Rx Blues - Hang Dog Look

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2000
Time:48:18 
Size:111,1 MB 
Label:Modern Electric Blues 
Styles:Kode Blue Records 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Hang Dog Look - 4:53
 2. I Like It Rough - 4:28
 3. Monday Trash - 3:42
 4. Light in My Eyes - 4:05
 5. Get Along with You Baby - 3:09
 6. Dark Side of a Man - 4:02
 7. Life Without Love - 4:33
 8. Can't Buy a Rumor - 3:00
 9. I Don't Love You - 3:17
10. Steppin' to the Front - 3:09
11. Up 'Til Now - 2:50
12. Enough Enough - 3:49
13. Missing Link - 3:14

Musicians:
Jose Diaz Jr. – lead/rhythm guitar, slide guitar, dobro
Jeff Davis – lead/background vocals, bass, acoustic guitar
Gwyddon Kelly - lead/background vocals
Ray Thompkins – ‘aka’ “Bongoman” – lead/background vocals, conga drums
Kory Schaefer 'aka' "Crunchy" – keyboards, guitar
Jeff Niggli – drums, vocals

Rx Blues gives us plenty to gnaw on with 13 original tracks.
“Doc Diaz” and group offer up 48 minutes of some of the best St. Louis blues on both sides of the big muddy. "Hang dog look" is another fine, fine blues CD – it’s just what the doctor ordered. “Doc Cornbread” prescribes buying this CD, listening to it over and over again, tell a couple of friends about it, take 2 aspirin and email me in the morning.

Hang Dog Look

Janet Ryan and Straight Up! - Wrapped Up In Blue

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2002
Time:39:20 
Size:91,1 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Take Your Shoes Off - 3:38
 2. Baby's Gonna Leave - 2:40
 3. Life Is a River - 2:27
 4. Love Has Left (the Building) - 3:58
 5. Appreciate Me - 6:08
 6. All My Kisses - 3:08
 7. Cool Your Engine - 3:55
 8. 6 O'clock Blues - 4:01
 9. The Lust - 3:28
10. Uphill Climb - 5:54

Picture Aretha Franklin meeting Albert Collins at the crossroads for a drink, and you'll have an idea of what Janet Ryan and Straight Up! are all about. Strong female vocals, ripping guitars, and fat Hammond B3 backed by a monster rhythm section. You can feel the influence of Etta James and Janis Joplin, the blues of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, and the soul of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.Straight Up! blends the wailing voice of singer/songwriter Janet Ryan, a recent arrival from southern Fairfield County, Connecticut, by way of Chicago, Illinois, with the talents of Holyoke, Massachusetts, blues guitarist/singer Ray Chaput. The feel of the music is blues, and it's combined with a unique soulful sound that takes the music to another level. You can feel the influence of Etta James and Janis Joplin, the blues of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, and the soul of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.
Janet Ryan and Straight Up are a hard working band. In addition to headlining many gigs, they have opened for James Cotton, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Fliers, the Holmes Brothers, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Sugar Ray and the BlueTones, Magic Dick and J. Geils, Monster Mike Welch, Dickey Betts, Michael Hill's Blues Mob, and Charles Neville, among others.Janet Ryan has become a recognizable name in Western Massachusetts since moving here from Southern Connecticut in 1998. Before moving to Connecticut, Janet developed a taste for the blues while living in Chicago, where she soaked up the blues in the juke joints of the Northside. In 1988, she brought her powerful blues presence to the East coast. Janet earned her living performing throughout the Tri State area. (Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York State.) Since moving to the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, Janet won the 2002 Valley Advocate newspapers readers poll for best vocalist, and her band Straight Up! won an award from the Valley Advocate for best Blues Band. She completed two CD's in three years, and held her most recent CD release party for a full house at Theodores' in Springfield, MA. Other recent shows include performances at the Taste of Northampton, MA, the Pioneer Valley Blues Festival, the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA, and the the Pines Theatre in Northampton among many other band and solo shows. Since the release of her first CD "Passion and Fire" and continuing with her latest CD "Wrapped Up In Blue", she and her band Straight Up! have exploded into the local club scene, and continue to blow the audiences away with their high energy rocking blues.
In addition to being a performing songwriter, (Janet wrote all of the material on the latest release) Janet teaches voice and piano at Community Music School of Springfield, as well as maintaining a group of private students in her home in Conway, Massachusetts. Janet has been teaching fifty students for the last year! ---cdbaby.com

