Member Since: 4/7/2007
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/gracieblues
Band Members: Proud to be a sideman for the SHADOWBOX BLUES BAND: Maria Breen/lead-vocals; Tom 'Terminator' Glover/lead guitar; David Lawless/guitar & vocals; Dennis 'Big Boss Man' McHale/bass guitar; John 'Eyes Wide Shut' Galeros/drums; & Barry 'Dirty Harp' Cohen/blowin da harp!!We are a female-fronted six-piece, up-tempo and jump blues killer blues band - COME SEE US LIVE and DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!!!Big Boss Man
Influences: PAUL BUTTERFIELD - was my biggest influence and the first harp player I ever heard on Muddy Water's 'Fathers & Sons' album - his playing inspired me to take up the harp!! Of course I just love MUDDY WATERS & all the the great players that graced his stage including; Percy Thomas, Charles Berry, Jimmy Rogers, Baby Face Leroy Foster, Pat Hare, Hubert Sumlin, prob. Robert Jr. Lockwood, Luther Tucker, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, Sammy Lawhorn, James 'Pee Wee' Madison, Luther 'Snake Boy' Johnson, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Phil Upchurch, Roland Faulkner, Pete Cosey, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Asbell, Mick Kelly, Rory Gallagher, Louis Myers, Luther 'Guitar Jr.' Johnson, Bob Margolin, Johnny Winter, John Primer, Rick Kreher; Little Walter, Henry 'Pot' Strong, Walter 'Shakey' Horton, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson 2°, Isaac Washington, George 'Mojo' Buford, George 'Harmonica' Smith, James Cotton, PAUL BUTTERFIELD, Jeff Carp, Paul Oscher, Carey Bell, Jerry Portnoy, James Clarke, Sunnyland Slim, Johnny Jones, Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake, Memphis Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Lovie Lee, Ransom Knowling, Ernest 'Big' Crawford, Willie Dixon, Andrew Stephenson, Al Hall, Milton Rector, Jack Myers, Sonny Wimberley, Mac Arnold, Dave Myers, Louis Satterfield, Donald 'Duck' Dunn, Rick Grech, Fred Carter, Charles Calmese, Calvin 'Fuzz' Jones, Earnest Johnson; Judge Riley, Elgin Edmonds, ppss. Willie Nix, Fred Below, Odie Payne, Francis Clay, George Hunter, Dick Smith, Shep Sheppard, Casey Jones, Al Duncan, Bobby Little, Clifton James, Billy Stepney, S.P. Leary, Frank Kirkland, Morris Jennings, Sam Lay, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell, Herbie Lovelle, Levon Helm, Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, Ray 'Killer' Allison (drums); Son Simms (violin & guitar); Louis Ford (mandolin); Alex Atkins (alto sax); Marcus Johnson (tenor sax & bass), Boyd Atkins, A.C. Reed, Jarret Gibson, J.T. Brown, Howard Johnson (tenor sax); Jackie Brenston, Donald Hankins (baritone sax); Gene Barge (soprano sax); Leonard Chess (bass drum); Chris Barber (trombone); Monty Sunshine (clarinet); Pat Halcox (trumpet); Eddie Smith (banjo); Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker, Charles Stepney, Steve Winwood, Garth Hudson (organ); Cookie Vee (tambourine). PLUS these alltime greats; Magic Dick on his lickin stick, James Montgomery, Kim Wilson, Jerry Portnoy, James Cotton, Annie Raines (Thanks Annie!), Snooky Pryor, Junior Wells, Charlie Musslewhite, Mark Hummel, Sonny Boy II, LW (do you know 2008 is & the year of LW?!), Dennis Gruenling, Richard Hunter, Sugar Blue, Rod Piazza, Paul Delay, Jason Ricci, Adam Gussow, John Juke Logan, Billy Boy Arnold, William Clarke; and did I mention PAUL BUTTERFIELD!!!!
Sounds Like: HARMONICA:A small, hand-held wind instrument on which tones are produced by exhaling and inhaling into recessed air slots. A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole. A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or "Mississippi Saxophone" having multiple, variably-tuned brassor bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thus repeatedly interrupting an airstream to produce sound. Just can't be the blues if there aint no harp in it!!
Record Label: InterTerra New Media
Type of Label: Indie