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Colin Dussault's Blues Project Band is a Cleveland, Ohio, based five piece blues-rock group best known for songs such as “Little Chicken Wing Girl,” “Good Booty & BBQ,” “O.J. Simpson’s DNA,” and “Tidioute, Pennsylvania Revisited;" and their 1998 remake of James Taylor's "Fire and Rain". The band's CD releases, live shows, and work schedule have resulted in group being called of the "Hardest Working Band in Northern Ohio." Formed in 1989 in Cleveland, Ohio, Colin Dussault’s Blues Project Band is a harmonica-driven, blues-based rock ‘n’ soul group.〔Cassidy, Charles. "Bluesman Bounces Back from Heart Ailment to Keep Playing." West Life, 23 July 2008.〕 Founder and leader Dussault has been called "a powerful, yet warm singer"〔 with a “howling phlegmatic voice that sounds like Bobby Bland trying to scream over the roar of a DC-9” with a blues harp style〔River Front Times, St. Louis Missourt , October 15, 1997〕 "...and a must hear not only for blues fans but for fans of Cleveland's rich musical history".〔Brueining, Jonah. Scene Magazine, 8 Sep 1994.〕 His “stage presence, charisma and wonderful voice are the makings of a national blues figure.〔Wolff, Carlo. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Scene and Heard, "Colin Dussault’s Future Is Far More Than Local," May 30, 1998〕 His harmonica style is influenced by the Chicago blues of the ‘50s,〔Holan, Marc. Local Spotlight. Scene Magazine, 1995.〕 the British blues of the ‘60s, and American country and folk idioms. An official endorser of Hohner harmonicas since 1994, Dussault plays the Hohner Big River model in second position, or cross-harp style. ==History== Dussault began his musical career in 1985 as a sophomore at Lakewood, Ohio, High School, with the help of David Treaster, a classmate and a classically trained guitarist.〔Dussault, Colin. Interview with author, 2010.〕 The son of watercolor artist Richard Treaster, David Treaster exposed Dussault to B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Allman Brothers. The two blues fans shortly teamed up with other classmates to form the short-lived Blues Junction, which performed at house parties, a battle of the bands and a high school talent show.〔 Dussault began to play professionally after graduating from Lakewood High in 1987. In the summer of he sat in on harmonica with big band leader and CBS Records artist Al Serafini at a wedding reception the Dussault family was attending. Serafini, who over twenty years earlier had founded the Blackweles, a band that featured Colin’s father, Artie Dussault, on bass, invited the younger Dussault onstage. The enthusiastic audience response prompted Dussault to find work with various local bands including the Delgado Brothers, Bill Dawg and the Extraordinaires, and Hitman.〔 Eventually Hitman evolved into Colin Dussault’s Blues Project, which debuted at the Ultimate Sports Bar in Lakewood on Saturday, May 13, 1989. The band was soon playing all over Greater Cleveland. It now performs more than 300 shows a year at venues such as blues clubs, biker bars, and upscale wineries, from the Lake Erie Islands to upstate New York, and often opens up for national touring blues and rock artists.〔Hogan, Max. "Colin Dussault Keeps Moving On." Downtown Tab, 1995.〕 Its membership has included alumni of such well-known Cleveland bands as Moonlight Drive, the Saxons, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Calabash, Mr. Stress Blues Band, Anne E. DeChant, Jehovah’s Waitresses, the Pony Express Band, and I-Tal. The current lineup, besides Dussault, is charter member Jimmy Feeney (guitar); Fred Tobey (bass, vocals); Greg Hurd (keyboards, vocals); Fredo Perez-Stable (drums) and roadie Robbie Green. In 2010, Dussault allied with Tie-Dye Harvest’s Jim Tigue and Michael Stanley Band and Wish You were Here bassist/vocalist Eric “Eroc” Sosinski to form Colin Dussault’s Acoustic Side Project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Dussault Blues Project Band」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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