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.
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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