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Marc Benno
Home
Base: Texas
Touring Bands: Midwest, New England
Key
Selling Points:
-Known for his work with Leon Russell, the Doors, and for his solo
career in the 70s, as well as his work today.
-Has worked with legends like Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman, Georgie Fame,
Rita Coolidge, Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb
-Grammy Award Winner
-Plays straight-ahead Texas blues, a mixture of originals and
standards.
-Latest CD release "I Got It Bad" receiving notable airplay and reviews
-Latest releases are selling well in Texas, San Francisco, Chicago,
Cleveland, New York City, Boston, Florida, Memphis, Nashville,
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Michael Packer
Home Base: New
York, New England
Key
Selling Points:
-40 years of performance and recording experience, with albums on RCA,
Atlantic and Buddah Records
-Made Billboard charts top 100 for all 3 albums with his band "Free
Beer," and all Michael Packer Blues Band CDs made top 50 on Roots Music
Report charts with airplay in the US and internationally
-2009 & 2010 semi-finalist in International Blues Challenge
-Has shared the stage with dozens of artists, including Bettye Lavette,
Levon Helm, Joe Louis Walker and Honeyboy Edwards
-Plays second guitar behind Honeyboy Edwards on occasion
Notable Recent Bookings:
-Regular gigs at BB Kings NYC
-Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival
-Spiritstock
-Longbranch Jazz Festival
-New York City Marathon |
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David Maxwell
Home Base: New
England
Key Selling Points:
-One
of the best known sideman and backing musician in modern recorded
blues.
Known for his work backing Freddie King, James Cotton, and Hubert
Sumlin as well as dozens of modern and traditional blues
artists.
-Available
for blues piano workshops
-Backing musician on over 50 blues recordings and on several DVDs.
-Six
W.C. Handy/Blues Award Nominations, multiple Grammy Nominations, one
Grammy Award
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Cisco Ottawa Blues Festival
-Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
-Notodden Blues Festival
-Lucerne Blues Festival
-San Francisco Blues Festival
-BB Kings NYC, Regattabar Cambridge
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Steve Rowe
Home Base:
Montreal, Quebec
Key
Selling Points:
-Solid
reputation as Montreal's guitar hero.
-Topped the
Canadian Roots Music Report Charts, and peaked at #20 on the Living
Blues charts
-Latest release "Five" receiving airplay on over 150 stations
throughout the US and Canada.
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Cisco Ottawa Blues Festival
-Festival
International de Jazz de Montreal (6 times)
-Mt-Tremblant Blues Fest (2 times)
-Edmundston Blues Fest
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Bill Abel
Home Base:
Mississippi, Gulf Coast
Key
Selling Points:
-Raw,
undiluted, traditional delta blues guitar
-Known throughout the Gulf Coast and abroad for his work backing
legends like Big George Brock, Cadillac John Nolden, T-Model Ford and
Sam Carr.
-Solo
musician --> One-Man Band or Trio
option available
-Available for Delta Blues Guitar workshops and Diddley Bo workshops
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Arkansas
Blues & Heritage Festival (King Biscuit)
-Juke Joint Festival
-Howlin Wolf Blues Festival
-Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival
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Big Walker
Home
Base: Europe, California
Key
Selling Points:
-Featured
on over a dozen albums, including multiple albums by both Eric
Bibb and Mike Bloomfield.
-Latest CD features guest appearances by Zora Young, Jimmy Dawkins and
Eric Bibb.
-Sings,
plays harp and plays saxophone
-Knows hundreds of cover songs to supplement his originals in
performances
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Honeyboy Edwards Trio
Home Base:
Chicago
Key
Selling Points:
-Awards include 2005 and 2007 WC Handy (Blues Music Award) Winner, 2008
Grammy Award
Winner, Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, recipient of the National
Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship Award
-Contemporary of Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton, Big Joe
Williams
-Oldest living of the original delta blues guitarists
-In numerous tv and film documentaries
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Chicago Blues Festival
-Boston Blues Festival
-Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
-Simply The Blues Festival
-Telluride Blues Festival
-Waterfront Blues Festival
-T-Bone Walker Blues Festival
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Louisiana Red
Home Base:
Germany, New England
Key
Selling Points
-WC Handy Award winner
-Recorded for Chess subsidiary Checker Records as well as Atlantic
Records, and later Earwig Music, Severn Records, Ruf Records
and numerous others.
-Triumphant annual tours to the US, touring from coast to coast.
-Available as solo, duo and full band
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Chicago Blues Festival
-Cisco Ottawa Blues Festival
-Briggs Farm Blues Festival
-Boston Blues Festival
-Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
-Thirsty Ear Festival
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Johnny Drummer
Home
Base: Chicago
Key
Selling Points
-Best R&B Act In
Chicago in 2008 Chicago Reader poll
-Multiple International Songwriting Competition Nominee
-Has performed with BB King, Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton, and Carey
Bell
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Chicago Blues Festival
-Briggs Farm Blues Festival
-Taste of Chicago
-Pocono Blues Festival
-Maximum Blues Festival (Québec)
-Simply the Blues Festival
-Toledo Blues Festival
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Rob Stone
Home
Base: Chicago
Key Selling Points
-Genuine
Chicago Blues ensemble in the traditional style
-Featured in Martin Scorsese's The
Blues DVD Series
-Toured and recorded with the Sam Lay Blues Band
-Available for harmonica and blues workshops
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Residency
at House of Blues Chicago
-Taste of Chicago
-Howlin' Wolf Blues Festival
-Blues on the North Shore Festival
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Chris James & Patrick Rynn
The
Blue Four
Home
Base: San Diego, Chicago, Phoenix
Key
Selling Points
-Members of the
Rhythm Room All-Stars, based out of Phoenix, AZ where they are also the
house band at the Rhythm Room.
-Backing musicians on recordings by Sam Lay, Jody Williams, Tomcat
Courtney and Big Pete Pearson.
-Available for blues workshops - guitar, bass and harmonica
Notable
Recent Bookings:
-Chicago Blues Festival
-Lucerne Blues Festival
-Pocono Blues Festival
-Simply The Blues Festival
-Cisco Ottawa Blues Festival
-Blues Sur Seine
-King Biscuit Blues Festival (Arkansas Blues & Heritage
Festival)
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