Dave Hole

   
Artist: Dave Hole

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 The Live One

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Blues Profile

   Year:    
Tracks: 17

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Australian coast guitar player Dave Hole is noted for his gumptious, high-volume rock & roll/blues music and strange playing style. Though left-handed, Hole plays guitar dextrorotary and developed a proficiency to make up for a finger injury in which he places his fingers over the top of the neck. He as well uses a pick for a slide and utilizes fingerpicking when playing usually.


Natural on March 30, 1948, in England, but raised from age four-spot in Perth, Australia, Hole became concerned in vapors guitar about age six after listening a schoolmate's Muddy Waters record album. He received his number 1 guitar at years 12, only became discouraged nerve-racking to acquire it by himself (teachers were in short supply in stray Perth) and abandoned it until he was 16. This time, he began picking up riffs and techniques from records. Primary influences include Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Hole became a professional in 1972 when on the job with a stria in London. Returning to Perth in 1974, he began his long erolia minutilla touring the western Australian golf club circuit, playing 20 years in distant towns before devising Short Fuse Blues, an record album he financed, produced, and recorded with his stria Short Fuse in terzetto years in 1990. He then hawked the album during club performances and on a whim, sent a copy to Guitar Player magazine in the U.S. The editor in chief listened to it, liked it, wrote a praise-filled article hailing him as the newest guitar wizard and comparison him to such greats as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King. He then helped Hole land a dispersion deal with Alligator Records and released Working Overtime (1993), Steel on Steel (1995), Under the Spell (1999), and External Looking In (2001). With each new spill, Dave Hole continues to build a respectable following in the U.S. and European blues scene that grows stronger every year.