Cantonese Traffic (NEW RECORD OUT NOW!!!)

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Member Since: 08/01/2008
Band Website: www.cantonesetraffic.com
Band Members: Mike Allard- Vocals/GuitarZac Arnault- Vocals/BassRory Dean- Drums/Percussion/Harmonica/Vocals
Influences: 13th Floor Elevators;Albert King; Al Kooper; Allman Brothers Band; Alton Ellis; Amon Düül II; Amos Lee; The Animals; Arlo Guthrie;The Band; Barney McClure Trio; BB King; Beastie Boys; The Beatles; Beck; Béla Fleck and the Flecktones; Benny Goodman; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Bill Withers; Blind Blake; Blind Faith; Blind Lemon Jefferson; Blind Willie Johnson; Blind Willie McTell; Blue Cheer; Blues Image; The Blues Project; Bob Dylan; Bob Marley and the Wailers; Booker Ervin; Booker T. and the MGs; The Brew; Brownie McGee; Buddy Guy; Buddy Holly and the Crickets; Buffalo Springfield; The Byrds;Cab Calloway; Cactus; Canned Heat; Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band; The Carrier; Charles Mingus; Charlie Parker; The Clancy Brothers; Country Joe and the Fish; Crazy Horse; Cream; Creative Arts Ensemble; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young); Curtis Mayfield;David Bowie; The Derek Trucks Band; Desmond Dekker; The Dirty Mac; Dispatch; Doc Watson; Donald Byrd; Donovan; The Doors; Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show; Duke Ellington;Ed Gerhard; Edwin Star; Ella Fitzgerald; The Electric Prunes; Electric Flag; Elizabeth Cotton; Elmore James; Eric Johnson; Explosions in the Sky;Fats Waller; Five Man Electrical Band; Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention; Franz Schubert; Frédéric Chopin; Furry Lewis;Gandalf; George Harrison; Gorilla Biscuits; Gov’t Mule; Grace Potter and the Nocturnals; The Grateful Dead; The Groundhogs;Herbie Hancock; The Horace Tapscott Quintet; Hot Tuna; Howlin’ Wolf; Humble Pie;Igor Stravinsky; Iris Dement; Iron Butterfly;James Brown; Jaco Pastorius; Janis Ian; Janis Joplin; Jeff Beck Group; Jefferson Airplane; The Jerry Garcia Band; Jethro Tull; Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys/Experience; Jimmy Cliff; Jimmy Reed; Joan Baez; The John Butler Trio; Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies; John Cage; Joe Cocker; John Coltrane; John Jorgenson; John Lee Hooker; John Lennon; Johnny Cash; John's Children; John Scofield; John Sebastian; Joni Mitchell;Kanye West; Keb Mo'; King Crimson; Kingston Trio; The Kinks; Kylesa;Leroy Carr; Leadbelly; Lightnin’ Hopkins; Louis Armstrong; Lou Reed; Love; The Lovin’ Spooful; Luis Yusef Lateef;Mahalia Jackson; The Mamas and the Papas; Mance Lipscombe; Manfred Mann; Marvin Gaye; Matisyahu; MC5; Medeski Martin & Wood; Melodians; Mike Bloomfield; Miles Davis; Mississippi Fred McDowell; Mississippi John Hurt; moe.; Mott the Hoople; Moby Grape; Muddy Waters;Nate Morgan; Neil Young; Neu!; New Riders of the Purple Sage; Norah Jones; NRBQ;The Orange Alabaster Mushroom; Oscar Peterson; Oysterhead;Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Paul Chambers; Pepper Adams; Peter Tosh; Pete Seeger; Phil Ochs; Phish; Pink Floyd;Quicksilver Messanger Service;Rahsaan Roland Kirk; Ramblin’ Jack Elliot; Ravi Shankar; Ray Charles; Ray LaMontagne; Rebirth Brass Band; The Red Hot Chili Peppers; The Red Krayola; Return to Forever; Rev. Robert Wilkins; Rev. Gary Davis; Richie Havens; Robert Johnson; Robert Randolph and the Family Band; Robin Trower; The Rolling Stones; Ron Carter; Roots of Creation; Rusted Root;Santana; Scott McKenzie; Scrapper Blackwell; Shiva's Headband; Simon and Garfunkel; Skip James; Sleepy John Estes; Sly and the Family Stone; Son Boy Williamson (both of them); Son House; Sonny Terry; Sopwith Camel; Spacemen3; Spirit; Stevie Wonder; Stone Circus; The Stooges; Strangefolk; String Cheese Incident; Sublime; Sun Ra; Syd Barret;T. Rex; Taj Mahal; The Talking Heads; Taste; Tea Leaf Green; Television; The Temptations; Ten Years After; Thelonious Monk; Them; Tom Waits; Toots & the Maytals; Traffic; Traffic Sound; Traveling Wilburys;Umphrey's McGee; The United States of America;The Velvet Underground;Wardell Grey; Warren Hanes; The Weather Report; Wes Montgomery; The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band; The Who; Willie Dixon; Woody Guthrie;Xavier Rudd; and many, many more.
Sounds Like: Nothing you've heard, and everything you want.What others have to say:.."Cantonese Traffic finds that middle ground between Frank Zappa, Prog Rock and Bela Fleck. Blazing technical solos are replaced with thoughtful, blues-inspired statements around solid melodic themes. A simple description would be polished gut music. Real, honest, Cantonese Traffic. Dig it."-Thom Keith; Avant Coast Music, Trio Encompas, Equal Time"Cantonese Traffic are a musical elixir capable of creating various musical landscapes with melody and groove. Despite their age, they possess the wisdom and prowess of bands many times their age, and in a world notabley absent of younger bands, these lads are a fresh-air breath in a smoggy sky."-Marty England; Pondering Judd..This is just plain fun"Like it says in the title, this album is just plain fun. It's got that Allman Brothers/Frank Zappa jam feel, but the tunes are all uniquely their own and very solid. These guys have the chops to impress those who are into technique, but that can also rock out with the best of them. If you like 'classic rock' but you're tired of the same 13 songs on the radio, give this a listen"-- you won't be disappointed!"-Derek Miles'Proceed With Caution' by Cantonese Traffic "Listening to the debut disc from Rochester's Cantonese Traffic, it's not hard to deduce some of the young power trio's prime influences. From the opening guitar chops, a rich aura of classic 1960s and '70s blues-based rock suffuses the room. With Mike Allard on guitar and vocals, Zac Arnault on bass and vocals and Ian Martin on drums and backing vocals, the band comes out of the gates with a style that echoes Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, The Allman Brothers Band, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and countless others. Released this year on the band's own indie label, Abdul Jabbar Records, the album has drawn early praise from respected local musicians like Pondering Judd's Marty England and Equal Time's Thom Keith. When Allard rips a prolonged, spine-tingling solo midway through the first track, "And I Stay," it's easy to see what all the hype is about. The next tune, "Sudden Cry," has a darker and less celebratory tone that communicates the band's social conscience. "If Satan is the prince of darkness, then man must be the king, and as humanity crashes down, the cries of the children ring," Arnault sings before a torrent of screaming guitar strings blots out the words." -As seen in The Wire Magazine (May 21st-27th, 2008 issue)To read the full article, click the link:

Cantonese Traffic in The Wire