The Paul Speidel Band
Blues Extensions Vol. 1

We think a lot about what it means to play Blues and related roots styles in this day and age. How do you pay tribute to the great players in the style without doing the same things they did? We find that in interpreting the tradition through live playing, we keep the story of the music alive. The Blues is an American legacy which has informed all styles of popular music, and the beauty of that, while it's universal in experience, it's capable of being so personal in expression. And a crucial component to this music is improvising together while playing live... the old blues groups were the first jam bands!

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From the Band...
we ask everyone a few questions right off...

Tell us about your band.
We've been playing on the Boston music scene as a band for over ten years. The first five years of that, we played tons of bar gigs, and hosted a weekly blues jam, which was really a free-for-all stylistically. We had people playing lots of straight-up rock 'n' roll, R & B, some jazz, some metal, and acoustic folk on our breaks!

Then, after three years, we took it to the next level, and turned the event into a Showcase Series, which continued two more years. We had heavyweight headline guests, and made it more of a show, with a jam at the end. We brought in Jay Geils, James Montgomery, Duke Robillard, and lots of other Boston-area greats.

Our drummer, Brendan Byrnes, has been in the band from the start, and played hundreds of nights with us over the years. Our bassist, Ed Spargo, has been with us the past two and a half years, and is one of the best blues-rock electric bassists in the New England area.

Tell us about this album.
After five years of running the Blues Jam/Showcase Series, we decided to move on and focus on our own material. I started writing the material at that time, as well as putting most of my time into booking the band around the area and putting our energies into playing out more widely. The debut CD is really just the band playing together, which is what we do best. We all grew up listening to Rock 'n' Roll, jamming Blues, and studying Jazz, so there's a huge improvisational component to this group.

What are you doing now?
Putting the album together was a year-long project for me last year, which I took time off booking to do, since I recorded it and produced it myself. This year, we've got a booking agent for the first time, so he's lining up our gigs for the fall and winter around the Boston area.

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by Paul Speidel

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