Wrapped Up In Blue

Bob Christopher - Born On Friday The 13th

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1994
Time:50:52 
Size:117,9 MB 
Label:Cavern Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Born On Friday The 13th - 5:38
 2. All These Rainy Days - 3:55
 3. T Bone Shuffle - 4:26
 4. Moondance - 5:36
 5. Longways From Home - 4:51
 6. Please Tell Me You're Joking - 4:00
 7. Freddy K - 3:04
 8. Sugarcoated Love - 3:33
 9. Bob's Boogie - 2:03
10. Across The Mojave - 3:14
11. New Year's Resolution - 2:55
12. Texas Sunset - 1:01
13. Summertime - 6:31

Guitarist BOB CHRISTOPHER started his musical career during the late 1960's, a time when you didn’t learn to play the blues from a book, CD or the internet, but by sweating it out in smokey bars and honky tonks. Never an imitator, he chose to do it the hard way and developed his own unique style for both electric and acoustic guitar. After years as both a sideman and bandleader in Texas, he moved to California where he played with Luther Tucker (John Lee Hooker sideman), Zacharias & the Hot Band, and the legendary Frisco Blues Band with whom he first went to Europe.After the tour, he decided to stay and formed the Blueshades with other expatriate musicians from the U.S. He later formed the International TroubleMakers with Belgian and Dutch musicians with whom he recorded his CD, “Born on Friday the 13th”. Currently, his band is Bob Christopher and the Moltchanov Brothers, a trio including Igor Moltchanov on drums and Vassili Moltchanov on bass. He has presented his mixture of his own songs and classic blues and boogie to audiences in Holland, Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium, where he now lives.But, he still considers Texas to be his home and returns there each year to play his own special brand of the blues. (http://www.blues-bobchristopher.com)

Born On Friday The 13th

Chicago Blues Council - Chicago Blues Council Vol.4 - Bad Luck

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2006
Time:63:42 
Size:146,5 MB 
Label:The Orchard 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Bad Luck - 6:35
 2. Outside Looking In - 5:26
 3. Turn Up The Heat - 5:18
 4. Rainin In My Heart - 5:44
 5. 24/7 - 5:57
 6. Getting Away From You - 4:29
 7. Blues Overtake You - 8:00
 8. Walkin Talkin Lookin - 5:00
 9. Waste No Time - 4:49
10. Mississippi Night Club - 7:06
11. Time On My Mind - 5:13

Blues Counsel started in 1987 as the unnamed Jam Band for the Kingdom Bound Christian Music Festival outside of Buffalo, NY. Some members have played together since the mid-seventies and even the newest members of BC have been with the band for over 20 years. Each member has a rich musical history with Blues Counsel as their touch point, playing together as often as they can. Like close friends whose conversation always picks up where it left off, no matter how much time has past, Blues Counsel’s eclectic blend of Blues, Rock & a touch of Latin continues to deliver therapy for your soul with their 6th recording, The Chicago Blues Council band members are:

Rick Cua, Tony Hooper, Tom Lane, Will McFarlane, Tony Morra, and Emedin Rivera ~ daba/

Bad Luck

Big George Brock - Round Two

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2006
Time:44:36 
Size:103,0 MB 
Label:Cat Head Presents 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Intro - 0:08
 2. So Long - 7:02
 3. No No Baby - 2:22
 4. Poor Boy - 3:26
 5. Rockin' Chair - 3:34
 6. Mattson, Miss. - 1:59
 7. Mr. Wal-Mart - 4:58
 8. Shake for Me - 3:21
 9. Arkansas to Memphis - 3:59
10. Round Two - 3:47
11. Sugar Mama - 4:14
12. Burden Down - 3:42
13. Call Me a Lover (bonus) - 1:56

