DUSTIN DOUGLAS & THE ELECTRIC GENTLEMEN’s dynamic, heavy, swagger- injected, sexy & dirty, blues-influenced rock n’ roll brings vintage sound and vibe to modern ears. The band’s much-anticipated third album Black Leather Blues via Mo Mojo Records underlines this and much more.... “All I’m trying to do is continue the tradition of The Stones, Zeppelin and The Faces,” says Dustin Douglas. “Take the traditional blues spirit, mix it with some heavy rock n’ roll and play it for a new generation.

But it ain’t your poppa’s blues,” he adds. “I listen to Rage Against the Machine as much as I listen to Muddy Waters. That blend of influences is what makes it unique.”

Fronted by the transcendent lead guitarist/singer/songwriter Dustin Douglas, The Electric Gentlemen—rounded out by drummer Tommy Smallcomb and bassist Matt "The Dane" Gabriel—command the stage with virtuosic musicianship and classic-rock spirit mixed with punk rock attitude that leaves even the most discerning music fans falling in love with their style at the end of any live show.

On the 10-song Black Leather Blues, Pennsylvania’s Dustin Douglas and The Electric Gentlemen put the pedal to the floor, asking for no mercy with heavy riffs, huge hooks and memorable, blues-inspired rock n’ roll rhythms that takes listeners on a familiar yet fresh musical journey.

Black Leather Blues was recorded at Eight Days a Week Studios in Northumberland, PA by Paul Smith (Badlees) who engineered and co-produced the album with Douglas. It was mixed by Brian Moncarz (Alice Cooper, Our Lady Peace, Phillip Sayce) and mastered by Brian Lucey (Black Keys, Royal Blood, Arctic Monkeys, Buddy Guy, Doyle Bramhall II, Green Day, Liam Gallagher, Elvis Costello.)

The album was launched with the single/video “Broken,” described by Rock and Blues Muse as “a soul-cleansing shot of progressive blues/rock minimalism that’s as much about the space between the notes as the notes themselves. Dustin Douglas is a first-class guitar shaman, weaving together spellbinding riffs and solos that transport listeners directly into his world.” The publication added: “His vocals are strident and strong, expressing the hard blues inherent in 21st Century life.”

The album’s second single/video is the rhythmically dynamic and lyrically pointed “Why Would You Say Such A Thing,” which underlines the band’s ability to create modern blues-rock with plenty of attitude and drama. “From the moment I wrote it, I felt it would be a signature song for us,” says Douglas. “It defines what we do as a band. It has a big riff, danceable rhythm, catchy chorus and an ole’ school broken-hearted, blues-inspired lyric.” “Why Would You Say Such a Thing” is destined to be one of the band’s best-received songs.”

BLACK LEATHER BLUES is the follow-up album to DDEG’s 2018 release, Break It Down which charted on The Blues Album Charts, Blues Singles Charts and Blues-Rock Single Charts. In 2018, the band took home two Steamtown Music Awards (Scranton, PA) for both “Blues Artist Of The Year“ and “Album Of The Year.” Notably, again in 2019, they found themselves with 3 Steamtown Nominations—Guitarist Of The Year, Video Of The Year for “Broken” and Live Performers Of The Year—as well as an Independent Blues Music Award nomination for Blues/Rock Song of The Year for “Out of My Mind.” On top of that, the Central PA Music Hall Of Fame nominated the band in 2021 and 2022 for “Blues Rock Band Of The Year.”

https://www.dustindouglasmusic.com/

Resurrection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Band performs live shows taking you back in time to the music of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. This project is comprised of extremely talented and seasoned musicians. Mike Armando was the original guitarist for Screamin' Jay Hawkins back in the 1970's.... Another reason this project is exciting. The band is not just performing the music of Screamin' Jay Hawkins but creating a time machine of one of rock’s true wild men. A show you will surely remember for many years...

Mike Armando was the guitarist for Screamin' Jay Hawkins during the 1970's. (I Put A Spell On You). In 1976 Screamin' Jay Hawkins suffered facial injuries when he was burned by one of his flaming props while performing with Mike at the Virginia Theater in Alexandria, Va. During the concert Screamin Jay Hawkins had to be rushed off stage. Jay kept Screamin' to Mike “keep on playing”. Mike shared the stage with major musical acts such as 5 Satins, Critters, Marveletts, Bobby Lewis, Velon’s, Scott Mckenzie and many more. He has performed at the Iridium in NYC. His music has been played throughout the U.S and in Europe. Mike has contributed his Screamin' Jay Hawkins touring experiences in the book I Put A Spell On You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins written by author Steve Bergsman, published by Feral House.

Mike has produced 15 CDs on the mja Record label with such artists as Grammy award winner Fred Lipsius, from Blood Sweat and Tears, Nancy Monroe, David Allan Gross, Chris Clark, Pat Morrissey, Artt Frank. One of the tracks from Fred Lipsius, mja release "Better Believe It" was released and distributed throughout the world on MCA Records. Mike produced many of Artt Frank's recording's. Artt was the drummer for the late great Chet Baker. Artt was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on November 16, 2010. Mike Armando was the producer for all of Artt;s three CD's.

Mike has worked with other great musician's in his recording and musical career with the likes of Eddie Gomez, Marcus McLaurine, Michael Cochrane, Mike Stern, Ra-Kalam Bob Moses, David Allan Gross. Ra-Kalam Bob Moses has recorded on two of Mike Armando's latest CD releases, In The Moment and The Countdown. One of Mike's first recording, Half Steppen was rated the top ten radio playlist records in Bill Board Magazine. Mike Armando has worked with Actress Sharon Stone with drummer Artt Frank on his mja Records release, Waltz for Sharon Stone. Mike was also the producer for that CD.

Shakar "TheRealShakar" Brumfield is a vocalist, actor, poet and writer from Brooklyn, NY.

TheRealShakar has performed on stages and all over the Tri-State area and the DMV. In late 2016 he won the Apollo's theater’s Amateur Night Making a Star competition and performed on the world famous stage in a showcase featuring R and B crooner TANK. There is a 4 part web series, on TheRealShakar's YouTube Channel, chronicling the journey to the World Famous stage at the Apollo Theater.

TheRealShakar also, made his stage-acting debut in the off-Broadway stage play/musical "Life Insurance" in December 2016. TheRealShakar continues to perform throughout the Tri-State area and the DMV. He is also, a lead, support and background vocalist for 10 Tri-State/DMV area bands. These bands range, in genre, from Classic R and B Soul cover bands to Original Street Soul, Reggae, R and B, Hip-Hop, Disco, Lite Rock, Funk and Soul Bands.

On September 8, 2018 TheRealShakar released his 1st single as an R and B Soul Singer entitled "Circles (The SoulMate Song)” on his own label imprint USWE Music. It's available everywhere music is sold and streamed online. On September 14, 2018, his second single,"Movin On," was released on Catch 22 Recordings. "Movin On" is a Soulful House record Produced by world renown DJ Disciple. In November 2018, Shakar self published and released 3 books entitled "Missing Honesty Integrity Transparency I, II and III: Thoughts, Social Media Writings and Posts of Shakar K. Brumfield." There is no limit to what this young man will accomplish throughout his career. So stay tuned….

Arno Hecht is a sax player and the founding member of the Uptown Horns, the legendary NYC-based horn section. He has played with countless artists, including The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Plant, James Brown, Tom Waits, the J. Geils Band, Dion, Joan Jett, Iggy Pop, the B-52s, Buster Poindexter, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Pat Benatar, Ronnie Spector, The Allman Brothers, Darlene Love, Joe Cocker, Albert Collins, and more.

You can hear Arno on numerous seminal albums, including Tom Waits' Rain Dogs, The Rolling Stone's Flashpoint, the J. Geil's Band's Showtime, James Brown's Gravity, Cameo's Word Up, The B-52's Cosmic Thing (including the song Love Shack), Joan Jett's platinum album Up Your Alley, Albert Collins' Cold Snap, Iggy Pop's Party, Billy Joel's River of Dreams, Twisted Sister's Come Out and Play, Al Kooper's Rekooperation, Peter Wolf's Come As You Are (including the song Can't Get Started), Nona Hendryx's Female Trouble, Joe Cocker's Unchain My Heart, Buster Poindexter's Buster Poindexter (including the song Hot, Hot, Hot), The Dead Milkmen's Soul Rotation, Keith Richards' Main Offender, Tracy Nelson's In the Here and Now, Dion's Yo Frankie, and the platinum Rocky IV Soundtrack Album, which includes James Brown's Living in America.

With The Uptown Horns — Crispin Cioe, Larry Etkin and Bob Funk — he released two albums, The Uptown Horns Revue and A Shot in the Dark. They were each individually inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012.

