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JOHNNY MASTRO & THE MAMAS BOYS - CD Release Party / WHITE BOY JAMES / The Lubricators / Lila A and the All Nighters [details]
| www.johnnymastro.com |

»» If you have enough guts and vision, you can draw a line in the sand and declare your path. Mama's Boys is Johnny Mastro's vision of how blues should be played. Honest, original, raw, get-down music void of today's common cliche's and posing. Johnny says "This is not the lazy respectful whitebread blues!". Think Hound Dog Taylor crossed with Butterfield Blues Band. Hard blues you can only get with keeping one foot firmly planted in the past while moving into the future. Coming out of Los Angeles oldest Blues Club Babe'e & Ricky's Inn since 1993, the band tours internationally and signed to Nugene Records.   more »

| www.whiteboyjames.com |

»» James Page was born in Compton, California, raised in Paramount and Cerritos California. "Whiteboy" spent most of his formative years in Southern California, but his musical influences changed radically when he began listening to his uncles Deep South Rhythm and Blues and Country Records. "Whiteboy" found it difficult to fit into the "Beach Boy" culture, when his soul was into the likes of Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Sam "Lightning" Hopkins, Big Joe Turner, and the list goes on to include Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Wills and even Spike Jones. Fast forward to the mid 1980's... the peak period of the Southern Californian blues explosion. Blues bands were forming everywhere from garages to all night blues jams in various nightclubs. "Whiteboy" James had several tunes in his repertoire by this time, and was ready and willing to sit in, sing, and blow some harmonica with whoever would call him up on stage (The Mighty Flyers, William Clarke, James Harman, The Blasters (Phil and Dave Alvin), Johnny Dyre, Joe Houston, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Top Jimmy, Juke Logan and the list goes on...).   more »