London Show Announced + New Live Track!

A London show has been just added for August 10th, so the upcoming tour in Ireland & England will proceed as follows:

Fri 8 Aug DUBLIN Howth Roots & Blues Festival @ The Summit Inn
Sat 9 Aug DUBLIN Howth Roots & Blues Festival @ The Harbour Bar
Sun 10 Aug LONDON The Lamb Surbiton 
Tue 12 Aug BOURNEMOUTH Bournemouth Brewery
Thu 14 Aug BRIGHTON Caroline of Brunswick
Fri 15 Aug TUNBRIDGE WELLS The Green Duck Blues Club
Sat 16 Aug MALDON Madison Heights w/ Tim Aves, Richard Townend

The YouTube link above is to an audio track recorded live by Matthew Devenish/Paul Jones of Mu-Mu Audio on the Acoustic Roots Stage of the Upton Blues Festival - St Peter and St Paul's Church in Upton-upon-Severn, England on July 21st, 2024. Mixed & mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo at White Room in Tartu, Estonia, with cover art by Siret Roots. You can download the track for FREE on Bandcamp - just click HERE!

RnR Magazine's Covermount CD

Out next week, the UK's RnR Magazine's July/August issue will arrive with a live Andres Roots track on the UnHeard covermount CD. Order yours HERE!

Live from Temperance - Video!

This summer's Temperance gig was also filmed, so here's two tracks from the upcoming "Royal Spa Blues" live album: "Tango Walk" and "Springtime Blues"!

Live Clip from Helsinki

Last week's Finnish tour was a blast and there'll be photos coming soon, but here's a live clip from the July 16th Sunday matinée at Villa Hakasalmi in Helsinki: "So It Is, Subhuti". The footage was captured by Siret Roots, this was Andres Roots second time at the villa and a third appearance has already been scheduled for next year: Sunday, July 14th, 2024!

Meanwhile, there are two Estonian shows coming up next week: a set at Mohri Ait during the Pärnu Bluusipäevad festival on Tuesday, July 25th (4 p.m.!) and one at the Great Rooftop Concert at SEE Theatre in Haapsalu on Friday, July 28th.

New Track and Tour with Steve Lury!

This week - three shows with Steve Lury (UK):

25.8 19:00 - Kultuuriklubi Salong, Tartu;

26.8 21:00 - Pubi 17, Võru;

27.8 20:00 - Alex Maja, Pärnu.

And here's a previously unreleased track from the archives, freshly mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo: "Sofa Club Shuffle", an improvised number recorded live by Randal Randoja at the Buena Vista Sofa Club in Rakvere in 2017: 

Soul Bag Review

The "Tribute to Elmore" live EP with Ismo Haavisto and Matias Partanen has been reviewed by Christophe Mourot in the French Soul Bag magazine: "Five tracks with slide guitar, drums and wild vocals, unamplified harmonica, recorded live at the 2018 Augustibluus festival in Estonia. About time this was released because it's excellent!"

Photo by Leif Laaksonen.

Blues News Review!

Pete Hoppula reviews the "Tribute to Elmore" EP in the June issue of Finland's Blues News magazine, calling the Haavisto, Roots & Partanen version of "Hawaiian Boogie" "the most firepower one can fit into 171 seconds". 

Hoppula writes: "For people like me who sorely miss live music, it's like twisting the knife in my ribs. For heaven's sake, let us experience such moments in the real world again!"

You can read the whole story HERE.

Blues in Britain Review!

Norman Darwen reviews the "Tribute to Elmore" EP by Ismo Haavisto, Andres Roots & Matias Partanen in the June issue of Blues in Britain: 

"My, but this is wonderful… Recorded live at the Augustibluus Festival in Haapsalu, Estonia, these five tracks are just bursting with energy and wild slide licks - not only Elmore style, but there are also dashes of Earl Hooker and his wah wah slide playing. The Hound Dog Taylor flavoured instrumental, ‘Hawaiian Boogie’, rocks like crazy, but then, so too do ‘Dust My Broom’, ‘One Way Out’, ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ and ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’...  These guys just hit it and let it go where it takes them."

Blues Again Review!

"Five titles of rare intensity. The musicians give it everything, as if their lives depended on it," writes César Sezer in the French Blues Again! webzine about "Tribute to Elmore" - the new live CD EP from Ismo Haavisto, Andres Roots & Matias Partanen. "Here is a CD which makes you want to move, which recharges the batteries and which helps us come out of the torpor, certainly a very good medicine."

Read the whole story HERE! 

Tribute to Elmore EP!

A live "Tribute to Elmore" live CD EP by Ismo Haavisto, Andres Roots & Matias Partanen will be released on May 7th - pre-order details (like winning a free T-shirt) can be found HERE! The EP includes five Elmore James classics, recorded live by Heino Maripuu at the Augustibluus festival in Haapsalu, Estonia in 2018 and mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo, with cover design by Siret Roots and photos by Leif Laaksonen and Lotta Tuominen. This is one of the numbers on the CD...