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Artists & Bands

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Ian Parker

Ian parker - 21st century blues man

Expressed through a distinctive bitter-sweet vocal delivery and harrowing guitar work,
Ian's songs hold nothing back. His ability and willingness to share with his audience,
naked honesty and genuine emotion, is what sets him apart.

Drawing on an eclectic range of influences, this young man is fast becoming Britain's best loved
blues/roots performer. A songwriter genuinely literate, sometimes almost literary,
Ian is an original craftsman rooted in the blues but not trapped by any desire to replicate the past.
He is without doubt a relevant contemporary blues man.

John Crampton

John Crampton was born in London. He is self taught on the guitar and harmonica.
He has played in many bands including Woody and the Splinters, a hard hitting R’n’ B trio
with John on vocals and lead guitar singing John’s own compositions. Next was a band called
Daddy Yum Yum which played a mixture of skiffle, gospel and blues. This band toured frequently
and supported Ian Dury and the Blockheads and also Wilco Johnson and the Solid Senders.

John Earl Walker Band

The John Earl Walker Band are veteran performers whose electric blues are very well received.
Over the years, its members have made appearances on the same bill or played with jimi Hendrix,
BB King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Bo Diddley, John Mayall and many more. The band has been
together for many year; two of the members date back to their time as Capitol recording artists
“Plum Nelly”.

A special event for The Earl, was in December of 1975, when he was asked to film a pilot
playing guitar with B. B. King for channel 9 KHJ in Los Angeles called “Backstage Pass

The Kyle Culkin Band

The Kyle Culkin Band is a high energy rock and blues band from the Los Angeles area of
Southern California. Kyle has a very unique style, sound, and energy that is always sure to entertain.
With an unparalleled passion and intensity in every live show, Kyle is quickly drawing crowds and
developing a reputation as an up and coming guitar slinger who can hold his own. He has even been
called “an axe grinder that stops time!” At only 22 years old Kyle is already making a name for himself
in the blues world and recently opened for the legendary B.B. King on his 80th birthday tour! See what
everyone is talking about at www.KyleCulkin.com

Bullfrog Brown

Bullfrog Brown was formed in Tartu in 2003 by vocalist Alar Kriisa and guitarist Andres Roots
after disbanding their award-winning Blues Rock group Green Bullfrog. Adding harmonica player
Üllar Kärt, the trio released their debut album "Mudhole Stories", which led to festival and club
bookings in Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. In their home country,
they soon found themselves backing Zigaboo Modeliste's keyboard man Eddie Baytos (USA)
and touring with Dave Arcari (Scotland), Alaska Gavin Kalan (FIN), and Bottleneck John (SWE).

Mitch Woods

Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88’s are the torch bearers of a great American musical heritage.
Taking their inspiration from the great jump n’ boogie outfits and swingin’ little big bands of the 40’s,
they breathe fresh life into the music that gave birth to rock n’ roll. Mitch takes his cue from his
jumpin’, n, jivin’, shoutin’ n’ honkin’, pumpin’ n’ poundin’ predecessors, Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway,
Joe and Jimmie Liggins, Louis Prima, just to name a few. Mitch’s pile drivin’ piano licks and energetic
stage persona combine with the Rocket 88’s swingin’ horns, thumpin’ bass, rockin’ guitar,
and jungle drums to send a crowd into dancing delight. They are one of the first bands on the
West Coast to reach back to an earlier time in American music using humor, style, musicianship,
and showmanship to forge their own swinging brand of music, which they coined rock-a-boogie.
Mitch & the 88’s have distilled the essence of jump, swing , boogie woogie, made it their own,
and deliver it to the present.

Spank The Monkey

Info coming soon!!!

