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Jo-Ann Freda’s booking career began by working with The Little Memphis Blues Orchestra (formerly known as The Taylor Hicks Band), and she was successful in having such stars as Taylor Hicks, Chris Daughtry, and Ace Young perform at her events. It was out of this that her love for music took hold and gave her new direction for her life.

Prior to starting the Agency, Ms. Freda spent over 20 years in corporate sales including event planning and promotion. Jo-Ann has promoted several important events, including a international conference involving members of the White House staff, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security at Foxwoods Resorts and Casino. She was responsible for generating major sponsorships, attendance, and vendors.

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Jo-Ann is also a proud member of the BLUES FOUNDATION and is the Public Relations Director of WHOMPIN PAWZ PRODUCTIONS, LLC and PAWZ FOR MUSIC.

   

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    Chris Duarte

 

 

 

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Music Review: “Live from The Long Island Blues Warehouse”

by The Sean Chambers Band

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Smoking! Blues rock played with an intense inner fire that just gets hotter and hotter and deeper and deeper.

I don’t know if I have been so immediately amazed by a guitar player since the very first time I heard Stevie Ray Vaughn. Truth.

I heard the first bar of the first track, and pulled the CD out of the player because I knew I had somehow mixed it up with a Mike Bloomfield. Nope. This is Sean Chambers. He may cause you to recall Luther Allison, Buddy Guy and a few other fellars that you suspect went down to the cross roads and traded in his soul for a chance to mesmerize the world with a guitar, but this is Sean Chambers. Live From The Long Island Blues Warehouse

Sean Chambers had to have graduated summa cum laude from “blues college”. Turns out that isn’t far from the truth. He served as the guitar player and musical director for the legendary Hubert Sumlin for five years. He toured world wide and in the end, Guitarist Magazine named him one of the Top 50 Blues Guitarist of the Last Century.

‘In The “Winter Time” Sean Chambers Band He’s even got a voice that reminds you of Stevie Ray Vaughn, and looks a little bit like Mike Bloomfield, and he writes original blues tunes. very good original blues tunes. Seven of the tracks were written by Chambers , and one with bass player, Tim Blair.

The opening track, “Dixie 45” is an original and sets the tone. It opens with a menacing bass “thrum” and then Sean comes sliding and screaming in on this instrumental that displays every tool in the box. On “Love Can Find A Way” we get a blues shuffle, with some stop time thrown in for good measure. Track three is the first cover tune, Fred James’ “Full Moon On Main Street” one of the bands standards on live sets. This is a slow blues that allows Chambers to stretch out and show off his emotionally blazing solo work.

“Strong Temptation” is another original and Sean treats us to his alternate rhythm/solo work in the finest power trio tradition. Then comes a slide guitar and hot licks cover of Elmore James “Dust My Broom” followed by the last cover tune on the album, Bill McLess’ “Crazy For Loving You”. There is something on “Crazy” that reminds me of a Tom Waits vocal; a whiskey tortured voice sung to the moon, in an alley, way after midnight.

“Danger Zone” is one of my favorite tunes from the album, the guitar work is rapid fire articulate blues and a great “forgive your sins” kind of tune.

“Too Much Blues” is another memorable scorching display of guitar mastery that will have you tapping your foot and ordering another round of drinks. there just isn’t much Sean Chambers can’t do with a guitar. Maybe split and atom? Perform brain surgery? Save your soul? No, I don’t think that even those are out of the realm of possibility. “Hip Shake Boogie” isn’t the old standard, but another instrumental original that lead into that ‘atom splitting, brain surgery realm. then comes “in The Winter Time”. It’s a ten minute long opus that begs and wails and celebrates the blues with a feeling that goes beyond virtuosity and leaves you speechless. And it saves your soul.

Sean Chambers is the real deal, and the devil just may have gotten the worst of that trade.

