Amped up Southern Blues

10 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Chicago Style, BLUES: Rockin' Blues



Details:
Bob "Byrd" Lovell, Vocals and Guitar First started playing music at the ripe old age of fourteen or fifteen, in 1964 or so, first playing rock and then the blues, after listening to his sisters Ray Charles and BB King records, which of course you can hear those influences and others such as Albert King, Dewayne Allman, also a little Roy Buchanan and Ry Cooder if you listen closely.Before the Juvenators, he had played with several south Mississippi bands such as Highway 51 and has traveled as far as Canada playing the blues.

Virgil "Big Juv" Brawley, Lead Vocals and Lead Guitar Originally from Brookhaven MS. He started playing in a rock band in the mid to late sixties, then enlisted in the army. After a tour of Vietnam, he came home and started mixing sound for several road bands and during this time enrolled in college where he studied film and television, creative writing.After graduating, he then moved to Texas, got married, raised a son and trained horses. In the early nineties, he started working in bands again and moved back to Mississippi in â96â. In 1997 formed the Juvenators, and the rest is history.

George "Famous" Vance, Bass After first playing the snare drum in Junior High marching band and then trying to learn the guitar on my own, I was introduced to bass guitar by a friend who I also bought an old used bass from.Soon after taking lessons at the Jackson school of music and from other local music teachers/musicians. First played blues, Then old rock, and after having played in several 60âs bands, R&B and blues bands here I am with the Juvenators!

Guy "Animal" Wade, Drums :From Mccomb, MS has been playing drums for more than 25 years. Coming from a musical family, grew up listening to blues and classic rock. Studying such people as Mitch Mitchell, Don Brewer, and Buddy Rich. After several years of playing on the circuit, he is a ten year veteran of the Juvenators.