Nathan Beretta - Love Taxman (2024)

Nathan Beretta has made his mark in the Australian blues scene with multiple award winning blues band Blue Eyes Cry. Touring and playing just about every Blues festival and venue in the country Nathan has earned respect from blues lovers all over.

From a ripe young age Nathan Brett had been raised in a musical household of blues, jazz and soul enthusiasts. Nathan quickly developed his own unique style of blues and began gaining interest and making his impression in his local town of Woolgoolga. Playing with friends and locals at open mic nights and owning the acoustic around the fire, there was deep seeded focus to pursue music head on. Nathan moved to Melbourne in 2012 to open up new opportunities and broaden his horizons in the famous Melbourne music scene where he formed a classy original blues/soul band on lead guitar with singer/songwriter Iseula Hingano called Blue Eyes Cry. Blue Eyes Cry undoubtedly made their mark in the Australian blues scene winning multiple awards and playing popular venues and Festivals to the likes of the infamous Melbourne Blues Train, QLD Gympie Muster, Queenscliff Blues Train, International Blues Music Day, Queenscliff Music Festival, Docklands Blues Music Festival, Get Your Blues On, Woolshed Lawns, Goulburn Australian Blues Music Festival, Windsor Blues & Roots Festival, Deep South Festival, Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival, New Zealand’s Bay of Islands Blues & Roots Festival, Lazybones Lounge, Peninsula Blues Club, Cooroy Originals Festival, Edwards Tavern Blues Festival just to name a few. Blue Eyes Cry also headlined their official album launch tour ‘Pull Me In’ tour along the East Coast of Australia from Melbourne to Brisbane in 2015.

Nathan has shared the stage with professional artists such as Geoff Achison, Terry ‘Harmonica’ Bean, Ray Beadle Band, Mal Eastick Band, Shaun Kirk, Dreamboogie, The Shane Pacey Trio, Jesse Valach/Blues Mountain and many more, trailing a strong collaboration of dedicated fans and well deserved industry respect along the way.

Heavily influenced by artists such as Ronnie Earl, Albert Collins, Albert King and Buddy Guy, Nathan plays from the soul with an “all killer no filler” approach and after taking a year off music, Nathan is back on a mission to put the edge back in into the blues with his classy, simple yet technical clean vibrato bending guitar solos full of humble emotion and fronting his soulful voice with his own originals that has proved awe inspiring to listeners and musicians alike.

After making some musical connections in the music scene and recently forming his new project Nathan Beretta Band, Nathan is working with multiple line-ups in different cities adding a variety of flavour to his professional yet new blues outfit and is not to be missed live if authentic blues music is your thing.