Noted for his unorthodox slide guitar performance style, Jack Broadbent took a very different path to discover his musical voice. A career musician himself, his father introduced Jack to the drums at an early age. Soon he was performing live in his father’s band and from there he struck out on his own to start busking on the streets of the London, later branching out into Europe.

It was there, on the streets of Amsterdam in 2014, that he was recorded by a passerby showcasing what is now known as his signature slide guitar style. 327K views later and Broadbent found himself touring on the international circuit.

"We started playing some of the more rock 'n' roll stuff I had, and we couldn't deny that there was a kind of vibe happening,” says Broadbent. “We built on those grooves and ended up with the rock 'n' roll record I've been wanting to make for a long time." In an impressive piece of long-distance collaboration, his father, Mick Broadbent, added the bass guitar performances in England, as the partial recording was electronically transmitted back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.

The resulting album Ride, has been hailed as showcasing “his remarkable and almost unrivalled talent on the slide guitar” by Louder than War and “a simmering, spicy jambalaya of boogie, rock, and blues” by Rock and Blues Muse.