Harold Stewart & The Blues Hounds
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The Blues Hounds were one of the best known Blues bands in Japan for over 12 years, opening for top visiting pro performers, as well as headlining their own major events, & doing some international touring. Harold's played on the stages of 8 countries, as well as being featured on the radio & TV in 4 countries.

Harold returned to the U.S. in 2011, & has establish the U.S. version of this top-notch, professional-attitude Blues band in the Columbus, Ohio area.

The cover-songs of the Blues Hounds repertoire are specifically chosen to be some of the coolest Blues songs around, & NOT standard "chestnut" jam-band style Blues songs.

Any potential new members should have experience playing BLUES music (shuffles, straight-8, slow blues, etc.), & be aware of standard Blues phrases, turn-arounds, & closings for songs.

Although the band members all have day jobs, this band looks at itself as a no-nonsense, professional undertaking, offering consistent, upbeat, top-shelf performances.
(Therefore, NO ego, punctuality, or substance-abuse issues will be tolerated from band members).

hsandtheblueshounds(at)h-o-t-m-a-i-l

Screen name:
HSAndTheBluesHounds
Member since:
Feb 21 2013
Active over 1 month ago
Level of commitment:
Very Committed
Years together:
15
Gigs played:
Over 100
Tend to practice:
1 time per week
Available to gig:
1 night a week
Age:
55 years

Influences

Our influences are the artists who made some of the coolest & funkiest Blues music ever, with a big horn-line & a Hammond B-3 organ sound, in the flavor of late-60's Stax Records:
Albert King, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Jr. Wells, & Freddie King, as well as Lucky Peterson, Ray Charles, Roomful Of Horns, Delbert McClinton, etc.

(Although we enjoy listening to it, we're definitely NOT shooting for a Texas-Blues, SRV, "chunk-chunka" kinda sound).

Members Of Band

Sample Repertoire Songs:

24 Hour Blues, Ain't Doin' Too Bad, All Your Love (I Miss Loving), Blue Monday, Boom Boom, Born Under A Bad Sign, Caldonia, Crosscut Saw, Don't Burn Down The Bridge, Evening, Every Day I Have The Blues, Fever, Further On Up The Road, Good Morning Little School Girl, Got To Be Some Changes Made, Grits Ain't Groceries, Help Me, High Cost Of Loving, I Believe To My Soul, I Don't Need No Doctor, I Got The Blues, I Thank You, I Wanna Get Funky, I Want To Love You, I'll Play The Blues For You, Let Me Love You Baby, Lillie Mae, Lipstick Powder & Paint, Messin' With The Kid, Night Stomp, Oh Pretty Woman, Red House, Roadhouse Blues, Rock This House, Shake Rattle & Roll, She's A Burglar, Something's Got A Hold On Me, T-Bone Shuffle, That Will Never Do, The Blues Is Alright, The Sky Is Crying, The Thrill Is Gone, Traveling South, Watermelon Man, Wild Woman, Worried Down With The Blues, You're Gonna Need Me, Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash

EQUIPMENT

The band has it's own P.A. system available.

MUSIC