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BiTS INTERVIEW: Doghouse Sam

Over the last 10 years, Belgium based Doghouse Sam & his Magnatones
have achieved a unique reputation in Europe with their instantly

recognizable sound, re-interpreting the Rhythm’n’Blues music of the
past and present . They have played concerts in more than 15 different

countries and won the Belgian Blues Challenge in 2015. On top of that
they made second place at the European Blues Challenge 2016.

In June 2024, Doghouse Sam won Doghouse Sam won the 2024 Belgian

Blues Federation award for ''Best Vocalist''.

Ian McKenzie spoke to him on the telephone.

BiTS: First of all, let me ask you what do I call you? Is Doghouse okay, or

Sam, or what do you want to be called?

DS: Actually, everybody in the music scene calls me Sam.

BiTS: Okay, Sam, I'd be pleased to call you that. But what is your full name,

actually?

DS: Yeah, my birth name, so to

speak, is a genuine Flemish

Belgian name. It's called Wouter.

Actually, the English way of

saying it would be Walter. But

again, everybody in the music

scene knows me as Sam,

Doghouse Sam [laughing].

BiTS: Sam, let's talk a bit about
your background before we go

any further. How did you get into

blues music in the first place?

DS: I came into the blues music

not through the genre of music, but through the instrument of the harmonica,