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Erin Jaimes

Thank you, Unc.

About Me

After singing in an all-women's acapella group in the northeast for 5 years, I heard B.B. King's "Lucille" in 1994 and I was hooked. Finished school, packed myself and my cat into my car and drove down to Austin, Texas where I heard there was a great live blues scene. Started my first band in 1998 at Austin's infamous 6th Street blues dive, Joe's Generic Bar. The band was "the Dupes," initially formed with 2 mentors of mine, drummer Jeff Hodges and guitarist George Rarey. The following year came the "Cooltones" - a brief line-up including another long-time friend and mentor, the late great "Uncle" John Turner and (then teenage) young gun guitarists Gary Clark, Jr. and Eve Monsees. For the next several years I played and travelled regionally and internationally with various lineups. Of course this is the extremely abbreviated version. It's been an amazing 10 years!These days my band is called "Erin Jaimes (& Her Bad Habits)". It includes Tony Redman on guitar, Ian Bailey on drums, "the Italian Tornado" Salvatore "Banzai" LA Rocca on harmonica and Paul Lidel on keys.
Here's a slideshow of my May, 2006 tour of Sweden, Germany & Denmark with "Uncle" John Turner, Jan Gerfast and "Magic Mama"...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/16/2006
Band Website: erinjaimes.com
Band Members: Erin Jaimes (bass, vox), Tony Redman (guitar, b/u vox), Banzai LA Rocca (harp), Ian Bailey (drums), Paul Lidel (keys, b/u vox)

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Here is a slideshow from when Scott Unzicker (guitar), Ian Bailey (drums) and I went to play in the Portuguese Azores in July/August 2006. Thanks to Dave Scott, the U.S. Consul to the Azores, with his amazing hospitality and off-the-beaten-path tourguide knowhow, this 10-day tour far surpassed any I've experienced! In my next life, I want to be an Azorean cow.

Influences: Freddie, Albert & BB King, Albert Collins, Earl Hooker, Etta James, Koko Taylor, Irma Thomas, Dinah Washington, Percy Sledge, Big Maybelle, Willie May "Big Mama" Thornton, Bonnie Lee, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Willie Dixon, Willie Kent, Willie Weeks, James Jamerson, ZZ Hill, Carol Kaye, Ray Charles, Mike Bloomfield, Magic Sam, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Jimmy Rogers, Otis Rush, Eddie Clearwater, all the folks in my bio and many more...
Sounds Like: Texas Blues / American Roadhouse music

Record Label: Maudie Dawg
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Subdudes

I am really digging the Subdudes!  Wow.
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:31:00 PST

UJT Benefit Chronicle Blog - "One For the Girls"

One for the Girls click to enlarge Johnny Winter knows the blues. by Jay West It was the long week that grew longer. After Uncle John Turner died six days before his tribute show, there was a faint...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:58:00 PST

The Old Joes Days

The first slideshow on Carol Viator's page made me cry....the old days at Joe's Generic Bar, the 311 Club, Babe's...so many memories....so many lost friends and musicians....Unc, Jeff, Pete, Big John,...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:45:00 PST

Photos from UJT Benefit, August 1st, Antones

Some great shots here! http://www.pbase.com/xradiotx/unc...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:17:00 PST

Uncle John Turner Benefit, August 1st 2007

This just in:  the August 1st benefit turned out to be the most successful benefit in Antone's history and one of their absolute biggest shows ever!!!!!    Thanks to all invol...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:52:00 PST

Fox 7 News in the Morning, Aug. 1, 2007

This was after 2 hours of sleep following the San Antone Uncle John Turner benefit...we went on to promote the Austin UJT benefit for that evening (8/1/07). http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/Insi...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

Austin Chronicle "Soul Garden" Review

In the Austin Chronicle on May 24, 2007, Margaret Moser reviewed "Soul Garden". Here's the link to read it online:http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review? oid=oid%3A477950
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Sat, 26 May 2007 03:22:00 PST

Buy "Soul Garden" on MySpace...How easy is THAT?!

Well, whaddya know... the new "Soul Garden" CD IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE RIGHT HERE ON MYSPACE! JUST SCROLL DOWN ON THE MAIN PAGE TO FIND THE MyStore.  ...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:29:00 PST

Soul Garden

CD Release will be at Antone's sometime in early April! I'll keep ya posted.
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:25:00 PST

I love you people so much, you can't imagine!

I am at a loss for words. All I can say - and what I really WANT to say - is that I have been in the studio over the past couple months and had some really potent communication breakthroughs and epip...
Posted by Erin Jaimes on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:39:00 PST