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EXCLUSIVE LONDON SHOW
“Once forgotten by the music industry, but never forgotten by the fans”, Canadian guitar singer Pat Travers is back with a new album and his trusty band to blow away the cobwebs with some characteristic rocking blues.
Promoting his last new album 'Stick With What You Know: Live in Europe', Pat has gone back to his roots to rediscover what he is best at.
Best known for his speed, trickery, power chords, and all round mastery of the guitar, Pat Travers also wrote some of Rock music’s biggest anthems. Both “Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights” from his 1976 self titled debut UK album, and the later “Snortin Whiskey, and Drinking Cocaine” from the later “Crash & Burn” demonstrated a great rock writer’s muse, to compliment his brilliant playing. The equally impressive “Hot Shot” appears alongside “Heat In The Street” and “Crash & Burn” on the new Best of Album, and of course they all make their telling appearance in a rip roaring set.
Back in the late 60’s a young Pat Travers saw Jimmy Hendrix play in an Ottowa club in Canada, and knew instantly what he wanted to do. Equally inspired by the likes of Jeff Beck, Clapton and Jimmy Page, Pat learnt his chops with Ronnie “The Hawk” Hawkins (of the Scorcese film “The Last Waltz” fame with The Band). After 18 months on the road with Ronnie, he headed for London in the summer of 74 with a burning desire to make it as a rock icon.
Armed with his trusty Marshal stack, a couple of wah wah pedals, a batch of songs, and with a real ability to rock, Travers soon signed for Polydor Records, cutting his self titled debut album.
His brilliant live shows – including cardboard cut out air guitars for the fans – were best exemplified by a couple of dazzling appearances at the influential Reading Festival.
The subsequent “Makin Magic” album established Travers as a heavy weight player and recording artist, but it was only with a move to the States as Punk took off in the UK, that he made it as an international Rock Blues act.
The “Putting It Straight” album again featured an apt title, while the “Heat On The Street” album and the live “Go For What You Know” album led to a huge fan base that was reflected in Travers appearing on the cover of a 1980 Guitar Player magazine.
The following “Crash & Burn” album featured the rock anthem “Snortin’ Whiskey”, and Pat went on to make a debut appearance on the then Rock oriented MTV.
Since that time, Pat Travers has continued to work, often without an album deal, as fashions changed, and he subsequently headed back to his rock blues origins, cutting a handful of blues albums for the Provogue label in Europe, before a recent “BBC Radio One In Concert” album – a live recording from therefore mentioned Reading Festival - reminded everyone just what an explosive talent Pat still is.
Backed by World renowned drummer, Jeff Martin (Badlands, Michael
Schenker Group, Racer X) and bassist Steve Evans (Coco Montoya, Roy Rogers),
Traver's set of rock classics should excite all fans of the hard rock genre.
New album available now