Andrew Golba a bassist living in New York City has been on the jazz / blues music scene for many years. He has performed at many of the top jazz clubs including the Iridium with jazz blues guitarist Mike Armando. Andrew can be described as a jazz bass adventurer. He plays it all. Jazz, blues, soul, rock, metal no matter what music you throw at him he can play it. Many are Impressed with Andrew’s bass lines, rhythm and solid time. He doesn't waver.

Andrew has recorded with drumming great Ra-Kalam Bob Moses on the CD “In The Moment”. He has done many recording sessions in and throughout the New York City area. He has performed and toured from New York City to Texas with the Rob Balducci Band performing at the Bitter End in New York City and the Sellersville Theater in Pennsylvania.

Michael Fox Drummer Education Graduate of the High School of Performing Arts. Studied Mallets with Jim Price Manhattan School of Music.. Michael has Performed with Etta James, Jay Siegel and the Tokens, The Devotions, the Classics and the late great Tommy Mara and the Crest.. Michael Powers Clarence Spady.. Sonny Hudson French Rock and Blues Star Manu Lanvin and many others.

https://mjajazz.wixsite.com/screamin-jay-hawkins/band

The Organization is a Jazz and Funk based organ trio (and occasional quartet) created in the spring of 2022.... Organist Josh Klamka, guitarist Jake Miller, and drummer Greg Masters joined forces while studying jazz performance at Temple University. There, they spent time studying under the tutelage of organ legend Lucas Brown. The group, having spent countless late nights and early mornings rehearsing together, serves to respect the deep organ history of Philadelphia while continuing to make fresh and interesting music. Playing at Urban Village Brewing Co, the Bethlehem Oktoberfest, Perkasie Porchfest, and this year at Musikfest, the Organization is an in-demand group of versatile and creative musicians.

If you’re longing for some real music that you can feel in your heart, lyrics that speak to your soul, and a live performance with the power to blow the roof off the sky, you can stop right here. If you’re tired of all the staged choreography, blinding light shows, capes, costumes, lip-synching and auto-tunes that seems to have taken over live performances, you have found a place to rest, refresh, and renew. Welcome to the world of Laura Cheadle.... Along with her Family Band, she has opened for some of the biggest names in the business and won numerous awards, including “Best Indie Jazz/Blues Band” at WXPN sponsored Tri-State Indie Music Awards. She has performed on stages from NYC to London, appeared on 6ABC’s “Tuned In” as the very first viewer’s choice, the “NBC 10” Show, and the National reality show “Next Great Family Band.” Laura was recently featured in Curve Magazine, named one of “100 Women We Love” in Go Magazine, and declared a “Super Woman” in South Jersey Magazine for her active Charity Work.

As Traveler Guitar’s newest Brand Ambassador and a recent distribution deal with So Bold Ent/Sony Orchard of Sony Music, her solo career is starting to explode, performing a set at NAMM2022, filming specialized performance and educational video segments for Next Level Guitar’s site, and having recently been honored with the Musician of the Decade award for her body of work and trend-setting style. One of her original compositions was recently included in a popular TV show, and she participated in a Philadelphia Film project with a seamlessly acted feature role in the short film “Ether.”

Never one to measure herself according to the trends of the times or the female singer “flavor of the month,” Laura has carved out her own lane since she began performing as a child, and she has done it the old-fashioned way, on pure talent. Gifted with a voice powerful enough to shake rafters, and tender enough to navigate the entire range of the emotional scale, Laura Cheadle is a singer commanding more than just a listen or a look. Her albums, like her concerts, are an experience. Inseparable from the truth of the songs she writes, the raw emotion that tears out of her reaches deep into your heart with the kind of performance her audiences remember long after the last notes have been played.

Laura Cheadle has opened for/shared the stage with The Jonas Brothers, Sister Hazel, The Spin Doctors, Average White Band, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Kasim Sultan, John Oates/Hall and Oates, Terrance Simien, Peter Tork of The MONKEES,Garland Jeffreys, Constantine Maroulis, Ryan Cabrera, Derek Forbes, The Stars From The Commitments, John Sebastian, Marc Broussard, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, and many more.

https://lauracheadle.com/

Khadijah “Renee” is a Jazz Songstress in the vein of the Great Ladies of Jazz.... Her resonant tones remind you of the ladies who paved their way through the male dominated syncopated instrumental ingenious sounds of Be-Bop and Classical Jazz from as early as the 1950′s. If you close your eyes while listening to her, you may hear reminiscent echoes of Sarah, Ella, Billie, Nancy, Dinah and Gloria.

Khadijah is a contralto whose range is deep and sweet at the same time. She has been performing Jazz since the late 80′s in and around the Tri-State area. Khadijah is always accompanied by the best musicians the area has to offer. She has been recorded live at the East Coast Jazz Festival now called the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival in Maryland and heard on WRTI 90.1 Jazz Radio.

https://www.khadijahrenee.com/

Recently signed as a Sony Music Artist under Bad Jeu Jeu Records, Kelli Baker brings a sound unlike any other. ”When I put on Kelli Baker, I get transported into a world of fresh nostalgia. Her voice is like the legendary blues women of the 1930’s and 40’s, but with a modern seductiveness.... Her songs are moody and sensual and worth listening to on repeat. There’s no one with her particular sound right now.” — Rob Rush, Program Director and PM Drive Host, 94.3 The Shark (Long Island) With a powerhouse voice dripping with a haunting sensuality that slips easily into growling old school blues-tones, Kelli speaks her heart like a beat poet in a late night dive. The kind you only know if you’re in the know. Her music is an amalgamation of authentic blues/rock and heart-on-her-sleeve singer/songwriter pop with folk/gospel roots.

Now performing with The Kelli Baker Band, she appears regularly at iconic music houses such as NYC’s The Bitter End, taking the stage at The Cutting Room, Rockwood Music Hall, and some of New York’s most discerning venues. (NOTE: Kelli is also available as a solo act.)

2023 Official Selection, National Women in Blues Showcase 2022 winner, Long Island Blues Challenge “Road to Memphis” 2021 nominee, Bethpage “Best of Long Island” award series, Best Singer from Long Island 2019 Newsday’s Rising Stars of Long Island

Known in some circles as “The Phoenix”, Kelli was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She moved to New York in 2012, with $500 in cash, chasing the heels of Hurricane Sandy. Learning music like so many others in the church choir, Kelli graduated to fronting a hard rock band and a folk duo, writing her own music at an early age.

Kelli has recently completed two successful national tours, topped off with performing in Paris, France. Her most recent track, “Blood on the Nile” was met with critical acclaim, landing on Spotify’s coveted editorial playlist, “Blues Roots”, as well as as commercial airplay on the UK’s #1 country music station, and a headlining feature in Guitar Girl Magazine.

Kelli has swiftly moved through the ranks of New York’s bristling music scene to become a known name. She has been featured in Relix Magazine, Guitar Girl Magazine, on WFUV’s coveted NY Slice, Rollin' With hosted by Rob Rush of 94.3 The Shark, Launch Music Conference and Festival, Montauk Music Festival Brooklyn Vegan, Broadway World, NYC.Com, Better Lemons, VoyagePhoenix, Faces of Long Island, Fresh Brewed Sessions, The Tedeschi Trucks podcast, Knock ‘Em Dead Comedy, UnRated Magazine, UK Radio’s Don’s Hit List, Governor's Radio, Breaking Sound Radio, Rising Stars Radio with Rick Eberle, The Douglas Coleman Show, DiscoverYou Radio, The Long Islander, and The Island Now, among many others.

Live, she delivers a commanding performance and has been compared to Bonnie Raitt, Chris Cornell, Susan Tedeschi, and Aretha Franklin. Her dynamic blues tones and gospel nods have been called a kind of ethereal blues. Her major influences are The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Jane’s Addiction, The Black Crowes, Bonnie Raitt, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Neil Young.

Kelli resides just outside of New York City.

https://www.kellibaker.com/

The Dueling Pianos have been based out of the Philly area since March of 1990, when they started at Market Street Live in Center City Phila. Since that time they have performed at nightclubs, colleges, parties and corporate events throughout the east coast, from Boston to North Carolina, out to Anaheim Ca., and also down to Biloxi, Ms.... They have worked at various entertainment complexes such as Market Street Live, Main Event, Jolly's in Phila., Harrah’s Casino in AC and Chester, Parx Casino, Beau Rivage Miss., hitting the Jersey shore points, in Sea Isle City, Windrift in Avalon , in North Wildwood at 2Nd Street Annies, Banana Jacks, and Keenans, also Rehoboth De., Ocean City MD. and Virginia Beaches . The Dueling Pianos have worked at the Wells Fargo Center in the Pavillion and Cure Center, before various shows, such as Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Barbara Streisand, Michael Buble, Elton John, Flyers and Sixer games. Recently the Dueling Pianos have been featured at Coco Cola Park, at the Iron Pigs games in Allentown, PA. The Dueling Pianos were also featured at the Bethlehem Musikfest/Artsqest for Ten years. In addition they have provided entertainment for private affairs sponsored by the New York Knicks, Phila.Flyers, Maines Paper Foods, Brocade Comunications , and Booz Allen, also the Union League of Phila., to name a few. Also National Conventions for the Bowlers Owners Association, at Revell Casino AC, American Bus Owners Association Nautica Center, Norfolk, Va, Accentive, Hyatt, Reston VA., and International Convention for Fire Chiefs, Virgina Beach Aquarium,VA., and the Jiffy Lube National Trade Show, Natural History Museum, Wash. DC. They have done private work at the House of Blues in Boston, Turning Stone Casino New York, Gaylord National Resort DC Area, Green Briar West Virginia, Foxwoods Casino Conn., Grove Park Inn Asheville NC, Nemacolin Woodland Resort PA. ,in Philly at the Lincoln Financial Center, Citizens Bank Park, and they have also done numerous weddings and private parties.

