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John Bull Band
7+ albums
blues rockblues
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The John Bull Band These veteran players channel their sound from an era in American music that began about the time Little Walter first “electrified” his harmonica with a cheap dispatchers mic and tube amp, and ended about the time B.B. King recorded “Thrill is Gone”. While they mine their material from sources as diverse as Hank Williams and Nat King Cole (also from Montgomery), the sound never strays far from the blues. John Bull - singer/harp player, once captained his own riverboat in Montgomery, Al. He hired the best local and regional blues players to entertain, and ran a Sunday evening "Blues Cruise". John learned much sitting-in with these accomplished veterans, including his current guitarist, Sheffield Walker. Over the years John formed his own bands, eventually selling the riverboat and focusing on music. These days John is a local favorite and tours throughout the southeast. While he no longer owns Montgomery's riverboat, John still plays the "Blues Cruise" on most Sunday evenings, as he has for more than twenty years. Sheffield Walker - guitarist, was seventeen years old when he played on legendary harp player Slim Harpo’s 1968 album “Tip on in”. This is just one of many significant pieces of Sheffield's long musical history, but you’d be hard pressed to get him to speak at all about his past - he lets his playing do the talking, and it speaks loud and clear of decades spent honing his skills in southern juke joints. Sheffield is a bonafide blues guitar hero
