Dave Hole

Robert David Dave Hole is an Australian slide guitarist known for his style of playing rock and roll and blues music. In 1990 he issued Short Fuse Blues which brought him to the attention of United States label, Alligator Records. Two of his albums have appeared on Billboard Top Blues Albums, Steel on Steel peaked at No.16013 and Ticket to Chicago reached No.16015. His sixth album, Under the Spell, appeared in April 1999 and won Best Blues amp Roots Album at the ARIA Music Awards of that year. According to Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, Hole is the most acclaimed blues guitarist Australia has ever produced ... courtesy of his unorthodox slide guitar style, his rousing live shows and a series of hardrocking, roadhouse blues albums ... yet it took two decades of slogging around the Australian touring circuit before the local industry sat up and took notice.

Robert David Hole was born onMarch 1948 in Heswall, United Kingdom, due to a mix up at the hospital he was named Robert when is should have been David. The family called him David and now he goes by David Robert Hole. When he was four years old his family moved to Perth, Australia. He became interested in blues music after hearing a school friends Muddy Waters album when aged six. At twelve years old he received his first guitar and started to teach himself due to lack of availability of teachers. He used the albums of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson to learn. He later used work of Robert Johnson, Elmore James, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Hole is lefthanded and, after breaking a finger in a football accident, he played the guitar righthanded. I had to have a cast on it. So I came up with this idea, just while I was recuperating, of jamming the slide on my index finger and hanging it over the top of the guitar quite an awkward

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