Albert Collins & Barrelhouse

The two-time Edison-Award winning blues band Barrelhouse from The Netherlands will release their complete live recording with Albert Collins for Record Store Day 2021.

The year is 1978 and Barrelhouse invited Albert Collins to join them for a TV show. At the time he was not as well known in Europe as he would become in the eighties. It became his first appearance on national TV outside of the United States. He returned to the Netherlands later that year for a short tour and the recording of this live album. “Albert Collins and his manager Dick Shurman arrived on the airport, he brought a flight case with his Fender Telecaster, a packet of spare strings and a suitcase. On stage he was a star, off stage he was one of the band, and wanted to travel in the Barrelhouse 9 seater.”