Ben Blake came to national attention at age 22
with the "Bostown Sound"
© band
Phluph (Verve/M.G.M.
Records) making Newsweek magazine in the psychedelic
1960's. He was a persistent figure on the Boston
music scene through the mid-1970's, and then in
Hollywood, California through he 1980's, returning
the East Coast in the 1990's.
Ben Blake/Guitarist says it all. Yes, he is a
singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and producer - but
primarily he is a guitarist. Ben Blake says, 'The
guitar is the vessel into which I pour the waters of
my soul," be if Blues, Rock, R&B, Soul, Jazz or
Fusion.
From Classical training in piano to over 40 years
playing guitar, Ben Blake's roots are deep and his
experience is wide-ranging. He has backed up The
Coasters, The Drifters and Bobby Lewis - opened for
Bo Didley and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band - and
jammed with Lowell George (little Feat), Boz Scaggs,
Bonnie Raiff, and Joe Sample, (The Crusaders), and
sessioned for Ornette Coleman and Harry Neilsen.
Ben Blake has worked clubs, colleges, and concerts
for 35 years. A published (BMI) singer/songwriter
since 1968, recognized by The American Songwriters
Festival in the 1970's, today he administers BB
Music with several hundred compositions of varied
description in his catalogue. Soundtracked in
Austria, on the radio in Germany, and reissued in
Italy, BB Music has reached beyond these American
shores.
