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Red’s Blues
- Sacramento, CA
- Blues Band
- Travels up to 150 miles
- $500 - $2000
Beth Reid-Grigsby- Bob Hakins photo.
RW Grigsby, bass - Bob Hakins photo.
Doug Crumpacker, guitar - Bob Hakins photo
Sid Morris - piano - Bob Hakins photo
Tim Wilbur, drums - Bob Hakins photo.
Beth Reid-Grigsby, lead singer - Bob Hakins photo
Performing at Golden Era. Bill Mcquery photo.
At the Back Room in Berkeley, outdoors
RW Grigsby, bass - Bob Hakins photo.
Beth Reid-Grigsby, Bob Hakins photo
Overview
We bring you traditional Blues and original Americana music; award-winning musicians. We are not rock Blues. We all sing. We are uptown and low down Blues. We get great reviews and have three CDs out. We travel for shows, We perform as a five-piece band, with guitar/harmonica, bass, drums and piano, and lead singer. Harmonies, too! If you love real Blues and original Americana-blues, we’re the band for you. Red’s Blues was formed in 2012. Three members are in the Sacramento Blues Hall of Fame and we’re all in the SBS. From festivals to house parties, nightclubs to beer gardens, blues parties to easy-listening, we’re the band for you. We have all our own sound equipment. All the best to you.
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Booking Info
Price Range: $500 - $2000
Gig Length: 120 - 180 minutes
Languages: English
What to Expect
Red’s Blues has a finger-poppin’ attitude—straight outta the afore-mentioned golden years when blues, R&B and swing all meshed together and dance floors every night were filled with snake hips and slow drags. Beth, with her sensual, southern voice and classy behind-the-beat phrasing is more a Julie London or Bobbie Gentry-styled singer: smoky with languid, sexy sophistication. She can swing too, just check out the big fun on “Why Don’t Ya Stop It.” This rich nightclub feel is missed on too many modern singers. The yearning confidentiality, the wise heart that Beth brings to her true-life stories reveal tales of youth seen through grown up reflection.
RW, who has not lost his hometown Rome, Georgia accent has this quality also. Upright bass never had a better companion—it’s no wonder that RW has anchored the doghouse rhythm for Mark Hummel’s legendary Harmonica Blowouts for ten years. Together, Beth & RW have a rare and beautiful combination of poetry, humor and groove in their music. What other couple in more recent music memory had this? Could they be the blues Sonny & Cher? Johnny & June? Whether up-tempo or ballad, this makes for a great live show —part juke joint, part nightclub. They are uptown and lowdown.
About
Red’s Blues has a finger-poppin’ attitude—straight outta the . . . golden years when blues, R&B and swing all meshed together and dance floors every night were filled with snake hips and slow drags. Beth, with her sensual, southern voice and classy behind-the-beat phrasing is more a Julie London or Bobbie Gentry-styled singer: smoky with languid, sexy sophistication. She can swing too, just check out the big fun on “Why Don’t Ya Stop It.” This rich nightclub feel is missed on too many modern singers. The yearning confidentiality, the wise heart that Beth brings to her true-life stories reveal tales of youth seen through grown up reflection.
RW, who has not lost his hometown Rome, Georgia accent has this quality also. Upright bass never had a better companion—it’s no wonder that RW has anchored the doghouse rhythm for Mark Hummel’s legendary Harmonica Blowouts for ten years. Together, Beth & RW have a rare and beautiful combination of poetry, humor and groove in their music. What other couple in more recent music memory had this? Could they be the blues Sonny & Cher? Johnny & June? Whether up-tempo or ballad, this makes for a great live show —part juke joint, part nightclub. They are uptown and lowdown.
Beth, thanks to her older brother, grew up listening to Huddie Ledbetter, Muddy Waters and Mississippi John Hurt records and as a kid, learned from and sang songs at home with her Mom-- “ Summertime,” “God Bless the Child,” and "St. Louis Blues.” Across the street in her hometown of south Santa Barbara though, the shy 7 year old redhead was bold enough to go perch on the neighbor’s porch listening to a Cuban salsa band rehearse, and from that learned to love the rhythms, the bass and percussion in particular. She and RW met through the local Santa Barbara blues scene years later in 1977, and have lived in his home state of Georgia and then Texas before heading back to sunny Sacramento, California in 2006.
2014 Grammy-nominated and Blues Music Award (BMA) winner bassist RW Grigsby has been playing since he was 14 years old, and began his professional career when still a teenager. He's toured the U.S., Canada and Europe since the '80s, and currently juggles playing with Red's Blues, Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors and The Golden State/Lone Star Blues Revue. He played and recorded with Texas blues stars Gary Primich and Black Top Records’ Mike Morgan and the Crawl in the 1990s. RW is the bassist on the 2014 Grammy-nominated and BMA-winning CD, Remembering Little Walter. He was nominated for a BMA “Best Bassist” Award in 2017.
Red’s Blues draw their audiences into a grown-up music world—southern music with downhome simmer, dance floor fun and stellar, sophisticated players who know they have no need to blast at earsplitting volumes to make the biggest impact.
– Bio by Mindy Giles, © 2017
Additional Booking Notes
If we are playing outside, we need shade and a stage or platform. If a platform is not possible, a flat location that has a rug, shaded and has power. I do not want to stand on dirt to perform. We prefer that sound be provided. We have our own gear, but it is always going to be easier if sound is already set up and a person to run the sound. If we need to bring our own PA, then we can load it up, load it in, set it up and tear it down and load it out, which adds to time. We have a 600-watt PA, monitors, and I always bring our own mics and stands. There needs to be either ample natural light or stage lighting so the band is visible when performing. If it is really hot, a fan is helpful.
Services Offered
Past Booked Events
November 06, 2021 • 6:00pm - 9:00pm | Restaurant/Bar Event |
Set List
Why Don't Cha Stop it, Girlish Days, Lookin' The World Over, Detroit Blues, Little Bit, Ain't Worried No More, Mother Earth, Blues is Everywhere, There'll Be A Day, I Found Love, The Sun Is Shining, Nobody Loves You Like Me, Sugar Coated Love, Ain't That Lovin' You, Babe, Hip Shake, Sherry and Ray, Sherry Ann, Mean, Mean Man, Poor Girl, Stone Broke, The Golden Rule, St. James Infirmary, Lonesome Road Blues, Trouble Ain't Nothing But The Blues, Let's Work Together, Baby Walk On, No More Doggin, and many, many, many more.
Team
RW Grigsby | Electric and Upright Bass, vocals |
Dave Earl | Guitar/harmonica and vocals |
Tim Wilbur | Drums, vocals |
Beth Reid-Grigsby | Lead Vocals |
Influences & Inspiration
Jimmy Reed, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, Little Walter, Dr. John, Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, Memphis Slim, Hank Williams, Peggy Lee, Lil Green, Deitra Farr, Rosetta Tharp, James Cotton, I could go on and on....
Setup Requirements
We prefer that a PA and monitors be present, but we also have a 600-Watt PA system and all required gear to perform.