Can be seen and heard with Ben Sures, Jerome Avis, Buzz Thompson, Brent Bailey
Influences
Little Walter Jacobs, Howlin' Wolf, Jr. Parker, Elvis Presley, Dr. Isaah Ross, Big Dave McLean, Big Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Rice Miller, Sonny Terry, Robert Johnson, Honeyboy Edwards, Johnny Cash, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Mabon, Jimmy Rogers, Gord Kidder, Dale Hawkins, RL Burnside, Muddy Waters, Rev. Gary Davis, Sam Philips, Borden Crowe, Louis Armstrong, Kim Wilson, Son House, The Mississippi Sheiks, my dad.
Dave Mowat took up the harmonica after relocating to Winnipeg from southern Ontario in the early 1980s. While in Winnipeg for 13 years Dave learned from some of the best blues players in western Canada including Big Dave McLean, Gord Kidder and Brent Parkin. His love of the old blues took him on personal excursions to Chicago in efforts to find heroes like Sunnyland Slim, Junior Wells, and Honeyboy Edwards. And Dave's own personal experiences lend themselves credibly to an understanding of the old country blues where subject matter was focused on the relations between man, woman and the powers that be. "In my mind it's all about love, god, the good, bad, indifferent, and trying to transpose that to the 10-hole diatonic." Today Dave lives back in southern Ontario at his home on the Alderville (Mississauga Ojibway) Reserve and can be heard in the Peterborough area, or somewhere along the Lake Ontario frontier with such players as longtime associate Ben Sures or with JL Avis and the Barnburners. Dave also bills himself with 'the Curbside Shuffle' and over the years has played in the company of many a fine American blues player such as RL Burnside, Eddie Clearwater, Kenny Brown, Big Jack Johnson, Smokey Wilson and Hubert Sumlin. In 2004 he was a featured performer on Rez Blues TV which airs in Canada on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Dave is an honorary lifetime member of the Manitoba Blues Society, and usually gets back to Winnipeg annually to stay in touch with the blues scene there.
Hey Dave! Thoroughly enjoyed seeing you at the Acoustic Grill on Thurs! Love your sound, and hope to see more of you in the future. PS pleased to see Little Walter at the top of your list! :-)
I have a gig on March 22nd in Alberta and then I am free except for the 29th when I am having a cd release at Times Changed, but that will only be one or two sets, other than that yeah go man go, I am in!
I'm still very proud of this photo bro! F!@%%@@ this is howlin wolf's guitar player, one of the greats that's for sure!!!You are lucky!!!Once in a life time...
