{"id":4526,"date":"2013-04-05T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbar.cz\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:23:51","slug":"pred-smokin%c2%b4-joe-kubekem-vystoupi-prazsti-slow-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/novinky\/pred-smokin%c2%b4-joe-kubekem-vystoupi-prazsti-slow-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwyn Ashton and Slow Fingers will open for Smokin’ Joe Kubek"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The blues-rock band Slow Fingers<\/strong> from Prague will open the Monday blues night. They are inspired by Eric Clapton, B.B.King, Muddy Waters and S.R: Vaughan. Their program is made of pieces by their own and also covers of these legends. Gwyn Ashton<\/strong> is the other big name, who will open the concert! He is one of the biggest guitar players next to Smokin’ Joe Kubek and his band-partner Bnois King! They are coming on the 6th<\/sup> of May<\/strong> after many years back to the Czech Republic, to play for us the texas blues and boogie – organised by Prague Intl.Bluenights.<\/p>\n

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 ’70s and ’80s, including Al “TNT” Braggs, Little Joe Blue, and others. For his debut album he waited till 1991 to come out, all in the Steppin’ Out Texas Style<\/em>.<\/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 \u201cClose to the Bone\u201d.<\/em> The magazine Blues Revue said: \u201cThey are simply the best guitar tandem on this scene right now.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Kubek was here the last time in autumn 2005, at the festival Blues Alive in <\/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 ’60s and ’70s, Kubek’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 “Smokin’ Joe.” 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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blues-rock band Slow Fingers from Prague will open the Monday blues night. They are inspired by Eric Clapton, B.B.King, Muddy Waters and S.R: Vaughan. Their program is made of pieces by their own and also covers of these legends. Gwyn Ashton is the other big name, who will open the concert! He is one […]<\/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":[404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novinky"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","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=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}