BOXCAR BLUES BAND - Blues, Blues Rock

The Boxcar Blues Band consists of GR Hall and Johnny Blue, two musicians and friends that first connected in 1978. Their repertoire consists of both original music and select music written by others. They back themselves up with a variety of the upper echelon of blues musicians.

Founded in late 2003 following the release of their debut demo CD "Trouble Again" these two wish to take the blues and make it theirs by performing and recording music that is firmly entrenched in the Blues yet gives freedom to everyone in the studio or onstage.

GR Hall - Vocals and Guitars

GR is the epitome of Blues! Hailing from the heyday of Haight-Ashbury, where he cut his teeth on Blues and Blues-Rock, GR slings his Fender and Gibson axxes like they are a part of his body.

He truly makes his guitars "talk", and the talk they talk is purely from the soul. He is truly a "musicians musician" in that he plays every note as if it were his last.

Hailing from the midwest, and transplanted to California in the sixties, GR has been in many of the best local acts as well as touring the US extensively.

Johnny Blue - Vocals, Piano, B3

Blue tickles the ivories. Blue manhandles the ivories. Blue shreds the ivories (and if Jerry Lee hadn't done it already, he would light 'em on fire). If you like a good Bluesy B3 organ, Blue will satisfy your need. Having found a sudden interest in piano in the fourth grade, he never looked back. Music has been an integral part of his life ever since.

Blue joined GR Hall in 1978 and toured two countries in the all original rock band "Raisin' Caine". Blue also was instrumental in forming the Orange County local A-list bands "Straight Up" and "Twist Of Fate" in the 80's and 90's. He then took off to Memphis to "absorb the blues firsthand" and ended up forming the all blues band "De Delta Dawgs", with members of "Canned Heat" and "John Lee Hookers" band, which played Bluestock (a major festival on Beale Street in Memphis) and the Memphis Blues Festival, as well as many clubs on world famous "Beale Street" and up and down the "delta".

He has toured all 48 of the continental United States as keyboardist and musical director with the national act "The Bobby Freeman Show", as well as touring extensively with the International Reggae Band "Rascalin & The Roots Rockers", most notably, headlining the "Annual Bob Marley Festival Tour" series.

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