and released his first record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}