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Live In France

Shun Kikuta & EL JOSE and The Hibbie Blues

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On the last day of the France tour in April 2019, the live sound source recorded at Hall Blues Club in Pelussin was released by Rising Shun Records as "Live In France". Performed with up-and-coming blues band EL JOSE And the Hibbie Blues. Contains 12 songs including original "Love Love Love", "Look Out Baby", and blues masterpieces such as "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", "Have You Ever Loved A Woman".

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Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • Taiwan • TOP 88 Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • China • TOP 146

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Live In France

iTunes Store • Blues TOP ALBUMS • Germany • TOP 3 • 27 Aug 2021 Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • Turkey • TOP 17 • 21 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • France • TOP 18 • 5 Mar 2021 Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • Austria • TOP 28 • 27 Aug 2022 Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • Germany • TOP 79 • 28 Jan 2022 Apple Music • Blues Top Albums • Japan • TOP 112 • 23 Aug 2022

Me And My Guitar (Cover) [Live at Hall Blues Club in France, 2019]

Apple Music • Blues Top Songs • Ecuador • TOP 61 • 21 May 2023

Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Cover) [Live at Hall Blues Club, France, 2019]

Apple Music • Blues Top Songs • Ecuador • TOP 60 • 21 May 2023

Queen OF The Blues (Cover) [Live at Hall Blues Club, France, 2019]

iTunes Store • Blues TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 4 • 11 Jan 2022

Going Down (Cover) [Live at Hall Blues Club, France, 2019]

Apple Music • Blues Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 130 • 6 Dec 2023

Artist Profile

  • Shun Kikuta

    "Shogun of the blues"
__ Asia Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) 
"Shun Kikuta, an impressive young Japanese guitarist"
__ Living Blues (U.S.A) 
 Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world. Shun resided in Chicago, known as a home of blues, over two decades and he was a regular guitarist of Koko Taylor, "Queen of the blues" for nine years until her passing. He also was a long time member of 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chi-Town Hustlers. Currently he focuses on his own group "Shun Kikuta Band" and "Blues Company". Performed with: B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Kenny Wayne Shepperd etc.. Recorded with: Koko Taylor "Old School"-Grammy Award nominated, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Billy Branch, Eddie Shaw, Nellie"Tiger"Travis, etc.. 
 TV and movie appearance: "An evening with B.B.King" as a band leader and performed with B.B.King. "Kennedy Center Honors" to honor Morgan Freeman sharing a stage with Koko Taylor, Pinetop Perkins, Honey Boy Edwards and Willie "Big Eye" Smith. "Father and Sons", a part of the seven series of "THE BLUES" movie directed by Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and 5 other directors. Performed on: Chicago Blues Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Notodden Blues Festival(Norway), Japan Blues Festival, Jakarta International Blues Festival, Beijing Blues Festival etc... 
 Discography: Live In France (2020), Good Times Roll/Blues Project (2019), Blues Company (2018) , Rising Shun Plus (2018), Best of Shun's Blues (2013) and 12 leader/collaborated albums. Instructional materials: Lively Blues Guitar (CD+Book, 2017), Call & Response (DVD, 2014) and 6 other books and DVDs. Shun was on the cover and featured musician of BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE Dec 29th 2011 issue. 
 Besides performing, Shun teaches guitar, blues history and ensemble in regular basis through workshops and private lessons. Shun also is a music writer in last two decades. He has published his book "The World's Blues Alleys"(Rittor Music-Japanese) and has had his own articles on magazines and papers as well.

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