Original, Ironic, reserved, direct and authentic author...
Max Marinaio is one of the most important and prolific
Italian and European blues artists despite his poor visibility.
Above all a first level songwriter and arranger
a skilled guitarist and singer, Max Marinaio is more similar to the old American bluesmen - a pure raw talent that has been refined with experience - than to modern day graduate master guitarists who have "teaching" as their first occupation and a guitarism that is not always inspired as their second.
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He developed his own "anglophone" musical world in the eighties playing a Carmelo Catania classic guitar.
At 20 y.o. he wrote remarkable songs like "My Real Life", an ironic blues that targets the "rock star myth" literally tearing it to pieces, "Look Look Look" a fascinating, mysterious jazz blues, "What He Says" an enthralling rhythmic rock blues and a few months later "Man Without A Babe" a perfect blues parody, on the theme of the man who cannot keep the girl (or find the right one) and pity himself.
Songs that would be vitriolic, if they weren't dulled by that sense of irony that characterizes his personality.
The "Man Without a Babe" is a subtle song, not a song about lonliness but a song about how we consume our relationships until we are alone.
These four tracks together with the later Wino Time (from 1992)
were released on a Rhythm & Blues album in 2003
"Let The Good Times Rock and Roll" published by an independent label on CD with a limited edition.The album contained 17 original tracks.
Interesting guitarist we said, and very creative, Max Marinaio has a mixed technique (rhythm, riffs, fingerstyle and soloist) developed "on his own" he was never interested in preening on the guitar or studying on paper the styles of other famous guitarists in order to replicate them. He dedicated himself to develope his own ideas on the guitar and this made him unique.
In 2005 he created "The Flying Cats" his Rockabilly Blues quartet
- then trio from 2009 - and reached the final of the Famous Pistoia Blues Festival, from then on they will play mainly in Tuscany but they will attract the attention of important media personalities such as Maurizio Faulisi "Dr. Feel Good", the Roots Americana DJ of Virgin Radio.(Milan)
The trio published 2 EP requested by a French Rockabilly radio DJ who visits their site and who will broadcast their second EP to
Radio Sensations (Paris) in the broadcast dedicated to American roots music "Memphis Tennessee".
Max Marinaio's band has always played a majority of original songs but also personal versions of such classics as "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Hit The Road Jack" (Ray Charles) and "Sweet Home Chicago" (Robert Johnson).
In his songwriting, boogie-woogie has been just as important as blues with songs like "Let's Rock", "All The Pretty Girls", "You Didn't Ever Tell Me So".
Multi-instrumentalist and today producer of himself Max Marinaio is a mature artist but for many, yet to be discovered.
In the recordings he often plays the piano, the bass, the percussions.
He collaborated among others, with the talented jazz singer
Irene Di Vilio who recorded his jazz-blues song "Look Look Look".
An international value musician paradoxically more followed abroad than in his absent-minded Italy, that especially in the Blues Festivals is often engaged in chasing artists of all backgrounds without realizing what big talent has under its nose.
