The Kilborn Alley Blues Band
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General Info
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Genre: Blues
Location Bluesville, Un
Profile Views: 131821
Last Login: 2/13/2013
Member Since 8/21/2006
Website www.kilbornalley.com
Record Label Blue Bella
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. ..The Kilborn Alley Blues Band.. was formed in 2000 when ..Andy Duncanson.. was still in high school, and ..Chris Breen.. and ..Josh Stimmel.. were barely out. In 2005 ..Ed O'Hara.. joined the band, and in 2008 ..Deak Harp.. became a long-term replacement for original member Joe Asselin. And in 2009 became a regular member of the group... .. The line-up is Duncanson vocals and guitar, Breen electric bass, Stimmel guitar, and O'Hara drums... .. The Kilborn Alley Blues Band plays filthy Chicago blues, with just a little bit of southern fried soul. The point of the act is to deliver the blow out bar show associated with blues at its zenith. Kilborn Alley is not about youth angst; it is about adult delirium... .. If we wrote the history of this band here, you wouldn't believe us. Just put it this way; Kilborn has played over sixteen hundred shows, and knows how to smile in your face and then kick you in the ass-- musically. -
Members
Nominated for Blues Music Awards in 2007, 2008, and 2011! BLUES BLAST magazine Sean Costello Rising Star in the blues 2009! .. ..Andy Duncanson:.. vocals & guitar.. .. ..Chris Breen:.. electric bass .. .. ..Josh Stimmel:.. guitar.. .. ..Ed O'Hara:.. drums -
Influences
How can you explain hearing Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues" when you are twelve years old, and knowing at the base of your brain that this is the root of all the guitar music you have ever heard, knowing that the river is your own river, and that the two things can never be separated? How can we tell you what it felt like as a kid to have James Cotton come to your town, and to be blown away as Cotton blew the harp? The music is magical, and its power over us cannot be explained. But here are a couple of things to think about, if you are really determined to sit around and think about the Kilborn Alley Blues Band. He had listened to a lot of rap and reggae as a kid, but there were those damned blues tapes around the house, so when Andy started the guitar in high school, he went straight to Johnson, but also Elmore James and Hooker, with Hendrix as a constant goad. He was drawn to the string bending of B.B. King, and the big psychedelic sound of Michael Bloomfield, but got deep into the sometimes broken and twisted lines and sometimes funky stomp of Buddy Guy, and went from there to Otis Rush and off into the Westside sound. He signed up for the Muddy Waters attitude and point of view, but committed the new band to the inspiration of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, a powerful synthetic concoction where the drums, harp, lead, rhythm, bass, and voice each have a strong, distinctive, almost solo-like dimension, wound tight and sent off in a blues tidal wave. Trying to explain Andy's vocal influences would take pages, but just to get started think Sam Cooke and Junior Wells. Josh famously met Andy in a conversation about a Hendrix t-shirt in high school. At that age Josh loved metal, especially appreciating Metallica's classical sophistication. Josh has always played open-fingered style. Today he has tremendous admiration for Hubert Sumlin, and has worked to bring some of those fantastic Howlin' Wolf licks to the band. Josh has studied the rhythm guitar parts of soul music, and leads the band when they go exploring in those musical territories. Chris came up on rap and reggae, and followed Andy into the blues. His family has a long interest in "old timey" music, and has Chris playing around with the stand-up bass. Ed,obviously, has the longest and most complicated musical pedigree in the band. He has been in rock bands, blues bands, and some very fine country bands. With Kilborn Alley, Ed has been compared in print to the young Sam Lay at his best. Ed plays a minimal kit, and that stands for the whole Kilborn Alley approach to equipment. As Josh once said in a published interview, "We don't play amplifiers, we play guitars." Kilborn has played with a lot of great players-- way more than will even be suggested here-- but some have forced the band to really think about what they were doing and how it fits their own work-- Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Joyce Lawson, Mary Lane, Taildragger Jones, and in his own weird way the late Harmonica Khan. As a band that thinks about what it is trying to do on stage, the huge influences on Kilborn Alley are Luther Allison, Muddy Watters, Paul Butterfield, Junoir Wells, Buddy Guy and most of all, Little Milton. Plainly, Nick Moss has had a big influence on Kilborn Alley, and very directly on PUT IT IN THE ALLEY. With Nick's long work with Jimmy Rogers, this makes Kilborn Alley some sort of grandchildren in the Muddy Waters blues family tree. Finally, Kilborn Alley is the soulful band they are today through their long work with Abraham Johnson who has made them take seriously Johnnie Taylor and Tyrone Davis, and whose influence marks everything they do. -
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We have made big progress on our next east coast tour and got a major summer event this week.
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- Ada J. Mott2 years ago
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Hey,how are u? - Kilborn2 years ago
Over 100,000 profile views!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys are rock stars! - Köllefornia Stompers2 years ago
Great Sound!
Keep on stomping like that!
Greetings from the Rhine! - Spellbound2 years ago
Hola The Kilborn Alley Blues Band! Visiting to send U LOVE!
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HAY ANDY BRO WHAT.S UP MAN I WAS THINKING OF SONG TITLE .SOMETHING YOU WOULD COME UP WITH . I JUST OR IM JUST TRUCKING WITH MY RED HEADED LADY.IT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG YOU MITE JUST BE JAMMING ON. ROCK ON MAN PLAY LOUD.. YOU THERE IS A CLUB HERE IN PARIS CALLED SHOOTERS . CHECK IT OUT SOME TIME IT.S A NICE PLACE TO JAM AT VERY BIG IN SIDE ALSO. PEACE. I MISS YOU GUY.S A LOT.
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- Ossie Dellimore2 years ago
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