Music
Press
1: Jeff Beck
2: Gary Moore
3: Gwyn Ashton
4: Popa Chubby
5: Izzy Stradlin - Guitar Part Magazine
Top 20 Albums Of The Year
Gwyn Ashton - Prohibition - Guitar & Bass magazine
"(Gwyn Ashton) South Australia's greatest contribution to blues rock." - Billboard Magazine
"Ashton doesn't just sing and play, he grabs his music by the throat and squeezes every ounce of life out of it." - MAVERICK MAGAZINE
" ...unlike many of his contemporaries Ashton does not resort to cliché, pomp and bluster, but lays down terrific riffs and inserts just enough light and shade to make him a leader in this genre...this is top drawer stuff." - BLUES MATTERS
"Australian Gwyn Ashton has guitar hero stuff and taste, too. His electric numbers run at about Rick Derringer intensity (hear "Trouble’s Knockin'"); the acoustic cuts ("Leaving" for example) have snap and delicacy. Comparisons to Rory Gallagher are not unwarranted." - BLUES REVUE
"Hubert Sumlin, who fell through a window onto a stage at the age of 9 and played for 23 years as Howlin' Wolf's guitarist, is the man whom Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and countless others list as one of their greatest influences. We last saw him a year ago at The Old Vic in Nottingham when we were treated to a night of Howlin' Wolf classics. In contrast this time, with the exception of "Sitting on Top of The World" and "Little Red Rooster" complete with howling hounds from the audience, he stuck mainly to post Wolf compositions. Arriving on stage wearing a grey suit, white fedora, Gwyn Ashton tee shirt and an enormous guitar-shaped tie, Hubert looked every inch the epitome of an old time Bluesman. He was later joined on stage by Gwyn Ashton who visibly enjoyed every minute of trading licks with the maestro, it seemed as if they could have played all night and we could have happily watched. A great weekend was had by all and we hope to see you at next year's Bury Blues festival." - bluesfreepress.org.uk
Discography
Discography
* Feel The Heat - 1993
Beg, Borrow & Steel - 1996
* ** Fang It! - 2000 (w/ Gerry McAvoy, Brendan O'Neill - ex Rory Gallagher band.)
Prohibition -2007 (w/ Chris Glen, Ted McKenna - ex Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Ian Gillan, MSG, Gary Moore, and Don Airey - Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake etc...)
Album of the Month Oct 98 Guitar & Bass, FR
*Amazon France Top 100 albums, 2000
**Album of the Month Sept 2000 Guitar, FR
Album of the Year 2007 Guitar & Bass, UK
Appearances on
Pressure Makes Diamonds - Jim Keays, '93
Real Australian Blues Vol. 2, '94
Classic Rock coverdisc, 2000
Blues Guitar Heroes, '03
Resonator - Jim Keays, '07
Bone Rattlin' Blues, '07
Hollywood Rocks, '07
She's So Shy - Peter Parker, 07 (guitar, bass, backing vocals, arranging, production)
There Goes Love -Peter Parker, 07 (guitar, bass, backing vocals)
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Bio
Gwyn Ashton's one-man-band solo show is a blend of alternative blues and swamp boogie, all played on his resonator, lap-slide, 12 & 6-string guitars, harmonica and a homemade foot stomp board. Not only influenced by the likes of Hendrix and the other rock guitar greats, Ashton also draws his inspiration from 30s Mississippi Delta blues and includes bottleneck and lap-slide in all of his performances.
For the band shows, he adds drummer Kev Hickman and kicks his roots-rock power duo into overdrive making creative use of fuzzed-out bottleneck slide, octave dividers, delays and loops and bringing the blues into the 21st century. Like a band possessed, Ashtons fiery 2-man combo pulls no punches and delivers the goods every time. These guys are Lo-Fi, analogue, wild and dangerous!
Ashton has delivered show-stopping performances at festivals such as Cognac Blues Passions (Fr), Great British R&B Festival (UK), Maryport (UK), Beauvais (Fr), Gympie Muster (Aus), Thredbo (Aus), Dobrofest (Slovakia) and Prague Blues Festival (Cz), co-headlined the Marseille Blues Festival with Robben Ford and has been highly acclaimed by such luminaries as Robert Plant, Johnny Winter and Eric Johnson.
Ashton has played onstage with the likes of Mick Fleetwood, Hubert Sumlin, Marc Ford, Jon Paris, Canned Heat and opened for BB King, Buddy Guy, Rory Gallagher, John Hammond, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, Van Morrison, Pat Travers, Jeff Healey, Tony Joe White and many others.
He also appears and gives tutorials in numerous guitar magazines, has two of his songs in movie soundtracks in France and Asia, conducts masterclasses in Australia and Europe (inc GIT and Guitar X, London) and performs live on radio and television worldwide.
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