Sitting Bullfrog | zh

"Alar Kriisa, any punk rock blues kid should be able to appreciate his gruff vocals. He sounds like Leon Redbone piss drunk and fronting an Alice Cooper cover band and this is a good thing, a very good thing. The lyrics ramble shamelessly like Dylan, but latter-day Dylan, "Love and Theft" Dylan, which, again, is a good thing, a very good thing," writes Blues In London critic Eric Gebhardt. "Any purist should be able to appreciate the fantastic guitar playing of the great Andres Roots. Andres plays with a soul that feels to be as old as the music he's...

There are at least three artists with this name: 1) The German prog rock band Bullfrog were born in Munich in 1973. Their brand of krautrock, featuring mostly guitar and some mean organ play, is rather melodious and a bit reminiscent of German art rockers Jane. Their latest incarnation consisted of keyboardist Harald Kaltenecker, guitarist Sebastian Leitner, bassist Vincent Trost, drummer Ali Halmatoglu and vocalist Gerd Hoch (who committed suicide in the summer of '95). Their first (eponymous) album didn't break any grounds but their second, "High in Spirit" ('77) boasted a much better production and thus brought the band...

Hans Klerken - Guitar and Vocals Frans Mathijssen - Keyboards Ben Bouman - Harp Chris Janssen - Bass and Dobro Bren Geerlings - Drums Bullfrog Blues Machine are more than just an above average band, they are high quality musicians. Bullfrog Blues Machine are no strangers to the blues scene in the Netherlands and Belgium. With the release of their latest album, Cross That Line "(Munich Records, 2005) it indicates that they wish to go further on down the highway to where it will take them. This is without the essence of their main source of inspiration - the American...