Buffalo Bob and the Bedroom Blues Band

Buffalo Bob have been on the music scene for over 40 years. His band was voted number one Blues band for 5 consecutive years in the Spotlight Magazine Reader's Poll . In 1993, the "Best of St. Louis" Reader's Poll in the Riverfront times (a local rag), which received third top Local Album/CD release for "Livin’ on the Edge", Tatonka label (now sold out). The last CD release (1999) "Homage" also on the Tatonka Label, sold out within a year of release..................................................... ........................................... Buffalo Bob has shared the stage with many blues greats, such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Chicago's Son Seals, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets, Larry Davis, Freddy King, Bugs Henderson, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, the Coasters, Johnnie Johnson, Lonnie Mack , and rockers such as Steppenwolf, Night Ranger, Atlanta Rythmn Section, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, the Guess Who, Walter Trout, Kansas and numerous other artists of international fame. ............................................................ ..........................................Buffalo Bob was featured on St. Louis' NBC affiliate KSDK's (channel 5) "Legend of the Blues" series in August of 1994. The band has one of the highest profiles of the many blues bands in and around the St. Louis area. The band has performed on many blues festivals and radio stations throughout the years. In strictly blues venues, Buffalo performs the standard covers from B.B King , Muddy Waters , Howling Wolf, & many others, plus his own material.. You can be rest assured that those blues covers get the "Buffalo" stamp ............................................................ ...................... Bob was born in Birmingham Alabama into a southern roots family. He eventually moved ( via ten years in Washington D.C) to St. Louis , where he was influenced by the Chicago blues, which drifted down the Mississippi into the more r & b ST. LOUIS music scene at that time. BB was on the road at the age of seventeen with a band called Johnny Dark & the Shadows, playing guitar as a side man. He was drafted into the US army in 1967 and served his time in the Viet Nam war. After two years of service he returned to his music....................................................... ................................................ . During his touring years, playing rock & top forty, BB traveled from north to the south (down to New Orleans' French Quarter), & east (New York) to the west (Hollywood California). Also, back & forth from Memphis to Las Vegas. He spent a year and a half of that time doing one night gigs across Kansas (BB has seen his share of tornadoes and tumble weed) from Dodge city to Kansas City, Abilene, etc,. All the Historic rough towns that still survive from the old “glory" days of the cattle drives of the 1800's . The highlight of that experience being a show opening up for & meeting the late, great, bluesman Freddie King in Hutchinson Kansas 1974. That was the big turning point towards the blues for Bob (BB had always had a love for blues music even as a teen, but did not make his living at it at that time because rock, show bands & top forty music were paying the bills)...................................................... ................................................... This well experienced musician said good bye to the "road life" & top forty rock in 1983 and has established himself and his band as one of the best known blues bands in the St. Louis area. The band was the subject of a documentry, produced by students at SIU Edwardsville Illinois, and has received many acclaims throughout the years. Once known for his signature American Indian ( buffalo ) headdress which he wore on stage (even in his rock & roll days he sometimes wore the head dress, which always got a wild crowd reaction). BB only rarely appears with it now, instead deciding to concentrate on more powerful vocals and guitar...................................................... ................................................. Buffalo's guitar playing & music career can best be described as a cross between B.B. King, Freddy King combined with the humility & soul of the south , the rough & tumble times of the old west , and perhaps in some way, the surviving spirit of the mighty American buffalo .Check out this video: Buffalo Bob blues band live 1989
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