Endorsement: G7th Capos!

With the G7th Performance 2 easily the most innovative and practical guitar capo on the market, Andres Roots has now happily and officially joined the G7th artist family - check out his Artist Page here!

Artist of the Year Nomination

Photo by Leif Laaksonen.

Andres Roots has been nominated for Male Artist of the Year by the Gloucester, UK-based Severn FM's Blues Hour radio show, along with Marty Manous, Troy Redfern, Kid Colling Cartel, Ash Wilson, Big Daddy Wilson, Chris Blevins, Drew Holcombe & the Neighbors, Ritchie Dave Porter, Gurf Morlix and Jim Keaveny. You can vote 'til the end of the year - just e-mail Dr Wart Hoover at blues(at)severnfm.com, with "bluesman" in the subject line and the name of your favourite nominee in the text portion of the message ;)

New Studio Track

The first Estonian Blues Challenge winners Tammepõld, Roots & Kadakas just finished recording a cover of the Willie Dixon classic "Little Red Rooster" - check it out below!

More Pühaste Pics, Riga Poster

Here's a few more pics by Asko-Romé Altsoo from Sawmill Roots Orchestra's Pühaste gig - and the poster for the upcoming festival in Riga, Latvia.

Barlova Photos

Here's a few photos from Andres Roots' solo show at Barlova in Tartu, by Maris Savik. Andres will be back at Barlova on December 14th!

Rare Acoustic Show Footage

Here's four acoustic numbers filmed during Andres Roots' solo performance at the Wild West Day in Palivere in July 2017: "Jook Jones", "Homesick Sam", "Build Me A Statue" and "Back At The Chicken Shack".