Kilborn Alley Blues Band Local Artist

    Websites: Official Website

    Last Played: 02-03-2008 9:23 pm

    Sounds Like:Muddy Waters, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy

    The Kilborn Alley Blues Band is a ferocious young band receiving tremendous national and international attention. In 2007 and 2008 the guys in KABB have/will play the Chicago Blues Festival, The Cincinnati Blues Festival, The Heritage Blues Music Fest in West Virginia, The Bucks County R&B Picnic in Pennsylvania, the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival in Iowa, the Budweiser Illinois Blues Festival, the Hot Licks Blues Festival in Ohio, Summer Camp and the Beluga Nights Summer Music Series in Fairbanks, Alaska-- among many others.

    Their 2006 Blue Bella Records release Put It in the Alley went to number 8 on the Living Blues magazine national blues radio charts and earned the band a 2007 Blues Music Award (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards-- the highest international awards in the genre) nomination for "Best New Artist-- Debut." Their 2007 Blue Bella release Tear Chicago Down went to number 7 on the Living Blues radio charts and has gained Kilborn Alley Blues Band a second BMA nomination, this one for "Best Contemporary Blues Album." Tear Chicago Down was recently runner-up to Koko Taylor for in the Bluescritics reader's vote for "Best Contemporary Blues Album" for 2007.

    They have accompanied and jammed with the likes of Honeyboy Edwards, the Bobby Rush Band, Johnny “Yard Dog” Jones, Louisiana Red, Lurrie Bell, MarK Hummel, Joyce Lawson, Eddie C. Campbell, Bill Lupkin, Billy “Soul” Bonds, the late Percy Strother, Sonny Rhodes, Nick Moss, Mary Lane, Eddie Taylor, Jr., Taildragger Jones, Mississippi Bill Abel, Frankie Lee, Master James Farrow, Pee Wee Hayes, Kate Hoddinott Moss, the late Harmonica Khan, Shirley King, Arizona’s Bad News Blues Band, and other wonderful players. Kilborn Alley has opened for Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Shemekia Copeland, T-Model Ford, Tommy Castro, and Artie “Blues Boy” White. They have been on the bill with the late Little Milton on three occasions, plus Pinetop Perkins, Sam Lay, Hubert Sumlin, Elvin Bishop, Lonnie Brooks, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, Delbert McClinton, the late Willie Kent, Guitar Shorty, Billy Branch, Watermelon Slim, The Kinsey Report, Deborah Coleman, The Mannish Boys, Michael Burks, Jody Williams, Magic Slim, Denise LaSalle, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Bob Margolin, Carol Fran, Magic Dick, Reneé Austin, Fruteland Jackson, Rita Chiarelli, Otis Taylor, Jimmy Burns, James Harman, Sean Costello, E.C. Scott, Fiona Boyes, Jason Ricci, Hollywood Blue Flames, Roy Hytower, Cash McCall, Floyd Taylor, Andrew “Jr. Boy” Jones, Mofro, and many others—and this does not even count those who played the BMA’s in Memphis in 2007.

    Kilborn Alley Blues Band is: Andy Duncanson vocals and guitar, Joe Asselin harmonica and backing vocals, Ed O'Hara drums and vocals, Josh Stimmel guitar, and Chris Breen electric bass guitar.

    Discography

    Tear Chicago Down

    (2007)

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