11. - 12.07.2008 (232 days to go - get your tickets in time!) ISSUE 23
Rauma Blues 2008 :: Rauma Blues history :: Rauma Blues 2001

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Rauma Blues 2001

Many experts say that in 2001 the most high standard Rauma Blues ever was organized

Getting Snooks Eaglin, afraid of flying, onto a Finnish blues stage was a true deed. In addition to the warmth of the blind New Orleans legend, noted as the best blues guitar player in the world, the audience also heard some of Sonny Landreth's New Orleans' modern soundscape changing voodoo influenced guitar sounds and the shameless Candye Kane, combining rhythm & blues into rockabilly and western swing.

For many guitar freaks, Rauma Blues 2001 was a paradise on Earth, but also for those who believed a former porn model could succeed in blues only with the help of a pretty face and big boobs, the event gave a surprise.