A 2-hour Sunday set from Brighton’s number 1 blues and country god with excellent support – probably the best way to spend a Sunday.
“You can practically fry eggs on the man as he radiates energy into the room. His gravel-gargling voice is a perfect compliment to his 1930′s National steel guitar, harmonica and footboard. The sound he produces has astonishing depth …” Bill Grainger (Beaford Arts)
“… totally compelling … furious energy … he blew me away!” Netrhythms
” … powerful attacking style … John Crampton takes no prisoners!” Blues in London
“… John Crampton doesn’t so much approach the raw blues of Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Bukka White with reverence as wrestle it to the floor and stamp his unique mark on it ! Blues Matters Magazine
” … rough-house emotionality and gutsy physical immediacy like nothing else I have heard !” Netrhythms
” … the finest blues you are likely to hear this side of Memphis !” Metro
” … stunning blues voice … I was blown away!” Blues in Britain
” … one of the finest blues solo acts on the British blues scene …” Blues Matters Magazine
” … there is a deeper sweetness to his playing that comes from a great deal of conviction !” Blues in London
” … stomping and unstoppable … like a runaway train … an act well worth watching ” Blues in Britain
John Crampton, an amazing one-man blues band with steely reverberating guitar and harmonica galore. His playing was like a locomotive, his singing like an angry chainsaw and as he steamed through his set. BBC Southern Counties
… next was John Crampton … his blues are down and dirty … a voice sounding like an earthquake … we thought we had slipped way down south to the mississippi … Mrs Yarrington
” … Crampton plays heavy blues in a kind of Tom Waits/ John Hammond vibe … a wonderful singer and guitarist … really cooking!” Michael Messer
“one of the Uk’s top accoustic slide and steel guitarists … ” Hookers Blues Club
” a one man blues explosion” The Spitz, London
” a one man powerhouse …superb!” Digital Blues
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