- Cambridge, MA
- Blues Band
- $200 and up
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Bees Deluxe
Bees Deluxe play "Downhearted" live at the Bull Run
Bees Deluxe play "Talk to Your Daughter"
"Blues for the Decline of Western Civilization"
"I Smell Smoke" live at Black Eyed Sally's
Bees Deluxe
Bees Deluxe live at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge MA
Bees Deluxe live at the Arlington Center for the Arts Theater
Overview
Bees Deluxe is a full-tilt, acid blues collective comprised of Boston-based musicians. Their unique repertoire includes originals and re-interpreted 60s, 70s, and 80s covers from Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Charles Mingus, B.B. King, Freddie King, Herbie Hancock, Albert King, Etta James, Muddy Waters, The Meters, Little Feat, Ray Charles, The Butterfield Blues Band, Donny Hathaway, Amy Winehouse, Steely Dan, Etta James, ZZ Top, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Robert Cray, Edgar Winter, among many others. They discover and share off-the-beaten songs and instrumentals and fuse them into their own original works. They dig deep into the vaults of blues/jazz antiquity.
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Price range: $400 - $2,000
Gig length: 50 - 200 minutes
What to expect
Bees Deluxe perform varied styles (loosely blues based) from the Funk of Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" - to the laid back soul-stirring "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog" by Bobby Bland. The band perform unusual arrangments and instrumentals that keep the dance-floor hopping, and any seated musical afficionado audiences intelligently engaged.
About
Bees Deluxe, a Boston-based blues band that has wowed audiences from Maine to Miami. The band bends the blues genre infusing the music with elements of jazz, funk and even psychedelia. The result "What Steely Dan would sound like if they played the blues," raves Blues Blast Magazine. Bees Deluxe performs fresh takes on tunes by artists Like Billie Holiday and Etta James to BB King, Robben Ford, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles as well as their own addictive compositions that touch on subjects ranging from aliens, jail time and conspiracy theories.
The band has won fans at Boston City Winery, Black Eyed Sally's in Hartford, Earl's Hideaway in Florida, Jamey's House of Music in Landsdowne Pennsylvania, Madam's Organ in DC, The Bull Run in Shirley andThe Music Room in Yarmouth Massachusetts, and many other venues. Bees Deluxe has shared the stage with Roomful of Blues, Ronnie Earl, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Mike Zito, Joanna Connor & The Wrecking Crew, and Tinsley Ellis.
We can perform within extremely limited floor-space, and require less than an hour to soundcheck and prepare. We are also adept at playing at very low volume level. We are fairly flexible with contact negotiation, prompt, professional, and courteous. Every venue that has booked us, has asked us to return.
Additional booking notes
Bees Deluxe musicians are experienced players who create the mimimum stage footprint necessary to deliver their live music. They've played semi-acoustically by candlelight in supper clubs in a small cortner of the room, and large-scale festival events with the minimum of fuss. Their onstage volume levels are quiet enough that they don't actually require stage monitors, of course, when given them, they are ecstatic!
Services offered
Past booked events
June 2021
13
Sunday
Bees Deluxe at City Winery Boston
6:00pm - 10:00pm
10
Thursday
Bees Deluxe at Newburyport
6:00pm - 10:00pm
April 2014
11
Friday
Birthday Party
9:00pm - 11:30pm
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Southborough, MA
Set list
instrumentals
Pick up the Pieces (AWB)
Last Call (orig.)
Watermelon Man (hancock inst.)
Europa (santana)
Every Good Boy (derek trucks band)
NarcoTraficanteSatanicos (orig 12 bar)
Upshot (Grant Green)
Chameleon (Herbie Hancock)
Sissy Strut (Meters)
Jelly Bread (Booker T)
Apricot Brandy (Rhinoceros)
Hipology (Bruce Katz)
Hideaway (King)
Green Onions (Booker T)
Scuttle Buttle (SRV)
Greeny (Green)
Alien vs. Predator (orig)
Blues for the Decline of Western Civilization (orig)
B min w. stops (orig)
Changes in E (orig)
Roll Over Stockhausen (orig)
The Midway Waltz (orig)
songs
Knocking on Heaven's Door (Dylan/Guns and Roses - reggae)
Jumping Jack Flash (Stones)
Sunshine of you Love (Cream)
Breakdown (Tom Petty)
Badge (Cream)
I wouldn't Treat a Dog (Bland)
Everybody Knows (cohen)
She Called The Katy (and left me a mule to ride)
Cold Sweat (james brown)
Josie (steely dan)
Prezel Logic (steely dan)
The Cowboy Song (thin lizzy)
St. Fitzgerald (orig.)
Your Sister (orig.)
One of those Days (Soulive)
Jesus Just Left Chicago (zz top)
Blue Jeans Blues (zz top)
Hey Joe (hendrix)
Hard Work (orig.)
Scared (orig.)
Walk a Mile with Me (orig.)
I Don't Need No Doctor (Ray Charles)
Kidnap (orig.)
Phone Booth (robert cray)
Every Day I Have the Blues (BB King)
Start It Up (robben ford)
Ain't Nobody's Business (freddie king)
Moving to the Country (taj mahal)
Same Thing / Blind Man Blues (muddy waters)
Georgia (Hoagy Charmichael)
Cold Shot (srv)
People Get Ready (mayfield)
Jailhouse Rock (elvis)
Hound Dog (elvis)
Josie (steely dan live in D min)
Guilty (randy newman)
Hammers and Apples (orig)
Repo Man (orig)
Stagefright (not the Band's version!
Jungle Man (meters)
Willin'(lowell george)
Have Mercy (mclinton)
Letter From Jail (orig)
I Looked Away (derek and the dominoes)
Pretzel Logic (steely dan)
I've got a Mind to Give Up Living (butterfield)
Get Out of My Life Woman (butterfield)
God bless the Child (Holiday)
Jealous Guy (Hathaway/Lennon)
Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff)
Queen Midas (original)
Old Folks Boogie (little feat)
Love the One You're With (stills/meters)
Murder in My Heart for the Judge (radiators)
Blue Jeans Blues (ZZ Top)
Rock Me (standard)
Further on Up the Road (E)
Lightning (muddy)
Little Wing (hendrix)
If 6 was 9 (hendrix)
Johnny B Goode (berry)
Your Sister (orig)
Influences and inspiration
Bees Deluxe unique repetoire include over three sets of floorboard-stomping originals and 60s, 70s, and 80s covers from Little Feat, The Meters, Billie Holiday, Derek Trucks, Donny Hathaway, Steely Dan, (link hidden)ng, ZZ Top, Robben Ford, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, Curtis Mayfield, Albert King, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Jimi Hendix, SoulLive, Roy Buchanan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Herbie Hancock, Derek & the Dominoes, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
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