Bobbie "Mercy" Oliver & Jam City Revue Band

Bobbie formed his present band Jam City Revue around the year 1996 with just a drummer,
Eddie Robbins and himself. Eddie's brother Kenny joined them playing Congo's and percussions.
Bobbie recruited his sister, Mary, to play bass again and his brother Freddy playing drums.
When they decided they no longer wanted to play in a band, Bobbie went and bought a bass guitar
and taught his stepson, Anthony how to play it and he joined the band and Eddie Robbins was on drums.
Anthony was very young with wife and small children so that didn't last very long. It was at that time that
his nephew, K. T. took an interest in playing the bass, taking lessons from Bobbie. K. T. is very good
on bass and at Mom's encouraging he started to sing, Stormy Monday, Bobby Bland's version and has
since begun to sing other R & B hits.

Walter Trout & the Radicals

Walter Trout was born in 1951 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He has played with great bands and singers
such as Canned Heat, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, and was a member of the legendary
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, before starting his own band in 1989.

His music is a mix between blues and rock.
If you are a fan of blues, blues/rock or rock music, you
HAVE TO check out his work. He is quite an amazing talent.

Storm Warning

Storm Warning is a band of five diverse influences that happens to make distinctive, exciting music.
The blues are the heart of the sound, but the blues is a form that changes its shape and character to
suit whoever is playing it. So, like all musicians who take their blues seriously, Storm Warning has a
unique sound, but one that seems to have a wide appeal.

Triggerfish

TRIGGERFISH was formed in 2002 by Mark T. Counts (The Nutty Drummer), Bill McClure
(Fat Fingers Willie) Lead Guitar, & Jerry Misczyk (The Blues Man) Bass guitar.Mark was involved
in two previous Original bands, and was finding it very hard to get gigs doing primarily original music.
This time we decided to play what people wanted to hear. Doing mostly Stevie Ray, Hendrix,
Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Doors, Robin Trower, Satriani and some modern music by Stone
Temple Pilots, Puddle Of Mud, etc,(Covers). TriggerFish takes great pride in doing the recordings live
as a 3 man band and Mark, (The Nutty Drummer) doing primarily all the vocals. So far gigging has
been mostly in the USA in the State of Kentucky.

Omar & The Howlers

OMAR & THE HOWLERS, with their bone-rattling display of swinging, rocking, rough and tumble
blues astonish their audience every time they play a note. Featuring the smoldering guitar attack and
gravely, gut bucket vocals of frontman Omar Dykes, he and the Texas-based Howlers have established
themselves as an international blues sensation steadily winning over fans and garnering awards from around the globe.
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Sue Foley

Sue Foley is considered to be one of the finest blues/roots artists working today.
She is internationally regarded as one of the best and most original artists working in her field.
Sue is an accomplished guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. Although she is only in her mid-thirties,
she has been writing and playing for over twenty years.
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Blues Is Truth

Blues is Truth is a new and emerging British blues band. Hailing from the fertile 'Thames Delta' that spawned
the likes of Eric Clapton, Peter Green and the Rolling Stones, they take the legacy of those who came before
them and build on it to provide some of the best bluesyou are ever likley to hear. Whilst the band may be new,
the trio that forms the core of this dynamic musical unit are anything but, bringing with them a huge amount of
experience in well known bands both at a national and international level, along with a love for true blues.
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Jo Buddy

JO´ BUDDY (40) sings soulfully, plays rhythm, solo & bass-lines at the same time with his architop
guitar (thru his old tuberadio amp!), while his backing up band Down Home King III (24) conjures
irresistably free & easy rockin´ hip-shakin´ grooves.
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Roadhouse

Roadhouse was formed in 1991 by Gary Boner, ably assisted throughout by the driving bass of Bill Hobley
and the the powerful drumming of Roger Hunt. Seizing on an eclectic mix of influences from Lynyrd Skynyrd
to Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band has developed a sound all of its own. In the words of a recent
Blues Matters review: "They veer towards the rocky side of the Blues, but are clearly Blues based and play
in a punchy style with musicianship of the highest quality".
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The Strats

Info coming soon.....