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Down the Road A'Piece |
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Saturday Night Special |
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Fat Girl Boogie |
Known by some as the "Boss of the Boogie", pianoman/vocalist ROB RIO plays the boogie-woogie and jump blues of the 40's and 50's with a virtuosity and elan that has excited audiences around the world for more than 20 years. Rob has performed with many of the original blues greats, such as Muddy Waters, Willy Dixon, Charles Brown, Joe Cocker and many more, and has recorded with Mick Jagger, Canned Heat, Billy Boy Arnold, William Clarke, Coco Montoya, Finas Tasby and others, and continues to do session work.
Born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y., Rob now resides in Los Angeles and currently performs at festivals, events and clubs at home and on the road and has been a favorite attraction throughout the Southland for the last 20 years, either as a solo performer or with his 5-piece band, THE REVOLVERS. He has starred solo for many years at the Arches Piano Stage of the Cincinnati Blues Festival , the premier showcase of boogie-woogie & blues pianists in the U.S. In 2005 he toured France and Germany to perform solo and with the top European practitioners of this uniquely American art form. He reprised his role as Jerry Lee Lewis in the 50's revue at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. He joined boogie-woogie greats Bob Seeley and Carl "Sonny" Leyland at the Ojai Blues Fest for a re-enactment of the boogie-woogie dream trio of Ammons. Johnson and Lewis . He brought his band to the Big Bear Lake Classic Jazz Festival for the 6th year for solo and band performances. He returned to Europe in October to tour Germany with the great boogie-meister Axel Zwingenberger. In 2006 Rob headlined the 7th Austrian Blues Masters Festival in Liebnitz, Austria. He recorded on former John Lee Hooker & John Mayall guitarist Walter Trout's great new CD, "Friends." In July he released the new live DVD Boogie @ Big Bear. Rob recently starred once again at the Cincinnati Blues Festival's famous Arches Piano Stage which this year featured Muddy Water's pianist Pinetop Perkins and jazz great Ray Bryant. In November he will appear once again with Axel Zwingenberger in Barcelona, Spain.
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I would like to introduce you to a track from his latest DVD called Boogie@BigBear. Hope you like it
Rocket 88
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