Uncle Jessie White and the 29th Street Band: General Info
Member Since
9/24/2006
Band Members
Uncle Jessie on vocals, Korg SP-250 electric piano (thank you Korg for your generous gift), upright piano, harmonica. Jeff Grand on guitar. Duke Dawson on drums. Betty Brownlee on bass.
Update: Jessie White passed away on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008. He was at Providence Hospital being treated for pneumonia when he suffered a massive heart attack.
Award-winning Uncle Jessie White is still delivering his deep-delta blues style as only he knows how. Born in Terry Mississippi in 1920, he picked cotton as a child in the fields with his parents and siblings. He moved to Detroit in 1950 and worked hard as a junkman. During the 70's, he had legendary weekend parties where all the blues musicians would party and jam, including John Lee Hooker. Still the hardest working blues musician in town, he sings, blows harp and pounds piano unlike any other.
Jeff Grand on electric and slide guitar, has played with The Howling Diablos, Uncle Kracker, The Butler Twins and has his own cd titled "Therapy" on No Cover Productions.
Duke Dawson has been playing drums around the Motor City for ages also. He has played with The Butler Twins, Odell Blues Boy "D", Jeff Hoagland and numerous others.
Betty Brownlee on bass has recently moved back to Detroit and has played in bands with Nathaniel Mayer and The Shanks, Gino Washington, Eddie Kirkland, Johnny Yarddog Jones, Kenny Parker, The Butler Twins and various others. Her rockabilly credits include Wanda Jackson, Dale Hawkins, Charlie Gracie and Nobody's Business.
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I'm consolidating all my wonderful friends around the world into one list. So I have just created a new friends contact list. If you would like to be kept up to date on what I've got going on in my musical world, Just click the following link to join up. http://www.reverbnation.com/davidgerald?add_email=true See you on the internet... and at a show soon too I hope! Peace.
Ciao,Uncle Jessie Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, Band, and stupendous voice. compliments ..really. you are one of my prefeitis, I feel great admiration for you, be really one whom is worth rather a lot! you are a great really... I hope to listen soon to you, in italy .. talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music all the best.. from italy.. and good life.. every day neal
(the friends.. they don't have frontiers and distances, it doesn't have age', and not even the color of the skin, and everything this.. thanks to the music;-)
Still miss those days when we would all be togther hanging out and takeing turns playing blues down at the Attic the smell the sound the real vibe Mississippi Al, Tommy Whitehead, Jeff Grand , Betty bass.Duke and Johnny at the bar skimming the deck it was all fun Mr.Jessie you are very Missed by all. RIP
