Roots music fans will get a special early Christmas present when Stony Plain Records artist Duke Robillard and his band perform a free livestream album release show of his new CD, Blues Bash with Duke Robillard & Friends, (releasing November 20th) at the Narrows Center in Fall River, Mass. on Friday, December 4 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. For more info and to watch the free livesteam visit: https://www.narrowscenter.org/
Joining Duke (guitar and vocals) that night are regular band members Bruce Bears (piano, Hammond organ); Brad Hallen (acoustic and electric bass); and Mark Teixeira (drums); plus Duke’s former Roomful of Blues mates on horns: Rich Lataille, Greg Piccolo and Doug James. Vocalists Chris Cote and Michelle Willson will also be there. There is no admission charge, but donations are encouraged through PayPal or Venmo.
Blues Bash is the latest album from two-time Grammy nominee and multiple Blues Music Award-winning guitarist Duke Robillard, who declares the album to be “packed with plenty of bright sounding Fender guitar a la Ike Turner, Lefty Bates, etc. Just a good listening or dancing record like the blues records I bought when I was a kid. It was pretty much a reunion of sorts and I wanted the material to be simple, straight-ahead ‘50s style blues and R&B… Basically it’s a blues party album and that feeling is what I wanted to convey.”
