Dutch blues-rockers and winners of the 2012 Dutch Blues Foundation Award for ‘Best Dutch Blues Band’ , The Juke Joints, have been setting fire to international stages for no fewer than 33 (!) years.

Last year alone has seen them firing away in, amongst others, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Belgium and Ireland.

The new CD ‘Heart on Fire’ (released by Continental Records) contains 10 infectious Juke Joints originals and the Dr. Ross classic Cat’s Squirrel and the penned by Australian rockabilly singer/guitarist Louis King’s song Funny Little Valentine, received the passionate, greasy Juke Joints treatment and seamlessly fit in the coherence of the album.

On this 9th studio album (follow-up for the ‘Going to Chicago’ CD the band recorded in Chicago with producer Ronnie Baker Brooks and ‘guests’ Eddy ‘The Chief’ Clearwater and Ana Popovic) The Juke Joints have like never before succeeded in translating the steamingly hot energy of their live shows into a brilliant studio sound.

The Juke Joints played festival and club shows in Ireland, Engeland, Latvia, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switserland, Austria, Spain and the USA and shared stages with the best that blues has to offer:

Kim Wilson, Buddy Guy, Walter Trout, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers,

The Paladins, The Nighthawks, Bonnie Raitt, Sonny Landreth, BB King,

Roomful of Blues, George Thorogood, Little Charlie & the Nightcats,

Johnny Winter, Alvin Lee, Bernard Allisson, Joe Bonamassa……

THE BAND:

Peter Kempe – Lead Vocal / Drums / Mandolin

Michel Staat – Guitar

Sonnyboy vd Broek – Harmonica / Vocal / Accordion

Derk Korpershoek – Bass / Vocal

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