Amy Lou's Blues - The Band

The Band

		*Amy Lou* *Vocals... Mojo, sass, and mustard* Amy Lou loves to sing and let it rip. She is a regular performer at JJ's Blues Club in San Jose, California and was honored to participate in the club's celebrated "Women in Blues" week concert series in March 2005, kicking off the week with her Amy Lou's Blues band as a headlining act. They have been rockin the bay for four years now and Amy Lou has found her groove. She can sock it to ya and do it with a smile because she is following her bliss and doing what she loves best. Amy Lou has written many of the songs that the band performs and plans to record them soon. She loves to try new things and find cool obscure tunes to sing with the band. Ain't no doubt about it, she was born to sing and perform. As the oldest child of deaf parents, singing was her first language and her constant companion. All those years of silence and signing to communicate has brought forth her voice and her passion for it is clear. A life of signing has given her the unique ability to express herself freely and emotionally and with raw energy. She has always communicated with her hands and with facial and body expressions to accentuate the message. As her love of blues and singing her blues became stronger, she finally realized her long kept dream and the Amy Lou's Blues Band was born. Her life's motto is "I'll sleep when I'm old!" and "You gotta do what you love, and love what you do!" In her singing the blues, she's doing just that.

		Scott Miller Guitar and vocals... 14-fingered Vibrationization of the Nation! Scott doesn't always dress as he does in the picture to the left. Most of the time, he wears a red jacket too, proving that not only do guitar players play too loud, they dress too loud too. Scott started playing guitar when "Louie Louie" ruled the airwaves. He was in various bands, including Harold Honey and the Cabbage Heads, and then a whole bunch of life happened, and he gave a private concert in his living room for 27 years. Returning to live performance as a geezer, he has played in various outfits for the last few years.

		*Mitch Kilgos* *Drums... The Engine Room!* Mick has worked with internationally acclaimed Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors, as well as Rusty Zinn and many other San Francisco Bay Area artists. His list of work credits includes: Barry Cuda, Mitch Woods, Rock Bottom, Volker Strifler, Johnny Rawls, Roger "Hurricane" Wilson, Tracy Nelson, Garth Hudson, Atlanta's "Outta Hand Band" with Jody Worrell and the late Randy Lewis, Larry Baeder Group, the Tongue Snatcher Revue, Otis Williams from the Temptations, Bill Blue and the Nervous Guys, and the legendary "Sauce Boss" Bill Wharton.. Mick was born in Kankakee, Illinois, 45 miles south of Chicago, where the train "City of New Orleans" began its trip southward. He developed his interest in music and a natural sense of rhythm early on. After many years of travel across the U.S. and Europe, this consummate sideman and road warrior landed in Key West, Florida in the mid 1980s where he maintained a busy schedule of music and followed his lust for New Orleans cooking. Mick is the sole owner of the Key West Bean Company who produces "Mick's Original Key West Caribe Beans," sold and distributed by the Green Parrot Bar in Key West, Florida. The summer of 2007 brought Mick and his wife Kitty to the San Francisco Bay Area where he continues his fascination with drumming, music, and food. Check out Mick's Web site.

		*Scott Porter* *Piano and Hammond... King of the Boards!* Scott has been active in the Bay Area live music scene since the early '90's, playing keyboards and occasionally bass in a variety of styles from jump blues and honky-tonk to punk-a-billy and psychedelia. He was originally trained in classical piano and post-modern euphonium, but has developed his own uniquely merciless blues piano-pounding technique, enhanced by a strict regimen of working out with the heavy bag and watching Bruce Lee movies. Scott also incorporates Hammond organ into his keyboard arsenal, and on top that, secretly hopes that one day his fellow musicians will ask to him step up and play a ripping solo on that little percussion thing that looks like a fish.

		*Gary Rosen* *Bass and vocals... The thump that makes you jump!* Gary has been playing bass for more than thirty years, including blues, rock, country, jazz, and Brazillian... but mostly blues. He started playing piano at age 7. He has performed at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1978, 1982, and 1983 with Charles Houff, Ron Thompson, JC Burris, Eddie Taylor and Mark Hummel. He has also performed with Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, Brownie McGhee, Mary Wells, Jimmy McCracklin, Francis Clay, Percy Mayfield, and singer Andrew Jeffries when he had Luther Tucker on guitar. More locally, he has played with Tom McFarland, Perry Welsh, Dave Wellhausen (Dave Earl), Johnny Waters & Sonny Lane, Danny deNaro, and Junior Earl. (Editor's note: Bass players have all the fun.).