The Dueling Pianos features Tony T. (Anthony Decarolis), Wildman Joe (Joe Marchetti), performing energetic sing along classics for all ages. Their entertaining style of inter-acting with the audience has everyone singing, clapping and partying along. Come out and join the fun, a good time will be had by all.

https://www.duelingpianos.com

Roberto Morbioli plays the Blues. He can breathe fire from his axe like a young Clapton or Stevie Ray. Crowded, noisy bars hush a bit when he steps up and folks look around to see who this is making such a holy wail.... His personality and unique playing style shine through all his interpretations so much that, even while recalling the styles of blues greats such as Freddy King, Albert King, B.B. King, Albert Collins, T-Bone Walker, you see and hear that every note is coming straight from the heart. And it’s so infectious that you’re caught up in it before you realize what’s happening.

His guitar playing is nothing short of magic, and as a singer, his powerful voice recalls Sam Cook, Otis Redding, Robert Cray and Donny Hathaway. You don’t even think about it, you just know that the blues flow so naturally for Rob, and his guitar playing and vocals are so polished, he sounds as if he grew up closer to Chicago than Verona, Italy.

Rob was born in Verona, Italy and picked up the guitar when he was very young. He has played at some of the biggest European festivals like the Amsterdam Blues Festival, New Orleans Music Festival in Ascona and San Remo Blues Festival.

In 1991 he founded his own band MORBLUS which brought him critical recognition and awards. Since then, he has collaborated with many important artists such as Guitar Shorty, Jesse Yawn, Robben Ford, Roomful of Blues and Big Daddy Wilson. Besides his electric trio or quartet formation, Rob also performs in an acoustic setting with his own songs published on his CD „Acoustic Me“. In 2017, he is releasing his new album „From Scratch“ with his electric trio ROB MO.

In the USA, he has performed at B.B. King’s Blues club in Memphis, and Antone’s in Austin, Texas, the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine and regularly tours in New England. Since 2011 he has been granted consecutive US working visas as an artist of extraordinary ability.

His albums „Acoustic Me“ (2016) and „From Scratch“ (2018) were awarded with Akademia Awards for Best Album.

https://robertomorbioli.com/

2010 : Semi-Finalist in the International Blues Challenge, Memphis, TN
2010 : Semi-Finalist in the Blues Foundation's "Best Self-Produced CD" for Shake It Twice
2012 : Represented the Billtown Blues Association in the International Blues Challenge
2012 : Three Legged Dog nominated by Diamond State Blues Society for "Best Self-Produced CD"
2014 : Represented the Billtown Blues Association in the International Blues Challenge

The Porkroll Project, from the greater Philadelphia, PA area is hard rocking 5 piece blues band who play a high energy blend of fresh covers and originals. The music is blues, but it's done up Porkroll style. Little bit of grease, good dose of funk, whole lotta drive and grind. Throw that together with some dangerous lead guitar and harmonica, powerful organ, and rippin' piano, and you have a recipe for a night where anything can happen!

The band has a collective experience that runs deep and wide, having played together in various other projects for over ten years. They are well seasoned veterans of events such as the Philadelphia Jam on the River, the Annual Chameleon Club Blues Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Riverfront Blues Festival, the Billtown Blues Festival, the Paoli Blues Festival and the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN.

So if you and your crew are craving some hard rocking, foot stomping, hip shaking, earthquaking entertainment, give an ear to a heaping helping of The Porkroll Project. It's the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it. It's Porkalicious!!

Neil "Porkroll" Taylor - Guitars, Vocals
Paul Matecki - Piano, Guitar, Vocals
Ed Young - Bass
Andy Haley - Drums
Buddy Cleveland - Harmonica, Vocals

https://www.porkrollproject.com/

“…the arrival of Blues People as one of the most notable new bands on the New Jersey/New York blues scene in recent years…” - JOURNALIST JAY LUSTIG: NJArts.net... “...This music is what I think NYC Blues sounds like TODAY...” - JOURNALIST/GUITARIST DAVE FIELDS: BIG CITY RHYTHM and BLUES MAGAZINE

“New York Blues” can be described like the global phenomenon that it is: edgy, honest and one-of-a-kind. From Lionel Hampton to Ruth Brown …from Michael Hill to King Solomon Hicks — New York can claim its own unique blues experience. BLUES People is a NY/NJ blues band featuring...KELTON COOPER (vocals/guitar), MIKE GRIOT (bass), RON THOMPSON (keys) and GENE LAKE (drums). Early comparisons to the Meters, Luther Allison, Keb Mo' and Buddy Guy are starting to roll in!

Having released two promotional singles in 2022 ("The Skin I'm In" and "Troubled Times"), the band is busy in the studio finishing up their much-anticipated debut album "The Skin I'm In".

These seasoned veterans have certainly paid their dues; as individual side men, they have supported a who’s-who of touring “A-listers”, including Sue Foley, Josh Smith, Ruf’s Blues Caravan and Michael Hill’s Blues Mob… just to name a few.

https://bluespeople.bandzoogle.com/about-the-band

Born and raised in greater-Philadelphia area, Steve, started his musical journey with guitar at the conservatory level at the age of eleven. Through the years, Steve has honed his craft listening to and emulating his musical influences including BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman, Roy Buchanan and more.... Mr. Price has done lectures, workshops, and performances in Finland, France, Belgium, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Turkey, Kenya, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Canada. He has performed with noted artist such as James Carter, Ted Curson, Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones, Ashford and Simpson, and Stanley Turrentine.

After his graduation from the University of Delaware, Steve became a family man and then returned to music playing local jams, blues clubs and performing in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kansas. After a ten-year relationship with Mikey Jr. that evolved from the local jam and performance venues, the next logical step was to produce Steve’s inaugural release, Blue Ranchero, on 8th Train Records. Steve’s guitar tone and playing have an authentic sound which is true to the blues and a tribute to the players he has emulated over the past 50 years. “Blue Ranchero”, an original instrumental by Steve, is the title track on the record and evokes the magic of electric guitar and the feel of speed common to the muscle-car years of the 1960s. His slow blues ballads exude the richness of the original vocal versions while up-tempo shuffles and standards are filled with tuneful guitar, harp, piano and saxophone solos. Steve’s goal in his live performances is to pay homage to the originators of the form while informing his audiences with the history and the connections between artists from one generation to the next that keep our Blues alive and ever evolving

January 2024
Steve Shanahan Blue Ranchero
The blues greatest songwriter Willie Dixon proclaimed “The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives so will the blues.” The 14 tunes on guitarist/vocalist Steve Shanahan's auspicious debut are a testament to Dixon's quote and exemplify the continuity and adaptability of the blues. A Philadelphia area native and University of Delaware graduate, Shanahan has played guitar since he was five and along the way developed a love for blues and American music. He's been friends with producer/harmonica ace Mikey Junior for ten years. Shanahan is a frequent visitor to Mikey Junior's Sunday blues jam at the Twisted Tail in Philly which ultimately led to their collaboration here. Mikey Junior's regular band of guitarist Matt Daniels, bassist Jimmy Pritchard, and drummer Scott Stump are augmented by tenor saxophonist Steve Kirsty and keyboardist Judd Nielsen on the 12 covers and two original instrumentals (Shanahan's “Blue Ranchero,” a slashing ode to his beloved Blue Ranchero, Ford's precursor to Chevy's El Camino, and Mikey Junior's loping “Speedway Shuffle” featuring muscular harp evocative of Little Walter). Half of the covers come from the crème de la crème of Chicago blues legends (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Little Walter) Texas, California, West Coast, and the Delta are also covered. The lone contemporary track is Keb Mo's “Dangerous Mood.” The opening track “Train Kept A-Rollin'” further underscores Dixon's quote. Originally a R and B hit from 1951 for jump blues maestro Tiny Bradshaw, then a hit for rockabilly progenitors Johnny Burnette and the Rockabilly Trio, then further popularized by the Yardbirds and Aerosmith, and now by Steve Shanahan.

