Blues Bands

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	brian young
	Click To See Video	Nfluences BB King, Albert King, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and not in that order. At the age of 17 Brian young began playing the guitar a self-taught musician from east St. Louis, ill. with plenty of accomplishments, Brian and the band won the 1999=2000 battle of the blues bands in Irvine Lake CA. Brian is also very proud to have been a semifinalist in the Jimi Hendrix electric guitar competition. Whether playing the guitar with his teeth or playing behind his head or how ever he plays the guitar Brian keeps the audience both entertained and spellbound with his soulful style of playing this wonderful music. Brian's goals are to keep making good music and to keep the Blues alive !!!!

	BUBBA and the BIG BAD BLUES
	Click To See Video	Bubba and the Big Bad Blues is a four piece blues band from Southern California and have been rocking the club scene there for over 10+ years. With influences like Freddy King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Robin Trower and The Meters, Bubba’s powerful vocals, impressive guitar work and a veteran rhythm section forge an electrifying hybrid blend of smoking Texas blues with a little bit of New Orleans R&B funk thrown in. Bubba's long awaited debut self titled album speaks for itself.


	Chris Anderson Group
	Click To See Video	Blues, Soul and Rock n’ Roll! That’s what The Chris Anderson Group does best, and it shows! Over the past several years, the band has performed at festivals, fund-raisers, small and large clubs all over Southern California and many private functions. Its members include: Chris Anderson (Vocals and Guitar), Rich Smith (Drums and Vocals) and Mike Casper (Bass and Vocals). Each member is tremendously talented in his own right and have been performing since they were kids.

	hot rod lincoln
	Click To See Video	Hello, and thanks for visiting my "My Space" page. I created this page to keep those who are interested, informed about who I am working with, what I have done and am currently doing, and where my next shows might be. First, I let me give you a little history about myself. I am currently an official member of two bands that are working regularly; Buzz Campbell & Hot Rod Lincoln, and The Lee Rocker Band. Buzz Campbell & Hot Rod Lincoln has been around for the last 15 years. We have released five full-length CD’s and are on numerous compilations. If you would like more info. on this group, check out the "my space’ page at: www.myspace.com/buzzcampbellhotrodlincoln

	JANIVA MAGNESS
	Click To See Video	Los Angeles based Janiva Magness is one of today’s most talented and recognized blues and roots vocalists. A three-decade darling of the blues genre, Janiva currently resides at the top of the genre. In May 2007, Janiva won her second consecutive Blues Music Award for Contemporary Female Artist of the Year beating out contemporaries Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland and Marcia Ball. Janiva is nominated for the 2008 Blues Music Award for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award.Billboard writes “Magness carves out a niche by singing the blues with maturity and sophistication."

	JD PRIEST
	Click To See Video	JD’s career began in the early 90s with the Americana/Roots group Acoustic Connection. Opening for country artist like Grammy winner Dan Seals and appearing on the Charlie Daniel’s Talent Roundup on TNN, JD continued to shine as he developed his songwriting. In fall of 1997 the band performed for Los Angeles’ Billy Block’s Western Beat and were then nominated for the National Academy Of Songwriters Acoustic Underground, “Songwriters Of The Year Award” featuring music written by JD PRIEST.


	JOHNNY HAWTHORNE BAND
	Click To See Video	It is a great mixture of Roots, Rock, Blues and jazz. It has many guest performers on it including Dean Dinning (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Nicole Gordon(singer/songwriter) and keyboard and piano extraordinaire Carl Byron and was produced and engineered by Todd Nichols(Toad the Wet Sprocket). I played mandolin on Sarah Goff’s new CD "DIRT" - Check out the track “A little time” at www.myspace.com/sarahgoff. The CD was produced by my old friend Trace Ritter who use to play guitar in the band “Chalk Farm”

	Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys
	Click To See Video	If you have enough guts and vision, you can draw a line in the sand and declare your path. Mama's Boys is Johnny Mastro's vision of how blues should be played. Honest, original, raw, get-down music void of today's common cliche's and posing. Johnny says "This is not the lazy respectful whitebread blues!". Think Hound Dog Taylor crossed with Butterfield Blues Band. Hard blues you can only get with keeping one foot firmly planted in the past while moving into the future. Coming out of Los Angeles oldest Blues Club Babe'e & Ricky's Inn since 1993, the band tours internationally and signed to Nugene Records.

