Larry "Fuzzy" Knight's Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue Featuring The Fabulous Smokettes 'Spring' Into Harvelle's
Saturday, April 25, 2015 from 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
(Santa Monica, CA) - Larry "Fuzzy" Knight's Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue featuring The Fabulous Smokettes, 'Spring' into Harvelle's,
1432 4th St., in Santa Monica, Saturday, April 25. Admission is $10. 9:30pm-1 am. Info: (310) 395-1676 or http://santamonica.harvelles.com .
Knight, a longtime seminal figure in the blues/R&B/soul music scene
with a career that streches back several decades, proudly fronts the
same eleven-piece ensemble he first started in southern California back in 1995 (the band just celebrated their 20th anniversary in March).
Blowin' Smoke was feted in the April 2015 issue of national publication, Music Connection.
Do
You Remember Where You Were & What You Were Doing In 1995, The Year
Blowin' Smoke First Formed & Started Playing Live in SoCal?
Two decades ago - 1995, to be exact - a gallon of gasoline was $1.09, a
dozen eggs were 87 cents, postage stamps were 32 cents each, and the
average cost of a new car was $15,500.00. Also that year, longtime
Southern California musician Larry "Fuzzy" Knight formed the Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue,
a unique, multi-instrumental band with a big lineup and an even larger
sound, augmented by three superb female vocalists collectively known as
The Smokettes. Their debut album "Beyond The Blues Horizon"
was hailed by the L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Music Connection and more
for it's smart blend of blues, R&B, and soul, utilization of a
rich-sounding horn ensemble and of course, those ever-present Smokettes
on vocals.
Two
decades later, much has changed (especially those aforementioned
prices!). but one thing has remained constant - Knight and Blowin' Smoke
are still going strong, entertaining audiences at festivals and better
nightclubs throughout the Southland, often accompanied onstage by
renowned guest musicians. "Blowin' Smoke conveys a welcome reminder to
all people with a beating heart that putting a full horn section in
front of a smoking rhythm section, then layering three charismatic and
powerful vocalists on top of that - all live and at the same time - is
music at its most enriching," writes MUSIC CONNECTION. "Bandleader Larry
"Fuzzy" Knight reminds all of us in the modern technological era that
real people with real instruments and real personalities are playing
music that hits the gut and forces the knees to bend."
Knight - whose
impressive musical resume' includes a decade-plus stint as bassist for
one of the great SoCal bands to emerge from the psychedelic era of the
Sixties, Spirit - recently announced the addition of a new member to the Blowin’ Smoke lineup, Don Preston. Preston is a former original member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and co-founder of the “GrandMothers”, of which he recorded a total of thirty-plus albums.
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