Thomas J. Cullen III, Bucks County Blues Society and Blues Music Magazine

Blue Ranchero is available on all digital platforms, CD at show, and is supporting Steve’s live show, “100 Years of the Blues”. The “100 Years” show explores the impact of blues music through performances of some of the most well-known blues, r and b, and rock artists/labels of the 20th Century such as Muddy Waters, BB King, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, MOTOWN, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more. The live performance features The Hit Men consisting of: Philadelphia Journeyman vocalist and keyboardist Joe Mass, drummer Eric Scatteregia and bassist Dave Giorgio.

Steve Shanahan, Blue Ranchero

SEAN CHAMBERS TEAMS UP WITH THE SAVOY BROWN RHYTHM SECTION:
Sean Chambers and the members from Savoy Brown all became friends after playing a festival together in 2019. ... In 2023, shortly after the unfortunate passing of Savoy Brown's founder and leader, Kim Simmonds, renowned guitarist and songwriter Sean Chambers teamed up with the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section consisting of Pat De Salvo on Bass, and Garnet Grimm on drums. Being that Savoy Brown and Chambers are on the same record label together, Quarto Valley Records, this change made sense and felt right to all three musicians. Kim Simmonds was in full support and gave the three his blessings shortly before his passing on December 13th, 2022.

Florida born Sean Chambers began his career in the Blues back in 1998 when he toured with the legendary Hubert Sumlin as his guitarist and band leader until 2003. During Sean’s tenure with Mr. Sumlin, Britain's own Guitarist magazine named Chambers as “One of the top 50 blues guitarists of the last century.”

https://www.seanchambers.com/

Prakash Slim's new album "8000 Miles To The Crossroads" produced by Grammy winning producer engineer Michael Freeman will be released soon.... Ram Prakash Pokharel aka Prakash Slim was born mired deep in the blues. Born in a small village in Nepal, his father died at the age of twenty nine, leaving his mother with three children to raise on her own. Slim started hearing old blues records when he was a child, and he first played music by drumming on a set of gallon water jugs, and he would sing to the beat all damn day. Sometimes he almost drove his mother crazy. Due to his difficult childhood growing up in dire poverty, Slim is dyed in the wool bluesman. He’s been playing and teaching music for a long time. For over twelve years he played lead, rhythm, bass as well as vocalist for various bands through out Nepal. After completing serious blues research with the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund in Mississippi and going through blues mentorship training with blues, jazz pioneer T. J Wheeler, he totally shifted to country blues style. He is a member of the International Singer and Songwriters Association, Georgia, USA.

Prakash is honored with "Ambassador of the Blues" award from The Golden Gate Blues Society, Berkeley, CA. https://www.tggbs.org/awards

Prakash has been nominated for the "World Artist Of The Year" for Josie Music Awards, USA 2023.

Prakash Slim is honored with "International Ambassador of The Blues" from Sacramento Blues Society, California.

Prakash Slim is honored with "Blues Ambassador and Keeper of the Music Tradition" from Granite State Blues Society, New Hampshire, USA.

He is the first Nepali Artist to feature with international merchandise. He has been featuring with an American Blues merchandise - Wang Dang Doodle Tees, Illinois, USA.

Prakash actively participated on 8th annual International Conference on the Blues hosted by Delta State University, Mississippi, USA.

A legendary blues artist Rory Block watched his interview on Blues Radio International and congratulated Prakash for his wonderful slide playing and International feel.

Prakash just finished his East Coast tour. He played duo with his blues mentor Blues Jazz Pioneer Mr.TJ Wheeler at multiple venues in New Hampshire and Boston. Prakash performed solo sets at the great places of New Hampshire such as Edgewood Center for Rehab and Health Care (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), Action Senior Center (Alton, New Hampshire) Keen Public Library (Keene, New Hampshire).

Prakash served as the opening act for Johnny Burgin at multiple venues in the US. Mr. Johnny Burgin is a 2023 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Traditional Blues Artist and a Delmark recording artist. Mr. Burgin is constantly touring and has performed some 250 shows across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Prakash was on Greaseland Studio live with extraordinary Christoffer Andersen aka Kid Andersen and Prakash also opened for the legendary Rick Estrin and the Nightcats band at Moe's Ally, in May in California. Kid is a lead guitarist in Rick Estrin and the NIghtscats band, Greaseland Recording studio owner which received "Keeping The Blues Alive Award" from The Blues Foundation. Christoffer Lund Andersen has produced numerous recordings that have won and been nominated for Grammy Awards, as well as a number of awards specific to the “Blues Music Industry”.

He has interviewed/featured by prestigious blues publications and websites and other medias such as Blues Matters Magazine (UK), American Blues Scene magazine (USA), Blues In Britain magazine (UK), BluesNews magazine (Germany), No Border Blues podcast (Sponsored by Chicago Blues Network) USA, Blues Letter magazine (Washington Blues Society USA), Twoj Blues magazine (Poland), Blues.Gr (Greece), Blues and Co magazine (France), Jazz Blues News (France/Armenia), Lazie Indie magazine (India/France), Down At The Crossroads (Ireland), Crossroads - Never Established (France), Blue Monday magazine (USA), Blues In The South (UK), KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford University, CA, USA), KMRE 88.3 FM (Bellingham, WA, USA), Blues Radio International (USA), Global Blues Radio (USA), Radio Memphis (USA), WEVL FM 89.9 Memphis (USA), Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance, The WAYO 104.3 FM, (NY, USA), Hard Rock Hell Radio UK, WUSB 90.1 FM (NY,USA), The cat 107.9 FM (UK), The Sterling City Radio (Scotland) and some others.

Prakash's debut album "Country Blues From Nepal" is out on "DeVille Records", Europe. Prakash's debut album has got wonderful reviews from some blues publications ; Blues Blast magazine (USA), Living Blues magazine (USA), Blues Matters magazine (UK), Blues in Britain magazine (UK), American Blues Scene magazine (USA), Twoj Blues magazine (Poland), Blues News magazine (Finland), Down At The Crossroads (Ireland), Blues In The South (UK), La Hora Del Blues (Spain), Buscaredo magazine (Italy), Philly Cheeze's Rock and Blues Reviews (USA), Blues/Blues (UK), BLUES ROADHOUSE (USA), Zicazic (France), Macalle Blues (Italy).

Prakash Nominated for 2022 CFAB Male Artist Of The Year, The Grey Eagle Radio Show, Mark Skin Radio, USA. His album reached at #12 in the Top 40 Blues + Albums of the year 2022, Blues Blues UK. His single " Corona Blues" reached #35 in the Top 40 Blues Singles of the year 2022, Blues Blues UK His album reached #19 on International Blues Airplay Chart- Australian Blues and Roots Airplay Chart, Australia, February, 2022. His album reached #21 on UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association top 40 most played blues album chart of February, 2022.

A major Paraguayan national daily news paper referred to him as a “Nepali Robert Johnson” and published his interview. American Blues Scene magazine mentioned Prakash as a living history of the blues and premiered his single “Blues Raga”. He was selected as first featured Blues Artist of the series, "Where In The World: A Blues Ambassador's Travels" for the month of February 2020, Central Iwoa Blues Society, USA. He has also interviewed/featured on different radio stations, in magazines in America, UK, Europe, South America and in some other countries. Now his music is being heard in all around the world.

He has been performing at some major international blues festivals, venues ; Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale , Mississippi 2023, Historic Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale, CAN'T STOP THE BLUES (USA), Crossroads Confined Countdown Festival (France), Festival International De Blues De Asuncion (Paraguay), Festival International De Blues De Lima (Peru), Festival International Queretablues (Mexico), 6th La Ruta Del Blues Festival Mexico, 7th Festival Blues En El Rio (Argentina), 1st International Obregon Sonora Blues Festival (Mexico), 5th Posadas Blues Festival (Argentina). Prakash Slim has been doing photo shoot with Britain's Blues Hall of Fame photo journalist Adam Kennedy for Adam's "Virtual Photography Project".

Your parents didn’t understand your music, and neither do your kids. Chuck's Alibi does! What started as a groovy little blues combo quickly morphed into a kick-ass rocking electric blues band. It’s blues dripping with attitude. Add a splash of funky soul, and you have a party band that keeps the fun and dancing going all night long.

