A small, sleepy town in an American backwater. The local bar spews smoke from every crack in its facade – the heat hits you in the face, so you take refuge in the bar on the corner and fall into a nighttime vortex – the figures seem apathetic, times distant. On stage sits "Sir" Oliver Mally, playing the blues that no one suspects, but everyone is looking for. "Sir" Oliver Mally is without question one of the representatives of "Europe's best blues" (Concerto).
His raw, convention-free music is a pure extract of the blues essence. Inhaling it is like absinthe for life. His albums have received rave reviews internationally. The "best blues singer in the country" (Samir H. Köck, "Die Presse") is constantly on tour anyway – between Hamburg and Budapest, Graz and Waidhofen an der Thaya, but also occasionally at the Himalayan Blues Festival in Nepal. "Amadeus" nominations and thirteen category trophies in the critics' poll of the magazine "Concerto" don't really have room in his luggage; his instrument is indispensable. "He still plays his own guitar, he sings with dedication, heart and soul, he feels himself," summarized the "Oberösterreichische Nachrichten". Oliver Mally is a "bluesesque" stroke of genius in person.
Hubert Hofherr, born in Lower Bavaria, discovered his love for Chicago blues at a very early age. Alongside his music studies, he played in his first bands at an early age and released several recordings. After emigrating to the USA, he quickly began touring the country with well-known blues musicians such as Buster Benton, JW Williams and Merle Perkins, where he founded his own band before returning to Germany. Hubert Hofherr tours both at home and abroad with his band "Hubert Hofherr & The Bottom Line", which he founded in 1996, as well as with "The Ramblers", Albert C. Humphrey and the Roots of Blues, the Ron Evans Group, the Hamburg blues singer and guitarist Abi Wallenstein, the Electric Blues Duo (Colin Hodgkinson and Frank Diez) and Mano Maniak.
And finally, four years ago, the two found their way together live. They presented a vibrant program consisting primarily of original compositions, peppered with exquisite covers to which the musicians undoubtedly put their own stamp. Goosebumps are guaranteed with some of the songs with a blue note.