Dennis McClung Blues Band
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Friday October 16th Dennis McClung Blues Band at Rhythm&Brews!
Morgantown, WV. Phone (304) 284-9988 or (304) 216-0915 or email Nikki Pr ...
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A cross between B.B. King, Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix, the Dennis McClung Blues Band is one of the most exciting groups in the business today. They perform a unique blend of originals and blues classics driven by a screaming guitar, rockin piano, and vocal passion that comes straight from the heart. Their first CD "Prisoner Of The Blues" received rave reviews from Blues Revue and Blues Wax Magazines. Their most recent release, “Live! Out of the Ordinary” has been inducted into Midnight Special Blues Radio's Hall of Fame! You can purchase it on the web at www.cdbaby.com/cd/mcclungblues2.
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"Dennis McClung is the Blues Hall of Fame Ambassador to the State of West Virginia."
-Daniel S. Merolt, Blues Hall of Fame
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, but now living in the same hometown which celebrated the legendary blues pianist, the late Johnnie Johnson, blues guitarist Dennis McClung started listening to Fats Domino at the age of three. Since then, blues music has entwined itself around his soul, and it's his undying passion for the blues that keeps the Dennis McClung Blues Band playing. McClung embraces the emotions behind the music and believes that breathing life into these emotions is what gives the blues its real soul.
McClung has won many awards, including being inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and being selected as Blues Ambassador for West Virginia. Called "a force of nature," "the real deal," and "the genuine article," McClung recorded his first CD, "Prisoner of the Blues," in 1998 as a testimony to the emotionally tough events in life. BluesWax, the world's largest virtual blues publication, addressed the authenticity of this release by saying it was "tasty blues, served up hot and intense...the kind you'd like to feast on in a hot, smoky club. Prisoner of the Blues has a quality sound that is hard to come by." Blues Revue magazine also caught "the real deal" by saying, "This CD finds its power in McClung's potent voice and precise stinging lead guitar. If you asked me to guess where the Dennis McClung Blues Band hailed from, based only on the groups' sound, my answer would be some Windy City tavern....that's the pulse it has its finger on."
With his latest CD, “Live! Out of the Ordinary,” he purposely recorded it low-tech, with only two microphones hung above the crowd. So don’t look for it to be one of those super-sanitized recordings — he revels in its roughness. The resulting sound is totally authentic, and it explodes the limits of the "rough perfectness" that blues music was originally loved for. Compared to "Prisoner of the Blues," "Live! Out of the Ordinary" manifests a significant change in the band. The members have now developed a chemistry as one, making their music stronger and their support to one another tighter. For more info, check out
The band is currently working on a new CD!
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