Gerry Joe Weise, Australian musician and composer: Blues Gone Wild, album 2016. Blue Concerto for Orchestra, single 2016.

Blue Concerto for Orchestra,

Slide Guitar and Violin. Single 2016.

iTunes Amazon
Free full length steaming on: ReverbNation
Tidal (FLAC)

29 October 2016,
Blue Concerto for Orchestra,
Gerry Joe Weise, slide guitar, violin.
St Peters Symphony Orchestra Choir,
Carrington Theatre, Sydney, Australia.

Blues Gone Wild, Gerry Joe Weise, 2016 album.

Blues Gone Wild. Released 10th April 2016 to 148 countries. 28 musicians, featuring Juma Sultan. 12 tracks including 3 live in concert. Recorded in the USA, Australia, France and Switzerland.

iTunes Amazon CD Amazon mp3 and all good Digital Stores

Song for Sylvie, Blues Gone Wild, Gerry Joe Weise

Surfing Coffs Harbour, Blues Gone Wild, Gerry Joe Weise

Gerry Joe Weise

Gerry Joe Weise Australian blues guitarist, singer and songwriter was born in Sydney. He tours regularly Australia, USA, Europe, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Polynesia, the Azores Isles, Scandinavia and New Zealand. In Australia he has guest opened for AC/DC, Midnight Oil, Angels, Dragon and Rose Tattoo. He initiated his solo career as bluesman guitarist vocalist composer in 1991. That led to appearing on the 1992 Chicago Blues Festival Tour and the 1992 San Francisco Blues Festival Tour in Europe, and performing at important festivals in Europe : Cahors Blues, Blues Passions Cognac, Blues De Graves Bordeaux, Amiens Jazz Festival with Buddy Guy. In 1996 he released his Hendrix Tribute album : A Letter To Jimi, that led to performing with Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix Experience) at the 1996 30th Commemoration Experience concert. In 1999 he opened for the Scorpions at the 7,000 seated Zenith in Toulouse, France, performing alone on Dobro and vocals. Gerry Joe Weise has established himself as a blues rock musician of international acclaim and performed with such renown and legendary artists as Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Noel Redding and The Yardbirds, among others. He has been the recipient of various international awards and accolades, including being named number 1 on the Top Electric Blues charts in Australia. He has 11 solo albums signed to the Chicago based Blues Breaking Records label, including the 2016 release : Blues Gone Wild.

Blues Gone Wild by Gerry Joe Weise,
voted number 1 Best Australian Blues Rock Album 2016.

AUSTRALIAN BLUES WEBSITE Article

2016 Blues Gone Wild, voted number 1 Best Australian Blues Rock Album.

Hailing from Sydney and now well-established in Coffs Harbour, Gerry Joe Weise has released his new opus "Blues Gone Wild", on the Blues Breaking Records label in Chicago. Weise has to be one of the better outstanding Australian guitarists, (he has been voted four times Best Electric Blues Guitarist on the charts)! The opening track "Surfing Coffs Harbour" is a new type of blues that sets the pace for this adventurous album, with extraordinary innovative slide playing (Weise calls it 'glissando overtones'), and at times sounds uncannily like a flute than a guitar. Next is "Inside-Looking Out" recorded live in the United States, the Eric Burdon song performed by Weise's soulful vocals and exciting adventurous guitar playing, intertwining with Juma Sultan's congas and percussion; they twine the threads of blues for our future! "Song for Sylvie" is an epic reggae illuminating normal and slide tuned guitars ('glissando overtone' chops here), while trading licks with the powerful brass section featuring trumpets, saxophones and trombones. The 4th track "Crazy Crocodile", has Weise paying tribute to Texas blues as a heavy guitar shuffle with husky vocals, using the Australian crocodile as a metaphor and pun. Stepping up the pace is another USA live track, "Aussie Boogie" performed at breakneck speed where Weise's Strat remains indemne, and a word of merit to Juma Sultan's fiery congas. Slowing things down to "Dreamtime Lullaby" in a Mark Knopfler manner, are dreamy vintage Dobro guitars, with melodies over cinematic didgeridoo lines. Jimi's "Red House" is rendered in a Chicago blues style, with heartfelt singing and lots of guitar soloing (while never discarding the 'feeling' necessary to carry the weight of tradition), much like Hendrix meets Buddy Guy. The rockabilly "Back to Blacktown" (Australian rock riffs galore) hip to the blues bone, beefy vocals and uncanny guitar playing, best sums up this tune. "B Good 2 Me Jam" offers a psychedelic experience that makes ones mind travel to faraway distant lands, through guitar playing in another quantum dimension, the essence of classic rock-blues but with a new twist. Like a fast train, "Uluru Express" will take you across the Nullarbor Plains to central Australia, via slide guitar on a pulsating rhythm section and drone didgeridoos. The beach shores of "Bondi Soul Ride", are a joyful interplay of advancing musical waves, across a playful sea of terra incognita. Upbeat and toe-tapping is "Night Drive", as Weise stretches out on punctuating soloing, displaying Miles Davis technique of playing with spaces and silences, while delivering exciting guitar jabs and melodies. This album is a must-have for everyone's serious blues discotheque.