Mojo Blues Band - Hot And Fancy: A Live Diary Vol. 1 (2024)

Personnel:
Erik Trauner: vocals, guitar, slide guitar, harp
Siggi Fassl: vocals, guitar, lap steel
Charlie Furthner: vocals, piano, accordeon, guitar,
Herfried Knapp: upright bass,
Didi Mattersberger: drums

Guests:
Herbert Swoboda: clarinet (5,14)
Tom Müller: tenor sax (6, 10, 11)
Lisi Stiger: bariton sax (6, 10 ,11)
Ludwig Seuss: piano (9, 13)

Mojo Blues Band is centered around Erik Trauner, representing a music community of musicians who are passionate for the blues, and they have made the exotic language of the blues to their own. Comparitive to a second hand mother language with all their dialects are the traditional Chicago Blues just as well as swinging R&B and rolling boogie woogie.

The band attempts to create a homogeneous sound. Not the endless soloing of the individual musician, but the question/answering dialogue between the instruments, have priority. A concert with the Mojo Blues Band is always a dynamic suspenseful, hot to cold tub of feelings, with humor in between.

Although the respect towards the endless idols of the Blues, like Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson or T-Bone Walker, the most important thing is to find your own musical path. Blues is not only a form of music, it is the expression of a life style. That is the opinion of Erik Trauner who says, "It's all about developing your own handwriting, there is no room for jiving. If you have not lived you have nothing to tell. Like fine wine, the older we get, the better we get."