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The Roy Sites Band
2+ albums
bluesblues rock
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The History Of The Roy Sites Band Roy Sites was born a poor black child in a one room shanty house in Columbus Ohio on the wrong side of the tracks. He made his first guitar at the age of 10 out of a cardboard shoe box with strings made out of fishing line. He first learned to play from listing to Blind Lemon Lightning Gatemouth Brown records on a victrola his dad found at the local dumps during a family picnic. Sometime later Roy meets Robert Johnson they go to the crossroads and meet.....well you know ....The rest is history. Okay it's history...it's not HIS history but hey it reads like a good blues story! Roy picked up the guitar in the mid sixties. He was immediately influenced by the Beatles and the Stones but at the tail end of the Summer Of Love he found Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Mike Bloomfeld, & all the Kings (Freddie Albert & BB) His guitar became part of his body and fairly soon, what he heard in his head could be played by his fingers. During the 70s Roy was in and out of numerous bands, none of which shared his passion for heavy blues guitar. Not content to play the Top 40, Roy sought out the best musicians in Cincinnati and formed the Cincinnati Kids. The group was an instant success. Roy found himself being voted into musicians poles as one of Ohio's best guitarists, and then shockingly he was listed in the top 30 Blues guitarists of all time by an Ohio readers poll in 1974. And all this without a proper recording contract! Finally when the bands populari
