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Peter Green’s Splinter Group Releases New Album - Time Traders
Website: http://www.bluestormmusic.com Music: http://www.bluestormmusic.com Peter Green’s Splinter Group Releases New Album Time Traders in stores October 9th "He's the only guitar player to make me sweat" .......B.B. King British blues icon Peter Green of early Fleetwood Mac and Bluesbreakers fame continues his full-time return to music with Time Traders, a 13-song, 65-minute album that Blue Storm Music will release in America on October 9. Green is again backed by the Splinter Group, the band that won the W.C. Handy Blues Award with him (the only Brits to ever do so) in 2000. Peter was enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Fleetwood Mac in 1998. In 1996 Mojo magazine voted him one of the top three guitarist of all time alongside Steve Cropper and Jimi Hendrix. Few people today can hear “Black Magic Woman” without thinking of Santana yet it is one of many songs written by Peter Green. The 60’s hedonism, LSD and sudden fame played its own blues over the life of young Peter and he stopped playing the guitar for years while Peter Green “sightings” became notorious; rumors were that he was a gravedigger, a bartender in Cornwall, a hospital orderly and a member of a commune. A lot of thanks went to Nigel Watson, Splinter Group guitarist, for encouraging his old friend to return to where he belongs—the world stage. With another strong album, the Splinter Group and Peter Green find themselves living once again in exciting times, completing a European tour and planning their American tour for early 2002. Blue Storm Music has worldwide distribution through ADA in America, (the independent distribution arm of Warner Brothers), EMI in Canada and Eagle Rock Entertainment in the UK. Blue Storm Music was founded earlier this year with offices in Manhattan and Florida. Further information can be found at www.bluestormmusic.com. Peter Green Bio Born in the East End of London in 1946, Peter Greenbaum’s teenage passion was for the guitar, inspired by contemporary popular guitarist Hank Marvin, blues icons like BB King and Otis Rush, and also traditional Jewish music. Peter started his super stardom career playing in teenage bands the Looners and Shotgun Express playing bass and later guitar with, amongst others, Mick Fleetwood and Rod Stewart. Eric Clapton, at the time lead guitarist with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers was worshipped as a guitar hero on the London Blues scene. Green had big boots to fill when he was asked to replace Clapton (who left to form Cream) in the Bluesbreakers—but he was admirably equipped for the task. He developed his own unique style on the album, “A Hard Road.” By 1967, drummer Aynsley Dunbar had left Mayall, and Green’s former “Looners” buddy Mick Fleetwood was drafted in. A chance instrumental, ‘Fleetwood Mac’ was recorded featuring Green, Fleetwood, and bassist John McVie. Thus ‘the Mac’ was born! Peter’s reputation as a superb player was the creative focus of the band and their first album, ‘Fleetwood Mac’ was an instant success, one of the best selling British Blues albums ever. Hit singles soon followed—the number one instrumental single ‘Albatross’ and ‘Black Magic Woman’ (later a hit for Carlos Santana). 60’s hedonism, LSD and sudden fame played its own blues over the life of young Peter. He became very interested in religion, appearing on-stage wearing crucifixes and flowing robes and fought with the band as he encouraged them to donate all their money to charities. In 1970 Peter left the band. Sporadically over the next decade Peter remained an active guitarist, guesting on several blues albums with Memphis Slim, Bobby Tench’s Gass and B. B. King and gigging around London as well as releasing an album recorded in one night, “The end of the Game.” Ironically, for Peter the game was very near over, hallucinations, mental health problems, and antipathy towards the music industry led to him hanging up his guitar for the rest of the decade. A few splattering of recordings followed but the reports were that Peter had grown his fingernails long and his appearance was disheveled and distant—he took up the remaining threads of a normal life left for him as Peter Greenbaum. Peter Green “sightings” became nearly as notorious as his contemporary Sid Barrett; rumors were that he was a gravedigger, a bartender in Cornwall, a hospital orderly and a member of an Israeli commune. By 1996 close friend Nigel Watson persuaded Peter to relearn the guitar by playing the songs of blues legend Robert Johnson, and the Splinter Group was born. In the same year, MOJO magazine voted Green in the top three guitarist of all time—well ahead of former rival Clapton—alongside Steve Cropper and Jimi Hendrix. In 1998 he was the first British guitarist to be awarded a W.C. Handy Blues Award by the Rhythm and Blues foundation. The band has recorded four albums; Splinter Group, the Robert Johnson Songbook, Soho Sessions and Destiny Road. HEAR the Peter Green Splinter Group NOW AT www.bluestormmusic.com
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