Five veteran performers coming together, bringing their experience and talent, and putting on a fun show that offers some good ol’ Chicago Blues, Modern Blues, (and of course) some Funky Old Soul! Chuck’s Alibi will take you back to the house parties of your youth. This ain’t your mama’s blues!

www.prakashslim.com

Grounded in roots music yet pushing the boundaries of indie pop and rock, the Claudettes are writing the most riveting chapter of their story right now. Pianist/songwriter Johnny Iguana formed the Claudettes with drummer Michael Caskey, dazzling with the barrelhouse bravura of their 2013 debut Infernal Piano Plot…HATCHED! Another Yellow Dog Records release followed in 2015 featuring Nigerian-American singer Yana: No Hotel. Vocalist Berit Ulseth and bassist/vocalist Zach Verdoorn joined the band for Pull Closer to Me: Live in the Piano Room (2017) and Dance Scandal at the Gymnasium (2018, helmed by Grammy-winning Black Keys producer Mark Neill).... A new Claudettes era began when the band moved to Forty Below Records and released the acclaimed 2020 album High Times in the Dark (produced Grammy winner Ted Hutt) and 2022’s The Claudettes Go Out!, another collaboration with Hutt, with mixing by renowned producer Kevin Killen (U2, Elvis Costello, David Bowie). Now, the Claudettes introduce Rachel Williams, a six-foot Texan with a mohawk, a big voice and powerful stage presence. New music and videos are coming…

Outside the Claudettes, Johnny Iguana has earned a Blues Music Award nomination and Living Blues Award nomination for piano player of the year. Johnny co-founded indie-rock cult favorites Oh My God, toured as pianist for blues stars Junior Wells and Otis Rush, played piano on three Grammy-nominated albums and played on albums featuring Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Derek Trucks, Gary Clark Jr., Shemekia Copeland, Keb’ Mo’, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and more. Johnny is also co-composer (along with JQ of the Q Brothers) of the score for the hit FX/Hulu series “The Bear,” which won 10 Emmys and three Golden Globes in 2024. Johnny and JQ have also teamed to produced new Claudettes tracks that are coming in 2024…

“Chicago’s original recipe band…The Claudettes’ sonic playing field is the blues and everything after, all tastefully and artfully blended together….Perhaps the band’s greatest super power: songwriting.”—NPR Music

“A skewed cabaret band of blues, jazz and rockabilly…a sensibility that feels equal parts James Dean and David Lynch.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Holy Mackerel…I hear so many levels of what I consider amazing creativity…I hear touches of Jerry Lee Lewis at his most manic…of cinema…of multiple genres wrapping around one another…These guys are the B-movies of the music world—maybe not understood now, but in the future, the kings and queens of the universe!”—Frank Gutch Jr., No Depression

“The Claudettes Go Out! shows the band’s mastery of every era of American music, from the roots of the blues to today’s modern pop….the Claudettes pen standards for a new generation.”—J. Poet, Rock and Roll Globe

https://theclaudettes.com/us/

Swing That Cat is a Sonic Cocktail of Jump, Jive and Wail! Take a jigger of Jump Blues, swizzle with Horny Swing, add a dash of Cabaret and a splash of Bourbon Street.... This female-led band can shake it all up with rhythm, rumble and writhe that is guaranteed to make you leap off your seat and dance your tail off! Over the last few years, Swing That Cat has emerged as one of the most unique, original, and engaging live acts in the Philly-NJ-DE area. As featured performers at the City of Philadelphia 4th of July, Musikfest, The Sellersville Theater, and NoLibs 2nd St Festivals, Swing That Cat has earned their stripes at more than 350 shows spanning NY TO DC, and on radio, podcasts, and streams around the world. The City of Philadelphia office of the Arts has twice selected Swing That Cat as a Top 5 PHL Live in 2018 and 2022.

https://www.swingthatcat.band

New Live EP Jamification Station Vol. 1 Reaches #5 on Relix/Jambands.com Radio Chart Top 30 Debra Devi plays "dreamy blues-rockers and blistering psychedelic jams" (Relix) flavored with her soulful voice and expressive guitar playing.... Devi's new live EP, Jamification Station Vol. 1, captures her Jersey City NJ band at full throttle. The EP reached #5 on the Relix/Jambands.com Top 30 Radio Chart, staying on the chart for three months.

Gov't Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson joined Devi on her previous EP A Zillion Stars Overhead. Produced by Devi and mixed by Sylvia Massy, Americana Highways calls it "exciting and mesmerizing." Devi has opened for Joan Osborne, Jesse Malin, Ana Popovic, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Uprooted (Michael Glialiki) and Marshall Crenshaw. In 2023, she co-headlined the Haverford Music Festival with Joe Louis Walker and The Bongos, and the East Pete Blues Festival with Greg Sover.

Devi's film and television credits include songs in Tenderness, starring Russell Crowe and Laura Dern; Getting Off, starring Brooke Smith and Christine Harnos; Fight Like a Girl, starring Maureen O'Shea, the Sundance Cable documentary Stripped: Exposing the Business of Baring It All, and several episodes of VH-1's Behind the Music. Devi's book The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (foreword by Dr. John) won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. She gives her "Language of the Blues" talk at festivals, universities, theaters and venues, including Crown Guitar Festival in Montana, A. Schwab's in Memphis, TedX Jersey City, NYU and Danny Clinch Gallery in Asbury Park. Devi endorses Homestead Amplifiers.

https://www.debradevi.com/

Meghan Cary didn’t mean to be a musician.... But when her fiancé unexpectedly died, she picked up his guitar, figured out how to play it, and wrote her debut record, earning her Billboard Magazine’s esteemed Critic’s Choice Award. “I wrote my grief into music and sang my way out of the abyss.I keep making music to help others connect with their own stories and find their joy.” Cary continues to share the healing power of music with the community that has rallied around her message of hope and being heard.

Her latest album, SING LOUDER, debuted in the top 10 on the US/International Folk DJ Chart, and John Platt of WFUV extols, "These times require songs of compassion and commitment. Meghan has several which inspire us to reach our higher selves, and she sings them with such infectious joy you can’t resist joining in." With masterful storytelling and award-winning songs, Cary engages audiences on a powerfully personal level, inviting them in and leading them through an experience that has been called healing, inspiring and outrageously joyful. Her message of unity and the power of raising our voices together infuses every show, and her song, “Sing Louder”, has become an anthem for the music-loving community.

https://meghancary.com/

On his eleventh birthday in Somers, New York, Dan Zlotnick picked up his first guitar, a Squire Mini, and taught himself to play. His connection to the guitar and to the music he could make was instant, and it wasn’t long before he traded the Squire for a full-size Gibson SG. Obsessing over concert footage of Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Bruce Springsteen, he honed his skills and looked for opportunities to share what he was learning. As the pony-tailed lead guitarist for his alternative high school rock band, Hot Soup, he performed covers whenever he could and leapt into his career as a songwriter, crafting his first original pieces.

away at college on a baseball scholarship, Dan, now strumming a used Ovation, continued to play and write, developing and cultivating his upbeat, acoustic rock style. Between practices and games, he performed at coffee houses and fundraising events. After graduation, with his shiny new Taylor slung over his shoulder, Dan traveled around the United States and Canada for three years as a professional baseball player, gigging in dive bars in Colorado, New Mexico, and Toronto, writing ballads from seats on bleachers and buses.

His baseball career behind him, in 2016, Dan recorded his self-titled debut EP with engineer/bassist Al Hemberger and drummer James Marchionno at The Loft Recording Studios in Bronxville, NY. In 2017, he went back to Al’s studio and recorded most of his second album, Bumpers, with help from musician friends James Marchionno (drums), Patricia Santos (cello), Simon O’Keefe (piano), Ron Stenz (organ). He also recorded some tracks for Bumpers at PREP Sound Studios in Queens, NY with Lefteri Koutsoulidakis.

Dan performs tirelessly around New York's Hudson Valley and beyond, taking the stage at the 2018 Pleasantville Music Festival, the Paramount Hudson Valley (opening for Grammy winner Marc Cohn twice), the Towne Crier (opening for Patty Larkin), Garcia's at The Capitol Theatre, and more. With a contemporary Americana flair, Dan’s music reflects his love of classic rock and blues. His evocative lyrics, captivating melodies, and energetic performances exude Dan’s passion for creating and sharing his music with everyone around him.

