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Ed Vintage - Cowboy, Outlaw, Rock'n'Roller

"Sometimes I feel like a little bit Presley, sometimes I feel a little bit Cash."

With this line from one of his songs (“These Days”), the style and music of Ed Vintage are already more than aptly described.

He’s a Rock’n’Roll Troubadour/Singer-Songwriter and self-educated multi-instrumentalist who sings about outlaws, highways, life and death, sometimes snarls and growls like the Man In Black, croons and whispers like the King, plays with words and stories and strokes or bashes his guitar, spreading an acoustic aroma of whiskey, dust and motor oil.

Don't expect to find high-end, professional and perfectly sterile recordings like the ones the music industry is flooding the market with nowadays; when you listen to Ed Vintage, you hear the music breathing and pulsating, the fret-scratching and chair-squeaking, the shirt-rustling and background-hissing and the pureness and honesty of the glorious days when music was made with love instead of excessive high-tech.

His original songs remind you of pieces from the Golden Age of Sun Records and black and white television, where connoisseurs and nostalgics easily recognize the winking references to Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and the rest of the now heavenly all-star band. Ed Vintage has released four albums so far, "The Vintage Chronicles", "Highway Hymns and Outlaw Anthems", "Fiftylicious" and "Ed Vintage's Jukebox - The Best Of 1955-1979". All are distributed by Bellaphon records via Amazon, iTunes and all other major portals as mp3 downloads.

Legend says that if you ask politely, he can even spare you a signed physical copy of each release.

Also legendary are Ed Vintage's cover versions of well-known pieces by his musical heroes; he smashes, cuts and rips apart the songs, rejoining the pieces in his own style, creating pseudo-originals that sound as if they had only found their musical purpose through Ed’s re-arrangement. So Bob Dylan's "Blowing In The Wind" becomes a blistering five-minute Mountain Music sermon, Johnny Cash's crunchy "I Walk The Line" a melancholic outlaw ballad, and Louis Armstrong's innocent "What a Wonderful World" a gloomy funeral oration after which you should immediately seek the light of day for the sake of your own soul.

Now lean back, take the tour, enjoy the show - and may the Vintage be with you.