Since recording his first CD for Cat Head, a lot happened in Big George's world. He's appreciating worldwide festival offers, he has been filmed for a documentation about the blues in Mississippi, and a DVD has been released. Also, he performed at the annual 'Blues Music Awards' in Memphis. 74 years-of-age he belongs to the last of the real bluesmen. His blues are raw and unpolished, the real deal. This set of tunes sounds excellent, and is highly recommeded for all lovers of the REAL blues. BIG GEORGE BROCK - hca/voc, BILL ABEL - gtr, LEVAN LORTKIPANIDZE - kbd, LIGHTNIN' MALCOLM - bass, BEN WELLS - drums. Special guest: HUBERT SUMLIN - gtr (2 tracks).[https://www.bear-family.com/brock-big-george-round-two.html]

Round Two

Chicago Skinny - Keg O' Dynamite

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1999
Time:53:17 
Size:122,9 MB 
Label:Big Fat Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Keg O' Dynamite - 3:29
 2. Listen To Me - 5:29
 3. Beater Car Boogie - 5:27
 4. When You Say You Love - 3:18
 5. Lip Service - 4:35
 6. I Got A Job - 5:33
 7. House of Blues - 3:58
 8. Skipper's Song - 5:39
 9. Work is Overrated - 3:25
10. What A Shame - 4:14
11. Loafin' - 3:21
12. What Your Mama Feed You? - 4:43

Musicians:
Steve Chapek - Guitar and vocals;
Leo LaDell - Vocals, harmonica, guitar and accordion;
Scott Johnson - Bass;
Paul Hildebrandt - Drums and percussion.

Chicago Skinny is a four-piece blues band that takes traditional rhythms and gritty expressiveness and blends it with a diverse combination of instruments and voices. Chicago Skinny is about original Big Fat Blues: two guitars (that don't fight each other), two voices (that harmonize), all flavors of harmonica (big 'n' crunchy, clean & pretty, honkin' like a train whistle), a rhythm section that chugs like a '59 Coupe de Ville, and occasionally some squeezebox to indulge your taste for Cajun spice.With this kind of firepower, Chicago Skinny is able to produce a variety of blues sounds: grinding Chicago-style shuffles, West Coast swing and jump tunes, urban funk blues, Texas twang, and New Orleans second-line and zydeco. Chicago Skinny does smokin' versions of classic blues tunes, and the band has created its own "vintemporary" sound with original songs. The band uses fine vintage equipment and tones to drive songs with more contemporary subjects and grooves. "Keg O' Dynamite", the debut release by Chicago Skinny, demonstrates the up-and-coming band's taste, energy and distinctive sound. The all-original disc contains a dozen hard-drivin' blues tunes, played with gusto.Here's what Real Blues Magazine had to say about the effort: "Its hard to believe that this is a debut disc. The level of professionalism, talent and the song-writing especially is top-notch. they mustve played a heck of a lot of gigs to get this polished. loads of talent and a fresh sound".

Keg O' Dynamite

Matt Charles - Highland Avenue

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2024
Time:30:59 
Size:71,5 MB 
Label:Songco Records 
Styles:Blues/Harmonica Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Chicken Shack - 3:24
 2. Shake Your Hips - 3:15
 3. Who Do You Think You Are? - 3:42
 4. What's Shakin' - 2:07
 5. Barnyard Blues - 3:24
 6. Dos Tragos - 2:15
 7. My Baby - 2:53
 8. Highland Avenue (feat. Matthew Stubbs) - 2:58
 9. Astro Rock - 3:11
10. Mellow Down Easy - 2:32
11. Still in the Barnyard - 1:14

