Leroy Ellington Band - Blue Eyed Blues [EP]

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2019
Time:21:59 
Size:50,6 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. I Wanna Tickle Your Fancy - 3:28
 2. Baptized in a Bedpan - 5:37
 3. When the Blues Is Born - 4:30
 4. Two Brothers - 4:36
 5. Stone Cold Bad - 3:47

In 2018, singer/saxophonist Leroy Ellington assembled a group of music veterans near Cincinnati, in southwestern Ohio, under the name Leroy Ellington’s Sacred Hearts. Alongside Ellington, the group includes Mike Grosser (bass), Marcos Sastre (guitar, vocals), Max Gise (guitar), Charlie Fletche (keyboards, vocals), and Rick “Bam” Powell (drums, vocals). Ellington has been involved in music for three decades. He began his career in the 1980s playing with Ritchie & The Students (a doo-wop band with several hit singles in the late 1950s), led by frontman Richard Johnson. Their biggest hit was "I'm So Young," covered by The Beach Boys and featured on the soundtrack of the film "Cry Baby." In the 1990s, Leroy joined Stacy Mitchhart's band, Stacy! & Blues-U-Can-Use, as a saxophonist. With him, he recorded "Blues Transfusion" in 1993, for which Ellington wrote several songs. In 1994, Leroy Ellington started his own band, Leroy Ellington & The E-Funk Band. This band was an important part of the Cincinnati music scene for over twenty years.In 2012, Ellington started The Leroy Ellington Band (as a side project). They were second at the 2012 Cincinnati BC and second at the 2013 Dayton BC. In 2016, they released the EP "Blue Eyed Blues," an album that was named "Best Self-Produced CD" by the Cincinnati Blues Society in 2016. In May 2015, Ellington was a guest vocalist with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, which paid tribute to the music of Chicago & Blood, Sweat & Tears. Ellington sang songs by the legendary Canadian BS&T singer, guitarist, and pianist (now 78!) David Clatyon Thomas. In early 2018, Leroy Ellington began his latest recording project, Leroy Ellington’s Sacred Hearts. "Sanctified" was his 2019 debut album. It's more than just a blues album, and the song selection draws on Ellington's career.

Blue Eyed Blues [EP]