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JJ Grey + bassist Todd Smallie + guitarist Andrew Trube played a special acoustic set at Sun King Studio 92 WTTS in Indianapolis last week!
His band, JJ Grey & Mofro, has graced major festivals worldwide, sharing stages with renowned artists.
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JJ Grey & Mofro – Olustee (Alligator Records, 2023)

Blues outfit JJ Grey & Mofro’s latest offering, Olustee (2023), highlights Grey’s continued exploration of his multifaceted musical, lyrical, and gritty baritone vocals. Immersed in the mythical tales of the American South, particularly his ancestral Florida roots, Grey weaves a narrative enriched by the characters populating his own life. Olustee marks his tenth and first self-produced album in nine years.

The compositions vividly capture the essence of the region, portrayed with a poet’s perspective and delivered with undiluted soulfulness. The eleven tracks traverse a spectrum of emotions, from the contemplative in “The Sea” to the exuberant celebration of the engaging “Wonderland,” and from a harrowing escape from a rampant wildfire in the tittle track to the introspective finale, “Deeper Than Belief.”

Amidst personal triumphs and challenges, Grey’s lyrics convey messages of resilience, aspirations, familial bonds, and an overarching theme of cherishing the natural world while savoring

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The Derek Trucks Band is a band started by slide guitarist prodigy, Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with The Allman Brothers Band, as early as eleven years old. Raised partly on tour with them throughout his youth, meeting and playing with famous musicians, Trucks was still unsure about his own future. He resolved to start his own band while still an adolescent. What first began as a side project, and a way for Trucks to explore his own creativity, has evolved into an eclectic band with some of the most talented musicians from the southeastern United States. Loosely based in his home town of Jacksonville, Florida since 1994-1995, since his mid-teens, the band has drawn upon the wide variety of the influences and tastes of its current band members, and has gained fame for playing blues, southern rock, jazz, Indian classical, and a fusion of world music.

Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Derek Trucks took up the guitar at age 9, and it was quickly apparent that he was a child prodigy. He was playing with a band and touring within two years. His early repertoire wa

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Not every blues artist can create a cohesive sound in the genre by weaving in a diversity of other influences, but guitarist and vocalist JP Soars is obviously not just any blues artist. A 2009 winner of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN with his band the Red Hots (and the festival's Albert King Award winner as best guitarist to boot), the Arkansas native toured extensively through the United States, Canada, South America and Europe with metal bands after relocating to South Florida, and is one of the few guitarists also capable of adding nuances of his long-standing, Django Reinhardt-inspired "Gypsy jazz" side project.

It all coalesces on Soars' upcoming fourth CD, Southbound I-95, recorded at the familiar Studio 13 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Dotted with special guests, its sessions reveal hints of soul, R&B, surf, reggae, roots and country music on both Soars originals and a sprinkling of surprising covers -- all of which enhance and modernize, rather than take away from, the disc's traditional blues undercurrent."

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