AFB / Alan Fox Band

Artist Information

Biography

AFB - Alan Fox Band "Original Heavy Blues!"
Based out of Fort Worth Texas. USA
AFB, was nominated to perform
at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards
Celebration 2013.
One of the most noteworthy
Texas Artists of Our Time!

Come out to hear one of Fort Worth's Texas' greatest
Original Heavy Blues Artists, "The Alan Fox Band".
AFB has recently released their latest hit single,
"She Makes Me Hot" which is receiving outstanding
airplay here and abroad.

AFB, formed in 2000, is an original ensemble
that has been on the Festival Circuit
for the last five years with bands
like, Point Blank, Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
Kayla Reeves (Trans-Siberian Orchestra),
Wes Jeans, Ana Popovic, and Foghat.

The members of AFB include,
Donny Hart ---- frontman/vocalist

Alan Fox ------------- vocals/guitar

Donnie Pendleton -- vocals/guitar
"ETX Guitarist of the year 2012"

Greg Cagle ------------- vocals/bass

Terry Salyer ------- vocals/drums

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(please goto www.AlanFoxBand.com for complete Biographies of the bands line up.)

If you have the chance, don't
miss this high energy band!

Paul "Pappy" Middleton (Bonnie Raitt's personal sound engineer) says, "These Guys are one of the best sounding bands that I have had the pleasure to work with and just all around great people!"

"Outstanding Performers with really Great Tone!",
Rusty Burns, (Guitarist for Point Blank)


For more info:
www.AlanFoxBand.com
903.754.3025

AFB is an proudly endorsed by Steve Clayton Picks.

Instrumentation

Donny Hart - Vocals
Alan Fox - Vocal/ Guitar
Donnie Pendleton - Vocal / Guitar
Greg Cagle - Vocal / Bass
Terry Salyer - Drums!

Discography

1st CD "JuJu Ear Rub" 2008
2nd CD "2013" 2013

Official Website

http://www.AlanFoxBand.com

Links

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Audio

• She Makes Me Hot
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• 02 Waxahachie Whirlwind
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• 03 Nobody Owns The Blues
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• 05 I Got I Want
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• 09 JuJu Momma
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• 08 High Price
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• 07 Your Fault
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Video

2013 Aint Nobody Owns The Blues

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Press

• AFB at Memphis Hot Wings Festival, Raises More Than $28K [+ Show ]
  

  Sunday, April 17, 2011 Daily Digest Hot Wings Festival Raises More Than $28K The 9th Annual Sout...Sunday, April 17, 2011 Daily Digest
  Hot Wings Festival Raises More Than $28K
  
  The 9th Annual Southern Hot Wing Contest and Festival
  raised more than $28,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
  The April 16, 2011 event grew this year, with 47 cooking teams
  compared to 31 last year. Nearly 20,000 people attended
  the event in the South Main Historic Arts District.
  A first-time competitor, "You Are the Ranch Beneath My Wings,"
  took the $1,000 grand prize award.
  The other finalists were Wing-A-Palooza and
  Bell Bottom Barbeque.
  As of my personal favorites
  Eric Gales from the JACK PIRTLE’S STAGE and the
  Alan Fox Band from Texas on the MAPCO STAGE.
  
  – Tom Wilemon April 18, 2011

• AFB will Headline the "T-Bone Walker Blues Fest" [+ Show ]
  

  6th Annual T-Bone Walker Blues Fest June 17-18, 2011, Linden, Texas Music City Texas Theater in ...6th Annual T-Bone Walker Blues Fest
  June 17-18, 2011, Linden, Texas
  
  Music City Texas Theater in Linden, Texas is hosting
  the 6th Annual T-Bone Walker Blues Fest - June 17 & 18.
  The festival is being presented by MetroPCS and other
  key sponsors: Don Henley, MidSouth Engine & Machine,
  Linden Economic Development Corporations, and the
  Good Shepherd Medical Center. The event will bring in
  13 top blues artists from across the nation, and will be
  headlined by its first international blues star.
  The headliners – Matt Schofield, David "Honeyboy" Edwards,
  Robin & the Bluebirds and the Alan Fox Band . The 6th annual
  festival is a fundraiser for two Linden non-profit corporations:
  Music City Texas Theater, a music venue, and the Fairview
  Community Center which offers free literacy and computer
  training to the community.
  
  This two-day, two-stage festival is a living memorial to the
  music icon that was a primary influence to most postwar blues
  guitarists and early rock and roll greats. T-Bone Walker’s most
  enduring legacy was taking the guitar from a rhythm instrument
  to a lead instrument in a band. Honored by his peers by membership
  in the Blues Heritage Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
  he was first, and foremost, a loving father, a humanitarian, and
  a friend to so many.
  
