Filmed for the upcoming series of documentaries “Gettin’ the Blues”, this features the talents of harpist Brian Lynam and pianist Steve “Big Man” Clayton. STEVE CLAYTON was born in Birmingham, England, on September 1st 1962. He began to show an interest in music at the age of 10. This prompted his father to buy an old upright piano and shipped him off for weekly piano lessons, which he would keep up the next five years. Towards the end of music lessons, his music teacher composed a blues for him to learn. The different tones and rhythms were something totally new to somebody learning the classics. This new found music had an enormous effect on him: the record collection mounted, spending all his pocket money on records by Cow Cow Davenport, Albert Ammons and Memphis Slim, to name only a few. His time was spent at the piano, trying to reproduce the sounds he was hearing. It didn’t take long for Steve Clayton to find his way into his first blues band after leaving school, and he would spend the next few years learning his craft in numerous local bands, being hailed as “The Ivory Maradona” and “The Big Man of Boogie Woogie”.The “Big Man” was requested to back visiting US artists like Louisiana Red, Cary Bell and Shuggy Otis, he toured Europe with them, he learnt from them.He is also the man pounding the keys on the award winning CD “He knows the blues” by Otis Grand. The “Big Man” was honoured as best piano player by the British Blues Connection in 1995, 1997 and 1998 before …

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