(Modern Electric Blues) Blues Company - Keepin' The Blues Alive - 2004, WAVPack (image+.cue), lossless

Additional Musicians:

The Fabulous BC Horns are:
Uve Nolopp - trumpet & backing vocals
Robert Kretzschmar - tenorsax, organ & all horn arrangements

Film music from Osnabrück

Hollywood gets the Blues from Germany

Blues Company song is title music for the film “L.A. Blues”

Osnabrück/Ballrechten-Dottingen, 29th October 2006 –The song “Blue and Lonesome” by Blues Company from Osnabrück is to become the theme song to the Hollywood film “L.A. Blues”. The producer and script writer, Ian Gurvitz, chose the song himself from the live-album Keepin the Blues alive” (inakustik) as the tiltle song for his new film. Gurvitz's production company is now applying for the rights from the record company in-akustik from Ballrechten-Dottingen in southern Germany. This must be the first time Hollywood has ever imported a blues song from Germany.

The film “L.A. Blues” portrays how the lives of six people in Los Angeles develop and change within one year and tells of their lives and experiences. The central point of the story is a blues bar in Hollywood where the protagonists all meet. This is where the plot thickens.

The independent production will be released this autumn in American cinemas. The producer and script writer, Ian Gurvitz, who has been awarded with the American television prizes the Emmy, the Grammy and the Golden Globe for his TV series (Becker, The Wonder Years), did not have to search very far for the film music. The live DVD “Keepin the blues alive” from Blues Company had already made an impression on him, particularly the track “Blue and Lonesome”.

When the phone rang at Blues Company at the end of June, the band leader Todor “Toscho” Todorovic thought someone was playing a joke on him. But a few minutes
later when the e-mail arrived from a lawyer's office in Beverly Hills, he started to take things more seriously. After the third e-mail in three days and an official request
by fax, it was all clear: Hollywood wants the German blues. “We are really proud of Blues Company”, says music manager Bernhard Rössle who has managed the most successful German blues band at in-akustik since they started up. “We've always known how good they are.”

Over twenty album releases and more than 3000 concerts all over Europe back that up. “But to have their music get such a major part in the home of the Blue, of all places, is a great honour.” Band leader Todor “Toscho” Todorovic is also very proud. “It really is the pinnacle of our musical career. This film can now show the USA that good blues is played in Germany as well.” However, Todorovic does not describe the film music as the band's greatest success. “We've been playing together for 30 years and have reached a lot of people with our music – that is what spurs us on everyday.” The Hollywoodoffer is more like an encore for the band. “It'd be fantastic if we now got a few invitations to do some gigs. That would be really great.”

When and where the film is coming out in Germany is not yet clear. The record company in-akustik is doing its best to make that happen. “We're doing everything we can to get the film to come to Germany”, Bernhard Rössle promises. There will definitely be a soundtrack to the film which will be in German record shops.

Background

Blues Company is Germany's oldest and most successful blues band. In time for their 30th anniversary, Todor “Toscho” Todorovic and the group released the acoustic album “The Quiet Site of the Blues” this spring (in-akustik; 0169075). The latest CD includes new and newly arranged songs of their own, as well as old songs from other artists such as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.

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