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Julian Sas’ new studio album is called Bound To Roll. Like a big freight train the Dutch blues-rocker adds in the album’s title track and that’s a pretty accurate description of his approach to making music. Honest, unstoppable, never looking back, accelerator on the floor With a Gretch, a Fender or a Gibson, using fingers or a pick, a moving ballad or a heavy rocker, Julian and his musicians Tenny Tahamata (bass) and Rob Heijne (drums) only recognise one level of commitment and that is always much more than 100%. That drive combined with great musicianship made Sas and his compadres into a phenomenon; a top act with a large fanatical following, respected by fellow musicians and a welcome guest in sold-out venues and on festivals throughout Europe. And Sas himself arguably into Europe’s best blues guitarist and a very soulful lead-vocalist…..

In the year 1996 Julian Sas, young blues-man from The Netherlands, released his debut album Where Will It End!?. Today, twenty years later, that question still remains unanswered. The end is nowhere near. The Sas Boogie Train Anno 2016 rumbles faster and louder than ever. Julian plays better, sings better, and writes better. But going back to those first albums, all the ingredients were present from day one. A diamond in the rough is made to shine by grinding. In the case of the Julian Sas Band by playing, playing and more playing. Long sets … many shows….Holland, Belgium, France Germany, Hungary, Poland, Norway, Finland, England, Ireland….. For great music borders don't exist. 1996 - 2000 box-set includes the music the first incarnation of the Julian Sas Band recorded. 5 years and 5 albums of superb blues-rock. 12 page book with foreword Julian Sas, Background story of the first Julian Sas Band, the first 5 years, the first five albums and previously unpublished photos.

‘Coming Home’ is Julian Sas’s ninth studio album and the first as a foursome with new addition Roland Bakker on keyboards. Fans and critics paying attention to detail already noticed on Sas’s previous outing ‘Bound To Roll’, a modest change of direction. Especially the fat Hammond organ licks caught their attention. A song that highlights the new direction is the dark sounding ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ in which Julian Sas on guitar and Roland Bakker on keyboard play a joint melody-line. The lyric, Julian explains, is about the quest of man. Where and why? Aren’t we all looking for a change? A life of freedom in every sense without fear? A life without threads of religious or political fanatics? Many of the songs on ‘Coming Home’ are about freedom, spiritual and physical, about taking responsibility and the like.

A collection of the best blues ballads by Europe’s premier blues-gitarist Julian Sas. Includes a new version of A Light In The Dark, nowhere else available. Julian Sas is a 37 year old blues rocker with a large following in Germany and the Netherlands, with pockets of fans around the globe…He has already been favorably compared to such blues luminaries and guitar giants like Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and Gary Moore.

"Stand Your Ground" features 8 new songs and was analogously recorded in the completely renewed The Van Studios of Jan and Paul Schuurman in Spakenburg, The Netherlands in December 2018. It is the tenth studio album of the Dutch Blues-Rocker and his sixteenth if the various live albums are included. Asked about his new album, Julian tells us that Stand Your Ground has become a ‘back-to-basics’ record. Uncompromising, earthy and without frills. Proud, with passion and faith in what we do and who we are. After a year of extensive touring, it was time to capture that energy in new music. We deliberately opted for good preparation and a short recording process.