Currently celebrating thirty years as a band, the legendary Blues Traveler hits the Delmar Hall with a sold out show also featuring special guests Los Colognes.
Blues Traveler is an American rock band formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band's music covers a variety of genres, including blues rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. It is known for extensive use of segues in their live performances, and was considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene of the 1990s, spearheading the H.O.R.D.E. touring music festival.
Currently, the group comprises singer and harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, drummer Brendan Hill, bassist Tad Kinchla, and keyboardist Ben Wilson. Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson joined the band following the death of original bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999.
While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their Top 40 singles "Run-Around" and "Hook". They gained mainstream popularity after their fourth studio album four, released in 1994. Sheehan's death and Popper's struggle with obesity put a damper on the group's success, and A&M dropped the band in 2002. However, the band took this transition period as an opportunity to start in new directions musically, going largely independent and releasing on smaller experimental labels.
In March 2012, Blues Traveler released a double-disc compilation entitled 25 on Hip-O Records; the album commemorates the band's silver anniversary and includes their hit singles, new covers, and previously unreleased b-side material. Blues Traveler's most recent studio album Blow Up the Moon, is the twelfth studio album and was released on April 7, 2015. As part of the Blow Up the Moon album, Blues Traveler released a music video using Rockstar editor in Grand Theft Auto V on September 14, 2015. The music video features JC Chasez and 3OH!3. On December 7, 2016, Blues Traveler released a cover version of "Go Tell It on the Mountain".
- Blow Up The Moon out now!
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- Stream: Blues Traveler:
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Los Colognes Premieres
Full Album Video at Live For Live Music
Touring With Blues Traveler This Fall
New Album The Wave Out Now
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Praised by Relix, Stereogum, American Songwriter, Consequence of Sound, and more.
Los Colognes released a full album video for their recently released full-length The Wave. Reminiscent of a Windows 98 screensaver, the 43 minute animated video premiered at Live For Live Music, who said "the album is thoughtful and meticulously crafted, with a feel-good vibe that taps into the group’s innate pop sensibilities." The band is also about to hit the road with Blues Traveler, stops on the tour include Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
- Watch or embed the video via YouTube:
So far The Wave has been praised by Consequence of Sound, Relix, Observer, American Songwriter, Team Coco, Culture Collide, and Stereogum, who said "between booming snare and sustained high notes, Los Colognes pack in hazy guitar solos and tropical keyboards that interlock into a tight groove."
Guitarist/singer Jay Rutherford opines in the song "Flying Apart" - "Nobody believed / We’re all just hoping / Floating down streams.” It’s a song that invokes “the wave” metaphor of the album’s title, while churning through its own sonic sea of shimmering keyboards and guitars anchored by drummer Aaron Mortenson. The music evokes any of the best moments of late seventies or mid eighties FM radio while never being weighed down by the specter of influence. Los Colognes are a young band who have managed to forge their own sound while channeling the best sonic worlds of the decades past. Though The Wave is firmly planted in a retro pop/rock sound, the band has some deep Americana roots, and has backed up artists like Margo Price, Rayland Baxter, Caitlin Rose, Nikki Lane, Jonny Fritz, Andrew Combs, Erin Rae and more.
- Listen or embed The Wave via Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6A7FPoz7aAgAd2NMbM6pwo
Unlike the live approach used to record the group’s previous records, The Wave was built from the ground up with attention to each part. There is a certain economy of space in the songs that feels deliberate, while never ceasing to be warm and inclusive. Guitar and keyboard lines drift off each other in between lyrical exchanges while Mortenson propels.
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