Carlos Elliot Jr. is a Colombian Bluesman inspired by Mississippi Hill Country Blues, Blues Music linked back to African American dance traditions. He brings it from its most basic form playing it in his own way and combines it with different elements of Rock.
He got his hypnotic rhythmic style playing in Delta Juke Joints and Backyard Blues parties in North Mississippi where he fell under the spell of local Blues and had played with Blues legends with whom he’d learned and lived in their culture, permeating their musical expression and primitive Hill Country Blues tradition. He made up a unique style and a unique mixture between his backgrounds and this juke-joint beat with rhythms of rural dance music from Mississippi.
Carlos has played with many of the Mississippi Blues Legends as well as the new Hill Country Blues artists. He has made two US Tours and played in important festivals and clubs in Mississippi, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis and New Orleans as well as Winnipeg and Toronto in Canada and all over his Country, Colombia.
Carlos just made a record with “The Cornlickers”, the house band at Red’s – the most historic Juke Joint Blues club in the world – located in Clarksdale, Mississippi and last band of the legendary Big Jack Johnson. The album was recorded at the State-of-the-art vintage studio. Produced by Bobby Gentilo, and with presence of Dave Natale and Dave Wilkerson (Sound engineers of Rolling Stones and YES, respectively). It was made in the old vintage way, on magnetic tape and analog process.
The album is called “Mystic Juke Joint Blues” and they are going to start a promotional tour all over his country and a US tour starting middle march 2013. The music of the new generation with the legacy of the Mississippi Blues.
