MAD DOG BLUES (Solo, Duo, Trio & String Band) ColoradoCountryBlues.com (HOME) eclectic acoustic roots & jam

About Mad Dog Blues:

International recording artist, Mad Dog Friedman, harmonica player, musical innovator and founder of many popular Colorado blues acts over the years including King Comfort, Harmonica Loowinski, Papa Juke, the Mojo Medicine Show & Blue Lightning, has put together an acoustic blues jam band with a unique blues style indigenous to Colorado in the 21st Century while still honoring his blues roots. We call this music Colorado Country Blues because it combines the “Colorado Sound” (jam grass) with traditional rural blues. The result is Mad Dog Blues, a coalition of top-notch, veteran musicians dedicated to exploring this new sound in both their song writing and performances. Along with Mad Dog Friedman on harmonica, Mad Dog Blues (5 piece band) includes Jeff "Bone Head " Becker (Hippie Buckaroos) on mandolin, Clark "The Champ" Chanslor (White Water Ramble) on stand-up bass, Sean "Rocket" Bennight (from St. Louis) on acoustic guitar and Mark "Kaz" Kaczorowski (Blues on the Lamb) on slide and acoustic guitar. We hope you enjoy our original “Colorado Country Blues” sound, a unique fusion of delta blues, bluegrass, honky-tonk, hokum and acoustic jam music.

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Awards & Accolades:

• The Mad Dog Blues Duo is the Solo/Duo Winner of the 2024 Mile High Blues Society Blues Challenge and represented the Mile High Blues Society in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge in January of 2024.
• River City Roots (2023), performed by the guitar-harmonica-duo version of Mad Dog Blues charted #3 in the global ACOUSTIC BLUES CHART (Roots Music Reports - Week of April 8, 2023).
  Gratitude (2022), our full band studio CD, was the Winner of the Pikes Peak Blues Community's Best Self-Produced CD Contest 2023.
•   Mad Dog Blues' All the Way was the #1 album in Colorado (2/22/25) and #4 on the global Acoustic Blues charts (10/19 & 11/16 in 2024) on Roots Music Reports.Mad Dog Blues charted at both #2 (The Mad Dog Blues Duo Live at the End) and #7 (River City Roots) on Roots Music Reports Colorado All Genre Reports in September of 2023.  This means that we had 2 of the top 10 albums in Colorado for the Week of 9-16-23!

Getting to Know Us:

Here are some short excerpts from the interview with Mad Dog Friedman on K4CO Radio on 1/22/25 discussing Mad Dog's unique harmonica style and how Mad Dog Blues was formed:

Here's the full interview of Mad Dog Friedman on K4CO Radio on 1/22/25 with the world premier plays of a couple of the tracks off of Going to Be Together (releases 3/21/25):

Thank you K4CO Radio for making this interview available to the world. What great way to learn the history of the band and hear a couple of world premiers of new tunes off of our soon to be released (3/21/25) new live album, Going to Be Together: https://youtu.be/cJFGA_r78pQ?si=IGEJCTdY3O3Jyw4J