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Hans Theessink (born 5 April 1948,

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, Netherlands) is a Dutch

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselv ...

, mandolinist, singer and songwriter, living in Vienna, Austria. He performs

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

and roots music, particularly in a

Delta blues Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the s ...

style. He is a bass-baritone. Theessink has released 20 albums, a songbook, a blues-guitar instruction video and a DVD. In 2012, he released ''Delta Time'' (2012), performed with Terry Evans and featuring

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. In 2013, he released ''Wishing Well,'' which he described as a retrospective album looking back at many of his favorite moments in his music career. The album also features several originals, including "House Up On The Hill," which he described as a song about flooding in Mississippi. Hans has said he was partly inspired by observing floods in his home country of The Netherlands during his childhood.

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Hans Theessink
official website
Hans Theessink
myspace site
London gig review October 2007
1948 births Living people Blues guitarists People from Enschede Dutch guitarists Dutch male guitarists Dutch blues mandolinists Blues mandolinists Vienna Art Orchestra members Ruf Records artists {{guitarist-stub