Matthew Charles Prozialeck primarily plays in the blues style but has crossed over into progressive rock, reggae funk, country, & folk music. He was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1989 and grew up near Chicago, Illinois. He played trumpet as a kid and he took up the harmonica at age 18 after hearing Howlin’ Wolf, The Yardbirds, Muddy Waters & Paul Butterflied on the radio. He started playing professionally in college. Mostly self-taught, he learned quickly with local blues groups. He played around the Chicago clubs for a few years in various bands and did some session work while mastering blues playing. Matthew first got turned onto Seydel harmonicas in 2011 after meeting Charlie Musselwhite who suggested he try them. He uses the Seydel Session Steels and 1847 classics they have been his harps of choice ever since.
In August of 2015 Matthew relocated to Boston, Massachusetts to join the band Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers. He also has played in the dance rock band Lovewhip and with classic blues project GA-20. The Delta Swingers tour nationally and were semifinalists in the International Blues Challenge in 2017. At the age of 27 he was the second youngest harmonica player in the competition and the youngest to reach the semifinals that year. His first album with the Delta Swingers, Big Road was released on Vizztone in October of 2017 to positive reviews and chart performance. Matthew played in excess of 150 gigs a year with Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers.
In January 2019 Matthew left Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers to work on various solo projects. In August 2019 he appeared as a guest on GA-20's Debut 45 single "Naggin On My Mind" on Karma Chief records, singing backing vocals and playing harp on the "B-Side Sit Down Baby". In October of 2019 he was also a guest on GA-20's debut album singing backing vocals on the opening track "Naggin' On My Mind" and playing harmonica on "You Know I'm Right" The album charted art number 2 on the billboard blues albums chart.
In October 2019 he co-founded the Boston based blues band The Wandering Ones. The Wandering Ones' first release appeared on The Rum Bar Records compilation Rabble Rousers. Prozialeck took a hiatus from performing during the COVID Pandemic. The Wandering Ones performed at the final Viva East Rockabilly festival in 2022.

Highland Avenue

Chicos Bail Bonds - Bust'n Out The Blues

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2006
Time:47:05 
Size:108,4 MB 
Label:Big O Records 
Styles:Electric Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Born to Play the Blues - 4:32
 2. Rich & Lucky - 4:17
 3. Noise Upstairs - 4:27
 4. Traffic Jam Blues - 6:23
 5. Blue Light Special - 3:49
 6. Boot Shakin Woman - 3:33
 7. Times Are Getting Tougher - 7:56
 8. Get Off My Train - 4:16
 9. Rich & Lucky (Acoustic) - 3:48
10. Nervous Energy - 4:00

The band consists of Eric Ramirez on guitar and vocals, Aaron Murillo on bass and vocals, and drummer Joe Velosa. Each band member has over twenty years of ... Three musicians with leader Eric Ramirez (guitar & vocals).

Bust'n Out The Blues

Matt Charles - Java Tsunami

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2002
Time:51:13 
Size:118,2 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Classic Rock/Singer-Songwriter/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Don't Leave Without Me - 6:30
 2. Sacred Heart - 4:42
 3. I Will Not Break You - 5:15
 4. Don't Kiss Me - 4:44
 5. Ashes - 4:25
 6. Selfish Love - 3:48
 7. Rainfall - 3:55
 8. She Rises - 5:17
 9. Feel - 5:06
10. Time Heals Nothing - 7:27

Matt Charles is old school – no fads, no fashion.The Tasmanian-born singer songwriter’s debut album, Java Tsunami, chases down a classic rock sound that’s fueled with honest and achingly powerful songs.
Steeped in the rock sensibility of his musical heroes, the album’s lean and tight arrangements add weight and depth to Charles’ writing, while inspired playing from lead guitarist Andrew Gatenby adds just the right amount of muscle.The band rocks; all are old friends, they’re having a good time and it shows. They help make songs like Sacred Heart gleam and shimmer, while Ashes, with its seductive rhythm and understated melody twists around the lyrics to help draw out the song’s dark truth. Matt Charles writes songs that are honest and clear, in the way that neither the music nor the lyric gets in the way of the other. Its themes are universal, and tips its hat to the tradition of folk and blues, where life, love and loss strikes the chord in each of us, regardless of what musical fashion dictates. Java Tsunami is a rich seam of light and shade, a song set that is uplifting and hopeful, dark and truthful. It’s a conversation Charles invites you to join – come in and sit down for a while.

