No Border Blues Episode Eight: Lee Kanehira and Kotez

Blues piano player Lee Kanehira fell in love with old school Chicago blues after studying classical piano, and has been in pursuit since. She has two self produced albums to date, has also recorded and performed with Johnny Burgin, The Cash Box Kings and Shoji Naito and many others. In 2018 she won the Chicago Blues Piano Contest, and was invited to play for "A Tribute To Otis Spann" at the 36th annual Chicago Blues Festival. Her main influences are Leroy Carr, Otis Spann, Memphis Slim and Barrelhouse Chuck. Her original "Pumpkin Boogie" as well as Kotez's "Mada Sukinanda" (a Japanese translation of Little Walter's "I Just Keep Loving Her") were widely played selections from "No Border Blues Japan" on international blues radio. Harmonica player and singer Kotez is a longtime veteran of the Tokyo blues scene and is known as a fiery showman. He endorses Suzuki manji harmonicas. As a duo, their motto is "Blues Never Die"!

Video edited by: Josh Kayne

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