A tribute to Peter Green

ONLINE SHOW: 22nd April 2021

Filmed and recorded at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh.

When you are asked to tribute a blues legend of choice, your mind whirls. So many greats, so many favourites.  Peter Green had it all, exceptional guitar, timeless songwriting, a real voice for the music, and a bitter sweet rock and roll story. 

Almost a year after his death we tip our hat to the man that gave us a full scale of emotions through his music, the most delicate and sweetest, the most wild and hedonistic and always recognisably him. It is a challenge, an honour, but mostly a deep joy, playing his music.

You’ve probably found this page because you’re thinking about watching the Edinburgh Blues Festival’s Peter Green show, or you’ve watched it and wanted to find out who those folks are that love Peter Green so much.

For most of us this was a first. A filmed gig without an audience. It’s a totally different beast without the crowd, cameras are terrifying and they don’t whoop or clap! However, playing with a band, a much missed joy, was wonderful. The film crew were great and the sound man, Stevie, was superb. Faced with a bunch of slightly uneasy newbies (to film shoots), he told us to trust him. Well, he said he was a Peter Green fan, so we did.

If you’re here to find out who Peter Green was, please turn the sound up, click this link and close your eyes. … And here’s a bit about those other folks.

About the band: Left to Right

Pat McCann – Drums

Pat has played drums professionally since 1979 across genres of blues, soul, funk and jazz for an uncountable number of bands. Pat is currently drumming with Edinburgh based Funk and Soul Revue: Funkdozer who debuted to a sell out show at the EDBF 2019. The world tour is on hold.

John Bruce – Guitar

John currently plays guitar with several Edinburgh bands, Safehouse, Broken Windows, The Breeze and with the Allman Brothers Project. John is also known from the early years of Blues’N’Trouble, one of Scotland’s farthest travelling electric blues bands. Here’s one of John’s instrumentals with B’N’T. The world tour is on hold.

Liz Jones – Vocals

Liz has been a singer-songwriter based in Edinburgh for 10 years. Currently she fronts Broken Windows which focuses on her own songs, alongside John Bruce on guitar. Liz also sings for Funkdozer; a funk and soul revue, and The Breeze; playing the music of J.J.Cale. Broken Windows’ new album Bricks & Martyrs was released in late 2021. The world tour is on hold.

Jon Mackenzie – Guitar

Jon, in short time, has been part of more lineups and appearances than we could mention, including sell out shows ‘The White Album’ and ‘An evening of The Grateful Dead’. His own songs can can be heard digitally. He currently plays for Edinburgh band Willi Dug and the Cosmic Gents, the Allman Brothers Project and The Silver Arrow Collective. In demand for his guitar and pedal steel, Jon is a professional recording musician and guitar teacher. The world tour is on hold.

Jennifer Clark – Bass

Jen has played bass & double bass professionally for 19 years. She currently plays with Alan Reed and the Daughters of Expediency, has played with Horse McDonald, amongst others, and her own music can be heard with The Jennifer Clark Band at festivals such as PB4X & Prog in the park, and digitally. Jen runs her own professional recording studio in Falkirk and has recently recorded and produced the latest Broken Windows album. The world tour is on hold.

Special Guest – Gary Martin – Harmonica

Joining us for a couple of songs, Gary Martin plays blues harp. One of the early Fleetwood Mac tracks we cover features harmonica and it’s irreplaceable. Blues fans in Scotland will know Gary as the front man of The Jensen Interceptors amongst other blues line-ups and guest slots. The world tour is on hold.

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A HUGE thank you to the team at Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival for having enormous patience, resilience and determination in these dreadful times for folks that make events. They have been completely transparent and flexible, balancing the needs of a band and the requirements of safety. And aside from these hard times, for helping us to celebrate Peter Green, gratitude!