How Askew plays soulful contemporary blues, showcasing a natural guitar-playing talent honed over nearly a quarter of a century. Inspired at an early age by the power of pre-war blues giants like Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson, his obsession with the guitar has seen him develop as a uniquely gifted slide and blues artist with technical and songwriting abilities that move beyond blues through bluegrass and early country music, psychedelic and southern rock, folk and world.
Originally from Workington in Cumbria in the North West of England, How moved to Newcastle upon Tyne to study Zoology and lives there still. He has played live both as a solo acoustic artist and with a band (Mondo) on and off over the last 15 years, building a reputation as a fine singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
In 2002, after a stint busking around Europe and playing bars and clubs in Florence, Italy, he produced and released a CD of original songs and instrumental music entitled ‘Thinking about changing my ways’. Described as “a wonderful concoction of old style blues, folky strums and some modern beats”, “an acoustic treasure” and “tunefully dark” (The GEN, 54), tracks have been played on folk and blues radio shows in the UK and abroad.
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