Singer Leadfoot Rivet is a completely original personality among the French blues scene A bilingual artist, Rivet has deeply immersed himself into the Afroamerican musical culture, starting at the Navajo plains and driving to the Louisiana bayous, the musical tradition and culture of Quebec or the Rocky Mountains, the country and western or the bluegrass, but also to the old blues he listened at Mississippi juke joints Singer, musician, composer, producer, editor, traveller, wanderer, life poet and many other things, Rivet is an atypical artist who faces what life brings him with a frank and open-mind attitude His warm original well pitched voice will captivate you whenever you listen to him, thanks to his rich, expressive and emotional performing Over the years Leadfoot has build up a distinctive style, full of nuances, he calls it ‘Mongrel music’, that is the sum of all his influences, together with a varied and basically acoustic instrumentation, where you will find such curious instruments like bouzouki, sitar, mandolin, cistre or Vietnamese lute Rivet has also collaborated with artists like Tommy Castro, Tom Principato, Larry Garner, Sam Myers, Amos Garrett, John Mooney, Duke Robillard or Smokin’ Joe Kubek among others These two albums show Leadfoot Rivet on top form, playing the music he deeply feels that, as usual, becomes quiet, restful, poetic, easygoing, free… but at the same time deeply rooted in blues, folk, ballads and country The joy and troubles of life have forged Leadfoot Rivet as an attractive sensitive story-teller who, with his particular voice, displays a wide range of different emotions that will surely touch your heart