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As a white boy, how come you're playin' the Blues?

That is the most often asked question to musicians who are not born or did not grow up with the Afro-American culture & still have the "bad luck" to have fallen hopelessly for the Blues. Well, maybe Japanese musicians would look strange playing Viennese folk music at a "Heurigen". But generations of musicians, a long time before the Mojo Blues Band, have put this question to rest. Artists can not always explain why they are doing something. When it's in you, it has to come out. It's just as simple as that.

If possible or allowed to get a hold of a foreign culture, who could judge it better than the audience themselves?

Founded in 1977, the Mojo Blues Band must have done something right. The band traveled half of the world with it's typical straight ahead sound for 25 years. Playing the Blues & capturing people with strong feelings, the music always made an impression on it's audience.

The Mojo Blues Band understands itself as a preserver, and more importantly, not as a conserver of precious music traditions. The "Mojos" scooped out a part of the endless history of the Blues and, nevertheless, by cooperating with so many legends of the international Blues scene, they became a part of it. Almost no other band can appear with such a large variety of material for sessions with endless Blues artists & most of it is issued.

Blues should not be interpreted, but the musicians want to let their life & personality flow into the music with all of their passion. The tears & the laughter, the pain & the joy … feelings that every one of us experienced are writing the songs themselves.

News: updated 17.09.2010

Please vote for the Mojo Blues Band

Hello friends,

Next year the first European Blues Challenge will take place in Berlin on second weekend of March .

The Organisation of the Vienna Blues Spring and the music magazin Concerto are entitled to collect your votes for who will be representing Austria.

We're ready to go there and represent Austria!

So please vote for the Mojo Bluesband by just emailing our name to follwing adress europeanblueschallenge@concerto.at

Please feel free to forward this email to your friends!

thank you and all the best

Erik Trauner

Mojo Song covered in the USA!

The Mojo hit "Alligator Walk" was covered by Lousiana Swamp Pop singer Johnny Allen in 1996. And now we found another Cajun band releasing it on the latest CD in 2006.

The band is called "LA 56" and you can check it out at:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/la56

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You also can visit us and all the band members on myspace: www.myspace.com/originalmojobluesband

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