INTRODUCTION 

Besides being primarily for my own pleasure, I would like to dedicate this site to all the “Old Time Piano Blues” lovers in the world and I wonder how many of you are out there ! If piano blues is not your thing just hit the “back button”, then again, why not have a look and a listen, who knows you might be pleasantly surprised !

After 45 years on stage in Holland and other European countries, solo, or with a band, I think the time has come to use my small pianoroom as a stage to the world. Why ? In the first place I am tired of carrying heavy equipment, leaving home in the early afternoon to beat peak hour traffic and getting back early the next morning, realizing that only a few people really listened etc., etc., in other words the downsides of being a working musician, that start to weigh a little heavier as time marches on and Hey, I’m not getting any younger ! As I take my music seriously, I tried to come up with an alternative and this website, together with the videos, is the result.

I mean to bring you LIVE ( wrong notes and all ! ) music, straight from the heart, right here in my own piano room . So what can be more Downhome ? Just jump right in and join the House Party !

Some inspirational records;

The fifties Modern Downhome Sessions and the complete Magpie Piano Blues Series.
The International  Polydor Productions LP 423212 with the Paul Oliver Recordings of Sunnyland Slim and Little Brother Montgomery straight from Muddy Waters’ basement and from Jump Jacksons’ small garage cum-studio on La Salle.
1950: Little Son Willis recording of Howling Woman and finally,  my all time favourite: Riverside LP 8809 / Piano blues 1927 – 1933. And of course the whole Document DOCD 5000 series Etc, etc. Ruud van Ingen - February 2010

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What will I be playing and singing for you on this website ?

Piano blues from the 1920’s – 1960’s
Rhythm & Blues – Boogie Woogie – gospelblues
I do not copy – but I like to make arrangements with the same old feeling!

EQUIPMENT
Piano: Richard Lipp & Sohn ( Stuttgart / Germany ) – 1910 / frameno: 30823 (as shown on frontpage)
Mixer: Mackie – Onyx 1220
Microphones: piano left/right – Røde NT 5 / voice: Audio Technica AE5400
Reverb: Lexicon MPX 110
Video: Canon MVX3i with wide converter MD 46
Video Editing: Pinnacle Studio 14 – ultimate – / Sony Vegas Movie Studio
Headphone for monitoring: Grado Labs – The Prestige Series / SR 125

THE TEAM

A WALKING HOLIDAY IN THE U.K. – MY WAY

walking with backpack from B&b to B&B, 2 or more nights in every B&B, from there making roundwalks, etc.  Or about 1 week in the same place, using a lot of public transport
These are all my own long distance walking ways

September 1995 / maps OS Landranger 121-113-122 / LINCOLN - CLEETHORPES
Lincoln / Horncastle  / Tetford  / Louth / Cleethorpes 

April-  May 1996 / OS 172-162-163-151-164 / BRISTOL - OXFORD
Bristol / Stroud / Nailsworth / Painswick / Rendcomb / Shawshell / Northleach / Clapton-on-the-Hill / Stow–on-the-Wold / Long Compton / Milcombe / Oxford

May 1997 / OS 110-119-128 / DERBY - DERBY
Derby / Matlock Bath / Bakewell / Upper Padley / Tideswell / Hartington / Waterfall / Stanton / Ashbourne / Derby

May-June 1998 / OS 181-180-193-194 / BRISTOL / MINEHEAD - WEYMOUTH
Bristol – coach to Minehead / Porlock / Lynton / Exford / Dulverton / Montacute / Misterton / Toller Porcorum / Sydling St. Nicholas / Dorchester / Weymouth

May 1999 / OS 152-151-150-149 / NORTHAMPTON - HEREFORD
Northampton / Nether Hayford / Culworth / Warmington / Milcombe / Paxford / Evesham /Pershore/ Upton upon Severn / Malvern Wells / Hereford

September 1999   / OS 161-162     WALES / CHEPSTOW - MONMOUTH
Chepstow  / Tintern / Dingestow / Monmouth

May 2000 / OS 86-87-88-91-92-93 / NEWCASTLE - DURHAM
Newcaste / Haltwhistle / Hadrian’s Wall /  Allendale  / Saint John’s Chapel / Langdon Beck / Middleton-in-Teesdale / Barnard Castle / Staindrop / Escomb / Durham

September 2000 / OS 134-133-132 / NORWICH - NORWICH
Norwich / Great Yarmouth  / Potter Heigham / Happisburgh  /Sheringham / Melton Constable / Binham  / Docking / King’s Lynn / Norwich

29 april – 6 May 2001 / OS 166-167 / LONDON
1 week in Loughton ( London ): Hempstead – Richmond – Epping Forest – Waltham Abbey -  Lea Valley Walk to Docklands

September 2001 / OS 132-133-156-134-144 / THETFORD - LOWESTOFT
Thetford  / Little Cressingham / Swaffham / Castle Acre / Old Beetley / Felthorpe / Wymondham / Framingham Pigot / Aldeby  / Lowestoftft

April-May-June 2002  / OS 117-125-124-115-123      WALES / CHESTER - LLANDUDNO
Chester / Soltney / Llangollen via Minera / Corwen / Llandrillo / Bala / Dolgellau / Barmouth
/ Porthmadog / Criccieth / Caernarfon / Llanberis / Mount Snowdon / Bangor / Llandudno / coach to Bristol  

October 2003 / OS 179 CANTERBURY
10 days in Canterbury: Whitstable via Crab & Winkle Way – to Herne Bay via Saxon Shore Path/walk from Plocks Gutter to Sandwich and Deal / Warmer Castle /
from Bridge via Kingston-Barham and North Downs Way via Patrixbourne back to Canterbury
/ Dover /  from Wye the Stour Valley Walk via Chartham to Canterbury –
costal fp from Ramsgate to Broadstairs

May 2004 / OS 93-92-98-99-104 / DARLINGTON - HARROGATE
Darlington / Escomb / Richmond / Reeth / Hawes / Kettlewell / Middleham
/ Pateley Bridge / Ripon / Harrogate

September 2004 / OS 178-188- 189 / MAIDSTONE
1 week in Maidstone:  Millennium River Park – North Downs Way from Detling to Maidstone– Leeds Caste – Chatham Historic Dockyard – Royal Tunbridge Wells – walk Tenterden / Rolvenden – Cobtree / Museum of Kent Life. Very good concert of Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart plus Rod Picott in the Maidstone Country & Roots Music Club ( the Soul Cafe ) in Maidstone. Great Place !

