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Mad Dog Blues is a flexible ensemble designed to play Colorado’s fantastic concert and club scene. All our music is acoustic, low volume, very fun and energetic. We perform an eclectic mix of originals and covers that span a over a century of American music and appeals to all ages. Faithful to the bones of the tradition—pulse, phrasing, feel—and fearless about widening the frame, Mad Dog Blues keeps the old roads alive so we can walk them together. Mad Dog Blues can be engaged as a unique solo blues harmonica act, a duo, a trio, or a 4 or 5 piece string band (no drums).
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3 CD's, 2 EP's & 1 Single Released from March 21, 2025 - March 21, 2026!
- Music Heals, (released March 21, 2026,) the first all instrumental album from Mad Dog Blues, brings together our core string band sound with a talented cast of guest musicians. Cello, clarinet, marimba, and piano widen the palette, giving the music new colors and unexpected textures. Music Heals by Mad Dog Blues is with ease the best album of their career, ...and probably one of the most entertaining releases in the world of blues and instrumental music for many a year you will have heard. ~ Steve Sheppard, founding presenter at One World Music Radio
- Mad Dog Blues Solo's live CD, Heart to Harp - Live at the Colorado Blues Challenge (released January 18, 2026,) is Mad Dog Friedman's effort to revive the the nearly-forgotten, solo hamonica blues tradition of the early 20th century. I especially enjoyed your original songs, your skillfull blues harmonica playing, and your ever-energetic performance. ~ Hawkeye Herman, Keeping the Blues Alive" Award Winner
- Mad Dog Blues - HARP TO HARP (EP released October 18, 2025,) is a celebration of harmonica in its purest form. Featuring six instrumental tracks built entirely around harmonica interplay—with no guitars, keys, or bass. Some of the finest harp players around join Mad Dog Friedman for this recording: Nic Clark, Josh Elioseff, Jeff Gagliardi, Chris Hammang & Joe Waters.
- Mad Dog Blues - Live & Alone (EP released August 1, 2025,) captures (in BOTH audio and video) the debut performance of Mad Dog Blues Solo, featuring the solo harmonica blues of Mad Dog Friedman. It is raw, bare-boned, intense, and definitely worth checking out. Thank you, Mad Dog, for keeping this tradition from dying out. ~ Peter Madcat Ruth, Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso
- Ain't Nobody Own the Blues (Single released May 31, 2025,) featuring Nic Clark (2024 BMA Nominee) is taking the acoustic blues world by storm. It is a new hill country style blues that deals with the issues of the world today.
- Going to Be Together (Released March 21, 2025,) Mad Dog Blues' ninth album, captures a stellar live performance of the band at The End in Lafayette, Colorado, on Dec. 27, 2024. Warm, organic, heartfelt. ~ Ken Wilcox (Acoustik Korner Studios) | Got that live vibrancy to it ... good shit. ~John Magnie (Subdudes) | A great performance! ~John Lamp (Australian presenter)
"...ego-less music from a tight-knit group that plays like an extended family." ~ Dan Willging, Feb.-March 2021 Holler from the Colorado Blues Society
"... a delightfully executed slice of acoustic enjoyment. ...What we have here are virtuosos on their given instruments. The presentation and production are first rate. Truly a breath of fresh air." ~ September 30, 2024, by Greg "Bluesdog" Szalony, ALL THE WAY album review at Blues Blast Magazine.
"The group's chemistry is so tight that its jamming has to be telepathic." ~ Dan Willging, Oct/Nov 2024 Holler from the Colorado Blues Society
for all bookings please contact Mad Dog Friedman at maddog AT poetscoop DOT org
(or see our Electronic Press Kit for full contact information)
LEARN ABOUT THE BAND:
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Electronic Press Kit: This is a PDF file with links to our music, videos and contact info.
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Check out all the details of where and when Mad Dog Blues is playing next.
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Learn the history of the band and hear a couple of world premiers of new tunes off of, GOING TO BE TOGETHER, our soon to be released (3/21/25) new live album: https://youtu.be/cJFGA_r78pQ?si=IGEJCTdY3O3Jyw4J.
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What a great article and interview from the Boulder Daily Camera about Mad Dog Friedman published on May 6, 2022!
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Another great article and interview, this time from ShoutOut Colorado.
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Almost like being there!!! Watch a slide show of Charla Harvey's Photo Shoot of Mad Dog Blues at Moe's BBQ in Denver on March 20, 2022 or watch a video of the whole performance.
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Enjoy hours of live video on Mad Dog Blues' YouTube Channel (full concerts & some excerpts) or on our FaceBook Video Page (live streams & more excerpts.)
Diversity, Equity & Unity:
Mad Dog Blues supports and promotes diversity and equity and wants to thank the many African American, Native American and people of color that have inspired and influenced us with their music. In general, the rural American musicians and hokum songsters of 20's and 30's were playing music influenced by the players around them. Musical influence was more regional than genre-based and quite often color-blind. Radio airplay and the recording industry is more genre based. Segregation and racism in the music industry was responsible for the splitting up the true American music into the existing genres (like Country and Blues). It is our hope to go deep into the roots of this music and come up with our own songs that transcend the divisions in American music created by commercialism and racism.
