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He grew up musically in the second half of the seventies listening to the records of the great black blues guitar players of the'20 and '30 like Blind Blake. Rev, Gary Davis, Mississipi John Hurt...and even to the great white finger-pickers like Doc Watson and Merle Travis.

After years of practicing and brief stints with cover bands of sixties rock'n'roll and early seventies folky stuff and bluegrass he starts to build up his own style of country-blues getting deeply into the original sound of the early country-blues recordings.

During the last fifteen years he's been invited to play in many blues festivals in Italy and all over Europe in his acoustic traditional version or with the electric blues band that he co-founded with Marco "Phyton" Fecchio.
With Beppe "Harmonica Slim" he founded the Blue Stream an acoustic duo deeply rooted in the old time sounds but with an eye even in the modern acoustic sounds of the blues.
They have recorded two cd's together "Stories we can tell" in 2001 and "Life lines" in 2004 building up a strong reputation especially in the blues festival all over the Europe.
Between the two cd's mentioned before he has recorded an all-acoustic solo album of rags and blues called "These blues won't let me rest" (2003) doing guest-appearences in other musicians' albums and a lead guitar player role in a rockabilly band (Dice and the Gamblers)

Official Website: www.myspace.com/maxdebernardi - www.bluesmachine.it