Biography

Long Distance Call Blues Band

"a throwback to the days when Peter Haycock, old Fleetwood Mac, and Muddy Waters were first recording their bare and intimately raw blues." earbuzz.com about Long Distance Call's Debut Album Live Blues.

Long Distance Call released their first album, Live Blues, October 2005 and was nominated for Best Emerging Blues Artist 2005 by the King Biscuit Blues Festival, Helena, AR.

Here are five veteran BLUES men, Players who are firmly rooted in the BLUES.
With deep respect for the masters and a keen ear for the future. They have banded together for one purpose only: To bring the Blues into the new millennium.


Harmonica Player and singer Fredrik Persson has played the blues from the Mississippi Delta through Memphis, TN to North Carolina, where he now resides.

Lead Guitarist and singer Scott Monti, native of Illinois. Came to Charlotte through a couple of years of playing in Texas.

Long Distance call is backed up by an extraordinaire rhythm section:
The Hitmen
Rhythm Guitarist and singer B.W. Carrigan, has played the blues for the past 40 years. Drummer Reginald Walker has played with B.W. for the past 20 years, they are both great North Carolina bluesman.
Bassist and singer Bull Linville, native of California.

LDC has come together in a band that is unique while holding true to the blues.
Individually and collectively, they have opened for, or shared the stage with such blues legends as Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks, The Night Hawks, Lonnie Brooks, Room Full of Blues, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Debbie Davies and The Michael Hill Blues Mob.
With well over 100 years combined experience, they are just as comfortable playing small venues or large festivals.