Claude Hay

[westen44]

A friend asked me if I had heard of this guy.  I hadn't.  I looked him up and he is Australian.  It looks like most of the time he has a solo act, literally doing everything himself.  But here is a video of him performing with a bassist and drummer.  It's too bad they don't get together as a real band.  They're better than a lot of people who are supposedly real bands, IMO.  Evidently, this is from a private party.  As for the artist Claude Hay himself, all I know is what I just looked up on Wikipedia.

Edit:  Based on the caption on this video, maybe this is already a real band.  Looking at all the other videos on this on YouTube, it doesn't look like it.  But I just don't know for sure.  Regardless, it's good music to wake up to on a Sunday morning. 

[Aussie Mark]

Like a lot of blues guys in Australia, Claude does a lot of solo gigs as well as gigs with his full band.  The blues scene doesn't pay very well here, so most of the big names play a lot of solo shows.   I've played at the venue in the YouTube clip a few times - very cool venue with great in-house production (The Vanguard).

His band played at the biggest blues festival in Australia a few weeks ago - Bluesfest

[westen44]

Like a lot of blues guys in Australia, Claude does a lot of solo gigs as well as gigs with his full band.  The blues scene doesn't pay very well here, so most of the big names play a lot of solo shows.   I've played at the venue in the YouTube clip a few times - very cool venue with great in-house production (The Vanguard).

His band played at the biggest blues festival in Australia a few weeks ago - Bluesfest

I think he's good.  It's too bad the blues scene doesn't pay well.  If he played Top 40 crap, obviously the pay would be better.