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ENTERTAINMENT
Blues band makes Southern
melodies — from New York
By Ming Rodrigues
f merakj Entertainment Etepoitei
A band named Blues Traveler evokes
images of mellowed men with their beat
up guitars in tow crooning alxwit the
good ol' days in smoky, sleepy, small
town dives
Then out spring four post-adolescent
Brooklyn gu\s with their pricey musii
degrees, calling themselves the Mines
Traveler and prtx ending to prove their
point h\ par king the New York night
club si ene and releasing a self titled de
but album that's on the cutting-edge ol
some pretty fero< ious blues
‘We could be very melodic
and make traditional
chord progressions, things
that were very planned
out, but overall we’d play
the blues. *
-John Popper
"Blues Traveler wants to make music
real again." saiil promoter Bill Graham,
who discovered the youthful talents and
wasn't surprised when the band earned
encores opening re< ently for jerry Garcia
and the Allman Brothers
"They an* simply the Ih*sI young band
I’ve seen in New York —- they’re fresh,
they rattle their bones and they make
you feel good." said the man who man
ages such acts as the Rolling Stones. Bob
Dylan and the Neville Brothers
1 "They're from the same realm as the
(Grateful) Dead in that they'll always
I want to be close to the stn*ets ."
Even their critics recognize the resem
> blance. Declared Rolling Stunt* maga
, zine: "They've tapped into a Grateful
i Dead spirit: improvisational. loose, a lit
tle trippy. They’re a band you can see
again and again."
Comparisons aside, these are four
young men —■ Bobby Sheehan. Chan
kinchla. John Popper and Brendan Mill
all in their early 2(>s. who just three
years after coming together are now a
force of their own
These guvs throw youthful rawness to
the wind with their brand of hard-driv
ing hlues which one reviewer described
as "kit king the '00s to the ’<)0s."
Saturday night you can judge for your
self |iist how gootl these guys are when
the EMI' Cultural Forum presents the
Hlues Traveler at the Eugene Hilton Hall
room at H
Tit kets are $8 for students and $12 for
general admission, and can he purc hased
at the EMI 1 Main Desk
Like all fledgling bands, Hlues Travel
er had its humble beginnings
After high st hool. the guys moved to
New York City where they paid their
musical dues. They began as a bar band,
playing for $50 a night, until they felt
confident enough to convince the own
ers for a share of the t over charge
"VYe were just out of high school
learning how to live on our own as well
as lie in .1 band." kinchla said "At 18
and 10, you t an sleep on floors and wake
up five hours later to hop a suhwav and
get to your next gig and love every
minute of it "
David Graham. Hill Graham's son.
< aught the group at a Columbia I Iniversi
ty fraternity house gig and later at a live
show at Barnard College Festival. He
continued to check out their perform
ances at local clubs before bringing their
talent to the attention of his father.
The band, which earned a cameo role
in the upcoming Oliver Stone Doors
film, debunks the myth that music theo
ry has nothing to do with playing the
blues
With the exception of kinchla. who
has no formal training. Popper. Sheehan
and Hill all studied at both the New
School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
in New York and the Berklee School of
Music.
All four members attended Princeton
High School in New Jersey, where they
began to form Iniiids that were "like fam
ily."
To pin down the music of the Blues
Traveler would be a little difficult, for
their sound is distinct, melding inflec
tions of the blues, jazz, metal. Jimi Hen
Blues Traveler, hailing from New York, brings its own brand of tunes to the Eugene Hilton Ballroom Saturday night at H.
From left to right are Bobby Sheehan, Chan Kinchla, john Popper and Brendan Hill.
drix and Paul Butterfield. The guys share
a reverence for pushing out the bounda
ries with their diverse styles. Ambition
wise, they plan to be the first band in
space.
Popper credits the formal training he.
Hill and Sheehan had for enabling the
band to remake all the rules.
“Brendan and I had a music teacher in
high school who whs a real mutant in the
best sense.” he said “We could be very
melodic and make traditional chord pro
gressions. things that were very- planned
out. but overall we'd play the blues.
"When the band first got together, es
pecially after Bob. who's a real Dead
head. joined we’d just jam and mess
around. Chan ami Brendan are sort of
disciples of Zeppelin and I was always a
Jimi Hendrix guy Bob's bass playing,
well, he just knows how to melt one
song into another."
Popper, a boar of a Kuy who stashes
iiis arsenal of harps >n a bush-camp ban
dolier and who has appeared on record
un-ill capable of complex single note riffs
that rival the lyrical quality of the saxo
phone.
*We were just out of high school learning how to live on
our own as well as be in a band. At 18 and 19, you can
sleep on floors and wake up five hours later to hop a
subway and get to your next gig — and love every min
life of it. ’
-Chan Kinchla
ings with David Sanborn, is known to
bring harp blowing to new dimensions
of virtuosity.
In his hands, it is said the harmonica
transcends its usual role of soulful noise
maker and becomes a legitimate instru
Proving a solid backdrop to Popper's
harp are kinchla on guitar, Sheehan on
bass and I.ondon-born Brendan on
drums
Opening for the Blues Traveler will la?
Kugene's own Nine [Jays Wonder
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