Andrey Dobrovolskiy feat. Evgeniy Lamba. Mannerheim’ Street’ Blues. Slide Guitar.

This slide guitar сomposition was written in summer 2004 on the Mannerheim’ Street in Helsinki, where I used to busk trying to earn the real blues biography and a little money. I really think that Russian street musicians who busk on European streets deserve some prize from our government. They keep on complaining that money is running out of the country, and we were the only people who would bring money back. It’s a kind of joke of course but nobody has ever done it except street musicians. That job was not easy: you had to play unlimited number of hours every day and nobody could gaurantee you good profit. My record was 16 hours of non-lasting playing. But those dozens of hours of street practising resulted in this music. Several years later I invited Eugene Lamba (the best Russian blues player Im sure) to record this stuff. He agreed and showed everything I love his style for: nu