	LA JONES AND THE BLUES MESSENGERS
	Click To See Video	Handy Award nominees, L.A. Jones & The Blues Messengers have been tearing up the floorboards in roadhouses all over the world for the last three decades, touring constantly and playing over 200 gigs a year and thrilling Blues fans where ever they perform. L.A. Jones and The Blues Messengers represent a new breed from the old school of the blues; crossing racial, spiritual and musical boundaries. Drawing from their past experience playing and recording with many of the great Blues stars like pianist Pinetop Perkins , guitarists Otis Rush, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Johnson and saxophonist Joe Houston they have pioneered a style that is all their own, blending the ever popular jump swing of the great Texas and West Coast traditions.

	lee rocker
	Click To See Video	2010 is looking like it's going to be a rockin' year with a new Lee Rocker record as well a a surprise record with some longtime friends. The Lee Rocker record is finished and is titled Midnight Radio. This one's a different kind of thing for me in the song choices and the instruments. All the songs are classic hits from the 1970s. This came about by me thinking back on being a kid growing up in the NYC suburbs, lying in bed at night long after my parents had gone to sleep and listening to this little transistor radio.


	MIKE ELDRED TRIO
	Click To See Video	The Mike Eldred Trio has an impressive resume’, with the rhythm section of Jerry Angel and John Bazz coming from The Blasters and Eldred, in the Brian Setzer seat during ex-Stray Cat Lee Rocker’s recording tenure at Black Top. Their self-titled album finds bombs going off everywhere, in chunky Stevie Ray Vaughn chordings and ‘60s-inspired dance grooves, in rockabilly blowouts and L.A. roots investigations along the Phil & Dave Alvin-X-John Doe axis, in country shuffle-swing (“Mess of the Blues”) and more, including covers of “I’m Ready” (from Muddy Waters), “Mystery Train” (from Junior Parker, via Elvis), and, complete with backwards guitar, Hendrix’s “Pali Gap”.

	PORTERHOUSE BOB
	Click To See Video	Porterhouse Bob has shared the stage with Jim Belushi, Charles Brown, Paul Butterfield, James Cotton, The Coasters, Willie Dixon, Floyd Dixon, The Downchild Blues Band, Charlie Musselwhite, The Persuasions, Phil Upchurch, Muddy Waters and many other fine artists. He began playing the accordion at five years old, took up the piano and organ in his early teens and spent 14 years on the road playing blues clubs and concert halls, traveling from Houston to Toronto.

	RICKY LEWIS BAND
	Click To See Video	Pacificali is a dynamic trio, able to please all audiences with legendary Classic Rock hits. Ricky Lewis and Ray Wolf have performed with too many projects and musicians to list... on both the East and West Coasts. Ricky's roots are in the South and Ray's in the Midwest. Bernie Rubio is a veteran player from the California Coast, whose true love is performing live with his mates and feeling the energy from the audience, as well as the band. This makes for an incredible meld of American music styles rooted in Rock, Blues and R&B.

	san pedro slim
	Click To See Video	Some things about Me. I'm originally from San Pedro, California, now residing in Orange County. Someone at a bar in San Pedro years back told me that I wans'nt the true "San Pedro Slim" that San Pedro Slim was a friend of his that was a fat black man. My response was "Fine he can have it". I have two CD's out "Another Night On The Town" and my most recent "Barhoppin'"I Have a day job. I like Beer. I'm a Pesimist I prefer the label "Realist". I believe in God. I'm an amateur cartoonist. I like classic Jazz and Blues and old country music, songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, John Hiatt and Bob Dylan. Pretty much it.

	SHAWN JONES
	Click To See Video	Shawn has been creating quite a buzz overseas, touring extensively in the U.K. and Ireland at some of the major festivals and appearing on BBC radio where his music has found a new home and has been getting extensive airplay. Back in the States, Shawn has completed his fourth project, a live CD from a local Laguna Beach night hotspot entitled, “Live At Mozambique”. His fan base continues to grow like wildfire from a flurry of live performances, sharing the stage with such heavy hitters as Pat Benatar, The Gin Blossoms, Derek Trucks, Johnny Winter, Leon Russell, John Mayall, Dave Mason, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa David Lindley… and the list goes on.

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