An impressive discography comprising 32 albums: That is the balance sheet from over 50 years of musical career. The rock musician and singer Mitch Ryder has long since become a legend. With his band "Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels", he had his first hit in 1965 with "Jenny Take A Ride!". Two years later, he tried it solo, but the hoped-for success failed to materialize. Disappointed, Ryder turned his back on music. In the 70s, he became famous through his legendary appearance on the WDR Rockpalast night.
Since 1994, he has been on the road with the German group Engerling, who have dedicated themselves to rock & blues for 49 years. True and beautiful, with that certain dirt and whiskey in his voice, that's real rhythm & blues and that's exactly what Mitch Ryder does. The passionate singer and the Berlin band are a perfect musical match. According to Keith Richards, the original rocker from Detroit is one of the most exciting singers to have emerged on the music scene. Inspired by James Brown and Motown, Mitch Ryder still does what he does best: Singing blues from the bottom of his heart.
You only had to read the faces of the fans in front of the stage to know that the rock foghorn from Detroit hadn't been this good for a long time.
Up and down the country, Mitch Ryder celebrated pain-soaked masses of rock music in winter. 28 concerts in 32 days. He takes to the stage and gives it his all. For two hours. After the concert, the crowd went home exhilarated. "This is what Jim Morrison would sound like at 71", wrote the venerable ZEIT, the WDR dedicated an hour-long radio report to the rock warhorse and the Berliner Zeitung asked: "When was the last time the Stones performed 'Gimme Shelter' like this, perhaps forty years ago?" Now the singer with the lurking vibrato in his voice is back on the road through the clubs and halls with his brand new live album "The Roof Is On Fire" - 2 CD / 2LP -(Rufrecords 2.2.2024) in his tour luggage, recorded at Tor 20019/2020! "This is perhaps my most important and certainly one of the best albums I've ever made," says Mitch Ryder about this album, which bears comparison with his 1979 masterpiece "Naked But Not Dead".
45 years have now passed since the "Vacation" LP and Ryder's legendary TV appearance on ARD's Rockpalast. That night of the full moon, that nightmarishly enraptured concert in Essen's Grugahalle, has long since been transfigured into legend.
In the six-minute documentary by WDR on ARD to mark the 40th anniversary of Rockpalast in July 2017, Mitch Ryder's performance was described as one of the most important and best ever!
For Mitch Ryder, it was the beginning of his relationship with Germany, which has not been broken off since. Now on triple CD and double DVD !