The Dirty Lowdown   -  Copyright © 2011 Robert Carraher All Rights Reserved

SOURCE:

http://the-dirty-lowdown.blogspot.com/2011/09/music-review-live-from-long-island.html

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TAMPA, FL – Blue Heat Records announces a September 20 release date for the exciting new CD from The Sean Chambers Band, Live from the Long Island Blues Warehouse, distributed nationally by Burnside Distribution. The new album was recorded live on March 22 before a lively audience in a recording studio atmosphere, which generated superior audio quality for the disc. Backing Sean on the live CD are his longtime bassist Tim Blair and drummer Paul Broderick, with special guest Gary Keith on harmonica.

The new album’s ten tracks include mostly originals, along with Sean’s distinctively searing takes on “Full Moon on Main Street,” a highlight song from an early album by The Kinsey Report, as well as a blistering version of Elmore James’ “Dust My Broom,” which recalls Johnny Winter in its approach. There’s also a brand new original song, “Hip Shake Boogie,” that is making its first appearance on any Sean Chambers album. The remaining seven tunes come from Sean’s three earlier albums, although most of them, with the exception of the two songs from Chambers’ last critically-acclaimed 2009 CD, Ten Til Midnight, have not been widely heard until now. Included are several fan-favorite songs, such as “Strong Temptation,” the title track from his first album; “Crazy for Loving You;” “Too Much Blues;” and the album’s powerful closer, “In the Winter Time” (both from Ten Til Midnight), in which Sean pulls out all the stops on his guitar work.

Tampa/St. Petersburg-based Sean Chambers’ last album generated the kind of critical buzz that’s been building since his first release. “Chambers’ brand of blues is a no-frills blend of Chicago, Texas, and Delta styles, played with an understated sense of ferocity. Sean came to wail, and he does so with a transparent sense of devotion and scholarship to the music he plays so well,” wrote Mark Uricheck in Living Blues.

Sean Chambers toured with the legendary Hubert Sumlin as his guitarist and band leader from 1998-2003 and did several tours throughout The U.S. England, Ireland, Canada and the UK with Hubert. Britain's own Guitarist magazine named Chambers as one of “The Top 50 Blues Guitarists of the Last Century.” After his tenure with Sumlin, he performed three more tours throughout England on his own, and in 2003 was asked to headline the prestigious Maryport Blues Festival there.

He was featured twice on “The House of Blues Radio Hour” after releasing his first album. His second album, Humble Spirits (2004), was produced and engineered by industry veteran Bud Sneider (Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t. Mule), and featured several special guest artists, including Bernard Allison, The Toler Brothers and the late Bruce Waibel.

When Ten Til Midnight was released in October, 2009, it garnered rave reviews and also appeared on the Living Blues chart for the first three months after its release. It received steady airplay in 45 states around the U.S, as well as many markets overseas. The title cut was featured on “The House of Blues Radio Hour” as a “Blues Breaker;” and the album also generated significant airplay on Sirius/XM Radio’s blues channel as a “Pick to Click.”

The Sean Chambers Band will celebrate the release of Live from the Long Island Blues Warehouse with a series of special CD release shows listed below. Sean is booked by the Jo-Ann Freda Agency ( joannfreda@optonline.net  / (203) 298-9331). Radio promotion for the new CD is being handled by Rick Lusher ( rickl1@ixnetcom.com   / 917-742-0254).

For more information, visit www.seanchambers.com .

THE SEAN CHAMBERS BAND CD RELEASE SHOWS

8/26 Ace’s Lounge Bradenton, FL
8/27 The Alley Sanford, FL
8/28 Earl’s Hideaway Sebastian, FL
9/1 Englewoods on Dearborn Englewood, FL
9/2 Chef John’s Blues Bistro Jupiter, FL
9/8 Aja Wiregrass Wesley Chapel, FL
9/9 Froggy’s St. James City, FL
9/23 Ringside Café St. Petersburg, FL

Additional dates forthcoming….

Link: http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=145128

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