September 2005 / OS 139-140 -151-152 /   BIRMINGHAM – MILCOMBE ( near Banbury )
Birmingham / Hartshill /  Warwick / Rugby / Priors Hardwick ( Leno brought me to the B&B in his Jaguar ) / Sulgrave / Buckingham /  Milcombe  

May 2006 / OS 143 – 154 – 131 – 130 / ELY – GRANTHAM
Ely – Downham Market – Wisbech – Spalding – Bourne – Grantham

May 2007 / OS 168 – 165 – 175 / AMERSHAM – MARLOW
Amersham – Wendover – Leighton Buzzard – Aylesbury – Princes Risborough – Marlow

May 2008 / OS 184 – 183 – 182 / SALISBURY – WESTON-SUPER- MARE
Salisbury – Codford St. Mary – Horningsham – Evercreech – Wells – Cheddar –
Weston-Super-Mare

October: 2008 / OS 185 – 196 / WINCHESTER
1 week Winchester: Fort Nelson – Portsmouth/Historic Dockyard – Southampton / Hythe ( pier Train ) – Bishop’s Waltham

May 2009 / OS 102 – 108 – 117 – 126 /  BLACKPOOL – SHREWSBURY
5 days Blackpool ( tram/coastal path to Fleetwood / Lytham St. Anne’s – Stanley Park with the Art Deco cafe / Zoo – Marton Mere Nature Reserve ) – Train to Bebington ( 5 days ) for Liverpool ( 2 cathedrals – Trans Pennine Way ) and Port Sunlight – Wirral Coast Path to Fort Perch Rock and Birkenhead – Train to Hootton Station and start walking with backpack to Chester / Wrexham ( visiting rehearsal of Rhosmale Voice Choir )
/ bus to Trevor / walking to Chirk ( castle – old racecourse ) – Oswestry
– Bus to Kinnerley / walking to Montford Bridge – bus to Shrewsbury – Shrewsbury ( the Dingle – A walk around the shuts – Severn Way to Monkmoor – Bus to Ludlow

September 2009 / OS 129 – 140 – 141 / OAKHAM – NOTTINGHAM
1 week Oakham: Melton Mowbray – round Hambleton – Belton-in-Rutland – daytrip to Leicester . 1 week Nottingham: Nottingham Beeston Canal – Trent Valley Way – Erewash Canal – Wollaton Hall, Sherwood Forest, Newstead Abbey, etc. 

LINKS

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YOU PAY - I'LL PLAY

VIDEO'S ON DEMAND
blues - rhythm & blues - boogie woogie & related stuff

For more details contact: ruud van ingen

DISCOGRAPHY

1967    Indiscrimination                      
Harp Blowin’ Blues / Wishful Thinking – single Decca AT 25 008
Reissue on 2 Compilation CD’s Mercury 846 – 524/525 and later
on several compilation CD’s

1967    Indiscrimination                      
So Sad – one song on a flexidisc, issued with a bulletin by the Ark / Foundation World Aid (Stichting Wereldhandreiking)
All 3 songs were also issued on a 7” 4-track EP on the OP-Artlabel                few years ago. Maybe out of print, but it still can be bought on the Internet

1976    Hoochie Coochie (House) Band                  
Lookin’ Good – Munich LP BM 150210

1982    The Rocking Civil Servant (Ruud van Ingen)                       
2 LP’s
-The Rocking Civil Servant Boogies (solo boogie-woogie – recorded at my home)
- The Rocking Civil Servant and his File Boys* Collector LP DS 9201 / 9202
* WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE PICTURE OF FATS DOMINO YOU WILL HEAR “SLEEPLESS NIGHTS” FROM THIS LP

1993    Ruud van Ingen                      
cassette “Back to the roots” – home recording

1995    Maybe it’s the blues               
4 songs on CD “No less than wireless” / Dutch Blues Unplugged
Music & Words MWCD 2016

2000    The Big-Five-O                     
CD:  Texas Tone – Five O-Records BFO 1
In 2001 reissued on Taxim CD TX 1033 – 2 TA – different cover
and 11 songs instead of 12

CD’s – as a guest player

1984    Eddie C. Campbell                
+ Tip On In  - “Let’s Pick it” – Black Magic LP 9007 – Evidence CD ECD 26037 – 2

1990    The Groovetones                   
CD “The Scratch” – Black Magic CD 9014

1991    Rosetta Stone                       
Touch the Sky – Roedolf Records RS91001

COVERS

	Indiscrimination Decca single 1967
	Indiscrimination Flexidisc 1967
	Hoochie Coochie Band Lookin 'Good Huh LP 1976
	The Rockin'Civil Servant Boogies LP 1982
	The R. Civil Servant and his File Boys LP 1982
	the Groovetones the Scratch 1990
	Solocassette Back to the roots 1993
	Maybe it's the blues No less than wireless 1995
	The Big-Five-O This Little Voice 2000
	Big-Five-O Taxim Texas Tone 2001

BANDS

PICTURES OF ALL THE BANDS