  Friday, June 17 will feature a Free outdoor concert focused on students
  learning about the Blues. Underwritten by the International Paper Company,
  AEP-Southwestern Electic Power Company and Colonel & Mrs. Robert Spivey
  of Atlanta, Texas, the show will open with The Matthew Davidson Band -
  the 13 year-old Shreveport guitar prodigy who was in the 2011 International
  Blues Challenge Youth Showcase. Then, the Pleasant Hill Quilting Group
  will present the history of the Underground Railroad Quilt Code; followed
  by a great new group – The Ominous Anonymous. The free concert is headlined
  by the stellar regional artists –
  The Alan Fox Band.
  
  Opening indoors in the Music City Texas Theater is Marshall’s Boogie Woogie
  Ambassador Omar Sharriff. Omar has been packing the house in weekly concerts
  since his return to his hometown.
  
  From Los Angeles, California, the Midwestern Icons feature former Lawrence,
  Kansas musician and Kansas Music Hall of Fame inductee Bill Lynch along
  with his stellar rhythm section featuring Rick Moors on bass and the
  legendary drummer James Gadson. Lynch has gigged with various artists
  including Jerry Lee Lewis and Bo Diddley and has been joined on stage
  by Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mike Finnigan, Billy Preston,
  Ike Turner, James Cotton and countless others. James Gadson has
  recorded with an endless list of artists including Ray Charles,
  Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, Herbie Hancock,
  The Temptations, Quincy Jones, Norah Jones, Paul McCartney, and
  Justin Timberlake.
  
  David "Honeyboy" Edwards is an icon in the world of Blues. A member
  of the Blues Heritage Hall of Fame, multi-honoree as Blues Acoustic
  Artist of the Year and multi-Grammy winner, "Honeyboy" represents the
  best of traditional blues.
  
  Honeyboy is accompanied by Michael Frank on harmonica and Rocky Lawrence
  on guitar. Michael Frank is a receipient of the Blues Heritage
  "Keeping the Blues Alive" award and Founder/CEO of Chicago’s Earwig Music.
  Mr. Lawrence currently tours the country educating University students
  on the historical significance of the Robert Johnson songbook as it
  relates to the history of popular music worldwide.
  
  Now firmly established as the freshest and most exciting blues guitarist
  to have emerged on the world scene for many years, Matt Schofield recently
  joined such luminary names as Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson and Robben Ford,
  who have DVDs produced by the world's largest music print publisher,
  the US-based Hal Leonard organisation. Schofield is one of the few Brits
  ever to have appeared on the Hal Leonard imprint.
  
  He is rated in the top ten British blues guitarists of all time
  (Guitar & Bass Magazine) putting him in the company of such iconic
  names as Eric Clapton and Peter Green. He was also crowned Blues Guitarist
  and Album of the year in the 2010 British Blues Awards. Matt Schofield
  will headline both nights on the Music City Texas stage.
  
  The lineup is rounded out by DieDra and the Ruff Pro Band from Birmingham,
  Alabama, Shreveport’s Buddy Flett, Austin’s rising blues stars –
  The Peterson Brothers Band (another 2011 IBC Youth Showcase member),
  Marshall’s Bobbie Oliver and Jam City Revue, and from New Orlean’s –
  The Ezra Charles Band.
  
  This year’s festival will be associated with a "Bikers and Blues Run" on Saturday.
  Information on the biker’s run and games may be found on the festival website.
  
  There will be vendors and food/drink on-site.
  
  For Times and Ticket Information:
  Click Here
  or call 903-756-7774.

• AFB will Headline the 14th Annual Boo Benefit 2011 Jefferson, Texas [+ Show ]
  

  14th Annual Boo Benefit 2011 Jefferson, Texas Saturday Night 7pm AFB takes the stage by the tail...14th Annual Boo Benefit 2011 Jefferson, Texas
  
  Saturday Night 7pm AFB takes the stage
  by the tail of the wind! The Alan Fox Band
  has been a faithful performer of the Boo Benefit
  year after year. "It's not only for a great
  cause," say's band leader Alan Fox, "but it's just
  a whole lot of fun!" AFB looking out at nearly 5000
  people waiting in anticipation for the rockers to start.
  This year's 14th annual Boo Benefit had over 35,000 people attend
  in the small town of Jefferson, TX. The Boo Benefit is
  usually held every year at the first week-end of October.
  for more info, please goto: http://www.BooBenefit.org.

