Name: Living the Blues by Robbert Fossen
Duration: 4 min 28 s
Description: Got It Covered is the full album (2007) of The Robbert Fossen Blues Band from The Netherlands. www.robbertfossen.nl

Got It Covered is the full album (2007) of The Robbert Fossen Blues Band from The Netherlands. www.robbertfossen.nl

Living the Blues

2005 home recording. All instruments played by me, myself & I ....

Lights out

Lights Out - Robbert Fossen

Robbert Fossen, born in 1969, started singing the blues in the late eighties. Later on he picked up harmonica and guitar.  With bands like A Crossroads Deal, The Robbert Fossen Blues Band, The Fossen & Struijk Band and others he did a lot of  shows in and around  the Netherlands. 
Robbert was nominated three times for the Dutch Blues Awards as Best Vocalist and won the award in 2014.
He won the Dutch Blues Challenge twice in 2012 and 2016. In 2013 he made it to the finals at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. In 2017 he made it to the semi finals.
During his ‘career’ he had the chance to play and tour with blues musicians like Tail Dragger, John Primer, Magic Slim, Chick Rodgers, Nick Holt, Charles Hayes, T Model Ford and Willie Kent. 
In 2012 he did a show with The Teardrops (Magic Slim’s Band), because Slim had to stay in a French hospital. A few days later he opened for Magic Slim with Slim’s Teardrops and did play with Slim on his last song of his last European show ever. Slim passed away  last February 2013. 
Tail Dragger, the legendary singer from Chicago was Robbert’s Best Man at his wedding, May 2013. 
Robbert’s main style is Real Deal Chicago Blues. He was influenced by Muddy Waters, Magic Slim, John Primer, Buddy Guy, Luther Johnson Jr., Luke ‘Longgone’ Miles and Jerry Portnoy, to name a few.

Living the Blues

Robbert Fossen

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