Black River Blues
Black River Blues was formed in August 2006 by 5 former members of a local Blues Band.
Our first gig was at The Star, Westgate Rd , Newcastle on Sat 9th September 2006. In Nov 2007
our slide guitarist decided to move on to other things and
in August 2008 our original Bass player decided
to pursue different musical
avenues. Today we remain a 5-piece
band playing up tempo and smooth blues. Below is the rogue's gallery of the band.
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Mal: Vocals
Mal uses a Sennheiser mike & a JBL PA system. She's sung with Blues Unlimited, Perdido Street Jazzmen & Vieux Carre Jazzmen. She's influenced by Blues, Jazz, Soul & Motown music as well as Sir Bob Geldof & Mother Theresa. Mal would like to sing with Stevie Wonder & Eric Clapton. Mal can't live without music--& her facial moisturiser |
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Jonny: Lead Guitar
Jonny plays Gibson 335 & 175 guitars through a Marshall JMP combo.
His cosmic guitar work embraces the music of countless influences but claims his Gibson 335 has a lot to do with it.
He has played in a number of bands including,
Witchcraft, Peter Wolf Quintet,
Bridge & Basement Blues Band.
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Marty: Tenor Sax
Started messing with musical instruments from about age 4 or 5. Played with many jazz & blues bands, once even backing the great “Nat Gonella”(the British Louis Armstrong). His favourite music decades were the 20s,30s,50s & 60s, enjoying many styles of music. Marty's ambitions are to take the music to the highest possible level. He uses a Selmer Ref 54 Tenor Sax |
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Barry: Bass Guitar
Originally
from Essex, Barry has 1 album with
Iron Maiden 2 albums with cult
underground band Zior and a few
singles. Worked with and supported
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac,
Jethro Tull, Savoy Brown &
Taste. Moved up to Newcastle
in '84. Joined 'The Blues
Burglars'. Left and became guitar
/bass tech for Venom, Skyclad,
Samson. Then he became a
tour
manager for next 12 years for
Venom, Anathema, Riot &
Trouble. Also toured with
support act, with bands like Black
Sabbath, Saxon &
Manowar. Was in A&R at
Demolition Records for a while.
Joined club band Steve Lee &
the Soulutions in the early 90's
playing pubs & working men's
clubs before joining Black River
Blues in November 2008.
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Mick: Drums
For now, Mick plays a Premier kit, circa 1965, but with parts becoming very hard to get he's looking to replace it with a new Premier kit. Influenced by jazz, Big Bands (Kenton, Ellington), Chris Barber & Rock'n'Roll, Mick has played with The Paramount Jazz Band, Panama Jazz Band, Swing Bridge (Newcastle based 7 piece swing/jazz band) & Blues Unlimited. He's ambitions include achieving as much success as possible with Black River Blues, and living to be 100! |
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