Opus 3 Records has once again been fortunate to discover a great new artist: Bottleneck John! His debut "All Around Man" is a very unusual and unique Blues album. It was by sheer coincidence we found Bottleneck John in September. After a nice first meeting in the studio, everything was settled! We had very similar ideas how to go about the album, and Bottleneck John made a great selection of songs and with a good variation. On many tracks we also hear his blues brothers playing grand piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, resonator & upright bass, percussion, fiddle, mandolin etc. With a fantastic voice and great slide guitar playing on all his resonator guitarss (look in the CD-booklet), we are extremely fortunate to have a very unusual and unique blues album, with so much authenticity and inspiration from the first half of the 20th century, when many legendary blues musicians were active.