Brand new release on El Toro Records! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
GREAT BIG BEAT - El Toro Records 2007 - Jeff Potter- vocals, piano, drums & guitar , Graham Tichy - guitar & bass , Jimmy Haggerty - bass , Todd Wulfmeyer - bass , Betsy-Dawn Williams - tremelo guitar and harmony vocals -
RHYTHM RIOT - Raucous Records 2002 - Jeff Potter & the Rhythm Agents - Jeff Potter - vocals, piano, drums, guitar & harmonica, Rick King - guitar, Red Rogers - Bass & lap steel guitar, Rick Brown - maracas
JEFF POTTER - SCREAMIN' WEEKENDER '08 - PINEDA DE MAR, SPAIN
Influences
All the R&R and Rockabilly greats from ’55 to ’57 (too many to list. you know who they are), Thomas Edison (if it wasn’t for his Phonograph we might be stuck listening to a family member or neighbor out on the porch playing a lute or banjo), Jimmy Vincent, Gene Krupa, Ransom E. Olds, Howard McNear, Dewey Martin (actor), the tall brunette on Reno 911, Yukon Eric, Carmen Basillio, Rusty Stevens, Ken Osmond , Wild Bill Elliot and DJ George Lorenz.
At the age of 10, Jeff got his first drumkit and a lesson on how to play a two-finger boogie-woogie on the piano from "Judy" - a teenaged family friend. For many years down in his cellar, Jeff played that boogie-woogie fast and slow, and performed long Gene Krupa/Cozy Cole style solos on his drums. Early on, he bought every single rock & roll, rockabilly and rhythm & blues record he could get his hands on. Jeff played in various recording bands for 12 years (including Al Anderson's Wildweeds) before writing, singing and performing his own songs, mostly in the style of 50's rock & roll. Jeff fronted 2 bands, The Contenders, then later Jeff Potter & the Rhythm Agents. He co-produced and played many of the instruments on Betsy-Dawn Williams' Rocket Girl CD on El Toro Records. In addition to performing solo, Jeff also tours as a member of the The Lustre Kings, often backing Wanda Jackson (a 2009 inductee into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame). On occasion, Jeff also plays piano with Travis LeDoyt. Jeff has releases on the English labels Nervous, Fury, Raucous Records, as well as Dynamite Records, US, and a brand new disc on El Toro Records, Spain. Studio work has included recording on Columbia, Vanguard and Buddha Records. Jeff still likes to make trips down to the cellar to play the drums.
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