• AFB! And The Band Plays On! [+ Show ]
  

  Posted: Friday, May 7, 2010 12:03am, Fri May 7, 2010 By Glenn Evans Twin guitar leads tell aud...Posted: Friday, May 7, 2010 12:03am, Fri May 7, 2010
  
  By Glenn Evans
  
  Twin guitar leads tell audiences this ain’t no disco
  when The Alan Fox Band is on stage.
  In fact, the only thing remotely BeeGees about the
  four-man power combo from Longview is that it’s staying
  alive. Founder Fox formed the band a decade ago,
  but four years ago he began to assemble today’s group
  from musicians with lifetimes of stage experience.
  
  "People are seeing that there is a need for the arena
  rock genre, Fox, 53, said recently. Arena/Rock is good-time rock."
  Arena rock, for those who don't remember when yield
  signs were yellow, blasted metal guitar and heavy
  percussion across football stadiums in the
  seventies where it washed through young Baby Boomers
  rebelliously long hair. It stood for wild youth and
  against the controlled, front-end commercial beat of
  the disco era. Bands such as Foghat, Thin Lizzy and Boston helped
  set the tone for arena rock, and their sounds were in
  force when Fox rode a voice scholarship
  to Stephen F. Austin State University.
  
  Having an opportunity, Alan left college
  to write and play music, opening for Stevie Ray Vaughan at
  the famed Crossroads in Nacogdoches. Fox moved to
  Shreveport where he helped found a group that became
  a college fan favorite in Texas and well beyond, the Killer Beez.
  
  He met Donnie Pendleton heady years later, finding a
  fellow lover of power guitar commanding the
  stage with an emerging regional headliner, U.S. Lords.
  A guitar player from childhood, Pendleton previously
  had made noise with a big-haired, eighties, glam outfit, The Cauze.
  
  "We said we always wanted to be in a band that was
  using twin leads," Fox recalled.
  Pendleton joined the Fox project in 2006.
  
  Lifelong drummer Morris "Moe"
  Eldridge of Marshall signed on a year later, and
  today's band finally gelled when bassist Greg Cagle of
  Palestine jumped on board last fall.
  
  The Alan Fox Band stays busy. The group opened for
  Foghat at AlleyFest last year before launching a tour
  of festivals. The front man estimates the band is
  on pace to play 200-225 gigs this year.
  
  That included Sunday night open jams at Mom's Biker Bar
  until about a month ago when Eldridge says finances
  forced him and co-owner Cherry Lynn Power, whom
  he'll wed next month, to kill the engine. The Sunday
  night sessions, in which fellow rockers are welcome
  to sit in, swiftly moved to Fast Freddy's on West Marshall Avenue.
  That's where the foursome could be found this past
  Sunday, in jeans and black T-shirts contrasted only
  by the fluorescent orange laces on Fox's sneakers.
  
  It weren't no disco.
  Cover songs, including East Texas native T-Bone
  Walker's, "Stormy Monday," filled the wood-paneled room,
  complemented by originals from the outfit's 2008 release,
  "JuJu Ear Rub," and a CD in the works, "Now Ear This."
  The originals, in particular, highlighted the twin
  lead sound Fox and Pendleton heard in their minds'
  ears when they met. They included an instrumental
  conversation between the two players, trading
  musical sentences in an upbeat key in the
  tradition of the Almond Brothers', "Jessica."
  
  Songs with lyrics showcased either Fox's powerful,
  sometimes gravely rasp, or Pendleton's slightly
  sweeter vocal style.
  The band relented the stage briefly to a couple of
  younger players, drummer Eldridge staying to back up
  the kids. He was waiting behind
  the skins when The Alan Fox Band returned.
  They did not play anything from, "Saturday Night Fever."
  
  "We play songs that everybody out there is not
  playing," Eldridge said.
  "I love it. I have to play music"

• AFB, The Rebirth of a Rock Band! [+ Show ]
  

  Rebirth of a rock Band! (Justin Baker/News-Journal Photo) Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010 12:00 ...Rebirth of a rock Band!
  
