The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
- Hunter S. Thompson
.................UP-DATED 3-31-09....................... I am a keyboard player (I prefer old school piano/Hammond B-3 player) around the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I am currently working with The Silvertones(www.thesilvertones.com), voted "Best Blues Band" in The Dallas Observer Music Awards 4 times !! And we were selected to go to Memphis for The 2009 International Blues Challenge by The North Texas Blues Socity with Blues Legend and Harmonica Master, Joe Jonas (www.joejonas.com)!! We had agreat time and made good contacts and more dates with Joe and CD are in the near future....................................
I toured last summer with The Great Tutu Jones(www.tutujones.com)! We played some of the major blues festivals from Florida to Washington DC, with a concert at The Kennedy Center. There will be a studio album coming out sometime this year.
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I have recorded and toured with John Nitzinger(CD-Did'ja Miss Me), The Uncle Bill Roach Band(CD-Texas Weather), and my own band Deja'Vu (demos for RCA and self-released CDs-Again, Haven't We Been Here Before, and Live Boot-Leg)..............................................
I've done gigs, playing piano and organ, for many great blues and rock artists such as Robert Ealey, U.P. Wilson, Zac Harmon, Marquise"Big Daddy"Knox, Rob Donavan, Texas Slim, Buddy Miles, Monty McClinton(Delbert's son), and James Hinkle, to name a few. I've shared the stage with Rusty Burns(Ricky Lynn Greg, Point Blank), John O'Danials(Point Blank), Rocky Athas(Black Oak Arkansas, now with John Mayall), Bugs Henderson, Wanda King(Freddie King's daughter), Jim Suhler(Goerge Therogood), Chuck Rainey(Steely Dan,.....), Buddy Whitington(John Mayall), Lucky Peterson, and so many more who were looking for an old school piano and B-3 Sound.....................................................
I have a recording studio, S R Recording Studio
(webpages.charter.net/srrecording), (myspace.com/rangerrecording), and do demo and promo work for other bands (posters, cd's, press kits,...). Check it out.
