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Joe Valeriano is a well-known italian rock-blues artist from Milan, for more than 25 years at the top of the Italian and Swiss music scene. Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton: this is the musical universe where Joe Valeriano's powerful voice and passionate guitar are. He keeps on going his musical adventure by bringing his unique and psychedelic Blues in several music clubs and festivals where he gets deserved praise. There he can express his burning blues soul, supported by his feeling for his instrument - the unfailing Strato.

As a solo artist he has produced seven albums: "Elida", "Furious" , "Live" (a tribute to Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan), "Parmatown", "Live Odeon", "Joe Valeriano & Joe Colombo" and “Acoustic Session”. His new studio album "Lonesome Road" has been just released on April 25, 2015. (Below you can find a brief description of Joe's new album)

He has taken part in many important events and Blues Festival in Italy and Europe, such as Piazza Blues Bellinzona, Magic Blues Vallemaggia, Alcamo Blues Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Blues to Bop Lugano, Tenero Music Nights, Lugano Blues Nights, Blues ‘n’ Jazz Rapperswil, Estival Lugano, Soundtracks Jazz&Blues Festival, Un Paese a Sei Corde, italian and international motor-cyclist's meetings.

Lonesome Road: my personal journey through the Blues

"My fans and friends have been asking me to release a new album for a long time. My last two acoustic albums, where I have recorded my personal rendition of some of the greatest blues classics, have encountered lot of success and praise. But it was time to please my fans, all I needed was a new inspiration.

And it came when I stumbled upon a book written in the sixties by two Italian authors: “Antologia dei poeti neri d’america” – an anthology of African-American poetry, a collection of the most beautiful and heartbreaking poems written by some of the most famous Afro-American poets. Not only: it gathers together a wide variety of traditional blues lyrics and poems which I had never read before.

I then decided to give those lyrics a new life, matching them with my original music, riffs and melodies that I had composed during the last years. In this way I thought I could bring back to life stories and characters got lost in time.

To achieve this outcome I decided to sum up my whole long musical journey, trying to find the best match between the lyrics I chose from the book and the music I was writing.

“Lonesome Road” is the answer to all of this. Stories of love, betrayal, suffering, discrimination, loneliness but also of joy and freedom: this is what the Blues is all about and this is what I want to merge with my biggest musical influences that you can find on my previous records: from the early Chicago Blues to the full-blooded Texas blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan, from the magic atmospheres of Jimi Hendrix to the sweet ballads of Bob Dylan."

- Joe Valeriano

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