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| Thursday, January 02, 2003 |
This recording is their best effort to date, featuring 12 original cuts,encompassing a variety of influences. The album, produced by veteran Joe Cocker keyboardist, Jeff Levine, who is currently on tour w/ Hall and Oats, co-wrote 5 of the 13 cuts w/Pitchell.Recorded at the power Station, New England, and City Lights in New Jersey. Pre-production at Loveland Studios RealSound Boston. The band has delivered an energetic array of colorful songs about love gained and lost and people loved and lost. A very special guest appearance on "My Love and Whiskey River" is made by legendary bluesman, James Cotton who excites the album with riveting, soulful riffs between guitar and harmonica. Bandmates, Jonathan Chatfield, Keyboard, Tyson Ellert, drums, Billy Bileca, Bass, encompass a tight unit that delivers a walloping punch reflecting the roadwork they've accomplished.
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Clarence Clemons and Jeff Pitchell
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The Jeff Pitchell Band are helping to put Connecticut on the national blues music map. Pitchell, a native of Wethersfield, formed the group just two years ago. Since that time they have released a successful CD and made appearances at major blues clubs and events around the country. Pitchell's love of guitar playing is a lifelong affair. He has been playing for more than two decades, first making a name for himself in the state in 1981 at age fifteen when he won a contest sponsored by Ovation Guitars, earning the title "Best Guitarist in Connecticut."
Since organizing The Jeff Pitchell Band in 1996, his career has skyrocketed. Pitchell was voted "Best Blues Player" in Connecticut in Metro magazine and the band was voted "#1 Blues Band" in the Hartford Advocate Reader's Poll. Within Connecticut, Pitchell has made frequent live appearances on WHCN and WPLR with disc jockeys Chaz, Kat Sinclair and Picozzi and the Horn.
The Jeff Pitchell Band appeared at the prestigious Memphis Bluestock Festival in December 1997. Shortly thereafter, they released Fat Cigars, their first CD. The group has headlined at a number of major clubs and venues, including House of Blues (Cambridge, MA), Chicago Blues (New York City), Toad's Place (New Haven, CT), The Sting (New Britain, CT), Rocky Point Amusement Park (Warwick, RI) and Riverside Amusement Park (Agawam, MA). |
Jeff Healey and Jeff Pitchell
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Jeff Pitchell and J.Geils
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Pitchell's story is a classic example of the age old wisdom that "you've got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues". He has built his career on his love for music and his desire to play for audiences, from 10 to 10,000+. Jeff has performed and recorded with such prominent musicians as Clarence Clemons, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Cocker, Jamoie, Leslie West, J. Geils, Rick Derringer, Jeff Healy, James Cotton and Roomful of Blues. He has appeared on the same bill with such greats as B.B. King, Tower of Power, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Ted Nugent.
Admist a busy summer touring schedule, the group is now hard at work on their second CD, to be released later this year. The group will be appearing at The Hot Tin Roof (Martha's Vineyard, MA), the Harley Rendezvous, on Block Island with Marshall Tucker and the Shaboo Festival (Willimantic, CT), and Toad's Place. |
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Mr. Bo Diddley and Jeff Pitchell
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"Kenny Wayne Shepherd joined the band for a few jams. Shepherd…was so impressed with Pitchell's material, he couldn't resist."
-- Hartford Advocate
"The Jeff Pitchell Band…were written up as one of the top 50 blues bands in the country. Their CD Fat Cigars has received high critical acclaim"
-- The Original House of Blues
"Fat Cigars highlights some good guitar playing and music. Pitchell's voice comes through just as clear as his guitar"
-- New Britain Herald
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