Kenn Lending Blues Band: Flying High (2011) CD

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Kenn Lending (Danish singer, guitarist, composer and producer, born Feb. 8. 1955) is a musician with an extraordinary history. His devotion to music goes back to his early childhood, and afro american music, of any style, has attracted him since he was a baby. He started learning guitar when he was seven, but it was the "American Folk Blues Festival" in 1968, that made up his mind about his future life.

On stage was Big Joe Williams, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker and Eddie Taylors Chicago Blues Band. To witness these guys play their blues, was such a shock, that this event have had huge impact on the rest of his life. Right away he made a blues band with some schoolmates, and was determent to learn to play the real blues.

Label:

Olufsen Records – DOCD 5785

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Denmark

Released:

2011

Genre:

Blues

Style:

Electric Blues

TRACKS:

1Hard Headed Woman4:04

2When The Welfare5:11

3Why Feel Bad4:38

4Flying High4:32

5Mojo Club4:36

6To Day I Sing The Blues5:35

7Just A Little While To Stay Here5:03

8Every Day I Have The Blues4:18

9All My Life5:11

10Crazy For My Baby3:38

11Highway Blues5:48

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Music rooted in tradition — alive in the present

Kenn Lending is a Danish musician, composer, singer and bandleader whose work is rooted in the broad African-American music tradition. For decades, he has explored the cultural, historical and musical connections between urban blues, soul, gospel, jazz, Funk and Afro-Latin influences.

His work is shaped by a deep respect for tradition — not as something frozen in time, but as a living, evolving cultural language. Blues, soul and groove are, in Kenn Lending's universe, not simply musical styles, but ways of telling stories about identity, community, survival and creativity.

Through concerts, concert talks and workshops, Kenn Lending connects music with storytelling and cultural insight. His performances often move fluidly between songs and spoken narrative, allowing audiences to experience both the emotional power of the music and the deeper cultural context behind it.

Kenn Lending's approach is urban, contemporary and deeply rooted at the same time. His work reflects a lifetime of musical experience and cultural curiosity, creating performances that are both musically engaging and intellectually meaningful.

Whether on stage with his band, in a cultural institution or in an educational setting, Kenn Lending presents African-American music as a living tradition — relevant, human and full of groove.

Biography

Kenn Lending (Danish singer, guitarist, composer and producer, born Feb. 8. 1955) is a musician with an extraordinary history. His devotion to music goes back to his early childhood, and afro american music, of any style, has attracted him since he was a baby. He started learning guitar when he was seven, but it was the "American Folk Blues Festival" in 1968, that made up his mind about his future life. On stage was Big Joe Williams, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker and Eddie Taylors Chicago Blues Band. To witness these guys play their blues, was such a shock, that this event have had huge impact on the rest of his life. Right away he made a blues band with some schoolmates, and was determent to learn to play the real blues.

Up through the seventies he was working in several reputable Danish groups. Such as the Latin Funk group "Himmelexpressen" and the Soul and Reggae group "Survivors". But forming his own Blues Band in 1980, fulfilled the dream, that he had, since he saw T Bone Walker live on that stage in 1968. Already a year before Kenn Lending formed his band, he started his well known partnership with the legendary american barrelhouse piano-player and blues singer Champion Jack Dupree, who lived in Hannover, Germany since 1975. This partnership, that through the years turned into a close friendship, lasted until "The Champ" passed away in January 1992.

The Duo did over 1000 concerts together in 35 states and countries, including a seven week tour in USA and Canada in 1991. They also appear together on at least 19 different albums. Three of the albums was recorded in Champion Jack Dupree's hometown New Orleans, for Rounder Records in 1990 and 1991, in connection with their performances on "New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival". One of these CD's "Forever and Ever", received the WC Handy Award for the best traditional album in 1991. When an old bluesman like Champion Jack Dupree, choose to work and travel with a young musician, it's not only for the friendship and the help it is, to travel with a younger guy. It's also because it's time to pass the heritage to the next generation.

That exactly what The Champ did to Kenn, over the years they spend together. Because of this fact, Kenn has received a lot of respect and encouragement from other African-American blues artist, such as BB King, Junior Wells, John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon, over the years. Many blues artists also started using Kenn for concerts and recordings. Artists like Memphis Slim, Luther Allison, Louisiana Red, Aron Burton, Lillian Boutté, Janice Harrington, Bobby Rush and many others, have frequently used Kenn Lending and his Band as backing on concerts and recordings.

