Gwyn Ashton

Robert Plant called Gwyn Ashton “King of tone and feel” and even said that his duo, Two-Man Blues Army, was “better than The Black Keys”. Plant’s band even played on Ashton’s album Radiogram, with Robert’s legendary guitarist Robbie Blunt trading licks on a track in a lap slide and Stratocaster guitar dual. He’s jammed onstage with Mick Fleetwood, Canned Heat, Walter Trout and dozens of others and toured with Status Quo, The Yardbirds, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Pat Travers, Johnny Winter, Slade, The Sweet, The Troggs appearing at festivals with BB King, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Robben Ford, Roger Chapman and many others. Ashton has also jammed with David Crosby, Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Beck, Bogert and Appice), Rainbow’s Graham Bonnet and Cream’s lyricist Pete Brown (White Room, Sunshine of Your Love), but in their living rooms! Upon moving to the UK in 1996 he was responsible for getting Jethro Tull’s dummer Clive Bunker out of a 20-year retirement and put a trio together with him. Johnny Winter called Ashton a “true blues player, Deep Purple’s Don Airey labelled him as “one of the greatest unsung heroes” and BBC/Kerrang announcer Krusher Joule called him “one of the best blues guitarists since SRV.”Billboard Magazine described Ashton as “South Australia’s greatest ambassador for blues rock guitar” and in 2001 French readers of Guitar Part Magazine put him at #3 Guitarist of The Year, with Jeff Beck and Gary Moore at first and second places, with Izzy Stradlin at number 4. In the 80s Gwyn Ashton played with legendary singer Stevie Wright (The Easybeats), recorded on two of Masters Apprentices Jim Keays’ solo albums in the ‘90s and in 2000 played with Rory Gallagher’s band for five years after Rory passed away. He’s even been songwriting and recording with Screaming Jets’ frontman Dave Gleeson. Over a course of his 11 album releases, he has guests on them including members of Plant’s and Gallagher’s bands, Guns N Roses, Whitesnake, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Deep Purple and more. After Billy Thorpe asked Ashton if Mick Fleetwood could sit in his band one night Fleetwood ‘s producer approached him with “a band that I can’t mentio