Played with Dutch both with his original band on harmonica when Rick ( Dutchy's harp player ) left to start his own band and as a guest singer while we were on tour and ended up in the same city playing and dropped in...Dutchy was great...invited our whole band to hang out...watch the show and jam! One of the greatest honors of my career was to tour with him on harp...we knew every single one of his songs so i'd start singing a song and Dutch would jump in...shake his head at me as we would just love to get him to do songs like "Hi Ho Silver" and scat!....our band "Traffic Jam" also played blues...He was our hero coming up! Rick Jeffreys on Harp backstage at many shows taught me some pretty cool licks!...r.i.p Dutch!
Props to Big Ben Richardson ( member of "Traffic Jam on guitar! ) Really put serious time and effort bringing back Dutch...producing some fine recordings...thanks Ben...if not for you i might never have had the chance to do that last tour on harp and vocals with Dutch!...also before Dutch got the Gout as he explained to us why he had to stop playing guitar...His Guitar playing was simply ever so tasteful and really totally his own style. I played with B.B King...He told me that in his opinion Dutch Mason was...."The King of the Blues"! Lastly the very first our band had a night off down east on tour...his band blew us away ...it was kick ass electric blues like we had never heard before...or since!
Here is an example of the blues at its best; most of the blues, with notable excaptions; is just reused, reclyed Derivative tunes; like this song sounds alot like the Doors jam "cars pass by my window" witch was deffinatly derivative of other blues tunes 100s of years earlier; THAT BEING SAID NO ONE DOES IT BETTER THEN DUTCH! so much more soul and feeling, like the james brown of the blues, a master composer of synphonic greatness
Played with Dutch both with his original band on harmonica when Rick ( Dutchy's harp player ) left to start his own band
and as a guest singer while we were on tour and ended up in the same city playing and dropped in...Dutchy was great...invited our whole band to hang out...watch the show and jam! One of the greatest honors of my career was to tour with him on harp...we knew every single one of his songs so i'd start singing a song and Dutch would jump in...shake his head at me as we would just love to get him to do songs like "Hi Ho Silver" and scat!....our band "Traffic Jam" also played blues...He was our hero coming up! Rick Jeffreys on Harp backstage at many shows taught me some pretty cool licks!...r.i.p Dutch!
DUDE YOU NEED TO DO A PODCAST OF YOUR EXPERIANCES IF YOUR STILL ALIVE!
I have known Dutchy for years. He never got the recognition he much deserved.
❤
Always the " Janitor of the Blues " to us in Nova Scotia. He is a legend down here .
Props to Big Ben Richardson ( member of "Traffic Jam on guitar! ) Really put serious time and effort bringing back Dutch...producing some fine recordings...thanks Ben...if not for you i might never have had the chance to do that last tour on harp and vocals with Dutch!...also before Dutch got the Gout as he explained to us why he had to stop playing guitar...His Guitar playing was simply ever so tasteful and really totally his own style. I played with B.B King...He told me that in his opinion Dutch Mason was...."The King of the Blues"! Lastly the very first our band had a night off down east on tour...his band blew us away ...it was kick ass electric blues like we had never heard before...or since!
HAIL TO THE KING OF THE BLUES, PRIME MINISTER IS TO SMALL A TITLE FOR SUCH A GIANT OF THE GENRE
dude you need to start a podcast of your experiances if your still alive & kicking! sounds like you have valuable stories to tell!
The Rodney Dangerfield of the Blues...
He is amazing...See you in heaven Dutch xoxo
Dutch Mason Band, NS :
Dutch Mason - Vocal
Wade brown on guitar
Ross Billard on keyboards
Ainslie Jardine on drums
Dale White on bass
My buddy Wade Brown
Again, thanks for sharing!
Great stuff . thanks for putting this on ,
THANK YOU!!
Prime Minister of the blues!
Thanks again
love the dutch
Here is an example of the blues at its best; most of the blues, with notable excaptions; is just reused, reclyed Derivative tunes; like this song sounds alot like the Doors jam "cars pass by my window" witch was deffinatly derivative of other blues tunes 100s of years earlier; THAT BEING SAID NO ONE DOES IT BETTER THEN DUTCH! so much more soul and feeling, like the james brown of the blues, a master composer of synphonic greatness
Treasure
Ahhh Norm.
Real deal
Who ere the band members?
Ainslie Jardine on drums...dont know the rest.
I went to the same high school as Ainslie.
Dale White on bass
Wade brown on guitar
if you ever played TV , u no the challange they pose with the volumn suppression. The guitarist just keeps on . Classic!
Looking at Dutch, I am guessing this is circa 1987.