After making music together in Texas for many years earlier in the decade, these two blues heavyweights have teamed up again in the summer of 2009 to record a duo CD in Dallas, TX. The CD entitled "Livin' Life" features 14 new original songs by the two artists. Quote from the liner notes by Sonny Collie: “Robin Bank$ and Christian Dozzler are contemporary blues people, rolling their own and moving their chosen music forward. They ‘get it’ when it comes to the dilemma of modern blues: that a music has to evolve or die. And on this disk, witness blues evolution. Witness blues gone World. They blend a perfect smoothie of influences in a simple piano / voice duo -- jazz, R&B, Creole, country, boogie-woogie -- but listen: their bare feet are squished right down in that blue mud, channeling it up through their bellies and into the microphone.” ROBIN BANK$ is one of America's most exciting female blues entertainers, an award winning and internationally renowned vocalist, band leader, songwriter and record producer. After early success in her native Canada she moved her career to Dallas, Texas, in 1999. There, she continued recording (with the likes of the late Sam Myers, who played on her second CD) and performed around 240 nights per year in and around Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi together with some of the nation’s top Blues musicians including Fabulous Thunderbirds guitarists Johnny Moeller, Nick Curran and Kid Ramos, just to name a few. From 2006 until recently, she lived on the island of Jamaica where she performed at resorts, nightclubs and festivals and quickly became known as "thee blues singer in Jamaica". Since the start of her blues career in 1992 she has fascinated audiences at blues and jazzclubs and at festivals all over Canada, the US, Europe and the Caribbean with her stage presence and her intense and emotional performances. "ROBIN BANK$...she'll break your heart and kick your a**, all in about a minute!" (Lee McBee) Robin's website: www.myspace.com/MissRobinBanks CHRISTIAN DOZZLER, originally from Vienna, Austria, is regarded as one of Europe's most versatile and respected blues musicians. He has been performing all over the world for more than 30 years, can be heard on more than three dozen international blues productions, and has six CDs under his own name. He made the US his home in 2000 and is now living in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. During his long career he has made a name for himself as a multi-instrumentalist (piano, harmonica, accordion, organ) and singer in bands like the Mojo Blues Band, later his own Blues Wave, and after his move to America with the Larry Garner Blues Band. In recent years, Christian mostly performed solo on both sides of the Atlantic. He is also in demand as a valued accompanist and sideman, and plays with Texas blues legends Anson Funderburgh and Mike Morgan on a regular basis. At the American Blues Critic Awards 2008, Christian was nominated as "Best Blues Keyboardist". Christian's website: www.dozzler.com