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Smoke Blues Band
2+ albums
blues rockblues
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Bald Eagle Moan by Smoke Blues Band Bastille Family Records After a wait of more than thirty years, the music of one of Utah's premiere bands from the tumultuous era of the 1960's is finally released on compact disk. Smoke Blues Band was born in 1967 when several young musicians living near the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City joined together to play the music which they loved, which was the blues. They felt that the majority of the main progressive rock bands of the day had contaminated and diluted this most basic American music, and they wanted to get back into "playing the real thing in its pure form." Back then, Salt Lake City boasted a surprising number of good bands, including groups like Holden Caulfield, Chump Change, Wood, and The War of Armageddon. But while other bands tried to outdo each other in emulating the new psychedelic sounds and "be hip", the members of Smoke were turning on to the latest blues recordings coming out of Chicago. Their heroes were artists like Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite. As such, they began to play their blues music almost as a reaction to the overblown, often blues-tinged offerings of the new rock bands of the late '60's like the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and Jefferson Airplane. Salt Lake City, by its very geography, became a significant performance outpost for these new bands as they began to reach out across the country to promote their recordings and achieve national recognitio
