Artist description Jump blues/bebop pleasure machine, three lead singers (two gigantic breasts on one of them), sweat and booze-soaked stage show, no zoot suits or cartoon swing!

Music Style Jump Blues/Jazz

Musical Influences Wynonie Harris, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, T-Bone Walker, Count Basie, etc.

Artist History Buddy Blue was a founding member of '80s roots rockers the Beat Farmers and the Jacks. Blue has also produced albums by Billy Bacon & the Forbidden Pigs, the Rugburns and Joy Eden Harrison and has recorded with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Richard Berry, Merrill Moore, Dave Alvin, Billy Zoom, Lee Rocker, Mike Keneally, Mojo Nixon and others. The members of Blue's band have been long-time players on the Southern California jazz, blues and rockabilly scenes.

Group Members Buddy Blue - vocals, guitar; Romy Kaye -- vocals, Jerry Rig -- bass, vocals; Sweetlips Mysterioso -- trumpet, cornet; Petey Bogle -- drums; Lee Elderton -- saxophones

Albums "Dipsomania!," brand new and available NOW at www.buddyblue.com on Clarence Records/Hepact;; "Greasy Jass" '97 Clarence/Hepcat (temporarily solf out); "Dive Bar Casanovas" '94 Bizarre/Planet (still available on cassette at www.buddyblue.com); "Guttersnipes 'n' Zealots," '91 Rhino (out of print).

Press Reviews San Diego-based guitarist Buddy Blue is no overnight convert to the suddenly mobbed swing music arena. The ex-Beat Farmer's irreverent lyrics transcend the synthetic shallowness that too often characterizes the retro swing movement: "Hi 5n White Boy" is a hilarious, scathing indictment of yuppies (a few zoot-suited swing children may take offense, too), while "Slim Jam" pays hepcat tribute to jazz pioneer Slim Gaillard. Blue unleashes some intriguing licks on a rocking "Drunk Again," his horn section blowing mightily; "Ball Tonight" reeks of late-night hipster cool. --Bill Dahl,Living Blue......"Greasy Jass" is easily Blue's most ambitious and accomplished work to date. The album finds Blue writing, singing and playing with more strength and confidence than ever. What makes "Greasy Jass" one of the best albums in recent memory is it's stylistic diversity and uniformly high quality. Witness the seamless manner in which Blue combines dance-happy jump blues and swing with bop-inspired instrumentals, a Dixieland-flavored lament, bluesy reveries and even a droll, spoken-word opus on the dangers of alcohol, "Conversation With The Bottle." It surely would make Tom Waits smile and nod with approval. "Greasy Jass" makes it clear Blue and his crack band can swing with the best of them. -- George Varga,San Diego Union Tribune..................Buddy Blue's point of departure here is mid-40s jump and R&B bands e.g. Louis Jordan, but Blue and his band members aren't merely copying this style, as even a cursory listen to the lyrics indicates. Some of the simple, catchy tunes here are reminiscent of '40s pieces, but more contemporary influences are present as well; the spare melodic waltz "Horn Rims" and the vamp-based "Pray For Rain" have Miles Davis influences. Woodwind player Eddie Croft's "Minor Buzz" is another pretty, economically written piece. Blue's a powerful, intense singer who combines R&B and rockabilly influences; his fast vibrato is reminiscent of Elvis Presley's. The instrumental solos swing buoyantly. Blue really cooks, he's a much-improved technician, which enables him to take more chances and broaden his musical vocabulary. The spots by Croft on alto and tenor sax and Sweetlips Mysterioso on trumpet jump infectiously. These guys are headed in the right direction -- Harvey Pekar,Cleveland Plain Dealer

Additional Info Other albums released with the Beat Farmers and the Jacks.

Location La Mesa, CA - USA

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