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THE
SONNY MOORMAN BAND
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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The Sonny Moorman Band
P r e s e n t a t i o n
"Power blues" is how Ohio-based bluesman Sonny Moorman
describes the music he creates with his trio, the Dogs. Moorman and his band
have extended the 1960's blues and blues-rock revival into the new millennium,
borrowing from their prime influences, black and white: Eric Clapton, early
Fleetwood Mac, Rory Gallagher, Roy Buchanan, Jimi Hendrix and B. B. King.
Moorman,
raised by parents who ran nightclubs in the Cincinnati area, was exposed to
guitar maestro Lonnie Mack, up close and personal, at an impressionable age.
Moorman didn't begin playing out professionally until he was into his junior
year in college at Michigan State University. After getting out of college,
he spent 15 years playing in bands in the Detroit and Los Angeles areas before
coming back home to Hamilton, Ohio, near Cincinnati.
Highlights of his time
in Los Angeles included tenures with the Tomcats, which included members of
Sly and the Family Stone, as well as with Warren Zevon's touring band. After
a show at Memphis' Crossroads festival in 1994, the group signed with Sun Records'
706 label. Moorman and the Dogs have two releases on 706 Records, Sun Studios'
house label in Memphis. [The '706' refers to the studio's address on Union
Avenue in Memphis.]
Moorman and the Dogs' releases include "Live," and "Telegraph
Road." "Telegraph Road" was recorded at Sun Studios, in the
same room where Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Howlin' Wolf, Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
and Jerry Lee Lewis made their first recordings. Moorman and the Dogs continue
to perform regionally around southern Ohio, Kentucky, Memphis and parts of
the south. ~ Richard Skelly, All Music Guide
The Sonny Moorman Group is a Cincinnati, Ohio based Blues
/ Rock band in the classic "power trio" format, consisting of Sonny
Moorman - guitar & vocals,
Marc Hoffman - bass, and Jamie Combs - drums & vocals. Sonny
and the band are nine-time winners of CAMMY awards (Cincinnati Area Music awards
sponsored by the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper). The band was formed in 1994
and was signed to its first recording deal by 706 Records / Sun Studio at the
1994 Crossroads showcase in Memphis. Since then the band has played 300 nights
a year and has performed at regional festivals and clubs and toured the US
with Easyriders magazine, performing at all their events.
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