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lineup
John Campbelljohn - all guitars, lead vocals
Bruce Moore - 5 string bass, background vocals
Jim Logan - drums, percussion
Track listing
The World is Crazy (Leon Dubinski) 3:41
Johnny Rock'n'Roll (John Campbelljohn) 3:27
I Wanna' Get Up (John Campbelljohn, Cassie Campbelljohn) 3:03
The Court of Love (John Campbelljohn) 4:51
Martha Mae (John Campbelljohn) 3:13
Wife & Family (John Campbelljohn) 2:11
Phone Booth (Cousins/Cray/Vannice/Walker) 4:00
Sunny Sky Slide (John Campbelljohn) 2:57
Slow Down (John Campbelljohn, Bruce Moore) 4:44
Heart Like a Stone (John Campbelljohn) 3:31
Ready for a Riot Blues (John Campbelljohn, Daniel Ruiz Estrada) 
Non-Conformist Blues (John Campbelljohn) 3:38
Baby Boomer Blues (John Campbelljohn) 4:04
Don't You Burn Your Bridges (John Campbelljohn, Jim Logan)
3:53 Don't Let the Dinkin' Do the Thinkin' (John Campbelljohn)
3:28   Pretty Paula Doy (John Campbelljohn) 2:22
Multiple East Coast Award Winner/Nominee The John Campbelljohn Trio is a hard hitting Atlantic Canadian blues/rock band who's live show has resulted in a steadily increasing fan following. John has been at it for over twenty years, following the tradition of the ones like Duane Allman, Sonny Landreth, George Thorogood, Jeff Healey, and Mick Clarke. He's a seasoned professional who knows what the crowd wants because he's been there a thousand times.

Now Campbelljohn serves his fans with "Nerves of Steel", another catching blues rock album after his European debut "Hook Slide + Sinker” that led to several awards and nominations in Canada and was a great success also in Europe. "Nerves of Steel" again is a variety of excellent acoustic and electric songs that shows the great skills that this man comes up with his slide and acoustic guitar. Not only German "Rolling Stone" has compared Campbelljohn with Johnny Winter at his best times.

John Campbelljohn was born August 18th, 1955 in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He grew up in the midst of the lively, musical culture of kitchen parties and fiddling jamborees that Cape Breton is so famous for. But John went against the locally popular stream of Celtic Music - what inspired him was BB King, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and the Blues.

At the age of 14 John got serious about playing guitar, his fathers guitar. Duane Allman playing 'Statesboro Blues' had a most profound effect on John. From that time on, up to the present, John Campbelljohn dedicated himself wholeheartedly to playing slide guitar. He worked hard, and inspired to go back to the source, John studied the music of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Elmore James, Son House, Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, Robert Johnson and many others. Later he discovered the Sonny Landreth "behind the slide” technique and began to apply it to the blues genre. Growing up in a musical environment, John's talent and devotion to musicianship helped his song-writing and singing skills to develop naturally.

In the fall of 1993 John released his critically acclaimed debut album, "How Does It Feel?”. Numerous live television and radio appearances followed combined with relentless touring. The release of "Hook Slide + Sinker", that was a big succes with both critics and audience, is now followed by "Nerves of Steel".

John is particularly proud of his rhythm section. Bassist/singer Bruce Moore & drummer Steve Preeper both from Halifax, share the same depth of experience. The three of them have worked together for many years and are as tight as a Texas twister, tight as a Canadian loony, tight as a bluesman's budget or, as Ronnie Hawkins once said about his band, "...tight as a mosquito's ass stretched across a rain barrel!”

AWARDS:
1999 Blues Artist of the Year - East Coast Music Awards
1999 Canadian Blues Slide Guitarist of the Year - Real Blues Awards
1999 Canadian Blues Debut Album of the Year - Real Blues Awards
1999 SOCAN Songwriter of the Year - Nominee - Maple Blues Awards
1999 Blues Guitarist of the Year - Nominee - Maple Blues Awards
1999 Dutchy Mason Award, Canada

 Hook, Slide + Sinker (HE 018): rolling stone, germany:
"The John Campbelljohn Trio is burning blues-rock the way Johnny Winter once used to hit it in his prime time... The string magic of the front man fascinates.
 ".blues bytes, usa:
"It is difficult to find a good slide guitarists, who stands out from the crowd - one who manages to do so is Nova Scotian John Campbelljohn."familie,
ch:
"'Hook, Slide & Sinker', an excellent, extremely vital album, which grabs you and doesn't let go again."
blues magazine, salzburg/a:
" John Campbelljohn - furious slide guitar and exceptional song-writing."
audio, germany:
"This Canadian masters his strings totally superb, particularly with the slide."
blues news, germany:
"John's raw singing and his truly convincing guitar, particularly the slide passages, are a feast for the ears, have real class. Campbelljohn surprises again and again ... whether Blues, Shuffle, Blues Rock, acoustic Blues or Rock'n Roll, the John Campbelljohn Trio shines with an all around successful album."
gitarre & bass, germany:
"John Campbelljohn and his trio have a lot of fun with their music - a rich, satisfying mixture of blues, rock'n' roll and rock."
good times, germany:
"Slide-blues rock from a powerful trio, that does not have to hide behind Johnny Winter and consorts."
inMusic, germany:
"A real delicatessen."sueddeutsche zeitung, germany:
"Guitar, Bass, Drums - played with lots of heat, power and drive - The John Campbelljohn Trio shows, what all you can do with blues, how you can inspire an audience in the true sense of the word - it demanded multiple encores."