  (Justin Baker/News-Journal Photo)
  Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010 12:00 am | Updated: 5:45 am, Fri Oct 8, 2010.
  By Glenn Evans gevans@news-journal.com
  
  A rock 'n' roll road warrior has come out of retirement
  and traded in his old gang for a new gang from Longview.
  "I think we gelled on that first day we played together,"
  said Robert "Bubba" Keith, former lead singer and songwriter
  for The James Gang. "These guys are serious, and they write."
  Keith is sing praises for The Alan Fox Band, a four-man power
  band that's been increasingly visible on the East Texas stage
  the past couple of years.
  "We had been playing anywhere from 170-200 jobs a year," Fox,
  the band's namesake, said of the latest incarnation of the band
  he founded 10 years ago. "But, we haven't had any type of
  avenue to expand to the next level till Bubba got interested
  in us. And he's a world-class artist."
  A Denton-raised musician who reached the genre's pinnacle as lead
  singer and songwriter for bands such as The James Gang, Point Blank
  and England Dan and John Ford Coley, Keith left rock in 1985.
  His 1981 hit, "Nicole," was an upbeat power ballad that filled
  stadiums in the arena rock era.
  His union with Fox's twin guitar-driven band this past summer blew
  open a door both sides were looking to walk through.
  "The band thing is still in formulation," bass player Greg Cagle
  said, during an Oct. 3 group interview with Keith, who lives with
  his family in Glen Rose. "This is the fifth time, or the sixth time,
  all of us have been in the same room."
  Keith, who said he hung up his leathers when he heard his wife tell
  their kids, "Oh, that's road daddy," was looking for a good fit as
  he contemplated getting back into the life. He missed the band experience.
  "The thing about writing and going to the studio, and stuff like
  that — it's more of a solitary act," said Keith, 60. "I always continued
  to write. ... But to be able to share it with other people, there's
  only one way you can do that. ... The James Gang, Point Blank and my
  new stuff, it's not just pigeonholing one thing. It gives us a chance
  to cover all the spectrum — not just songs I've written and these guys
  have written but new songs as well."
  The timing was right for Fox's outfit, which has been steering itself
  away from cover band land in favor of original tunes.
  "What we've been trying to do is play originals with our own voice,"
  said Donnie Pendleton, the twin to Fox in the band's dual-lead guitar sound.
  "And finally, in the last couple of years it's started to form."
  Pendleton, 49, grew up in east Fort Worth, next door to Arlington where
  Keith's mother ran the Candlelight Inn restaurant. He was the band's
  link to Keith, by way of a dinner with his wife, Vicki.
  The pair met in 1980 when Pendleton had to leave the table to investigate
  the music he heard coming from a storage building behind the Arlington
  eatery — Keith and the band were rehearsing. Flash forward to the Facebook
  era: Keith quotes Mr. Rogers on his Wall, "It's a beautiful day in the
  neighborhood. Won't you be my friend?" and Pendleton commented back,
  "Won't you be in my band?"
  The band still performs as a four-man outfit, with a show set for 9 p.m.
  today at Leon's Steakhouse Saloon on South Eastman Boulevard. The full
  group, which is billing itself as Bubba Keith and the Alan Fox Band,
  played the Oldest Town in Texas Rally in Nacogdoches last month. The
  five-some comes together again in Dallas on Nov. 14 at a memorial concert
  for Jay Hamilton, a keyboardist who played with Pendleton in the
  eighties hair band, The Cause.
  Leaving Texas for California in 1969, Keith dove into the Sunset Strip
  rock scene on legendary stages such as the Whiskey-a-Go-Go. He was playing
  in Hollywood when Eric Burdon of The Animals signed him to the indie label,
  Far Out Productions. During the 17 years before Keith returned to Texas,
  he would handle lead vocals for a succession of rock 'n' roll hit-makers.
  "Oh, I knew I was in the bigtime," he said. "I knew when I was 14 this
  was what I was going to do. It's just like any other job — I loved playing,
  and knew I was going to play any way I could. ... Most people don't fail,
  they quit. You've got to be willing to say, yes. Some of the best musicians
  I know ... are still in bars. When you write a song and you make it really
  good, and it's tearing your heart out, it takes guts to get up there and play it."
  Still, Keith was wary about getting back into live music.
  "I didn't want people at the local Holiday Inn seeing me trying to squeeze
  into my black leathers," he said. "It's better that people say, 'I wonder
  what Bubba's doing?' rather than, 'Oh, he shouldn't be doing that.' To me,
  great rock bands — there's something about them, this connection that you
  get with people. Sometimes we're playing together, all five of us, and I
  just feel my feet coming off the floor."
  That's language Fox, 54, understood. "I just call it swimming in a sea of tone," he said.
  Pendleton said the band's newest member is finding an out-of-retirement
  home with the group. "We were wanting to step things up a notch," he said.
  "I don't think there's a better vocalist around. But, I think we are all
  from the same school. ... I wanted him to do it, and I guess he still does
  or he wouldn't have driven down here just to talk about it."