Recordings over the years

1976 Himmelexpressen "Latinamerikansk Olie" (Hookfarm HLS 76-5)

1980 Damernes Magasin "Mood Indigo" (Apollon Records ALPS 1119)

1981 Kenn Lending Blues Band "LIVE !" (Dansk Sam KLBB 1)

1981 Champion Jack Dupree & Kenn Lending "An Evening with Champion Jack Dupree" (Gallo ML 4559)

1981 Champion Jack Dupree & Kenn Lending "Still Fighting The Blues" (Gallo ML 4563)

1982 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Help Somebody / Blues for Champ" (single) (Dansk Sam KLBB 2)

1982 Champion Jack Dupree & Kenn Lending "I Had That Dream" (Pinorrek HB-P-7004)

1983 Kenn Lending Blues Band "I'm Coming Home" (Hot Society HSLP 1006)

1984 The Blues Jubilee Album - Champion Jack Dupree - 75 Years

Recorded live at Markthalle Hamburg with Champion Jack Dupree, MemphisSlim, Louisiana Red, Mickey Baker, Axel Zwingenberger, Monty Sunshine Jazzband, Kenn Lending Blues Band (Pinorrek HB-P-7006)

1985 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Blues For People" (Dansk Sam KLBB 85)

1986 Aron Burton with Kenn Lending Blues Band featuring Champion Jack Dupree

"Usual Dangerous Guy" (Avaron 943)

1987 Champion Jack Dupree & Kenn Lending Blues Band "Blues Is Freedom To All" (MC/CD)

(MCS Limited Switzerland 105.011-2)

1988 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Steamin' Hot" (Recorded Live) (Olufsen Records DOC 5062)

1988 Champion Jack Dupree "Champion!" (with Kenn Lending and other artists) (Pinorrek CD 5005)

1989 Jan Harrington & Kenn Lending Blues Band "Double Dynamite" (Soularium CD 103)

1990 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Diggin' The Blues" (Olufsen Records DOC5114)

1990 Champion Jack Dupree (with Kenn Lending) "Back Home In New Orleans"

(Rounder / Bullseye Blues CD BB 9502) (Pinorrek Records CD 5007)

1991 Champion Jack Dupree (with Kenn Lending) "Forever And Ever" (Rounder /Bullseye Blues CD BB 9512)

(Pinorrek Records CD 5009)(received WC Handy Awards: Traditional Blues Album of the Year 1992)

1992 "The Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday Showdown" (various artists)

(Champion Jack Dupree & Kenn Lending performs the song "Yella Pocahontas") (Rounder CD 2113)

1993 Champion Jack Dupree (with Kenn Lending)"One Last Time" (Rounder Bullseye Blues CD BB 9522)

1993 Aron Burton (with CJD & KLBB) "Past, Present & Future" (Earwig 4927 cd/c)

1993 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Heartache Motel" (Olufsen Records DOC 5197)

1994 Louisiana Red (with KLBB & CJD) "Rip Off Blues" (CMA Music Productions GMBH CM 10012)

(Recorded July 1984)

1994 Champion Jack Dupree featuring Kenn Lending Blues Band Special Guest: Louisiana Red

"After All" (CMA Music Production GMBH CM 9007) (Recorded July 1984)

1994 Live Gospel United starring Lillian Boutté & The United Gospel Friends (Ambia Musik GUCD 1)

1995 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Game Of Life" (recorded Live on Djurs Blues Festival)

Olufsen Records DOCD 5330)

1995 "Louisiana Spice" 25 Years Of Louisiana Music (various artists) (Champion Jack Dupree & Kenn Lending perform the song

"Hometown New Orleans") (Rounder CD AN 18/19)

1995 Gospel United "People Get Ready" Starring Lillian Boutté, Ivan Pedersen, Monique. (Gospel United Production GUCD 2)

1996 The Band "High On The Hog" (Pyramid Records TRACD 228) (Kenn Lending perform on the song "Ramble Jungle")

1995 Lillian Boutté & Kenn Lending Blues Band "Live at Skagen" (Marsk Music MM 1461)

2000 Champion Jack Dupree "A Portrait of Champion Jack Dupree" (Rounder Heritage Series 1166-11586-2)

2000 Lending & LaCroix "Down Home Blues" (Olufsen Records DOCD5431)

2001 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Psychedelic Mind" (Olufsen Records DOCD5516)

2002 Luther Allison and Friends "Pay It Forward" (Ruf Records RUF1060)

2003 Janice Harrington & Kenn Lending Blues Band "Magic"(Nagel Heyer Records NH 1020)

2005 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Still Payin' Dues" (Olufsen Records DOCD 5603)

2008The Acoustic Kenn Lending "Low Down Dog" (Olufsen Records DOCD 5640)

2012 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Flying High" (Olufsen Records DOCD 5785)

2017 Kenn Lending Blues Band "Kenn Lending In Concert" (Olufsen Records DOCD 5969)

2020 Kenn Lending Blues Band "It's Been A Long Time" (Olufsen Records DOCD 5989)