INDIANA PHOENIX
Band Story
Brian Cain is one of Australia’s finest cross blues harp players with vocal and harp playing experience and ability allow him to tell the story of the blues from its inception from the likes of Little Walter and Robert Johnson to ballads and blues rock tunes of the current day and is joined by some of Australia’s leading guitar players when doing duos. Brian’s acoustic solo set features traditional, contemporary and original acoustic blues with blues harp and vocals, his acoustic blues folk ballads with acoustic guitar and vocal telling the story of some of Australia’s past such as the ballad of Daniel about the disappearance of child Daniel Morcombe and The great race about the sudden loss of Peter Brock. The duo incorporates all this plus playing more original material from his albums acoustically. Indiana Phoenix the band is live dance boogie rock with high energy ballads incorporating blues shuffle, boogie, rock and Bo Didley beat influences. Brian says before he became himself he was influenced by blues harp player Paul Jones of London’s The Blues Band and the bands of American guitarist Johnny Winter. Indiana Phoenix is a product of the Australian pub blues rock scene over the past 30 years. Brian Cain has been the most subscribed to Australian musician of all time on youtube for over a year now.