• AFB at Alley Fest Creates Larger Crowds Than Ever [+ Show ]
  

  AlleyFest Coordinator Elaine Reynolds estimated 16,000 to 18,000 visitors filled downtown Longview ...AlleyFest Coordinator Elaine Reynolds estimated
  16,000 to 18,000 visitors filled downtown Longview
  for the event. They came to hear hometown musical
  heroes like The Alan Fox Band and Ricky Lynn Gregg
  and Friends, the latter opening for '70s
  rockers Foghat on Saturday
  Elaine Reynolds 6/07/09 Longview-News Journal

• AFB to headline the "Friday After 5 Concert" [+ Show ]
  

  "Friday After 5 Concert" features the Alan Fox Band in Kilgore, Texas By BRENDA BROWN July'...
  "Friday After 5 Concert"
  features the Alan Fox Band
  in Kilgore, Texas
  By BRENDA BROWN
  
  July's "Friday After 5" concert will feature ways
  to beat the summer heat while enjoying some fine
  music. Fallon Burns, Main Street program manager,
  said her board or directors opted to rent a "huge,
  two-person water slide," along with some small pools
  to keep kids of all ages cool on Friday night
  at the World's Richest Acre Park.
  "Kids three and younger won't be able to use
  the water slide, so we decided to get some baby
  pools for them," Burns said. Clowns will also be
  on hand to entertain the crowd and create balloon
  art for concertgoers.
  The Alan Fox Band, known for its blues, classic
  and original rock performances, kicks off at
  6:30 p.m. on the Winter Elder Stage. The show is free,
  as are all of the activities.
  
  "They're a fabulous band," Burns said. "They played
  at AlleyFest and they were awesome. We were really
  lucky to get them. They play music everyone knows
  and loves, so you can bring anybody out and they
  can appreciate it."
  
  The Alan Fox Band was picked as a 2005 first-year
  national finalist at the Sonny Boy Blues Challenge,
  earning the right to perform at the
  King Biscuit Blues Festival.
  "We wanted the Fourth of July to be special and we
  wanted this to be a family affair, so come
  downtown on Friday night and enjoy," said Burns.
  Fallon Burns - Kilgore Mainstreet Coordinator 7/01/09

Setlist

Original Tunes on our CD's Some Not Released Yet!
I got I Want (donnie pendleton) Ju Ju Momma (alan fox)
Because We Ended As Lovers (jeff beck) Ain't Nobody Own The Blues (alan fox) Do Me (donnie pendleton) Never Learn (donnie pendleton) Be My Pretender (alan fox)
Waxahachie Whirlwind (donnie pendleton) Four on the Floor in the Army (alan fox)
Your Fault (alan fox) High Price (alan fox) Take My Hand (alan fox) Stealin' (uria heep)
She Makes Me Hot(alan fox) Lost Without Your Love (alan fox)
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Classic Cover Songs
Radar Love (golden earring) Boys Are Back in Town (thin lizzy) Can't Get Enough of Your Love (bad company) Sunshine of Your Love (eric clapton) Cool Guitars (jimmy thackery) Never Been To Spain (three dog night) One Way Out (allman brothers) Champagne and Reefer (muddy waters) Rock Candy (montrose) Strangle Hold (ted nuggent) Rock Steady (bad company) Rivera Paradise (stevie ray vaughn) Blue Jean Blues (zz top) Feelin’ Alright (joe cocker) Those Shoes (eagles) Hey Baby (ted nuggent) Smoke On The Water (deep purple) Honky Tonk Woman (rolling stones) You Can Leave Your Hat On (joe cocker) Gonna Have A Good Time (arc angels) I Got My Mojo Workin' (muddy waters) Bridge of Sigh (robin trower) Superstitious (stevie wonder) Caledonia (bb king) Leave My Little Girl Alone (stevie ray vaughn) Shaky Ground (delbert mcclinton) I Got A Line On You (spirit) I Shot The Sheriff (bob marley) Suzie Q (creedence clearwater) Let Her Cry (hootie & blowfish) The Thrill is Gone (bb king) I’m Going Down (freddy king) I Got A Sweet Little Angel (bb king) Too Many Dirty Dishes (albert collins) Knocking On Heaven’s Door (bob dylan) Cold Shot (stevie ray vaughn) Green River (ccr) Drift Away (dobie gray) Wonderful Tonight (eric clapton) Hoochie Coochie Man (muddy waters) Bend Over Baby (buddy flet) Before You Accuse Me (eric clapton) I’m Tore Down (freddy king) Little Wing (jimi hendrix) She Walks Like A Lady (journey) Fool For Your Stockings (zz top) She’s Some Kind of Wonderful (grand funk) Stormy Monday (t-bone walker) Red House (jimi hendrix) Sweet Home Chicago (muddy waters) Voodoo Childe (jimi hendrix) Cowboy Song (thin lizzy)

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