Bio:

NEW VIDEO for 'COMING HOME' off the 'THE AMERICAN ELECTRIC' shot and produced by A.J. DAUPHIN (co-producer of MJN1, and About To Snap) Check it out......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... OFFBEAT MAGAZINE JULY 2010 Michael Juan Nunez American Electric (Parishline) 01 July 2010 — by Dan Willging............. Lafayette blues rocker Michael Juan Nunez doesn’t waste any time in getting to the meat of the matter on American Electric, his third carefully crafted release in a decade. On the blitzkrieg opening track alone (“Punks Like You”), his protagonist averts a bloodbath by standing up to a drunken bully. It’s intense and sets the tone for an album that includes “Doney,” a Delta blues-styled song that includes a grisly double murder. “Dirty Politics” finds Matt Perrine’s funky tuba flooding the bottom end as Nunez personifies corruption as a universal networking fiend. Regardless of the subject, he rarely lets up on the throttle, shifting through bombastic shakers, bluesy romps and sweet, greasy soul. Nunez does so without succumbing to convention. Whereas most would enlist a guest accordionist on a zydeco-theme song, “Coming Home” is an eerie, mystical illustration with gospel-ish, séance overtones and not a squeezebox in sight. A faint background voice seemingly from the hinterland utters, “They bounced this way; they bounced that way” as if it were a dream. Nunez is a tasteful slide guitarist with bountiful fireball licks, but American Electric is not a guitar hero album. His playing and creative producing skills are part of a turbo-charged package that dovetails neatly within the confines of his songs—besides being one that rocks you silly................... "SHAPE SHIFTING"............................................................... You thought you had Michael Juan Nunez pegged as just another Louisiana blues revivalist dude, right? WRONG. Think again. On his new CD, American Electric, Nunez, like some mad scientist locked up in the lab of his Mind, audaciously deconstructs his own love of blues, roots, rock, and folk and comes out with a Frankenstein-like monster that roars, grinds, stomps, jitters, tweaks, and spits at the hallowed totems of the age. Like some kid just reveling in the joy of making music, Michael Juan, at mid-career strangely enough, has thrown out the rule book. Like Tom Waits in the 80s, he’s burning with a new fire and charging into the great unknown, reaching for something stranger and superior to his past efforts. Feeling no allegiance to the purist orthodoxy that dries the lifeblood of new creation, Nunez playfully whips his way through twelve tunes that screech, grind at odd intervals, and scream through forests of invention. This is John Lee Hooker mind-melding with Ray Kurzweil type stuff. Go buy one at www.digstation.com , Barnes and Nobles in Lafayette, or the Louisiana Music Factory in New Orleans. — Dege Legg-'The Independent' magazine...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Michael Juan Nunez is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, from South Louisiana whose music taps into the heart of American southern culture. Its fresh, and urgent, yet unmistakably sprouting from very deep roots. His music paints pictures of life, as seen through the eyes of southern Louisiana. His guitar playing is raw, and passionate…moaning, screaming, singing, driving modern day melodies, with echoes of long lost dancehalls. Michael has played with many groups, most notably Zachary Richard (with whom he toured the US, Canada, and France), Roddie Romero and the HubCity AllStars (with whom he was part of the Grammy Nominated CD “The La Louisianne Sessions”), Mr. Harry Hippolyte’s band, as well as his own group, ‘The RiverBabys’. Along the way, he has worked with many other artists from time to time, including the great Chess Records pianist Mr. Henry Gray. His third solo release , ‘The American Electric’ is an eclectic collection of music built on a platform of American roots, that twists into an almost indescribable, but yet familiar sound…Rock-N-Roll from the marshes and swamps of south Louisiana. ....

Member Since:

March 03, 2005

Members:

MICHAEL JUAN NUNEZ AND THE RIVERBABYS.....MICHAEL JUAN NUNEZ: Lead Vocals, Electric, and Acoustic Guitars, Dobro, Lap Steel, CHAD WILLIS: Bass, Backing Vocals JEFF LEWIS: Drums, and percussion::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SAM REY: Mark Meaux (guitar, mandolin, vocals, and electronic nosie), and Michael Juan Nunez (guitar, lap steel, vocals, and electronic noise). ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Influences:

(1) Frosty The Snowman (he certainly knew how short life is) (2) Ren and Stimpy (life is not pretty, laugh) (3) Grandma Ernie (Jeff Lewis' Grandmother, the coolest person over 70 I know. I hope I can be like this.) (4) Grover (proof that personality can overcome everything. Think about it a blue MONSTER, with a speech impediment, and delusional tendenceies, that children around that world love. Hell, most adults too.)

Sounds Like:

Moss and mud covered grooves, bubbling like a gumbo under freaky swamp guitar.

Record Label:

ParishLine Records