Harpdog Brown - Travelin' With The Blues (2016)

Harpdog got his stage name at a concert at Kitsilano Beach in the fall of 1989 at a place called Momma Gold's. According to Harpdog, at the end of the show, two viewers started shouting "Harpdog! Harpdog!" He liked the name and started using it as a stage name. In the end, he made it his official name.
While in Vancouver, brown traveled tens of thousands of miles performing at club dates and festivals in Canada, the northwestern United States, and Germany. Over the years, he has released seven albums. In 1995, he received the Muddy Award for best NW Blues performance from the Cascade Blues Association in Portland, Oregon. In the same year, he was nominated for the canadian Juno for best Blues and gospel recording. With Graham Guest on piano, he released the album Naturally, which was ranked as the No. 1 canadian Blues album of 2010 by the Blind Lemon Survey.
Brown tours extensively with his guitarist J. Arthur Edmonds, performing mid-1950s Chicago Blues either as a Duo or as part of a full band, leading the Harpdog Brown Band, which is a fearless traditional Chicago Blues band. In 2014, they released What It Is, consisting mostly of original songs and a few classic covers.