The main influence of KNIGHT is each member's love of all types of music and their ability to incorporate many styles into a new sound. KNIGHT is about beat and rhythm and hard-hitting show-stopping productions. It is about moving your heart and soul and bringing out emotions and feeling it all to the 'N'th degree.
If you must have names, here are just a few: Stevie Ray Vaughan, B. B. King, Tom Wait, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) Jimmie Webb, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Chopin, Debussey, Dave Brubeck, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, Herbie Hancock...
Sounds Like
Stevie Ray Vaughan 2008 plus New Thought, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), and Alvin Lee (Ten Years After).
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KNIGHT is an original blues band with contemporary style. Knight's music grips your emotions and impacts you with its inspiration, beat and soul. Their stage show is lively, animated and full of the gutsy sound and excitement only true talent and real life experience can give.
"As a career composer, I am always excited about new avenues of expression. I met Josh Knight in 2001 when he was 16. The first time I heard him play, I was stunned by the emotion and feeling dripping from his fingertips to the fretboard. Every note expressed deep feelings and the soul of blues. His technique and versatility were already on par with the best.
KNIGHT is hard driving crossover blues with emotional impact. A mix of contemporary style with the roots of blues. Knight's show is unique and powerful moving audiences of all ages. It is a band for all ages as well with members' ages spanning three generations
Knight has been received with rave reviews in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and through the internet. We hope to meet you on our next tour.Bill Webb
Josh Knight (guitars/vocals) began his dream to play guitar when he was a child in his hometown of Dallas, Texas. He was in band and choir at Mesquite High where he won several national music awards for his prodigious talent. He learned licks from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and BB King and loved New Orleans style jazz. Josh formed his own blues band called “The Revival,” in Dallas, Texas and fans and musicians alike agreed that he had the talent of a rising star. Does this tremendous talent run through the family? Josh’s Great Great Grandmother, Nancy Ann Cook is also Stevie Ray’s GG Grandmother. Although there are no close family ties with the Vaughans, the music gene may have split down the line through the Cook’s to the Vaughan’s, and the other half through the Knights to Josh. Josh plays like he was born for this role. He loves music with a passion above all passions. Contemporary blues, and upbeat jazz and blues/rock are his favorite styles. His recording studio work has encompassed an even wider variety of styles. He is performing as lead guitarist and vocalist for “Knight.”
As an independent artist, Josh played with or opened for BB King, Charlie Robinson, and Crystal Gayle at The House of Blues, Billy Bob's Texas and Next Stage in Grand Prairie (formerly known as the Nokia Theater).
Bill Webb (keyboards/vocals/producer) has composed and performed in many genres from hard Rock to jazz, to classical to Pop to Broadway, including his world famous "Music for Massage and Yoga" albums. He writes and performs music with passion, vocally and instrumentally. Bill was born in 1951 in Milwaukee, WI and began playing piano at age seven. He weaned himself on Boogie Woogie and rock and rock from age 11, began touring at age 18, and received his formal music education at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee School of Fine Arts. He toured with stage shows, rock bands, jazz groups and as a solo act honing his styles in rock, blues, jazz and broadway. ..
Allen Oney (percussion) was making drawings since age 4 and pursued art taking on music in his teens. An accomplished artist in oils, he approaches music with sensitivity and passion. As with painting, he came to realize music has the very same elements as in art and he imbues a tune using drums the way one uses a paintbrush. He became aware of color, texture and form in music. He can articulate the sounds to further shape the music into a living, breathing panorama. There is a point where one moves beyond the elementary time keeping, to join into a deeper unity with the music of the spheres.
Playing music for so long, Allen has learned to appreciate and play all styles of music. If you want to know where Allen is coming from, come and hear him perform.
To learn more about KNIGHT, you can contact Bill Webb at B & B Music. www.billwebb.biz