Java Tsunami

Secret 4 & Willie Buck - Lab Jam (Live)

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2024
Time:53:47 
Size:124,0 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Boogie Woogie (Live) - 4:45
 2. Don't Seem Like We Get Along (Live) - 4:22
 3. How Long Can This Go On (Live) - 3:42
 4. I Try so Hard to Please You (Live) - 8:22
 5. I'm Watching You (Live) - 7:22
 6. Love Me Like I Love You (Live) - 4:02
 7. Lump in A / I Like It Like Dat (Live) - 5:05
 8. Pump up the Night (Live) - 4:15
 9. Twine Time (Live) - 5:17
10. Rockn' (Live) - 6:29

Collectively speaking Secret 4 has been a part of the rockabilly, blues, rock, urban, and jazz scene in Chicago and Detroit for almost 120 years. Veterans of the music.The Secret 4 is all instrumental band, all Chicago, deeply rooted in the Chicago Blues, Rockabilly, crossing paths at Country Road, Surf Ct, and Punk Lane.Blues vocalist Willie Buck was born in 1937 in the small town of Houston, Mississippi. Willie performed on what became known as the “Chittlin Circuit” bouncing between Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, North & South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Shortly after developing his reputation, Willie migrated to Chicago in 1954 where he truly immersed himself in the Chicago Blues scene and became a real force on “Maxwell Street”. Willie was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in Chicago in the summer of 2004.

Lab Jam (Live)

Chickens Go Mad - Don't Touch Me

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1994/2015
Time:42:19 
Size:97,8 MB 
Label:Marista Records/Blues Company Records 
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Working man - 3:31
 2. Shiver - 4:38
 3. Deep inside - 3:38
 4. Trouble - 4:47
 5. Still mine - 3:19
 6. Two - 3:24
 7. Eskimo woman - 2:05
 8. Now I see you crying - 4:52
 9. What about it - 4:18
10. Little girl in the corner - 2:46
11. Don't touch me - 4:56

Chickens Go Mad has been around for a while. Founded in Fryslan The Netherlands in 1987. Released several CDs, 1994 - Don't Touch Me (Marista). 1996 - Jeu De Blues (Krazy Kat). 2001 - Rau, Blau & Gau, Live In Frisian (Marista). 2006 - Chicken Sauce (Marista) and in 2018 - FiiF (Indieplant). FiiF is the fifth CD with mainly songs by Eelco Engelsma and Henk Osinga. Where our music once started with Chicago and Texas blues, we now mainly play regional country blues.

Don't Touch Me

Chain Smoking Hags - Fresh Out

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2015
Time:32:24 
Size:79,9 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Blues No. 1 - 3:15
 2. You Lied - 2:56
 3. Walkin' - 3:07
 4. The Drought - 3:29
 5. Hipster Blues - 3:06
 6. Free - 5:58
 7. Mama - 3:22
 8. In Walks Your Man - 2:44
 9. Coffin Song - 4:24

Musicians:
Ed Adams - Guitar;
Chris Brect - Bass;
David Renfroe - Drums.

Blues from Pensacola Florida. Ready to blow the roof off! Our album "FRESH OUT" can be listened now.

 Chain Smoking Hags - Fresh Out

Chich - I'm Alive

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2014
Time:46:48 
Size:108,2 MB 
Label:Chichmusic 
Styles:Aussie Contemporary Blues/Singer-Songwriter/Aussie Rock
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Lover - 3:24
 2. Unrequited - 4:06
 3. Coming Home - 4:15
 4. Mistress - 3:06
 5. I'm Alive - 3:53
 6. Chasing the Moon - 3:05
 7. Sorry - 4:24
 8. Is It Gone? - 3:55
 9. Denim Denim - 4:15
10. Revolutionaries - 4:09
11. Joy - 4:51
12. Lover (Strings Version) - 3:19

Australian blues music is a genre that combines traditional blues elements with unique Australian influences. The lyrics often touch on themes of love, loss, and the struggles of everyday life. The genre has gained popularity in recent years, with a new wave of artists bringing their own spin to the classic sound.Great album, great performer, great music! A completely unknown musician to me.His music touched the strings of my soul.

