简介：blues harp, big voice, will travel. Nasty Ned is a roots-rockin' blues man who celebrates the music. Enjoying a career that spans six decades, Nasty Ned has burned the hottest stages in America with the coolest cats and kittens in the world. His latest, red hot, blue-as-it-gets CD, ROOTS 52, is available now online atAmericanShowplaceMusic Buying ROOTS 52 online is secure, quick and EZ - and your CD will mail "autographed" to you the very next bizness day. Nasty Ned’s ROOTS 52, already being heralded a "powerful recording", leans on post-warMuddy and Wolf typeshoutin’ blues, yet it's armed heavily with reverence, expansionandabandon. It's is as close to a recording from 1952 as you’ll hear made today. And old school on purpose ’cause Nasty Ned hates fluff. On ROOT 52, he blows and sings from his soul, all in one motion, all on the same take - just as he does on stage. His new album contains no track-stacking, no over-dubbing, no punching and no fixing of any kind… it’s simply honest, sweat drenched, live bluesperformed in the studio. ROOTS 52 is produced by Grammy Award winner Ben Elliott, and Nasty Ned, at legendary Showplace Studios in Dover, NJ. Ned enjoys taking live, unrehearsed performance into the recording studio. He says, "It's about the joyous noise, the electrification, sensation, connectay-tion, story-tellin' temptation, and jes plain doin' the do... you know, havin' a good time diggin' roots, and playin' dem deep, deep blues”. In 1964, after hearing Slim Harpo's “Baby Scratch My Back” on WABeatleC, Ned rubbed two nickels together and bought his first Hohner marine band harmonica, laying down the saxophone he had been playing since 1959. By '66 he was fronting his own band called The Carnival of Soul and wound up on TV in Newark with the Chiffons. After passing up an opportunity with Kama Sutra Records, he began digging deep for the roots of rock & soul and found the blues; Muddy, Wolf, Walter and Sonny Boy. "What a long strange and wonderful trip it has been". Ned remembers digging Albert King who opened many a show at the Fillmore East in the 60's, then later, in the 80's, playing elbow to elbow with legend on stage at the old Lone Star Cafe. Ned claims very seriously of the blues, “I’m lucky to have found an outlet for my pain and confusion. I can let go of it man... not a lot of people are that fortunate”. Then admitting with a wink says he, “should have stayed playing baseball during the 60’s”. Today, Nasty Ned the performer, writer, promoter, visual artist, media personality, bidnessman and long time show-host of American Roots Live, continues to realize his vision of a celebration of American roots music. Through six decades of "doin' the do", Ned still breathes for the creative process, is always ready for anything and is a blues man to his soul. Nasty Ned has lived the blues. He has become the blues and has risen out of the blues. He now says simply, he is enriched and "honored to have found the fathers of the joyous noise and to let burn eternal their spirit in my soul and my style". Please visit Nasty Ned on hisNasty ReverbNation pagefor in depth interviews, live gig schedule, chart positions, your own tune widgets, to get on the mailing list, stream and download music and more! Ned is currently ranked 1 in Blues in New Jersey counties; Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer, Warren and Passaic, and sits (somewhere) within the TOP 20 in Blues in the USA and the World on ReverbNation's Blues Charts!