2020.11.21
“Shun Kikuta” released the new music Album “Rising Shun Plus”
“Shun Kikuta” just dropped the new and hot Album “Rising Shun Plus”. It will contain the songs 'When You Feel Lonely (feat. Billy Branch)', 'Hard Hard Miles (feat. Gerald McClendon)', 'Love On Track (feat. Gerald McClendon)', 'Voodoo Woman (feat. Koko Taylor)', 'Yer Blues (feat. J.W Williams)', 'Let's Jam', 'Old Soul', 'Love Love Love (feat. Gerald McClendon)', 'NIKKO Waraku Shuffle' and 'You My Love' total of 16songs. Enjoy the R&B/Soul sound from the far east Asia.
This work was released in 2018 by remastering 11 songs of "Rising Shun" released in 2007 and adding 5 new songs. Japanese and American artists such as Koko Taylor, Billy Branch, JW Williams, and Jamsbee gather. Recordings were made in Chicago and Utsunomiya.
You can find and check the “Rising Shun Plus” at 'Spotify', 'Apple Music', 'iTunes Store', 'LINE MUSIC', 'Amazon Music Unlimited' etc. Click here to see. Rising Shun Plus
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1： When You Feel Lonely (feat. Billy Branch)
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2： Hard Hard Miles (feat. Gerald McClendon)
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3： Love On Track (feat. Gerald McClendon)
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4： Voodoo Woman (feat. Koko Taylor)
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5： Yer Blues (feat. J.W Williams)
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6： Let's Jam
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7： Old Soul
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8： Love Love Love (feat. Gerald McClendon)
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9： NIKKO Waraku Shuffle
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10： You My Love
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11： Look Out Baby
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12： Rockin' NIKKO
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13： Double Faced (feat. Jamsbee)
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14： Japablues (New take) [feat. Jamsbee]
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15： Slip My Mind (feat. Jamsbee)
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16： GYOZA BLUES (New Recording) [feat. Narugami]
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Relase date：2020-11-21
Yotsuba Records, Rising Shun Records
Genre： R&B/Soul / Blues / Rock
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Shun Kikuta
"Shogun of the blues" __ Asia Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) "Shun Kikuta, an impressive young Japanese guitarist" __ Living Blues (U.S.A) Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world. Shun resided in Chicago, known as a home of blues, over two decades and he was a regular guitarist of Koko Taylor, "Queen of the blues" for nine years until her passing. He also was a long time member of 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chi-Town Hustlers. Currently he focuses on his own group "Shun Kikuta Band" and "Blues Company". Performed with: B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Kenny Wayne Shepperd etc.. Recorded with: Koko Taylor "Old School"-Grammy Award nominated, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Billy Branch, Eddie Shaw, Nellie"Tiger"Travis, etc.. TV and movie appearance: "An evening with B.B.King" as a band leader and performed with B.B.King. "Kennedy Center Honors" to honor Morgan Freeman sharing a stage with Koko Taylor, Pinetop Perkins, Honey Boy Edwards and Willie "Big Eye" Smith. "Father and Sons", a part of the seven series of "THE BLUES" movie directed by Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and 5 other directors. Performed on: Chicago Blues Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Notodden Blues Festival(Norway), Japan Blues Festival, Jakarta International Blues Festival, Beijing Blues Festival etc... Discography: Live In France (2020), Good Times Roll/Blues Project (2019), Blues Company (2018) , Rising Shun Plus (2018), Best of Shun's Blues (2013) and 12 leader/collaborated albums. Instructional materials: Lively Blues Guitar (CD+Book, 2017), Call & Response (DVD, 2014) and 6 other books and DVDs. Shun was on the cover and featured musician of BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE Dec 29th 2011 issue. Besides performing, Shun teaches guitar, blues history and ensemble in regular basis through workshops and private lessons. Shun also is a music writer in last two decades. He has published his book "The World's Blues Alleys"(Rittor Music-Japanese) and has had his own articles on magazines and papers as well.
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