Trouble so hard - FRANCESCO PIU (official music video)

Trouble so hard - FRANCESCO PIU (official music video)
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Album: "Ma-moo tones"
Artistic Producer: Eric Bibb
Words & Music: Vera Hall
Music Arrangement: Francesco Piu, Pablo Leoni, Davide Speranza
Executive Producer: Groove Company

Video Production:
Director & Editing: Marcello Todde
Filmaker: Ugo Perazzini
Filmed at Start Studios, Milan
Special Thanks to Alessandro Toso at Start Studios

Musicians:
Francesco Piu: vocals, weissenborn guitar, mamuthones bells samples
Davide Speranza: harp
Pablo Leoni: drums, percussions, tibetan chant, backing vocals

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LYRICS
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Went down the hill
Other day
My soul got happy
and stayed all day
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Went in the room
Didn't stay long
Looked on the bed and,
Brother was dead
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard

A mix of blues, funky, soul and rock in acoustic way and we have Francesco Piu, defined from Guitar Club magazine “a truly force of nature!”. Singing and playing acoustic guitar, dobro, weissenborn, banjo, lap steel and harmonica this young Italian bluesman from Sardinia, in the last years has increased his importance in italian and international blues overwiev.

FESTIVALS AND COLLABORATIONS
Playing in most of the important blues festivals (International Blues Challenge Memphis, Cognac Blues Passions, Pistoia Blues, Blues To Bop, Blues Sur Seine, Narcao Blues, Magic Blues, Santa Blues de Tenerife, Blues en Bourgogne, Blues au Chateau, Salaise Blues, Milano Jazzin Festival, Schtumm, Trasimeno Blues and many more.

Opened shows for John Mayall, Johnny Winter, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Charlie Musselwhite, The Derek Trucks Band, Robben Ford, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Doyle Bramhall II, Sonny Landreth, Joe Bonamassa, Larry Carlton, Albert Lee, Trombone Shorty, Brent Mason, Joe Louis Walker, Eric Sardinas, The Holmes Brothers, Vintage Trouble and he played and shared the stage with artists like Tommy Emmanuel, Eric Bibb, Roy Rogers, Matt Schofield, Guy Davis, Bob Stroger, Andy J.Forest, Sugar Blue, Watermelon Slim, Kevin Welch, Sandra Hall and many others.

PRIZES AND AWARDS
On january 2010 he won the italian contest and he played at the INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE in Memphis, Tennessee, representing Italy. But this is not the only award given to Francesco Piu: in 2003 he won the first prize at the “Blues From Sardinia” competition at the Narcao Blues Festival, in 2008 he won first the prize at the “Out of the Blue’s” in Samedan (SWI) and in 2011 he won the prestigious “Premio Maria Carta”.

On May 28th he plays at the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT in BRUSSELS, during the European Blues Challenge 2016 press conference.

ALBUM
He recorded three albums for Groove Company: the debut solo album BLUES JOURNEY (2007) where he played everything by himself; then LIVE AT AMIGDALA THEATRE (2010) a live album in trio, and the last studio album MA-MOO TONES, released in February 2012, with the extraordinary artistical production by Eric Bibb. With this album (in “Buscadero” Magazine Top 10 albums of the year) Francesco has been definitely installed in blues national scene and plays in new stages in France, Spain, Canada, UK, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. In october 2013 he plays at the legendary club “El Mocambo” in Toronto, Canada.
After the release of his last album LIVE AT BLOOM Francesco goes on tour in USA in January 2015: he plays in Mississippi, Tennessee and California (from “Club Ebony” in Indianola to the “House Of Blues” in Los Angeles and “Biscuits and Blues” in San Francisco) and records at the legendary SUN STUDIO in Memphis.

PEACE & GROOVE
PEACE & GROOVE, released on November 2016 from Appaloosa Records, it’s the new album, considered one of the best of the year by the press. In his fifth work Francesco cooperates with the famous writer Salvatore Niffoi for the lyrics, and the sound goes more into soul and rhythm’n’blues. In June 2017 PEACE & GROOVE wins the “Mario Cervo Prize” as the best album of the year produced in Sardinia.

His last album, released on April 21, 2018 for Record Store Day, is called THE CANN O’ NOW SESSIONS.

JOHN MAYALL
On March 2019 he opens all Italian shows of “John Mayall 85th Anniversary Tour”, on the road with the father of British Blues.