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Jon Dedek

Jon Dedek Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Blues / Electroacoustic / Progressive

    Location San Jose, California, US

    Profile Views: 7298

    Last Login: 7/12/2010

    Member Since 1/28/2007

    Website themojohounds.com

    Record Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    I grew up just outside of South Bend, Indiana and my first taste of blues music was when I was five. My mom took me to the 1970 IUSB Folk Festival and I got to see Sparky Rucker live in concert. I fell in love with the blues right then and there. I didn’t pickup the guitar until I was sixteen, about a year after breaking my left arm on a motorcycle. In 1987 I met blues harmonica player and singer Tom Moore and I started running sound for the Moore Brothers Blues Band. My first sound gig featured Tunney Watkins on the B3 organ. Tunney is an old school blues player. He was born in Mississippi and he is the half brother of blues legend and Sun recording artist Charlie Booker. Tunney and I became friends and he began teaching me how to play blues the old school way. One night Tunney brought me with him to play guitar at the Metropolitan Democratic Club when singer and guitarist Bobby Stone was ill. The crowd loved it and I began playing guitar in South Bend's West Side blues scene. I also went on to become Bobby Stone’s lead guitarist for a number of years. (Bobby Stone was Junior Walker’s father-in law and he also played with Charlie Booker.) Meanwhile Tom Moore had me running sound for artists like Pinetop Perkins, Barrelhouse Chuck, Abb Locke, Steve Nardella, and George Bedard. I started making a name for myself as a sound man and I went on to run sound for William Clarke, Phillip Walker, The Mellow Fellows, Melvin Taylor, Eddie Clearwater, Nappy Brown, Carrie Bell, Ansen Funderburgh, Darrel Nulich, and Yank Yachell to name a few. I kept getting stuck behind the sound board more and more as the shows kept getting bigger and bigger so I turned the sound board over to the sound man from my rock band JD and the Homewreckers because I wanted to get back to the party and spend more time on the dance floor. Around 1989 I became friends with bottleneck guitar guru Dennis Donnelly. Dennis turned me on to the wonderful world of slide guitar playing. Dennis loved playing slide guitar so much that he insisted that I should start playing slide too. I am also a Blues DJ on KSCU Santa Clara 103.3 FM, The Underground Sound. My new band is the Mojo Hounds. I have been planning this for years and I am finally at the point where I can make it happen. The band is a bare bones electric guitar three piece with psychedelic blues overtones and myself doing much or all of the vocals. I'm delving deeper into the endless versatility of the electric blues guitar and I am looking forward to good times ahead with music lovers from near and far. More to come, Jonny JD. .. .... ........ ............ ............

  • Members

    Jonny JD - Solo Blues Guitarist / The Mojo Hounds Blues Band

  • Influences

    Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor, Willie Dixon, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robin Trower, Melvin Taylor, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Pinetop Perkins, William Clarke, James Harman, Nappy Brown, Sparky Rucker, Buddy Guy, Blonde Bruce, Johnny Guitar Watson, BB King, ZZ Top, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Char Vinnedge, John Lee Hooker, George Thorogood, Dennis Donnelly. Leo Fender, Nathan Daniel, Les Paul, Thomas Edison.

  • Sounds Like

    Blues

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