https://www.danzlotnick.com/

Garry Cogdell is a name well known to blues lovers around the Delaware valley... From Garry Cogdell - Blues in The Delta Style I have been interested in and playing Blues since 1968 until the present. Founder of “The Session” at the St Georges Country Store - since 2009 - a jam session at The Country Store in St Georges Delaware on the last full weekend every month. The Session started as a place for me {Garry Cogdell} to warm up for a upcoming gigs in Ireland. I started performing solo at “The Store” but soon other musicians would stop by and “sit in”, Jimmy Crawford, Ron Smith, and Jimmy Pritchard are regulars and full time musicians, many nights we have 7 to 10 people up for the set with many levels of musicianship. It has been the cornerstone of music at the Country Store since its conception. CDs available at the St Georges Country Store: The Session , and The Session 2 Reviews: George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers at The Grand Opera House Review and Setlist 03.24.09 . George had one of his friends open the show, Garry Cogdell, and amazing blues guitarist who dazzled the crowd by showing off his guitar versatility. He started with an acoustic guitar which he picked and plucked so loudly I don't even think it had an amp attached to it. He then moved to a Gibson SG reissue where he could show off his impeccable slide technique. He finally moved on to the coolest guitar I have seen, an original 1956 Les Paul. Gary wowed the crowd for a solid 35 minutes. Sadly, it felt like only ten minutes. I really enjoyed the set of old delta blues covers. I'll be sure to check out Gary locally. Craig Wettner - Garryʼs singing and guitar playing draw deeply from the music of the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, Texas and sometimes even London, England in the 60ʼs. His masterful slide guitar, fluid flat and finger picking in the hammer-stroke style in several guitar tunings confirm his depth of knowledge and understanding of the subtleties and strengths of the best of the Blues guitarists. Commenting on Garryʼs playing; Philadelphia Jerry Ricks said, ʻHeʼs so good itʼs scaryʼ. Garry has opened the show for Jimmy ʻFast Fingersʼ Dawkins, Muddy Waters, Noble ʻThin Manʼ Watts, George Thorogood, John Hammond, Satan and Adam, Sapphire and many more. Seth Holzman - From eager youngster at the feet of Sleepy John Estes to blues-rocking mentor for some big names to elder statesman for a new generation of blues performers, Delaware’s Garry Cogdell has done it all – and here he brings it all back home. This is a raw, solo, Delta styled blues set for audiences who already appreciate the blues or are simply curious about this great music. As Gary says, these songs are classics: “I picked all the songs ‘cause I like them! I don’t play songs for any other reason”. So, from Robert Johnson’s ‘Crossroads’ to the Danny Kirwan-penned Fleetwood Mac classic ‘One Sunny Day’, via Elmore James and Muddy Waters, get ready for a real treat as this great singer and guitarist gives his all and does them full justice. Norman Darwen (Contributor: Blues and Rhythm, Blues Matters!, Blues In Britain, and others!)

Blues musicians are not that common these days; even less so are good ones; rarer still, guitarists as adept on electric as acoustic. Narrowing it down even further, how many link the blues of the twenties with a major world event of the modern era? Then, once we have specified these criteria, who is left who can demonstrably still claim to be pushing his music forward?

There is one man, well-respected in his native Delaware and recognized internationally. He was directly inspired by veteran blues legend Sleepy John Estes himself, and his accompanists sometimes include members of George Thorogood's Destroyers, the act chosen to represent the blues at the global (and now also legendary) Live Aid concert. This man can turn in a mean Delta blues when he wants to, or he can recreate and adapt the sound of British blues-rock; but he also recorded most recently with Native American Shannon Hale, bringing to mind the currently very popular, driving, deep Mississippi hill-country sound whilst addressing the concerns of the 21st Century. This man's name is Garry Cogdell, of course. Norman Darwen (Blues and Rhythm, Blues In Britain, Blues Matters magazine, and others) January 2010

https://www.facebook.com/garrycogdellblues/

“If you love Vakili Band like we do, you have to see them live… [and] see them crush the live stage!” –The Aquarian Weekly... Vakili Band is a five-member New Jersey-based alt rock band whose sound is described as "an electric blend of rock, soul and psychedelia..." (Under The Radar") and "a full-on, revival-style, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds-meets-the Pretenders, rock 'n' f_ckin' roll band." (Magnet Magazine). Fronted by singer/songwriter Lily Vakili - a street poet who finds the sweet spot in the nexus formed by Patti Smith’s loose-limbed punk swagger, Grace Slick’s inviting psychedelia, and the full-throated howl of Brittany Howard - the band has released three studio albums - Oh Alright (2018), Walking Sideways (2021) and Honey (2023).

https://vakiliband.com/

Bees Deluxe is a British/American band who have played with Ronnie Earl, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Matt Schofield, Roomful of Blues, Walter Trout and David Maxwell.... A modern four-piece blues band celebrating the music of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Tinsley Ellis, Freddie King and Roomful of Blues with respect and a dash of hot sauce. Receiving positive reviews wherever they play from Maine to Florida - and everywhere between. Showcasing a catalog of originals and classic covers, many on CD played by National and International radio stations. Bees Deluxe delivers the musical goods everywhere they can - in concert halls, theaters, bars and Festival stages. “...what might happen if Freddie King took a lot of acid then wrote a song with Pat Metheny and asked a strung-out Stevie Ray Vaughan to take a solo” — Blues Blast Magazine

The four-piece band is spearheaded by British guitarist Conrad Warre, and Carol Band on keyboards, harmonica and vocals. With special musical guests Jeff Lopez on bass and JL Claybourne on drums and percussion. The musicians each bring their own experience to the mix. Band was recruited from jazz bands that were playing the Boston circuit, notably Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge. New York based Lopez is a renowned composer, musical arranger and bass player, and JL Claybourne studied at Berklee, Massachusetts, and is drummer at Joey Blake, Drummer at Jay Frigoletto and the Diplomats of Funk and Drummer at Boston Rock and Soul Revue. Warre, was in a high-school band in London, with Paul Kossoff, of the band Free, and toured Europe with the English Beat and the Joe Jackson Band. He migrated from London to New York where he became a regular performer at the legendary CBGB’s.

In Boston, he founded Bees Deluxe, to pay homage to the music he fell in love with while touring and playing legendary London clubs like the Rainbow Theatre, Ronnie Scott's, Dingwalls, The Music Machine and the Moonlight Club. Warre has written reviews and articles for Melody Maker, Record Mirror and Sounds in the UK, and for various US publications. Before forming Bees Deluxe he was Production Manager for Rykodisc the first music audio CD company in the States, working directly with Frank Zappa, Yoko Ono, Richard Thompson, David Bowie, Mickey Hart and others. The band exudes a contagious enthusiasm at every performance and continues to push the limits of the blues, color outside the lines of convention and do it with impeccable musicality, originality and a touch of insanity. “Solid vocals surrounded by a tight band, and check out the tones he gets out of his guitar; this cat can play.” — A.J. Wachtel

https://www.beesdeluxe.com/

One Dime Band is a dynamic and talented acoustic duo who have crafted their unique sound and songwriting approach by blending influential styles of Blues, RandB and Soul. They have played in and around the Boston/New England area as a duo and as a 4-piece electric band for many years.

Paul and John’s love of American Roots music started in New York State where they first met in High School, teaching each other Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly songs at the age of fifteen. The next year they formed their first band and began to incorporate Blues numbers into their repertoire.

Musical fate led them to Boston, MA in 1986. Their goal was to write and perform music professionally, so they formed a Blues band called The Roadhouse Sheiks, playing live extensively (even hosting a Blues jam at Jonathan Swift’s in Brighton, MA) into the early nineties. The two eventually went on to pursue separate musical endeavors, ultimately reuniting as a duo in early 2000, focusing on acoustic Blues.

In June of 2017, after more than 2 years of writing, recording, and mixing, they released their debut album of twelve original songs, Gonna Take Sweet Time, on their own label, Toneblanket Records.

Hoodoo and Holy Water, their follow up album, was recorded at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Waltham, MA. Engineered and co-produced by Rob Ignazio, released in February of 2020, it received notable recognition, including Blues Music Fan Radio’s Top 20 albums of the year and Blues Music and Metronome Magazine’s Top 20 lists of 2020.

Winners of the 2022 Boston Blues Society Blues Challenge solo/duo category and the 2023 Granite State Blues Society Challenge. The Duo returned to Memphis and made it to the Semi-Finals at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January 2024.

On February 9, 2024 they released their 3rd album, “Side Hustle”.

CDs are available for purchase at live shows or as digital downloads on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon MP3. You can also stream their music via Spotify, Tidal, Pandora and YouTube Music.

https://onedimeband.com/

The Cinelli Brothers is an award-winning 4 Piece band from London comprised of Marco and Alessandro Cinelli from Italy, Tom Julian Jones, a London native, and Stephen Giry from France.... A true melting-pot of musicianship, showmanship and charisma.

Their sound is an amalgam of Soul and Blues with a contemporary twist that honours the songwriting craftsmanship of their biggest influences -The Beatles, The Band, Little Feat, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Steve Winwood.

The band tours extensively in the UK, Europe and USA, and were named the best blues band in the UK in the 2022 UK Blues Challenge, followed by 2nd place in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January 2023.

The band has released four albums to date, including their latest studio album 'Almost Exactly…The Cinelli Brothers’ which was recorded in Woodstock, NY and released in January 2024 to great acclaim. They celebrated the album release with a launch party at The Cutting Room in New York City, to a packed audience.

It is through their mesmerising live shows that The Cinelli Brothers have garnered their loyal and ever-expanding fanbase, selling out shows in the UK and Europe and performing at Joe Bonamassa’s KTBA Mediterranean Cruise 2023, as well as some of the biggest Blues and Jazz festivals across the continent.

https://www.cinellibrothers.com/

Early Times and the High Rollers are a NYC-based band who specialize in original rock and soul music.... Before leaving his home state of California, he was awarded Best Guitarist in the Sacramento Music Awards. He then joined E.C. Scott’s band and toured internationally and recorded two CDs with E.C. for the Blind Pig Label. The band has had a string of national radio hits on SiriusXM radio as well as regional terrestrial stations and currently hosts a daily nationally-broadcasted show on B.B. King’s Bluesville on SiriusXM radio and can also be heard on Deep Tracks. The band features Early Times (gtr/vcl); Jeremy Portwood (drums); Dan Schnapp (Keyboards); and Teddy Motz (bass) and has toured the Northeast and Southern states at festivals and clubs.

