My friends, family, wife and band, along with my many musical heroes... Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Carey Bell, Ray Charles, Little Walter, OV Wright, Joe Tex, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Clifford Scott, Ben Webster, Stanley Turrentine, James Cotton, Jr Wells, Walter Horton, Jimmy Reed, The Band, Little Feat, BB King, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, The Meters, The Neville Brothers, Cannonball Adderly, Hank Crawford, Plas Johnson, Fred Neil, Hank Williams, David "Fathead" Newman, Paul Butterfield, Bob Marley, Los Lobos, Sly & The Family Stone, The Staple Singers, Professor Longhair, John Lee Hooker, Dr. John, Jr Parker, Chuck Berry, Elmore James, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Otis Redding, Allen Toussaint, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sam Cooke, Earl King, The Stones, Jr. Walker, Stevie Wonder, Clifton Chenier, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Willie Dixon, Percy Mayfield, plus a HUGE variety of blues, R&B, jazz, doo-wop, funk, hell raisin' gospel, world music, country & western, western swing, rockabilly, and good ol' rock'n'roll.
FATHEAD: Just Another Day
Considered one of the top blues harp players in the country, multi-instrumentalist AL LERMAN is a journeyman musician who plays with sizzle and a whole lot of soul. He’s garnered several MAPLE BLUES AWARD nominations for both his harp and saxophone playing as well as his song-writing. He’s founder and leader of the popular 2X JUNO AWARD winning blues outfit FATHEAD, and spends his down-time involved in a variety of other musical projects. As a sideman (and sometimes producer) he has appeared on several recordings with the likes of famed Chicago bluesmen Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and Little Mack Simmons, as well as solid contributions to discs by Rick Fines, Mel Brown, Julian Fauth, Rita Chiarelli, and Morgan Davis. When FATHEAD is not on the road Al can be found working with a variety of top notch musicians - as either a sideman or fronting - singing the blues, blowing harp, sax, and playing guitar. Al also performs as a solo artist, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and rack harmonica. No matter what, you can always expect some downhome blues, soul and R&B that shoots straight from the heart.
Al is also involved in teaching harmonica through private lessons & workshops. For the past several years he has offered an introductory blues harp course, available through the Toronto District School Board's Continuing Education night school program.
“Harpist Al Lerman is outstanding! " -Blues Revue (USA) “... a driving instrumental fronted by Lerman, whose amplified harp deftly pushes the proceedings throughout”. -Living Blues (USA) Special note must be made of Al Lerman who blows a mighty mean harp.” -Rock & Blues News (UK) “... a set that featured plenty of virtuoso harmonica playing from Al Lerman” -Globe & Mail (Canada)
"Fathead is a joyful sounding 5 piece band. Lerman's 1950's style Chicago harp was obviously influenced by Carey Bell. On "Bitter When I'm Old", his brilliant harp creates a classic Fathead sound. -Blues Beat magazine (U.S.A.)
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You need to check out the new Victoria "Blowbox" Harp amp! I was instrumental in designing and getting into their line of top shelf amps. Go to youtube and search me "James Reeser" and there are a couple of recent vids featuring it.
It is a 45 watt 2X8 amp. It looks like a tweed head but yes it has 2 8" speakers in it. No one can believe such a fat rich tone comes from a little amp. It is versatile... light weight... It can be plugged into any speaker cab as it has 2, 4 and 8 ohm output taps. It also has a switch that makes it either a stock 59 Bassman if that is your tone (also for guitar if desired) or flip the switch for the harp special circuits and rich fat harp tone! And yes has plenty of power as a stand alone to keep up with just about any band.
Nice to "see" you here. I actually was in Mont Tremblant and I saw your soundcheck for a couple of minutes, but I couldn't even stop and say hi because I had to run to the airport. What I heard was great--you guys sounded killer! Hope to make up and see you in Canada again soon.
Hi Al, Looking forward to seeing you and Fathead at the Dutch Mason Blues Fest this summer. Caught your show at the Great Atlantic Blues and Beyond Festival in Dartmouth last fall, and really enjoyed your harp work. Keep Spreadin' the Good Blues... Steve.
have a great summer enjoying music Al.....I posted a few tunes up from my upcoming album....and say hello to omar for me....i ran into him when i was down your way in the winter
Whoever thought up the Easter Bunny story was a Crack Head that confused Chickens Eggs with the Rabbit since bunnies and chicks both are soft and hop around. I think maybe Humpty Dumpty was the Original Crack Head which could help to explain where the fairy tale of the Easter Bunny originated. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and once spring came around his brains were too scrambled to get the Easter Story straight, lol...
Hey Al, It was a real blast making music with you at the Maple Blues Awards show this weekend. You're amazing. We look forward to future opportunities to set it on fire. Peace, Marcus
Stoppin by for a good listen. Lovin them tunes comin outta Canada. Hope 2009 brings you prosperity, peace in your heart and damn good music to your ear. Peace and blues, Lisa
WE ARE VERY SAD... WE DON'T HAVE WORDS TO SAY ANYMORE... OUR SINGER AND DOBRO PLAYER ENRICO MICHELETTI IS DEAD. GOODBYE ENRICO KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!
