Jay Walter and the Rectifiers

Welcome to my page. Glad you’re checking it out. I’ve been fronting some type of blues band around the Twin Cities for about 20 years now. Started off in the mid 80’s when I got laid off of my day job and a friend was playing in the house band at the old Blues Saloon jam. The first real gigging band after a few years was a blues rock outfit called Mojo Workin’. Like a lot of white guys I had always kept on digging deeper into the stuff and eventually wanted to get hooked up with a more traditional band. In 2000 I was fortunate enough to be asked to front a band made up of Jeff Hester (guitar), Dave Larson (drums), and Jack Taylor (bass). These guys are all seasoned veterans of the Twin Cities scene and at one time or another all had been in one R.J. Mischo’s bands among others. Jack was leading a jam band at the time under the name Blues Kings so we settled on that for a name.The Blues Kings released two self produced records. The first, simply called "Blues Kings", was recorded live in about three hours at Brad Moe’s studio in May 2000. There are no overdubs and everything was the first or second take. The second, "Keep on Rollin’", was released in ’03 and was recorded in Jeremy Johnson’s studio. We took more time with that one and the vocals are overdubbed, otherwise everything was recorded live on that one too. The songs you hear on this page are all from "Keep On Rollin’.In the fall of 2007 The Blues Kings disbanded after not having a regular guitar player for quite awhile. Just to drive myself nuts, I decided to try and put another thing together under my own name. Hence, it’s Jay Walter and The Rectifiers.