Kelly Miller- Singer, songwriter, percussionist and center of band.
Scotty Gray- Master harp player, guitarist, songwriter and spark of the band.
Jack Roy- Guitarist, banjo, harp, kick drum, songwriter and visionary of the band.
Influences
John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf and especially Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Neal Pattman, Peg Leg Sam, Cephas & Wiggins, Warner Williams & Jay Summerour, Son House, Robert Johnson, Snooks Eaglin, Rl Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Otis Rush, Early Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Sugar Blue and contempory artist such as Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Kelly Joe Phillips
Sounds Like
a cross between Delta Blues meeting the Piedmont area running into Chicago and then adding a little old-time mountain music.
The Biscuit Rollers is a collection of blues musicians that found each other in the early part of 2006. After trying many combinations of musicians and other instruments, finally settled down with the basic core of The Biscuit Rollers. The 3 of us have come together because we want not only to play and sing the blues, our favorite music style!!, but also preserve the blues and educate the world of what the blues is all about. The blues is one of the few American Traditions that we can call our own. It is a major part of the American history and culture and The Biscuit Rollers want to share this culture with all of our fans. Blues has many children, Delta, Piedmont, Chicago, West coast, and Texas.. all are what the Blues is about and what TBR is about!!!
We are true believers of the Blues as a classic art form and want to share with anyone that wants to listen. We can play soft and gentle or we can get down with the best of them. We all come from different backgrounds and lives, but we share the single bond of the blues.
Visit the History page of our website to find out more about each one of us individually. How we came across the blues for the first time and what TBR means to each of us. We did not invent the blues, but we have taken from the best in our history.... Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, RL Burnside, Snooks Eaglin...... and we have tried to capture the emotion of these greats and added TBR styling to bring you our vision of the blues.
We really hope you enjoy the music, images and feeling of The Biscuit Rollers and want to have more. We keep busy writing new songs, making old songs our own. We are in hopes of having our first CD out in late 2007. This will be full of originals and our own spice on some obscure older blues songs of yesterday.
So play around the site, come see us live, listen to some of our songs and help us spread the blues history and feeling to everyone. Thanks for visiting and living the blues!!!
Thanks guys! I am very stoked that you will soon have your dynamite CDs back and can get them out there to the peoples! Let me know as soon as they are for sale on CDBaby, and I will get a little bit of publicity going on this end.
Bridgewater show has been cancelled everyone... sorry about this.. but we just got word last night... the new owners of the grill do not have an alcohol permits yets... no booze, no music....... Sorry.. will be back there real soon....
Just stopping by to say hi! I took another listen to the songs you put up on your page here. My personal favorites of the ones you have up, are "Mr. Charlie" and "Hurts Me Too!" You guys did a fantastic job!
