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The St. Johnny Band is made up of Bohemian musicians,
specializing in a variety of 50's American roots music including blues,
rock’n’roll and rockabilly. The band (from Czech Republic) is St. Johnny
(Stehlik Jan) on vocal and guitar, Charlie Slavik on vocal and harp and
Milan Schmidt on bass. Drawing from an arsenal of well known black blues
musicians (e.g. Mississippi John
Hurt, Big Bill
Broonzy, Lightnin’ Hopkins,
Muddy Waters,
Little Walter,
Jimmy Rogers) to their white colleagues
(e.g. Hollywood Fats, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley), this band has been
taking audiences for trip back to fifties since December 2004. His album
is a tribute to the old blues masters. '..."I’m always intrigued when
artists from outside the United States can perform blues with an
authentic sound. St. Johnny and Charlie Slavik from Czech Republic
really 'deliver the goods' on their CD 'These Times Are Gone'. This is
country blues the way I like it!...' ~~ by David Evans. |