Celebrated singer, songwriter, and guitarist Early Times is known around the country for his uniquely individual musical style. Having the rare skills to have shared the stage with musicians from a myriad of genres, Times has shown an ability that few possess. “With Early Times, the execution is always genuine, never showy. It is the mark of a master musician.”-Sacramento News and Review Born and raised in California, Early began playing professionally at parties and dances at the young age of 14. He released his first album Society for the Misunderstood in 1992 on Fantasia, the independent label he owned. That same year, he performed at a 3-month residency at the Palace Court Hotel in London as well as doing shows up and down the West Coast in the U.S. The debut album won top honors as Local CD of the Year. During his time in Sacramento, he was nominated for more awards in the Sacramento Music Awards than any other individual artist in the area. In 1997 he was given the Critics’ Choice Award as Best Guitarist. Early then spent time touring with soul and blues vocalist E.C. Scott and traveled throughout the U.S and appeared with her in Greece as well. He was the featured guitarist on E.C.’s Hard Act to Follow and Masterpiece albums. “Featured throughout is the scorching guitar work of a Sacramento musician by the name of Early Times.”-San Francisco Chronicle In 2001, Early’s performing career took a detour when he helped usher in a new wave of broadcasting as he was tapped to help start Sirius Satellite Radio. He hosted a daily show on Sirius Blues from the channel’s opening until its closing. During the 7+ year span, he helped the company expand from 0 subscribers to over 17 million. After some time away from broadcasting, Early was once again brought on to help the blues channel, now branded as B.B. King’s Bluesville, where he currently hosts a daily program. With a 6-hour program running 7 days per week, on a platform that currently boasts over 32 million subscribers, Early remains the most prevalent on-air personality for blues radio in the United States. In addition, he hosts a 3-hour show 4 days per week playing classic rock on Deep Tracks. Returning to his recording career, he has had a string of hits from recent albums Hit and Run (“Dogs of Karma”), The Corner (“She’s About to Lose Her Mind”, “On the Corner”, “Charlemagne”, “Come On, Let’s Ride”, “Return of the Queen”) and Electric City (“Good Soul Music”, “Orphan Train”, “Heartbreak Insurance”), and has appeared at clubs and festivals in many states around the U.S.

https://www.earlytimes.co/

The Porkroll Project, from the greater Philadelphia, PA area is hard rocking 5 piece blues band who play a high energy blend of fresh covers and originals.... 2010 : Semi-Finalist in the International Blues Challenge, Memphis, TN 2010 : Semi-Finalist in the Blues Foundation's "Best Self-Produced CD" for Shake It Twice 2012 : Represented the Billtown Blues Association in the International Blues Challenge 2012 : Three Legged Dog nominated by Diamond State Blues Society for "Best Self-Produced CD" 2014 : Represented the Billtown Blues Association in the International Blues Challenge

The music is blues, but it's done up Porkroll style. Little bit of grease, good dose of funk, whole lotta drive and grind. Throw that together with some dangerous lead guitar and harmonica, powerful organ, and rippin' piano, and you have a recipe for a night where anything can happen!

The band has a collective experience that runs deep and wide, having played together in various other projects for over ten years. They are well seasoned veterans of events such as the Philadelphia Jam on the River, the Annual Chameleon Club Blues Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Riverfront Blues Festival, the Billtown Blues Festival, the Paoli Blues Festival and the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN.

So if you and your crew are craving some hard rocking, foot stomping, hip shaking, earthquaking entertainment, give an ear to a heaping helping of The Porkroll Project. It's the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it. It's Porkalicious!!

http://www.porkrollproject.com/Index2.html

In 1985, five young, local musicians got together and began playing old blues songs in a rambling three-story house in Philadelphia.... They decided to take the act on the road as The Dukes of Destiny, a name they got from a matchbook cover urging the reader to “Be the Captain of Your Own Destiny.” At first, The Dukes of Destiny played house parties in Germantown, generating interest by word of mouth. A gig at the now-defunct Taker’s Café in Germantown launched their public career, and 30 years later, they are still playing some of the hottest, most danceable blues and old school soul in the Philadelphia area.

Today The Dukes of Destiny reign as Philadelphia’s longest-lived and best loved blues act. There have been changes in the act: guitarists left and came back, bass and sax players moved and or left the band, and sadly, singer and founder Steve Brown died in March of 2000. But the approach and commitment of the band has remained constant for 30 years, resulting in a band with a unique tightness and an original approach to the music. With a mix of powerful original songs and unique arrangements of blues standards, The Dukes of Destiny continue to grow and develop as they share their music through countless live performances and recordings. Original member John Colgan-Davis continues to front the band, as a powerful presence on stage with his signature hat, harp and seasoned voice.

http://www.dukesofdestiny.com/

He has performed with many of the biggest names in the music business including, Daryl Hall & John
Oates, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, Train, Cheap Trick, Grace Potter, Ben Folds, Sammy Hagar, BlackBerry Smoke, Squeeze and many others.... Eliot has appeared on every episode of Daryl Hall’s incredibly popular, "Live From Daryl's House” show all while keeping his own solo career going at a seemingly impossible pace.

"Eliot is a musician who can do it all, great singer, songwriter and guitarist. He rocks and he's got soul. No one does it quite like him" - Daryl Hall

As a Multi-instrumentalist, Eliot’s energetic and unique shows will find him moving from one instrument to another using live looping to seamlessly construct songs and arrangements on the spot and in the moment. If Eliot plays a cover song, it’s typically a song he’s performed with that artist.

Equally at home in front of 100 or 15,000 Eliot has performed on the worlds most Pretsigious stages, including Madison Square Garden, Japan’s Budokan, Red Rocks, The Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall as well as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,Conan O’Brien,The Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel and many others.

https://www.eliotlewis.com/

Katie Barbato is gearing up for her 10th album “The Trail of Us”. The album will feature 14 tracks with production and engineering by multi-instrumentalist Brett William Kull (Grey Eye Glances, Echolyn). Katie is a four-time finalist in the International Songwriting Competition and a finalist in the Unsigned Only Competition.... She has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and she is a regularly featured artist on WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania’s public radio station. In addition to releasing her own music, Barbato composes music for TV and film, such as the theme she wrote for the movie Sugar, starring Shenae Grimes and Marshall Allman. Her song “Magical Ending” was recently featured in the Netflix hit dramas “Virgin River” and “Yankee”, the MTV series “Busch Family Brewed”, and several of her songs have been featured on the Australian hit television show “Neighbours”.

Katie has shared the stage with Lucy Wainwright Roche, Mutlu, Shawn Mullins, Melissa Ferrick, Deb Talan and Steve Tannen, Citizen Cope with Meshell Ndegeocello, Ginger Coyle, Liz Longley, Danielle Miraglia, Rise Twain, Darlingside, Mckain Lakey, and Liz Cooper and the Stampede.

“It’s a work of beauty all around, evocative of just the sort of reflective songwriting and artistry that we could never get enough from out of those like Barbato.” -For Folk’s Sake

“The peace-loving Philly native has an innate knack for soaring major/ minor key transitions, imbued with timely, sweet-spot lyrics and supported with rich, cinematic accompaniment. Comparisons to Neko Case and Gillian Welch are perhaps a little too obvious here, as Katie seems to carve out her own niche as a folk rock formalist who creates from a deep well of experience.” -The Vinyl District

“The Philadelphia native has been cultivating her unique style of twangy, heartfelt, socially aware folk rock since she migrated from Boston a few years back. Her sound is fully formed and wonderfully nuanced, like a mystic lovechild of Jeff Tweedy and Gillian Welch. She combines the purity of the latter of with the offbeat Sky Blue Sky-era country of Wilco, striking a delicate balance between self-effacement and deeply meaningful songwriting. I guess a spoon full of sugar does help the medicine go down…” The Vinyl District

http://katiebarbato.com

Two nationally touring artists join forces to create a special rocking blues show - Billboard chart topping artist The Alex Lopez Xpress(ALX) AND Sweetone recording artist Memphis Lightning. It's called the Lightning Xpress tour -Two bands, one stage, one electrifying concert experience...with each band performing an individual set and then seamlessly coming together to perform a set of classic rock/blues songs.... The Lightning Xpress tour is the union of two talented rock/blues artists that has been selling out shows bringing high-energy and great music to venues across the country.

