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Album
Kramer, Brian
Live At Club Stampen
(BKB)

Price: 69 SEK

2008 celebrates ten years of Brian Kramer performing on the Stampen stage in Stockholm, Sweden, and he has commemorated this anniversary with the newly recorded »Live at Club Stampen«.

This high quality, multi-track, live recording captures the vibe and essence of the magic that happens every week with BK & his band where he invites you into his home away from home and takes you on a journey to Blu-topia.

Brian Kramer from Brooklyn, was barely out of his teens when he began hanging out with legendary blues men, picking up tips and advice from folks such as Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, whenever they visited his hometown of NYC. Junior Wells took a particular liking to Brian and paid careful attention in showing him the right moves and how to play from the heart.

In 1989, Junior joined Brian on his first record, Brian Kramer and the Bluesmasters featuring Junior Wells, Win or Lose, with Junior backing up Brian on almost every track and Brian supporting Junior on four of his songs. On these sessions were a gathering of the finest, most respected sidemen in the US, as well as former Rolling Stone, Mick Taylor.
Throughout the 90s, Brian toured and continued to be a fixture within the New York club scene, performing frequently with the great Blues man Larry Johnson, until relocating overseas to seek a broader range of opportunities.

Based in Sweden, Brian began to be featured on the tracks of several established artists such as Cyndee Peters, Derrick “Big” Walker, and others. He produced a number of projects, recording some of the country’s most unique and talented blues artists.

Becoming an active part of Scandinavia's club and festival scene, Brian began appearing often at Club Fasching, the Stockholm Water Festival and Stockholm’s International Jazz and Blues Festival.

In 1998, Brian joined internationally acclaimed artist Eric Bibb, performing the next two years on four successful coast-to-coast tours of the US and Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Scandinavia and Japan.

Brian was featured on Eric’s Home To Me album, his National slide guitar present from the opening notes of the first track to the final riff of the last cut. Eric's father—60’s icon & folk singer Leon Bibb—later released an album called A Family Affair, featuring Brian’s slide guitar playing.

In 2000, Brian released an intimate, all acoustic recording titled Brian Kramer Trio and Friends, Live at the Folklore Center, which caught the attention of renowned writer-producer Sam Charters, who called it “wonderful, spirited music.” The following year saw the international release by Armadillo Records, UK, of Larry Johnson featuring Brian Kramer & the Couch Lizards, Two Gun Green.

Brian has shared the stage and traded licks and recorded with Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabate, Bob Brozman, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Robin Ford, Geoff Muldaur, Bobby Rush, Bernard Allison, Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges, , John Mayall, Sven Zetterberg, Michael Barretto, Otis Grand, Jimmy Dawkins and many others; and performed at international events such as the Cambridge Folk Festival, Bull Durham Blues Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Notodden Blues Festival, Portugal Simply Blues Festival, etc.

Over the next five years Brian has released a series of albums in his own name;
No Regrets (Armadillo), Everybody’s Story & I Want My Illusion (BKB) were very well received in local and international press. He has toured throughout the UK, US, Poland, Thailand and Netherlands during this time.

In 2007 he was invited to perform and conduct workshops by the Dept. of Culture at one of the largest cultural festivals in South Africa. Specifically with Brian in mind the Aardklop festival initiated the “Empowerment through Music” program where he was able to meet with many young musicians in the local Township area and share his ideas on how to use music in a positive, value creating way.
Just prior to this event Brian collaborated with the great World/Blues man, Taj Mahal
on a recording “Cross Boundaries” to be used on a promotional CD for the Aardklop festival that included local South African musicians.
When not on tour, Brian hosts the weekly Saturday Stampen Blues Jam, which he started in 1998. These jam sessions proved to be fertile ground for nurturing Sweden's hottest new young blues talents. Emil Arvidsson, Daniel Kordelius, Little Chris Shorooi, Anna Christoffersson and many others have developed their craft alongside Brian.

A quote from the book Encyclopedia of the Blues by Edward M. Komara reads; “One important step in broadening the interest in blues music was the starting in the late 1990s of jam sessions at the club Stampen in Stockholm by the American singer and guitar player Brian Kramer.

The Tavla Foundation for the Arts, awarded Brian a culture prize in recognition of his positive focus within the environment with his music. Brian Also teaches music part time at the International College where he has organized and produced two benefit concerts with his students, raising funds to help build a school in Tanzania.

1. Just Sittin' Here Thinkin'		Listen
2. Win Or Lose		Listen
3. Pause		Listen
4. I Get It Wrong		Listen
5. Everything Is Headed Somewhere		Listen
6. Spirit Of Washington Square		Listen
7. Cypress Grove		Listen
8. Say Goodbye To B'klyn		Listen
9. Cross Boundaries		Listen
10. Introducing/Should I Stay Or Should I Go		Listen

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