

Kai Strauss & TEBA (GER)
March 9, 2024
KAI STRAUSS
Kai Strauss is a name which stands out as a big fish in the small pond of the European Blues market. His name stands out for all the right reasons, too. Delivering high quality blues night after night and album after album is his trademark.
Kai was inspired to begin playing guitar in his early teens and he was drawn to the blues by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King and Buddy Guy while most of his friends were listening to „99 red balloons“.
In 1995, after honing his craft at jam sessions and countless local club nights, Strauss teamed up with Texas, USA born Memo Gonzalez. The Strauss/Gonzalez collaboration torched stages all over Europe and the US until 2010 when Kai struck out on his own. The move to be a solo artist in a crowded and highly competitive European market was loaded with risk. As a frontman he quickly established himself and has risen to the top as one of the premier names, along the way earning the respect of many of his American colleagues. Enough so that he has performed or toured with Jimmy Johnson, Mike Wheeler and three time Grammy nominee Lurrie Bell. The multiple German Blues Award Winner is joined on his new album “Night Shift” by Chicago native son Alligator Records Artist Toronzo Cannon – and Kai definitely holds his own.
Once again Strauss manages to weave his respect for blues traditions with elements of his own brand of funk and soul into an exciting contemporary blues sound.
Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All-Stars are a tight grooving international group of musicians who play contemporary electric blues as it should be, from the heart and with punches of feelings and emotions.