Michael Van Merwyk - Fight The Darkness (2017)

Not so long ago, Blues Magazine spent a pretty long article on Michael van Merwyk. An extremely active musician who brings out CDs in varying compositions with the regularity of the clock. In addition to his full band The Bluesoul, he regularly plays as a duo with harmonica player Gerd Gorke under the name The Delta Boys. But he also does not shy away from international collaborations, he did a tour with Larry Garner and he is regularly on the podium with Big Daddy Wilson. But he also picked up an old love in the meantime, the Westphalian band The Snooks, who released the first album 'Greatest Hits' twenty years after their existence. The Snooks is a Rock 'n Roll band that consists of two guitarists, a double bass player and drummer and brings own covers from Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Joy Division, Johnny Freeman, Ben Harper, Depeche Mode and David Bowie. As if that was not enough, Michael van Merwyk also started up Big Mike & Double Dynamite, a band that plays a combination of raw delta blues, soul, country, rockabilly with even a hint of polka. They themselves describe their music as wild bluesbilly where you have to imagine that Howlin 'Wolf is jamming with Hank Williams, or Bo Diddley is rocking with Merle Travis. Plate material has not delivered this formation yet, but that does not leave Michael van Merwyk long awaiting. In 2013 he joined Bluessoul at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis and won second place. The last edition he and his duo partner Gerd Gorke took office during the thirty-third edition of this international festival in the category of soloists / duos. With another award for "Best Blues singer 2016" and "Best Blues guitarist 2016" in the pocket, the last period has been very successful for this gifted and likeable German blues artist. (google)