Greg Schaber

Greg Schaber is an award-winning blues singer and guitarist who performs solo renditions of classic and original blues on a variety of vintage instruments - harp guitar, guitar-banjo, mandolin, and National steel guitar. Thirty-eight years of playing—and almost that many years studying blues recordings and blues history—have made Schaber conversant with both the acoustic-based regional styles that marked the blues in the early 20th century and the electrified urban styles that followed. Thus, he moves easily from the harsh bottleneck style of Mississippi musicians like Son House to the smoother Texas style of Lightnin’ Hopkins and the fluid, rag-influenced Piedmont approach of South Carolina’s Rev. Gary Davis and Kentucky’s Bill Williams, lacing it all together with anecdotes and humor.

Acoustic styles form the core of Schaber’s performances, but if requested, he seasons the mix with funky, low-volume electric guitar recalling the styles of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters and Elmore James.