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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Mayday! Larry "Fuzzy" Knight's Blowin Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue Back at Harvelle's

                                                

    Mayday! Larry "Fuzzy" Knight's Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue Featuring The Fabulous Smokettes Back At Harvelle's


Saturday,  May 23, 2015 from 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.


  (Santa Monica, CA) - Mayday! Larry "Fuzzy" Knight's Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue featuring The Fabulous Smokettes, return to Harvelle's, 1432 4th St., in Santa Monica, on Saturday, May 23. Admission is $10. 9:30pm-1 am. Info: (310) 395-1676 or http://santamonica.harvelles.com .

  Knight, a longtime seminal figure in the blues/R&B/soul music scene with a career that streches back several decades, proudly fronts the same eleven-piece ensemble he first started in southern California back in 1995 (the band just celebrated their 20th anniversary in March).

BLOWIN' SMOKE RHYTHM & BLUES REVUE
AND LARRY "FUZZY" KNIGHT IN THE NEWS




   Bandleader Larry "Fuzzy" Knight is interviewed by blues writer Monte Adkinson is an impressive three-page spread in the May-June 2015 issue of Florida's Suncoast News, viewable here.



Blowin' Smoke was feted in the April 2015 issue of national publication, Music Connection (above).

Blowin' Smoke performing live at the California Strawberry Festival







Do You Remember Where You Were & What You Were Doing In 1995, The Year Blowin' Smoke First Formed & Started Playing Live in SoCal?


  Two decades ago - 1995, to be exact - a gallon of gasoline was $1.09, a dozen eggs were 87 cents, postage stamps were 32 cents each, and the average cost of a new car was $15,500.00. Also that year, longtime Southern California musician Larry "Fuzzy" Knight formed the Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue, a unique, multi-instrumental band with a big lineup and an even larger sound, augmented by three superb female vocalists collectively known as The Smokettes.  Their debut album "Beyond The Blues Horizon" was hailed by the L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Music Connection and more for it's smart blend of blues, R&B, and soul, utilization of a rich-sounding horn ensemble and of course, those ever-present Smokettes on vocals.

  Two decades later, much has changed (especially those aforementioned prices!). but one thing has remained constant - Knight and Blowin' Smoke are still going strong, entertaining audiences at festivals and better nightclubs throughout the Southland, often accompanied onstage by renowned guest musicians. "Blowin' Smoke conveys a welcome reminder to all people with a beating heart that putting a full horn section in front of a smoking rhythm section, then layering three charismatic and powerful vocalists on top of that - all live and at the same time - is music at its most enriching," writes MUSIC CONNECTION. "Bandleader Larry "Fuzzy" Knight reminds all of us in the modern technological era that real people with real instruments and real personalities are playing music that hits the gut and forces the knees to bend."

  Knight - whose impressive musical resume' includes a decade-plus stint as bassist for one of the great SoCal bands to emerge from the psychedelic era of the Sixties, Spirit - recently announced the addition of a new member to the Blowin’ Smoke lineup, Don Preston.  Preston is a former original member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and co-founder of the “GrandMothers”, of which he recorded a total of thirty-plus albums.

  

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