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The bourlingueur of the blues

In front of one numerous public, most mulhousien of the bluesman, Guy Roel came invited by the FNAC to present its last recording, baptized " Blues Travels 96 ". During a mini concert, regrettably frustrating, the gentleman to bourlingueur led(drove) the auditors on the side streets of the blues which feel(smell) good Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Muddy Water, Smug persons Waller.

Difficult for the man for the guitar over the shoulder and be put on(beaten) by a felt-tip to pass unnoticed. This musician has the rock and the jazz stuck on the skin since good around thirty years. Having rolled the bump on all the roads of the world there are of all the festivals, the biggest except that of Mulhouse, but nobody is a seer in his country. Fortunately, the bluesman companion of the biggest, Bob Marley or Johny Nash among others, does not stop(arrest) in that. He prefers to go to ressourcer in the African vibrations of Mozambique before going to join soon his accomplice Philippe Hammel in New-Orleans. He admits to have gone there never and " nevertheless everything left from there. It will be a real discovery. "

In man orchestrate, Guy Roel made blow on Saturday the wind of the blues and the soul with talent, dexterity and a lot of humor. " If the river was some whiskey and me a small duck, I would dive there... " He likes humming with mockery. This evening, regrettably for him, the hour was in the mineral water, but the public was allowed make drunk the rhythms of a bluesman in stroll.

Guy Roel made blow the breeze of the blues