Also known as Brock Name Herman Jr. Role Singer | Years active 1986–present Albums The Old World Labels Rootsworld | |
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Born September 18, 1970
Winterswijk, Netherlands ( 1970-09-18 ) Origin Terneuzen, The Netherlands Instruments Guitar, vocals, mandolin, banjo, autoharp Genres Americana, Bluegrass, Outlaw country Similar People Joost van Es, Ralph van Raat, Jesse Dayton, The Stanley Brothers, Dayna Kurtz | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter | ||
My old hometown herman brock jr the old world official video
Herman Brock Jr. (born September 18, 1970, only 7 minutes after Jimi Hendrix death) is a left-handed Dutch bluegrass, Americana and Blues musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. He is also author of the series 'Secrets of the guitar'.
Contents
- My old hometown herman brock jr the old world official video
- Herman brock jr and band live at lowlands august 2015
- Biography
- Bands
- Own bands
- As guest musician
- References
Herman brock jr and band live at lowlands august 2015
Biography
Herman was born in Winterswijk and grew up in Terneuzen in the Netherlands. He played guitar with his father Herman Brock Sr's FFFF-band as a teenager. His main instruments are vocals and guitar, but also plays banjo, mandolin, autoharp and dulcimer.
Bands
In 1999 Brock formed the Eurocasters band with bassplayer Lizz Sprangers.
In 2003 the cd 'Straight Up!' was recorded in Palmer, Texas with contributions from a.o. Mike Morgan, Hash Brown en Holland K. Smith.
Brock's last Eurocasters' album ‘Coco Loco’ was recorded in 2005 in Austin, TX. Produced by Jesse Dayton, with a.o. Erik Hokkanen and Redd Volkaert. Jesse in turn recorded two songs by Herman on his album 'South Austin Sessions'.
In 2006 Brock formed his bluegrass and old-time trio Brock & The Brockettes with Lizz Sprangers and Geertje van den Berg.
Since 2009 he also plays with his Bluegrass band "Brock's Blue Grass Bunch".