Thursday, February 26, 2009

Blues Travler Set to play at JD Legends June 27

This summer is going to be an exciting summer with our 2009 Concerts. We have just added Blues Travler. We orginally had Blues Travler last year but could not get the right routing for them to play at JD Legends on June 27. Allot of people were disappointed that we did not book them last year and were looking forward to having them this year. Tickets are going to be discounted on the first 200 tickets sold so make sure to get your tickets early.

Blues Traveler is an American rock band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. They are known for extensive use of segues in their live performances.
Currently, the group comprises singer and harmonica virtuoso John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, drummer Brendan Hill, bassist Tad Kinchla and keyboardist Ben Wilson. Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson joined the band following the death of original bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999 of a drug overdose in New Orleans, Louisiana.
While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their singles "But Anyway", "Run-Around" and "Hook". They gained mainstream radio popularity from their fourth studio album Four, released in 1994.
Sheehan's death and Popper's struggle with obesity put a damper on the group's success, and A&M dropped the band in 2002. However, the band took this transition period as an opportunity to start in new directions musically, going largely independent and releasing on smaller experimental labels.
Recently, Blues Traveler recorded a "best-of" collection of older songs reinterpreted with acoustic instrumentation called Cover Yourself, released October 2007; a new studio album, North Hollywood Shootout, was released on the Verve Forecast label August 26, 2008

Tickets will go on sale soon and make sure to ask about how you can meet Blues Traveler in our V.I.P. section. Check out the youtube video below to listen to their famous song run around.