An Australian slide guitarist known for his style of playing rock and roll and blues music.
Background
Dave Hole born in England, is an slide guitarist well known for his style of playing rock n' roll and blues. Hole movied to Perth, Western Australia, when he was 4. He became interested in the blues at a very young age, after hearing a school friend’s Muddy Waters’ album when he was around 6. Hole received his first guitar at age 12, but had to start teaching himself due to lack of guitar teachers in Perth, using the blues albums.
Hole broke his finger in a soccer accident, so, even though he was left-handed, he started playing the guitar with his right. He did this by putting the slide on his index finger and then hanging his hand over the top of the guitar neck. By the time his finger healed, he had gotten so used to the ‘wrong’ way of playing that he never turned back.
Now having ten albums under his wing, he continues to tour worldwide, but still has his home in the Darling Scarp of Western Australia as his base for the other six months of the year.
Career
Hole became a professional in 1972, working with a band in London. He returned to Perth in 1974 and spent the next 20 years touring the Western Australian pub circuit. To keep his fans happy, he eventually released “Short Fuse Blues,” a tape which he had financed, produced, and recorded with his band, Short Fuse in 1990. He sold the album during pub performances. A copy of the album was soon in the hands of Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer who signed Hole as the first non-American artist in the label’s history.
Dave signed a deal for Europe with Provogue Records, with the albums and tours of the U.S. and Europe helping him to increase his popularity worldwide. Later tours of Europe have seen him headlining festival shows in Germany, Denmark, Holland, France and Switzerland with the Leverkussen Blues Festival in Germany televised nationally. He has also performed in Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the UK.
Albums
Short Fuse Blues - Independent (1990) ; Alligator Records/Festival (1992)
The Plumber - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (1992)
Working Overtime - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (1 January 1993)
Steel On Steel - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (1 January 1995)
Whole Lotta Blues - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (1996)
Ticket To Chicago - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (11 February 1997)
Under The Spell - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (20 April 1999)
Outside Looking In - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (5 June 2001)
The Live One - Black Cat Records; Alligator/Festival (11 March 2003)
Rough Diamond - Black Cat Records; Black Cat/Shock (19 May 2007); Blind Pig Records / Stony Plain (22 May 2007)