The 40 minute concert features this great blues duo showcasing their years of talent and showmanship. Glenn Kaiser teamed up with harmonica master Joe Filisko in the summer of 2012 for a concert at the final Cornerstone Festival in west-central Illinois. Acoustic cuts also comprise half of Kaiser’s critically acclaimed “Ripley County Blues” project recorded in a log cabin lodge in rural Missouri. Three contemporary worship albums along with the folk-pop “Time Will Tell”, fill out the acoustic discography. His seminal delta blues projects “Trimmed and Burnin’” and follow-up “Slow Burn” (both with harp-player/singer Darrell Mansfield) established him as a singular and authentic christian bluesman. Kaiser has released several acoustic-based cds in between his electric blues and blues/rock albums. Glenn and his family have lived in Chicago’s inner city for over thirty years doing mission work with people who live as he once did. Now after more than three decades of making original music, Kaiser is known for his raw, bluesy vocals, firey guitar playing, bottleneck slide and harmonica work on thirty recordings and innumerable live shows. His former song writing motif of celebrating drugs, sex and other vices gave way to lyrics about spiritual struggles: personal temptation, institutional sin, poverty, exploitation, racism, materialism and other issues that few musicians seemed willing to tackle. During this time his music got heavier and in many ways, deeper. With his adolescence plagued by drug and alcohol abuse, Glenn got clean through following Jesus after a life-changing spiritual confrontation right around his eighteenth birthday. Growing up in a poor family living hand-to-mouth in central Wisconsin, Glenn eventually gravitated to Milwaukee’s local music scene where he fronted over a dozen bands, as well as writing and performing solo acoustic music, all before turning nineteen years of age. Glenn Kaiser has been singing the blues - and sometimes soul, R&B or rock - since he was twelve years old.
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