BOBBY PARKER is currently on tour as a solo act AND as part of the "American Blues Legends 2008" revue! (A five-headliner, mega blues line-up playing all the greatest festivals throughout the world.)
AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS 2008… CURRENTLY STARS THE FOLLOWING GREATS! :
ARTHUR ADAMS
EDDIE C. CAMPBELL
ELMORE JAMES, JR.
BYTHER SMITH and
BOBBY PARKER
AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS MANAGEMENT EXCLUSIVELY REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS FOR WORLDWIDE BOOKING, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
ARTHUR ADAMS
(Brilliant blues guitarist / singer from Los Angeles, capable of spine-tingling falsetto and deep R&B flavor)
LV BANKS AND TRE
(Gutbucket, southside blues singer / guitarist from Chicago)
MISSISSIPPI BO
(Swampy, real deal blues singer guitarist from Greenwood, MS)
RAY BROOKS
(Sophistocated blues singer and axesmith who made the 70's hit "Walk Out Like A Lady")
EDDIE C. CAMPBELL
(Westside Chicago bluesman and running buddy of Magic Sam's)
DANGEROUS DARRYL
(Self-branded “American, Negro, Hippy Blues” imagine Earl Hooker meets Johnny Winter and you get the picture)
SONNY GREEN
(The grittiest, soul-blues singer in Los Angeles.)
CURTIS JACK GRIFFIN
(Probably the gutsiest blues singer in Los Angeles)
VERNON HARRINGTON
(“The Last Undiscovered Chicago Westside Bluesman!!!” Learned to play guitar at Magic Sam's back yard barbeques)
ELMORE JAMES, JR.
(Undisputed son of the Legend. Amazing singer and raw slide player. Look for his new CD out in January on JSP Records)
ROY LEE JOHNSON
(The Beatles covered his "Mister Moonlight". Singing, guitar-wielding dynamo)
GUY KING
(Young, exciting axe-man from Chicago. Willie Kent's long-time, right-hand man)
JOE KINCAID
(The best soul blues bandleader in South Central, LA)
JOYCE LAWSON
(A female Ray Charles. Sings blues, gospel and R&B, as well as plays piano like a Goddess)
BOBBY PARKER
(Totally original, funky, bluesman that can throw down bee bop lines and holler like his life depends on it)
BYTHER SMITH
(Captivating Chicago singer / guitarist. Plays like BB King with his hair on fire!)
ANDY WALO
(Jr. Well's longtime brilliant guitar hero, originally from Sweden. The true future of blues. This guy's star is rising fast!)
CHICK WILLIS
(The Stoop Down Man from Atlanta, GA. One of the nicest and most soulful entertainers in the business. A class act)
For booking info: Call Peter Chase (Vice President) or Cadillac Zack (President) at American Blues Legends Management 323-666-2177 or visit AmericanBluesLegends.com
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Bobby Parker is one of the most exciting performers in modern blues, and it's quite apparent he'll inherit the top blues spots left open by the unfortunate, early passings of people like Albert King, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and others. That's because Parker can do it all: he writes brilliant songs, he sings well, and he backs it all up with powerful, stinging guitar. But things weren't always so good for Parker, and much of his newfound success is the result of years of hard work and struggling around the bars in Washington, D.C. and Virginia.
Parker has two brilliant albums out on the BlackTop label out of New Orleans (distributed by Rounder), Shine Me Up (1995) and Bent Out of Shape (1993).
He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, but raised in southern California after his family moved to Los Angeles when he was six. Going to school in Hollywood, the young Parker was bitten by the scenery, and decided he wanted to be in show business. At the Million Dollar Theatre, he saw big stage shows by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine and Lionel Hampton. Although he had an early interest in jazz, the blues bit him when artists like T-Bone Walker, Lowell Fulson, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Pee Wee Crayton came to town.
He began playing in the late '50s as a guitarist with Otis Williams and the Charms after winning a talent contest sponsored by West Coast blues and R&B legend Johnny Otis. Later, he backed Bo Diddley, which included an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show before joining the touring big band of Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams. He settled in Washington, D.C. in the 1960s, dropping out of Williams's band and making a go of it on his own.
He is perhaps best-known for his 1961 song, "Watch Your Step," a single for the V-Tone label that became a hit on British and U.S. R&B charts. Parker's song was later covered by several British blues groups, most prominent among them the Spencer Davis Group. And though Parker may not yet be a name as familiar to blues fans as say, Eric Clapton or B.B. King, he's been cited as a major musical influence by Davis, John Mayall, Robin Trower, Clapton, Jimmy Page, drummer Mick Fleetwood, John Lennon and most importantly, Carlos Santana. Parker's style has been described by his protege Bobby Radcliff as Guitar Slim meets James Brown, and that's not that far off the mark. In the summer of 1994, Santana was so happy about Parker's comeback on the BlackTop/Rounder label that he took him on the road for some arena shows on the East and West Coasts.
"Carlos likes to tell people that he saw me playing in Mexico City when he was a kid, and that inspired him to pick up the guitar," Parker explained in a recent interview. Santana pays homage to Parker on his Havana Moon album, on which he covers "Watch Your Step." Dr. Feelgood also covered the tune in the 1970s.
For the rest of the 1990s, Parker is destined to be one of the major players on the blues circuit, provided his stellar output and rigorous touring schedules continue. Unlike so many other blues musicians, Parker's live shows are almost entirely his own songs. He does very few covers.
"Unless the music of the day has some kind of substance to it, the blues always comes back," Parker says, adding, "I think Stevie Ray Vaughan had a lot to do with bringing the blues to White audiences, and Z.Z. Hill helped bring the Black audience back to the blues."
WE ARE VERY SAD... WE DON'T HAVE WORDS TO SAY ANYMORE... OUR SINGER AND DOBRO PLAYER ENRICO MICHELETTI IS DEAD. GOODBYE ENRICO KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!
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