Alex Lopez and The Xpress(ALX): Renowned guitarist and songwriter Alex Lopez with his band The Xpress electrifies audiences with a blend of blues rock pop and funk. Known for revitalizing blues for new generations they mesmerize with melodic songs from Alex's seven acclaimed albums including their just released Billboard top ten "Looking for a Change." Expect a high-energy mix of new hits and blues rock classics in their unforgettable performance.

Memphis Lightning: Dynamic and internationally touring Memphis Lightning features award-winning musicians including guitar virtuoso Lightning Thiboutot who wows audiences with his guitar fretwork equivalent to guitar pyrotechnics. The band which includes Grammy-nominated Big Red and members "The Rock" and "Mr. Mayhem" is celebrated for their fusion of styles reminiscent of Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Memphis Lightning is synonymous with future legends delivering a compelling musical experience.

https://www.alexlopezmusic.com

When listening to Rob Balducci’s music, it’s instantly apparent that he is a master of the fret board. But it doesn’t stop there. Listening longer, I noticed the many layers, layers upon layers. He carefully, yet effortlessly, shapes a musical landscape where rhythm and lead seamlessly flow into one another time and time again.... Watching the play-through video of his song The Color of Light, my impression was that he fills the space with his music, sounding more like an entire band than a single guitar player. Sometimes doubling up on the rhythm, powerful and heavy, and others slipping into blazing soloing, he lays the foundation for the feeling he’s trying to get across. After all, this is instrumental rock and everything has to be conveyed through composition. Experiencing the mastery of this many-layered composition, it’s not hard to believe that Balducci is a prodigy.

So what’s the story behind his guy and his music? How does someone like Rob Balducci become the virtuoso he is today? In many ways, it is a rather humble beginning that leads to something spectacular. As it often does, the story begins with family.

Rob Balducci started playing in the mid-eighties when he was about eleven years old. His sister had an acoustic guitar and showed him a few chords, and that was when he got the bug. With three older sisters, Rob was the youngest of four, a wide age spread between them. That was where he would pick up his first influences, listening to a broad range of music on his sisters’ records. He found a spark in the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, and even classic rocker Chuck Berry. Those styles would come to meld with early music interests of his own, bands like Kiss and Ted Nugent.

He inherited his sister’s off-brand acoustic and was later gifted with a Gibson guitar, not a Les Paul, but a short run guitar just called “The Paul”. This was before the Les Paul Studio, and possibly a forerunner to the same idea. The guitar ended up being a great instrument and unique in the aspect that it was built of walnut, which is not a wood we see on many Gibson line-ups. He played his walnut LP through a 1x12 Randall amplifier and an MXR Distortion Plus, his first (and definitely not his last) effects pedal. Such a humble beginning, but one that may sound familiar to many of us when recalling our first gear. Displaying his prodigious talent for the six-string right out of the gate, he was in his first band at fourteen and was teaching guitar only a year later! He was immediately gigging, and due to his age, had to be escorted by his father to the venue, where he would join his eighteen-year-old bandmates on stage.

In the early years of the nineties, he participated in and won a contest sponsored by Guitar for the Practicing Musician to earn the title “New York’s Best Guitarist.” The contest gave Balducci “a good speaking point”, which would help him along in his professional career. He also met people from D’addario strings, which would become his first endorsement deal (first of many). In the years following, Balducci earned a degree in Music Performance and Theory from Five Towns College. He released his debut album, 1995’s Balance, which brought him praise from press and guitar enthusiasts alike. Balducci was on the map as a promising new talent.

At this point the various musical influences from his past had merged with the progressive influences of bandmates. For those of us who were around in the mid to late eighties, we can recall the rise of instrumental guitar made popular by big names like Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, and Joe Satriani. It’s not hard to understand the effect that might have on a growing guitar talent living in the wake of Eddie Van Halen. After his debut album, Rob continued working on new material and taking his music to various record companies. Eventually he signed to Steve Vai’s record label Favored Nations Entertainment and released the albums Mantra, The Color of Light, and Violet Horizon worldwide.

Since then, Balducci has been a prolific personage, performing live in venues around the world and hosting clinics for many of the music world’s leading manufacturers. For example, Ibanez Guitars, Two Notes Audio Engineering, DV Mark Amps, Overloud THU, D’Addario Strings, Dimarzio Pick-ups, Lizard Spit Polish, George L’s cables, Morley Pedals, Keeley Pedals, Xotic pedals, Eventide, Hawk Picks, Dunlop, Maxon, FU Upgrades, Studio Devil, and Majic Box Pedals are all among his endorsements. He has received rave reviews and world-wide support for his music from industry publications like Guitarist UK, Guitar World, Young Guitar, and Burn. He has his own YouTube channel where followers can watch footage of his shows, get a quick guitar lesson, or experience Balducci playing from his own studio. Balducci ‘s last album 821 Monroe Drive, a soul-searching collection of songs written about the house that his mother grew up in. This was the place he would spend his summers and where Rob describes as his woodshed years. Alone in his room spending all day working on his instrument.

So what is going on in the world of Rob Balducci now ? The new album “Transcendence” is here and will be released on January 7, 2022.

Transcendence is his best work to date and is some of his most personal music to come out of his mind , body , soul and heart. The music is inspired by the passing of his parents Vito and Natalie Balducci and dealing with their end of life and remembering the moments of time that seem to past by so fast. “ the music on this album is very personal to me but I feel everyone can relate to it. Each of us experience loss and I hope listening to this collection of music will bring some peacefulness into the world ".

Rob Balducci comes full circle on Transcendence and shows us just how deep that well of inspiration he draws from can be. Brimming with all the staples you have come to expect from Balducci; infectious melodies, stunning musicianship and gorgeous tones all shaped to take you, the listener on an aural journey that will not only surprise, excite and thrill you from the first note to the last, but leave you wondering ‘How did he do that?’

https://www.robbalducci.com

Blues lovers and players know that this is the best place to come for some really good and inexpensive eats, beer on tap from Conshohocken Brewing Company, fresh ground coffee and espresso, great music, and friendly people... The vibe is home-like and cool, and the sound is out of this world. Jamey's provides a full professional grade backline, so players only need to bring their instrument or personal microphone to jump up on stage and jam. Plus, we are the home of the "Jammie-Jam" which means you can come as you are in your Sunday morning PJ's. Just roll out of bed and right on over to Jamey's!

The open mic jam runs from 1 pm to 3 pm, and the host band lays down a set from noon to 1 pm to get things rolling and then supports guest jammers as needed. The always rocking SUNDAY BLUES BRUNCH rocks a a HAPPY HOUR from noon to 1pm. Featuring two bucks off draft beers and hard ciders, and a dollar off wines! The open mic runs from 1 to 3pm, and admission is 100% free! Our tasty and immensely popular brunch menu is available the whole time to make your tummy as happy as your ears with freshly prepared eats. It sure doesn't get better than this!

The Host bands are the well-known and loved Philly Blues Kings, comprised of Bluesman Dave Reiter on guitar, keys and vocals, Bill Marconi on drums and vocals, Rob Hamilton on harp and vocals and Jamey Reilly on bass, usually on the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays and the all-star superband, the Girke-Davis Project, featuring international artist Roger Girke on guitar and vocals, Dukes of Destiny front man, John Colgan-Davis on vocals and harmonica, Hammond organ ace Glenn Bickel, drummer extraordinaire, Paul Albrecht, and Jamey Reilly on bass, generally on the 2nd Sundays.

Blues lovers new and old can come to play, eat, drink, chat and enjoy a day soaked in the blues. Many guests also like to host gatherings or parties during the brunch, as there are tables and chairs for dining, and comfortable seats to listen to the music - and it does not cost them a thing to meet up there! Plus, it is wheelchair accessible, and has plenty of free local parking. Being right in the center of downtown Lansdowne, next to the train station, there is abundant public transportation as well.

Check out the mouth watering brunch menu on our menu page. We have instituted a $5 food or drink minimum per person to help keep the lights on.

No reservations are needed. Just load up some friends and head on down!

Get a head start on the weekend with great jams in the best listening room in town
The ONLY open-mic with a full professional stage, backline - and backing band!... The Thursday night open-mic jams at Jamey's are simply the best, hands down!

JAZZ AT JAMEY'S every second and fourth Thursday, and ANYTHING GOES every first, third and fifth Thursdays - starting with great HAPPY HOUR DISCOUNTS ON ALL FOOD AND DRINK at 6pm, and on-stage fun kicking off at 7pm until 10pm.

Jamey's has been called the best place on the planet for live music, good food and drink, and we could not agree more! With a full pro backline, incredible sound and lights plus an optional backing band provided by the renowned DAVE REITER TRIO, musicians only need to bring their instruments, fans, friends and family to shine like a superstar.

Our jams have become a popular destination for groups to join up for celebrations, birthdays or meetings too!

ADMISSION IS ALWAYS FREE and there is plenty of free local parking, plus we are handicap accessible.

Come on out and see why everyone raves about Jamey's - the best listening room on the planet!