Pete Temple Music
Kitchener - Ontario - Canada
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Pete Temple is a singer-songwriter, blues harmonica frontman, and multi-instrumentalist with over 50 years of experience, who has created a recognized style focused around the 3 T's of, Technique, Tone, and Taste. In addition to having an expansive appreciation for different musical genres, meant learning guitar, bass, drums, and trumpet. This would only help provide a solid understanding, that fueled an ever-growing passion, while in the development of his sound.
However, his music career took a different priority, only after raising his family. Pete had developed his artistry by attending music festivals and musician's open mic nights while quietly practicing his craft listening to the recordings of his favorite artists. Fifty years of learning where and how to fit in with a focus on roots rock-styled music would naturally steer his approach towards Blues, Old school R&B, Soul, West Coast Swing, and Rock and Roll.
In 1989 after a successful career in advertising, he decided to put down new roots in Kitchener, Ontario Canada at a time when the community was preparing for the arrival of blues and jazz-fusion guitarist, Mel Brown from Jackson Mississippi. Mel Brown was highly accomplished and internationally known among the world's greats, who identified an opening, and new future for himself in Kitchener. So the timing couldn’t have been better, as Pete watched the surrounding music scene explode, with the excitement of Mel Brown’s arrival.
New Music: October 2021 marks the anticipated delivery of “Pete Temple & The Cornerstones Live at The Boathouse.” Recorded live off the floor at a once thriving, and socially significant music venue, that operated in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. This widely respected concert stage was known to have hosted some now-famous, but at the time, lesser-known artists, who happily played for the free drinks, food, and low-money. They cut their teeth, shaped their songs, and found acceptance in the welcoming applause of this now-defunct but notable music venue.
Recorded March 2018 “Live at The Boathouse” is special, and does not take long for the listener to appreciate. This recording quickly becomes a showcase for the comparable level of musicianship heard in the overall talent of Pete Temple & The Cornerstones. It becomes obvious how they have learned to play music with big ears, in their preparedness for any impulsive shift, that may happen during live performances.
Pete’s original song “What Is The Blues", clearly serves as a perfect example of his respect for the music, and take on the subject. In addition, his choice of material is thought-out, allowing each track to flow seamlessly between originals and the handpicked cover songs, chosen in support of this live recording.
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Live at the Boathouse
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