Alvin Youngblood Hart Bio
Alvin "Youngblood" Hart (born 1963 in Oakland, California)
is an American musician. Influenced in early childhood by
the Mississippi Country Blues performed by older relatives,
Hart is known as one of the world's foremost practitioners
of that genre. Hart is also known as a faithful torchbearer
for the '60s & '70s guitar rock of his youth, as well
as Western Swing and vintage Country. His music has been compared
to a list of diverse artists ranging from Leadbelly, Spade
Cooley to Led Zeppelin and Thin Lizzy. He plays acoustic and
electric guitars as well as banjo and sometimes mandolin.
In 2003 Hart's album "Down in the Ally" was nominated
for a Grammy award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2005,
Hart received a Grammy Award for his contribution to "Beautiful
Dreamer-The Songs of Stephen Foster. Bluesman Taj Mahal once
said about Hart that "The boy has got thunder in his
hands.""
Discography
1996 Big Mama's Door
1998 Territory
2000 Start With the Soul
2002 Down in the Alley
2005 Modivational Speaker
