Natural Blues, City Blues Connection & Berchtesgaden Blues Band - Norbert Egger's 50th Stage Anniversary Album (2023) [CD Rip]

Norbert Egger (born October 14, 1956 in Rielasingen) is a German blues musician , author, radio host and entrepreneur.

In 1968, Egger heard recordings of BB King and Muddy Waters on the radio. This experience and reading a book by Nat Hentoff about blues and jazz as well as the contributions of the music journalist Joachim-Ernst Berendt inspired him for the blues. He bought a blues harp and a guitar and taught himself to play. After graduating from high school in Singen (1975), he was a regular soldier in the Bundeswehr until 1981, ultimately with the rank of officer.

In 1979 Norbert Egger co-founded the band City Blues Connection in Hamburg, which he considers his main musical project. In this formation he acts as lead singer and slide guitarist. He gave many club concerts with her in the 1980s, for example at Onkel Pö and appeared at festivals, including Tanz auf dem Vulkan, a music event organized by the anti-nuclear movement in Gorleben with 10,000 visitors. The German Blues Circle, an important music medium for blues in Germany at the time, had already praised Egger's playing of the slide guitar as a leader in Germany a year earlier. As leader of this band, he released six albums - one with Louisiana Red - and one double album between 1979 and 2019, as well as several EPs and singles. Since 1982 he has also been the creator of the side project Natural Blues, which released two albums in 2021. Some EPs are added.

Between 1985 and 2015 Egger appeared only sporadically. He cited personal setbacks as the reason for this. These included the theft of instruments and equipment from his mobile recording studio or conflicts with insurers, music managers and music producers.

From 2015, musical activities increased again. Egger rehearsed and performed again with City Blues Connection, which he expanded into a Rhythm and Blues Big Band of around 20 musicians.