Friday, May 06, 2005

Da blues, Baby!

Have you heard the blues? I mean really heard the blues the way a local, "cowpie circuit" band plays da blues?

The band is MoJo Lemon, the venue is any blues place in western to central Wisconsin. They play Hallie to Rice Lake to Eau Claire to Glenwood City to Menomonie to Wausau... and they keep moving. Good band. Really.

I can't even use the quip "three musicians and a drummer" with this band, because Cory the drummer is so good! He's only 24 years old, and gives legendary Gene Krupa a real run for his money.

Will bounces and so do his keyboards (three of them!), Terry smokes on bass and vocals just as deep, and Josh fondles the lead guitar and many of the vocals... four guys make the room sound as full of music as you can get.

Kenny Wayne Shepard, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton ... all sound great performed by this band. But when they play Stevie Ray Vaughn, you can see the tears run down the street!!!

Not a vanilla sound in the bunch.

Great music, guys.

For everyone else: Find them and listen -- http://www.mojolemon.com/