Neues Album der Gitarrenlegende SNOWY WHITE im Juni 2026
Snowy White (Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Thin Lizzy) legt mit "The Finishing Touch" ein brandneues Album nach.
2022 holte er mit "Driving on the 44" die erste deutsche Chartposition in seiner Karriere (#27 in die offiziellen deutschen Albumcharts).
26.06. SNOWY WHITE - "The Finishing Touch" (Snowy White Rec./Believe)
https://bfan.link/The-Finishing-Touch-
Der erste Track aus dem Album geht am Freitag 03.04. bei YouTube (Audio) live:
03.04. SNOWY WHITE – "Just The Way It Is Today": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFQWYc5awkI
"Er ist einer der wenigen Musiker, die sagen: ‚Seht her, wie schön die Musik ist!‘, nicht: ‚Seht her, wie toll ich bin!‘"
"Wenn Snowy White die Gitarre weglegen würde, würde der Welt ein Stück Magie fehlen."
Diese Zitate zweier seiner Bewunderer bringen Snowy Whites Wesen treffend auf den Punkt.
Learning to play the blues simply because he “wanted to know what it felt like to be able to hit those sweet notes”, with no thought of playing in a band or making records or doing live shows, and certainly with no thought of becoming even slightly well-known, he is one of the most genuine musicians around, simply playing for the love of the music.
Snowy always had a simple approach to music and life that resonates with many people. His good nature and unassuming ways meant that he made a lot of friends who approached music in the same way, just enjoying the feeling of playing together. Of course, life is never that simple so the usual ups and downs came along, decisions to make about what offers to accept and who to work with, with the always present need to earn a living, but throughout the different episodes of his career he has always played and sounded like ‘Snowy and his Les Paul Goldtop’.
His latest studio album, “The Finishing Touch”, continues this tradition of enjoyment in the sound of his Les Paul combined with some thoughtful music and lyrics and some great playing from his musician friends, who always give their best for him. Snowy says, “ I love these guys, they always make me sound much better than I really am!” That just about sums up Snowy’s attitude, doing his musical thing and really appreciating how the other musicians add The Finishing Touch to his music.
Biog:
Snowy White is one of a handful of classic blues-orientated British electric guitar players - musicians whose sound, technique and style has echoed the originality of the blues with the excitement of contemporary rock.
He has developed his own style of ‘English’ blues, a combination of clear, clean blues phrases and harder-edged riffs that are a recognisable feature of his very personal songs.
In the seventies he toured the east coast of America, getting as far south as New Orleans and discovering that he thoroughly enjoyed being ‘on the road’. He had by then become friendly with the now legendary English blues guitarist Peter Green and they spent a lot of time jamming together. In the Autumn of 1976 he was invited to tour America and Europe with Pink Floyd as their first augmenting musician, a gig which took up most of his time throughout 1977. In 1978, the band’s keyboard player Rick Wright asked him to play guitar on his solo album, entitled ‘Wet Dream’, which he recorded in the South of France.
In 1979, Peter Green decided to head for the studio once more and invited Snowy and his band along to jam. The result was the album entitled ‘In the Skies’, now something of a collector’s item.
He was then asked by Pink Floyd to go to America to rehearse their new show entitled ‘The Wall’, and, at the same time, the rock band Thin Lizzy invited him to become a full-time member. So after the completion of the Floyds’ US dates he returned to England and went straight into the studio to record his first Thin Lizzy album ‘Chinatown’. Snowy stayed with the band for nearly three years of touring, recording ‘Renegade’ with them in 1982, before leaving to pursue his solo career.
Snowy’s first solo album was entitled ‘White Flames’. This album included the timeless ‘Bird of Paradise’, written by Snowy, which became a hit single around the world. In 1987, he put together a blues-orientated outfit, the Blues Agency, recording two albums, ‘Change My Life’ and ‘Open For Business’.
Between 1993 and 2000, he toured and recorded with two brilliant Dutch-Indonesian musicians, Juan van Emmerloot (drums/percussion) and Walter Latupeirissa (bass and rhythm guitar). As The White Flames they recorded a string of albums, including ‘No Faith Required’, ‘Restless’, ‘The Way It Is’ and ‘Realistic’, and performed all over Europe. In later times the band was augmented by Max Middleton on keyboards.
Every year from 1999 to 2014 Snowy toured the world with Roger Waters, including the ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ and massive ‘The Wall’ tour. In between tours, he founded the Snowy White Blues Project, recording the albums ‘In Our Time Of Living’ and ‘In Our Time…Live’.
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