"Chicago's Hardest-Working Blues Band...For Over Two Decades!"
"Chicago's Hardest-Working Blues Band," Howard and the White Boys.
<<<Perform Locally: Double D's in Tonawanda - Friday, June 22>>>
The veteran quartet are recently back from their yearly Southern tour
and continue to perform through out the U.S., bringing audiences to
their feet and out onto the dance floor - much as they have done for
over twenty years - while getting ready to record the follow up to their
critically-acclaimed most recent recording, MADE IN CHICAGO (Evidence Records). Most recently, band member Rocco Calipari has branched out with his side project Head Honchos', who have released a well-received debut CD.
MADE IN CHICAGO
represents the zenith of the group's recorded output, and it's
certainly the disc that Howard & the White Boys are most proud of.
While the band hadn't recorded in six years, they've been gigging
continuously throughout the U.S. and Europe; this, in turn, has lent
their trademark brand of contemporary blues an indomitable tightness
brimming with raw power. All of this comes through on the new disc,
proving that the wait was well worth it.
Watch Howard and The White Boys performing their funky interpretation
of the Robert Cray tune "Phone Booth" at the Blues Nights Festival in
Lithuania below:
The members of
Howard And the White Boys first met at Northern Illinois University in
Dekalb in 1988 and began jamming together just for fun, but their
fast-growing popularity soon convinced them they could make a career of
it. After only a few months, they got their first big break by opening
for Blues legend, B.B. King. The band soon made the move to Chicago and
began performing with the biggest names in Blues: Koko Taylor, Albert
King, Junior Wells, Lonnie Brooks, Luther Allison, Bo Diddley, and Chuck
Berry (the latter whom they were the backing band for in a headlining
capacity at the 2002 Long Beach Blues Festival in Long Beach, Calif.).