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You Gonna Miss Me
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  • Genre: Blues / Funk / Swing

    Location PORTLAND, Oregon, Un

    Profile Views: 42398

    Last Login: 5/22/2013

    Member Since 2/12/2008

    Website www.dkstewart.net

    Record Label CURRENTLY UNSIGNED - Indies': CRIMINAL RECORDS, CANDLELIGHT RECORDS, NATTY RAIN PRODUCTIONS

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    This all-star Portland quartet (plus horns) infuses classic cuts, obscure nuggets and DK Stewart originals with a fresh take on the blues, New Orleans funk and R&B... Stewart, whose two-fisted stride blues and jazz piano style has been a driving force behind such Northwest blues giants as Robert Cray, Paul deLay and Curtis Salgado often works as a compelling solo vocalist/performer with only a piano for back-up...In addition he has, for the past several years been tearing up major festival stages with his latest creation, the DK Stewart SEXTET. The band features the "Soul Survivor Horns" that includ Chris Mercer on sax and Joe McCarthy on Trumpet. Stewart serves up an evening of uptempo, jump-blues and traditional swing with material by Nat Cole, Charles Brown and T-Bone Walker along with hard-grooving New Orleans funk by Professor Longhair, Clifton Chenier and the Meters. The band also brings hard-core, stinging Chicago blues to their set with songs written by Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Magic Sam; along with Stewart's own soulful, compelling originals... In 2012 Chris Mercer and DK Stewart collaborated to create the "Tell Momma" Etta James Tribute, a collection of some of the NW's finest female volcalists assembled into an evening of introspective appreciation of the late Etta James' material. Featuring the Dk Stewart Sextet with the addition of percussionist Bobby Torres and guitar master Chris Carlson, the band produced an amazingly fine "live' performance at the Alberta Rose Theater in April of 2012. Singers Duffy Bishop, LaRhonda Steele, Lisa Mann, Rae Gordon and Amy Keys bring their best to this performance before a sold-out crowd and are filmed using state of the art HD video and a 32 channel digital-audio console by Rex recording. This CD has propelled the band into the regional if not national spotlight this year and brings a world focus on the tremndously talented pool of artists that due reside and thrive throughout the northwest, in spite of not being near more nationally recognized music scenes. Stewart has performed with such blues legends as Big Walter Horton, S.P. Leary, Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, James Cotton, Albert Collins, George "Harmonica" Smith, Joe Louis Walker, and Roomful of Blues, and has appeared on bills with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Junior Walker, Clifton Chenier, Ray Charles, Paul Butterfield, and BB King. Stewart's keyboard virtuosity can be heard on recordings by Robert Cray, Paul deLay, Curtis Salgado, Lloyd Jones, The NW Ray Charles Tribute and on his own three solo projects, featured at CD Baby including the band's latest releases, ""live In Olympia" and "For The Troops". The latter recording features extra bonus tracks and proceeds go directly to the USO to support the families of deployed service members overseas. As a band leader and a featured sideman, Stewart has appeared at major blues venues throughout the US, including Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, New York Rhythm & Blues Festival, The Texas T-Bone Walker Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, Winthrop Blues Festival, Mt. Baker Blues Festival, and the Legendary R&B Cruise. .. Stewart also presents a stripped-down version of this same music format with less emphasis on big-stage production with former Lloyd Jones and Paul deLay drummer/percussionist Mike Klobas and the amazing Joseph Conrad on stand-up and fretless bass, recently with the band "Rhythm Culture". Original materials are also featured in this ensemble. Guests of the 3-DK Trio Plus One include the very exciting tenor sazophone work of Tim Jensen, guitarists Peter Dammann and William Chapin and recently harmonica soloist Tim O'Hare.

  • Members

    THE DK STEWART SEXTET features; Peter Dammann - guitar Chris Mercer - Sax & Arrangments Joe McCarthy - Trumpet & Vocals Ed Pierce - Drums & Percussion Joseph Conrad - Bass & Vocals Guitarist Peter Dammann's collaborations with D.K. Stewart stretch back more than two decades. You can hear his T-Bone Walker -inspired guitar solos on some of Stewart's earliest solo recordings (CR - 1991 'No Excuse For The Blues) In addition to his work with Stewart, Peter has also been manager and lead guitarist for the Paul deLay Band for the past 15 years, before deLay's untimely death in 2007. He has performed on, and co-produced several of the band's five releases on the Evidence Music label. The Soul Survivor Horns.. feature legendary London session man ..Chris Mercer.. on sax and arrangments and ..Joe McCarthy.. on trumpet. A journeyman musician, Mercer's worked with John Mayal's Bluesbreakers, Brian Ferry, Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Dr. John, Bob Marley and scores of other touring bands and studio sessions. His cohesive charts and melodic improvisational solos are legendary. Joe McCarthy brings those heady days in Eugene Oregon to mind where DK's adventures with soul singer Curtis Salgado garnered international fame as the first touring version of the Robert Cray Band included Joe at many formative performances. With Sax man Barry Cline and the legendary Warren Rand, Joe has continued to make a contribution to the NW music scene over three or four decades of "live" performance and studio work. McCarthy has lent his fiery horn lines to countless Portland bands and recording sessions since the 70's but was a featured artist of note on the first few Paul deLay records that were released in the early 80's. Drummer Ed Pierce brings a genre-specific feel to the rhythm section with historical accuracy fueled by a lifelong study of Chicago-style drummers such as SP Leary, Odie Payne and Fred Below. His many influences include Memphis legend Al Jackson and Muscle Shoals studio star Roger Hawkins. Pierce has been a regular feature in the Stewart Sextet since 2007, but has also played with the Paul deLay Trio (prior to deLay's passing in 2007), NW guitar legend Terry Robb, noted award-winning songwriter and blues guitarist Lloyd Jones, Big Monti Admunson, the Pete Peterson Septet, Andre St. James/Roger Woods Nonet, Ben Fowler Quintet, and is currently working with the Geno Michaels Band, Johnny Martin and Ellen Whyte. Bassist Joseph Conrad holds the groove in the pocket, is the glue that binds the rhythm section together for the DK Sextet, Dk Trio Plus One and the recent Etta James Tribute band. He owes his steadfast meter and masterful approach to years of jazz study along with a decade of road and "live" performance dedication to Byron Mercurius' "Rhythm Culture" band. Currently performing with the Rae Gordon Band, Joseph can be found on Facebook and is an integral part of and regular player in the current Portland Oregon music scene.

  • Influences

    Otis Spann, Big Maceo Merriweather, Little Johnny Jones, Roy Byrd, Alan Toussaint, Chester Burnett, Hosa Lee Kennard, Earl "Father" Hines, Floyd Dixon, Stanley Durham, Mac Rebenack, Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Thomas Hampson, Michelle Camillo, Taj Mahal, Cal Tjader, Peter Boe, Horace SIlver & Bill Evans.

  • Sounds Like

    Jazz you can dance to and blues you can feel in your chest. Blue-eyed soul with genre-specific and historically accurate presentations. Original charts that you'd swear were written in the 40's or 50's. And a "live" performance that sounds like the stereo in your living room with a dance floor full of people to share it with.

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