Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
The Rebel Blues Band shook the foundations of the otherwise all-rock event. That isn't to say that these bad boys of 12-bar blues weren't up to the challenge of satisfying a mob of teens and tweens who had come to get their mosh on; when kids treat the center of a dance floor like a football pileup during a harp-filled song dedicated to John Lee Hooker Jr., it's clear that the blues do rock. This ensemble was one among many off-beat high points of the afternoon. - Anchorage Daily News
Liz Dahl, manager of Blues Central in Anchorage, Alaska says "One of the
best, younger blues bands out there today".
- Rebel Blues
Discography
Rebel Blues
Photos
Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
Rooted deep in the blues traditions of Robert Johnson and honoring the stylings of greats like Pinetop Perkins and John Lee Hooker, Rebel Blues can lay down a funk rythmn around a blues arrangement and rock the house with it. The sweet vocal sounds of Donald Hill backed by the keyboard highlights of Rob Woolsey and their outstanding rythmn and guitar make this a band you want to know. Packed with soul-twisting hooks, a rebellious blues rhythm and white-hot guitar punctuation, with a respecftul nod to history, these young bluesmen are keeping the blues authentic while evolving the style in the 21st Century.
And, it's "Rebel" as in James Dean, not Southern rock (not that we don't have a few Drive By Trucker and Chris LeBlanc albums laying around). About 2 years ago we got together with some friends and started a side project band. Most of us were working full-time on other music projects and this was a good way to let off some musical steam and do some experimentation. It turns out that our experiments were, well, popular and we ended up getting more excited about Rebel Blues than some of the other work that we were doing and, next thing you know, a record label guy we know was talking to us about doing an album.
Please check our website at www.rebelblues.com/calendar.html for our current schedule.
We're booked in Alaska through most of the summer, but will be out of Portland, Oregon starting in September 2005.
Links
