"Delta-style picking...flowing-molasses licks" – Living Blues"
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If Marty Christian’s music sounds like it comes from the back of a 1950’s Soul and Blues chitlin’ circuit juke joint, it’s probably because he spent his life traveling to hear and perform with some of the original musicians that made that music happen. The influence of Marty’s Blues is served up heavily flavored from performing and recording with musicians like Henry Gray – pianist from Howlin’ Wolf of Chess Records fame and Carol Fran the Gulf Coast Soul diva singer and pianist. Marty also has fronted his own bands - the Marty Christian Trio (Austin, TX) and Rue Boogaloo (Lafayette, LA) as well as performing extensively throughout the South and beyond.
His latest project, starting with the release of Rambling Blues (2018), puts him on his own to travel mostly as a solo artist to perform the songs of the early Blues masters like Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton while crossing paths with the early Electric Blues of Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf.
Despite Christian’s folkie sensibility, he also defies strict categorization. His vocals occasionally border on soul-ish and he dives into blues, swamp pop... at the drop of a hat.”- Offbeat, New Orleans, LA
“Christian's sweet, country-tinged voice glides over the easy shuffle ...” - Living Blues
"Christian achieves an artistic milestone..."
" - Offbeat, New Orleans, LA 2015
" - Offbeat, New Orleans, LA 2015
Marty Christian plays acoustic Blues with an energy and passion that draws heavily on the past and cuts through the present.
here's the press:
"Delta styled picking...flowing molasses licks... Bottom line, Marty Christian makes beautiful music, and Rambling Blues is another fine showcase of his artistic gifts. " - Living Blues
"Despite Christian’s folkie sensibility,
he also defies strict categorization..."
" - Offbeat, New Orleans, LA 2015
"James Taylor sometimes deceives himself into thinking he’s got the blues. If Sweet Baby James actually had them—or, more accurately, understood them—he’d probably sound a lot like guitarist Marty Christian” - Offbeat Magazine, 2007
“Contrary to the genre, there seems to be hope in these blues songs..."
" - The Ind, Lafayette, LA 2015.
"Underground Blues is everything that the blues should be" - Victory Review, April 2009
¨A compelling original repertoire” - Soul Bag - Paris, France, 2009
Rue Boogaloo Press:
"Smack dab in the middle of where Jimmy Reed, R.L. Burnside and the Meters would all crash and smash." - Dan Wilging, Offbeat Magazine Feb 2013
"Together they serve up a delicious stew of blues, funk, and zydeco that, at album's end, leaves this listener hungry for more. " - Living Blues, Melanie Young, August, 2012
"Delta styled picking...flowing molasses licks... Bottom line, Marty Christian makes beautiful music, and Rambling Blues is another fine showcase of his artistic gifts. " - Living Blues
"Despite Christian’s folkie sensibility,
he also defies strict categorization..."
" - Offbeat, New Orleans, LA 2015
"James Taylor sometimes deceives himself into thinking he’s got the blues. If Sweet Baby James actually had them—or, more accurately, understood them—he’d probably sound a lot like guitarist Marty Christian” - Offbeat Magazine, 2007
“Contrary to the genre, there seems to be hope in these blues songs..."
" - The Ind, Lafayette, LA 2015.
"Underground Blues is everything that the blues should be" - Victory Review, April 2009
¨A compelling original repertoire” - Soul Bag - Paris, France, 2009
Rue Boogaloo Press:
"Smack dab in the middle of where Jimmy Reed, R.L. Burnside and the Meters would all crash and smash." - Dan Wilging, Offbeat Magazine Feb 2013
"Together they serve up a delicious stew of blues, funk, and zydeco that, at album's end, leaves this listener hungry for more. " - Living Blues, Melanie Young, August, 2012