Roomful of Blues with Guest John Lee Hooker - 1992-11-01 Toronto, ON

Special Guest  John Lee Hooker - 

1992-11-01 

Toronto, ON

They have been around for 50 years!

Maybe more Members than Savoy Brown (48 and counting)!

Duke Robillard, Sugar Ray Norcia, Ronnie Earl, Curtis Salgado

all had a stint in the band...

They played with Big Joe Turner and Eddie Clean Head Vinson, 

Colin James, SRV and Pat Benatar to name a few.

"a tour de force of horn-fried blues…

Roomful is so tight and so right"

Sound is PREMIUM FM recording!

What are you waiting for???

Karen Gordon - radio host

t02>08 : Roomful of Blues

t03: title not confirmed

t10, 12: Volla Cup (sp) - lead vocals

t14>19 : John Lee Hooker

t16: end cut, tape flip beak, loss of music

t18: overdubbed

TRACKS

01.  -radio host intro, fan comments-

02.  -talk-

03.  Baby I'm Gone

04.  Let Me Love You Baby

05.  -talk-

06.  Driving Wheel

07.  -talk-

08.  Honey Hush

09.  -radio host talk-

10.  Cold Cold Feeling

11.  -talk-

12.  A Man Size Job

13.  -talk-

14.  Suffer

15.  Baby Lee

16.  Boom Boom

17.  I Didn't Know

18.  -talk-

19.  I Didn't Know

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Roomful Of Blues - Live At Bimbo's 365 Club, 2-03-1996 1996

Roomful Of Blues - Live At Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA, 1996-02-03

Roomful Of Blues is an American blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island. With a recording career that spans over 40 years.
They play a blend of swing, rock and roll, jump blues, boogie-woogie and soul. They have had many different musicians come and go through out the years. They got their start in Westerly, Rhode Island in 1967. This recording came saying it had Ronnie earl, but listening to the introductions, you will hear them say Chris Vachon on guitar. This is a very enjoyable blues show with a big horn section and some fine blues guitar and harmonica. If you like the blues I recommend this recording. I made the cover based on the album cover of the album that they were  promoting at the time of the concert called Turn It On Turn It Up.

CD 1:
Inst.
Blind Love
If You Know It
Say We're Through
Lillie Mae
I Left My Baby
Turn It On, Turn It Up
Marie, Marie
Slam Jam
Walkin' Slow Behind You
...I Smell Trouble
Early In The Morning
Honey, Hush

CD 2:
Inst.
Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss
Angry Woman
Ain't It A Shame
Gettin' Out
You Win?
She's The Girl That Radiates
Champagne Eyes
That Aint Right
You Don't Know
Last Night
Sent For You Yesterday
I Should Have Known

Personnel:
Chris Vachon: guitar
Sugar Ray Norcia: harp and vocals
Matt McCabe: piano
Bob Enos: tumpet
Rich Lataille: tenor and alto saxophone
Doug James (a.k.a. "Mr. Low"): baritone saxophone
Ken "Doc" Grace: bass
John Rossi: drums

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Roomful Of Blues - Live in Cedar Rapids Iowa 2006

The Rippin' Frog shares a Roomful of Blues with us this time.

Roomful of Blues August 5, 2006 Cedar Rapids, IA Bluesmore 2006 
on the grounds of the Brucemore mansion. FM
Over the course of their decades-long existence, Roomful of Blues effectively became a franchise unto themselves, built more on a brand-name collective identity than on the voices of the myriad individual members who kept the band a smoothly humming machine. 
Describing Roomful of Blues that way, however, gives short shrift to the many accomplished musicians who have emerged from the band's ranksover the years: guitarists Duke Robillard and Ronnie Earl, Mark Dufresne, organist Ron Levy, pianist Al Copley,  singer Lou Ann Barton, vocalist/harmonica player Sugar Ray Norcia, and drummer Fran Christina  (later of the Fabulous Thunderbirds), to name the most prominent. Plus, the band's horn section blossomed into a renowned freelancing unit, backing countless other artists both on-stage and in the studio. 
They've evolved over the years, too; from a swinging jump blues revivalist group into expert blues historians with a handle on numerous regional variations: Texas, the West Coast, Chicago,  New Orleans, Kansas City. Perhaps the best way to put it is that regardless of who was in the group, Roomful of Blues just kept going strong. 

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