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Bees Deluxe

Bees Deluxe

About Me

Bees Deluxe is a full-tilt, acid blues/funk/rock/soul collective comprised of Boston-based musicians from Brazil, England, and the US. Among their favorite venues, they've hosted the Sunday Blues Jam at Tommy Doyle's (formerly the House of Blues, in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Johnny D's in Somerville, played at Jake's Dixie Roadhouse, in Waltham, the Burren in Davis Square, the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain, Firefly's in Marlboro, private and corporate bookings, and many other venues. Their material and songs include over three sets of danceable originals and covers from Little Feat, The Meters, Billie Holiday, Derek Trucks, B.B.King, ZZ Top, Robben Ford, McKinley Morganfield, Derek & the Dominoes, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Check out the website for even more tunes and information www.beesdeluxe.com

Special thanks to Ernest Black of www.standingstonedesigns.com for bootlegging us in concert at Jake's Dixie Roadhouse!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/28/2006
Band Website: beesdeluxe.com
Band Members: Ostritch Guitars, Baratione Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Harmonicas, Melodica, Keyboards, Voices and Special Guests.
Influences:

Snooks Eaglin', Wayne Bennett, Jeff Lee Johnson, Terje Rypdal, Leo Nocentelli, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Paul Barrére, Jeff Beck, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Junior Murvin, Wes Montgomery, Mike Bloomfield, David Lindley, Donny Hathaway, Albert King, Tom Morello, Ernie Isley, James Taylor, Harvey Mandel, Catfish Collins, Billy Gibbons, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks, John Abercrombie, Cornell Dupree, Booker T and the MGs, John McLaughlin, Alan Holdsworth, Will Ray. Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, and others too numerous to mention.
Sounds Like: Mike Bloomfield and Mongo Santamaria in a blender - with exorbitant shades of Malo, ESG, Liquid Liquid, Galactica, Freddie King, and the Meters.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lock up your Goldfish

  There’s no excuse to miss this week’s acid blues funk soul and jazz Bees Deluxe live shows, as they’re coming to a town near you.   So lock up your goldfish and start ...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:38:00 PST

Please help the Onset Blues Cafe

Please help the Onset Blues Cafe stay open for live music by signing online their petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/onsetbaybluescafe Help Keep The Onset Bay Blues Cafe by Karen Nugent&nb...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:29:00 PST

The 6 House, S Boston Acid Blues Jam

With extraordinary help from friends and co-musicians (notably The Hoodoo Revelators, Track 44, Rick Rosco, Little Rose, Ten Foot Pole Cats, Sugar Blues, the Gracie Blues Band, Janey David, Mari,...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:42:00 PST

Check out this event: Sunday Blues Revue - The Loft @ Tommy Doyle's

Hosted By: Bees Deluxe When: Sunday Apr 22, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: The Loft @ Tommy Doyle'sHarvard SquareCambridge, MA 02138United StatesDescription:Bees Deluxe Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:57:00 PST

Tommy Doyle's Sunday Blues Revue - Update

The Sunday Bees Deluxe Blues Revue has been growing  by leaps and bounds (and enormously refreshing pints of Guiness)  and has been moved up to the new start time of 8:00pm - so an earlier s...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:18:00 PST

Sunday Blues Revue

This Sunday's Blues Revue (hosted by the ingracious and spetmological bees deluxe) features the retunr of the inafmous and deadly Paul Ahsltrand on Tenor Saxophone, and the illustriously beautiful voi...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:31:00 PST

Harvard Square will be singing the blues.

Tommy Doyle's and the multi-national Boston-based blues act "Bees Deluxe" are bringing the blues back to Harvard Square.Beginning October the 1st, Bees Deluxe, the Boston-based blues band will be perf...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:35:00 PST

Camille's Podcast -

Check out: http://www.radiocampusparis.org/UserFiles/Media/Podcast_EMI_ Inter/PODCAST_CAMILLE.mp3    ...
Posted by Bees Deluxe on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:39:00 PST