"Lindberg Boogie" Live Footage

Here's live footage from yesterday's concert on the balcony of Tartu Public Library - the track opens the "Tartu Lockdown" album, released yesterday.

Album Launch from the Balcony!

"Tartu Lockdown" is released on September 4th, and the launch show will be played that same Friday 6 p.m. from the balcony of Tartu Public Library downtown: a free show with ample social distancing :) Click HERE for the Facebook event!

Pre-order "Tartu Lockdown" now!

On September 4th, the home recordings made by Andres Roots during this year's COVID spring will be issued as a CD album titled "Tartu Lockdown". You can order your signed copy for just 15.90 - shipping included! - if you place your order in August by e-mailing roots.art.oy(at)gmail.com with your shipping address and preferred method of payment - Roots Art Records accepts both bank transfers and PayPal.

The liner notes for the CD were written by the international blues journalist Norman Darwen, who currently contributes to magazines such as Blues & Rhythm, Blues in Britain, Blues Matters, RnR and Blues in the South in the UK, Bluesnews in Norway and Twoj Blues in Poland. Since the 1980's, he has provided sleevenotes for a long list of blues releases from Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf to Otis Grand and Buddy Guy.

"One positive of the whole COVID-19 pandemic is the music on this CD," writes Darwen. "Like some of the best blues, these are responses to a specific situation that also transcend it. This is totally enjoyable, thoughtful and thought-provoking music, however and whenever you’re listening to it."

For more details, click HERE!

Reviews & More in Muusika Magazine

The June issue of Muusika magazine includes Andres Roots' piece on the music he experienced in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee last October, as well as Meelis Hainsoo's review of the "House Arrest" EP and the "Mississippi to Loch Lomond" album, of which he writes: "You hear virtuosic musicianship pickled with warm humour and the emotional response of the audience: everything a concert needs to have."

"House Arrest 3" Available Now!

The third and most probably the last installment in the lockdown home recordings series, "House Arrest 3", is now available on Bandcamp: to listen and/or purchase, just click HERE!

New Track!

The "House Arrest 3" EP arrives next week with more home recordings - here's one track from it, played on a 3-string fretless Hobo 63 cigar-box guitar, with the signal split between ZT Lunchbox & Ampeg BA-112 amps and mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo at White Room.

"Fretless Wonder" on YouTube

The "House Arrest" EP version of "Fretless Wonder" is now also available on YouTube:

House Arrest EP!

A new EP of home recordings released today - download HERE! "House Arrest" features four tunes recorded last week and played on a 3-string fretless Hobo 63 cigar-box guitar, with the signal split between ZT Lunchbox & Ampeg BA-112 amps. Mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo, cover photo & design by Siret Roots.