I'm Alive

Carlos Childe - Cooking Melodies

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2008
Time:46:37 
Size:107,2 MB 
Label:PAI Musica Edicions
Styles:Electric Blues/Jazzy Blues/R&B 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Sitting By The Fire - 3:05
 2. The House Of The Rising Sun - 4:19
 3. I Wish To Be In Your Dreams - 3:33
 4. God Bless The Child - 5:16
 5. Rain In September - 3:17
 6. Blue Moon - 4:25
 7. White Donkey - 2:59
 8. Blues Wander Round The Room - 3:52
 9. Gold For Love - 3:24
10. Yellow Meadow - 3:52
11. Summertime - 5:13
12. Lost In My Own Room - 3:18

“Cooking melodies” is the first album of Carlos Childe, a disk prepared without additives or colouring in the kitchen of the studies Tolos House by the chef according to Grandio, seasoned with a dash of blues and swing, and much, much Foundation.A good guitarist, composer and effective singer (whose tone reminds me of today's Bob Dylan), Carlos Childe delights us in his first album with a series of songs rooted in the tradition of Texas blues and jazz, all sprinkled with a lot of swing and groove in each and every one of the album's performances. Carlos also flirts with old traditional songs such as The House Of The Rising Sun in a very intense and particular version, but he also includes eight of his own songs with a successful, modern and contemporary vision as far as arrangements are concerned. Twelve good songs that pass with a high mark and denote the good taste and good future prospects that our man has. The musicians who accompany him are in their place and provide tradition, with good examples of professionalism and knowledge of what is expected of them. Excellent work by the brothers Luis and Juan Tinaquero on guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin and double bass respectively and superb Victor Sánchez on saxophones and clarinet.

Cooking Melodies

Kid Ramos - Strange Things Happening

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2024
Time:61:41 
Size:142,1 MB 
Label:Straight Street Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Strange Things Happening (feat. Brian Templeton) - 4:38
 2. How I Got Over (feat. Brian Templeton) - 5:39
 3. I'm Working On A Building (feat. Brian Templeton) - 3:49
 4. Oh, What A Meeting (feat. Johnny Ramos) - 7:09
 5. Jesus Dropped The Charges (feat. Brian Templeton) - 5:39
 6. An Answer For Issac (feat. Brian Templeton) - 4:56
 7. God Walks The Dark Hills (feat. Johnny Ramos) - 5:10
 8. Satan's Jeweled Crown (feat. Brian Templeton & Johnny Ramos) - 4:10
 9. Nobody But The Lord (feat. Brian Templeton) - 3:28
10. Every Grain of Sand (feat. Brian Templeton) - 6:20
11. More Love, More Power (feat. Johnny Ramos & Brian Templeton) - 4:54
12. I'm A Pilgrim (feat. Brian Templeton) - 5:43

Born on January 13, 1959, in Fullerton, CA, blues-rock guitarist David "Kid" Ramos inherited his love of music from his parents, who were both professional opera singers. When his father grew tired of life on the road, he settled down with his family, buying a gas station in Anaheim. One day, when Kid was eight, he bought his son an electric guitar and amplifier from a customer passing through. By his teenaged years, Ramos was playing friend's parties and nightclubs on a regular basis, joining harmonica expert James Harman's blues-based band in 1980 (all its members sported sharkskin suits), playing up and down California alongside such punk bands as X, Oingo Boingo, the Blasters, and the Plimsouls. Kid played with the Harman Band for most of the '80s, until his departure in 1988, and although he filled in as the guitarist for the outfit Roomful of Blues, decided to put his musical career on the backburner to focus on his home life and start a family (for the next seven years, Ramos was employed as a water delivery man).
Eventually though, his desire to play music returned and Ramos formed the Big Rhythm Combo with singer Lynwood Slim (issuing The Big Rhythm Combo in 1994), in addition to releasing his first-ever solo album, Two Hands One Heart, in 1995. The same year, Ramos was invited to join one of his favorite all-time bands, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, at the personal request of their singer, Kim Wilson. Ramos promptly accepted and he returned back to the road. In addition to his work with the T-Birds, Ramos has continued to issue solo albums on a regular basis, including 1999's self-titled sophomore effort, 2000's West Coast House Party, and 2001's Greasy Kid's Stuff. ~Greg Prato

Strange Things Happening