Since The Hurricane - Peter Novelli Band
Guitarist Peter Novelli, based in New Orleans, works in a range of styles and likes to absorb diverse musical influences. The Peter Novelli Band plays Louisiana roots music, a swampy blend of blues-rock-R&B-funk with zydeco-cajun influences. Peter began study of violin at age 6, took up guitar at 13 after hearing a BB King record. The intensity, passion and raw emotional content of some of the blues masters (black and white, American and British) stuck in Peter’s ear and that is what drives him to this day. He likes to combine this feel with some of the harmonic ideas of jazz, and the relentless groove of zydeco, along with just about any cool and unusual style of music or rhythm that works for the project at hand. Early influences, along with B.B., were George Barnes, Mike Bloomfield, early Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Freddie King, Guitar Slim, James Burton, Clarence White, Carl Perkins, T-Bone Walker, Gatemouth Brown, Roy Buchanan. Peter was also strongly inf...