BLUES PROFESSORS

Cosmopolitan Soul is an exploration of the diversity of the blues, a musical form that comes from a particular place but resists being constrained by that place. It draws on the music of the Mississipi delta that transformed as it migrated north to Chicago, across the USA and from there to Britain and across the world. Most of the songs on this record started life as a twelve-bar blues progression that mophed into folk-blues, country-blues, rocking-blues, funk, jazz, Latin and African rhythms. Lyrically playing with ideas of planetary connectedness and hybridity alongside the human values of freedom and justice... Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors have been pleasing audiences in small and large venues across the UK, Ireland and Germany for nearly a decade. Inspired by the heroes of blues, jazz and country from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. heir original songs bring new life to some old country blues tunes with contemporary political commentary.