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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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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: Phoenix, San Diego
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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