Biography
2009 SO FAR - T-Boy wins his 5th Washington Blues Society "BB" Award for 'Best Electric Guitarist'('03,'05,'06,'07,'09)! The band started work on a new cd due out in early 2010! The initial tracks sound great and we can't wait to share it with you when it's finished!
NEWS UPDATE! November 2008 - The Cascade Blues Association in Portland, Oregon honors us with the award for "Best Regional Band"!!!
WINNER, FIRST PLACE, NUMERO UNO! The 2008 "Best Local Band in Western Washington" (out of 297 bands nominated) as voted by our blues fans and viewers of King 5 TV's Evening Magazine, a Seattle NBC affiliate!
QUOTE: Overall, I found "Big City Blues" a very enjoyable album ...very tasteful playing and an obvious love for the (blues) tradition in a lot of different styles. This is a band that I’d enjoy a lot live and could heartily recommend to any blues fan".
-Bruce Iglauer, founder of Alligator Records, Chicago, Illinois.
BECKI SUE & HER BIG ROCKIN" DADDIES! is the Pacific Northwest's premier high-energy, low-down, powerhouse, hip-shakin' blues band. Powered by the venerable Jim King on sax, blues harp and vocals and the blast furnace guitar work of Tom "T-Boy Neal" Boyle, this band takes off like a rocket from the word "GO".
Up front with Jim is Becki Sue, with her big voice, sassy attitude and a style reminiscent of the great Texas blues belters, Angela Strehli and Lou Ann Barton. Backed by the award-winning, "nailed-to-the-floor" rhythm section of Les "Wildchild" White on upright bass and Jeff "Mr. Foundation" Hayes on drums, Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies! is knockin' 'em dead everywhere with their on stage antics and ferocious blues chops. This is what the blues is supposed to sound like! Warning!!!! Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies! may seriousy damage your dancing shoes!
QUOTE: "Hey Y'all- great to meet you at Rendezvous Blues Festival. Y'all sounded awesome and a very tough act to follow. Keep on doin' it!"
-Rockin' Jake of the Rockin' Jake Band, New Orleans, LA
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In Novermber 2008 the Portland, Oregon based Cascade Blues Association presented us with the award for "Best Regional Band"!
In October of 2008, we won Seattle's King 5 TV's "Best of Western Washington" contest in the "Best Local Band' category.... that's ALL bands, not just blues bands. There were 297 bands nominated! Again... were were voted #1 BAND IN THE LAND (uhhh...Western WA)
In September of 2008, we were once again (see 2007) honored with a "Best Regional Act" nomination by The Cascade Blues Association. We will find out if we won (over ten-time reigning winner, Too Slim & the Taildraggers and The Ty Curtis Band) on Nov 6th at The Muddy Awards Banquet, held at the Melody Ballroom in Portland, OR.
In April of 2008, our cd, "Big City Blues", won The Washington Blues Society's (WBS) "Best Blues Recording" BB Award, allowing the band to represent the WBS in The Blues Foundation's annual "Best CD" competition at the 2009 International Blues Challenge, held in Memphis, TN in February, 2009.
In April of 2008 our drummer, Jeff Hayes, was awarded the 2008 "BB" (Best of the Blues) Award for "Best BLUES Drummer" from the Washington Blues Society.
In October 2007, BluesWax online E-zine listed "Big City Blues" as #6 on XM Radio Bluesville 74's "Picks to Click" list for the week of October 13, 2007. We have noted that XM Radio has been playing two cuts from the disc, 'If You Let Me Call You Sweetheart' and 'Tell Me Why', nearly every day for the past year! XM Blues DJ and blues historian, Bill Wax, has been saying some very nice things about our band to his audience. Thanks, Bill!
In October of 2007, Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies! was named a finalist in a Sonic Bids competition called "Blues Artist on the Rise". We won Round 2 (Round 1 was won by The Tyrone Vaughan band... yes, Jimmie Vaughan's son).
In September of 2007 we were honored with a Muddy Award nomination in the "Best Regional Band" category by The Cascade Blues Association, which is based in the state of Oregon!
In August of 2007 we were informed by Blues Review Magazine that "Big City Blues" has been selected, among thousands of cd's submitted, for a published review. The review appeared in their Dec. '07/Jan. '08 issue.
In June of 2007, our long awaited new cd, "Big City Blues" was released. We have been receiving a fair amount of airplay locally (KPLU in Tacoma, KSER in Everett, KBCS in Bellevue), regionally (KINK, KBOO in Portland, KLCC in Eugene, KPBX in Spokane), nationally (KNON in Dallas, TX and KZUM in Lincoln, NE), and worldwide (XM Satellite Radio's Bluesville 74). Many more stations all over the world too numerous to mention have also been playing the disc. Sales, reviews and fan feedback have been very encouraging!
In April of 2007, we were honored with five "BB" Awards (12 total nominations) by The Washington Blues Society including: Best Blues Band, Best Electric Guitar (T-Boy), Best Bass (WildChild), Performer of the Year (Becki Sue) and Female Vocalist of the Year (Becki Sue).
On February 1-3, 2007 we represented The Washington Blues Society at The 2007 International Blues Challenge (IBC) by performing two acclaimed sets at The Hard Rock Cafe on Beale Street in Memphis, TN. Please see our "What They're Saying" page on our website a www.bigrockindaddies.com for some of the very positive judges' comments.
In October of 2006, we traveled to The Mississippi Delta, performing at The Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (aka The King Biscuit Blues Festival) in Helena, Arkansas. We also performed in Clarksdale, Mississippi (the home of "The Crossroads" where Highways 61 & 49 intersect) at actor Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club, then played a "Northwest Blues Double Bill" along with The Paul DeLay Band at a juke joint called Sarah's Kitchen. We recorded some "live in the studio" tracks at Studio 61, also located in Clarksdale. Lastly, we attended Pinetop Perkins' 93rd birthday party at Hopson Plantation, where Pinetop worked as a child! That was the last time we saw Paul DeLay before he passed away.
QUOTE: "Out of all the bands that I saw at the 2007 International Blues Challenge (IBC), Becki Sue & Her Rockin' Daddies was the band that I enjoyed the most, I would have to say. I'd go see them anytime that I would get that chance. What a dynamite show! Very entertaining and the whole band is a smokin' outfit. T-Boy is one bad boy on the guitar. He has an original approach to a traditional sound - gotta love it! Lotta fire, also ... gotta love that, too!"
-Don "T-Bone" Erickson - founding editor, BluesWax - the Online Voice of the Blues, IBC Judge.
Instrumentation
Becki Sue - Lead Vocals
Tom "T-Boy Neal" Boyle - Guitar
Jim King - Vocals, Saxophone, Harmonica
Les "WildChild" White - Vocals, Upright Bass
Jeff "Mr. Foundation" Hayes - Drums
Discography
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Our Latest CD, "Big City Blues", is receiving airplay all over the world! It features special guests Candye Kane, Mitch Woods, Eric "Two Scoops" Moore, Ron Weinstein and Peter Dammann. Four of the twelve songs are originals and the disc length is over 54 minutes. "Big City Blues" is currently receiving heavy airplay on XM Satellite Radio's Bluesville 74, reaching #6 on their "Picks To Click" list on Oct 13, 2007!
"Big City Blues", along with our 2005 release titled "The L.A.B. Results", can be purchased at our gigs, through our website, or at the CD Baby website at http://cdbaby.com:80/cd/beckisue2 or http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/beckisue (for The L.A.B. Results).
Download songs from BIG CITY BLUES at: http://www.digstation.com/ArtistAlbums.aspx?albumID=ALB000006925
Links
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