⬇️ MITCH WOODS ⬇️
& His Rocket 88's
DISCOGRAPHY 1984-2023 (15CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Since the early 1980s he has been touring and recording with his
band, the Rocket 88s.
Woods calls his music, "rock-a-boogie," and with his backing band has retrospectively provided a 1940s and 1950s jump blues style.
Woods calls his music, "rock-a-boogie," and with his backing band has retrospectively provided a 1940s and 1950s jump blues style.
Woods got his start playing clubs near the State University of New York
Buffalo campus. He moved to San Francisco in 1971.
Originally a student of jazz and classical music, on relocation to the
West Coast, Woods started playing jump and rhythm and blues. Upon hearing
Louis Jordan's jive, Woods played throughout the 1970s as a soloist at
local clubs.
In 1984, Blind Pig released the debut album of the Rocket 88s, the band
he had formed with HiTide Harris four years earlier. Steady Date with
Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s led to a national concert tour, including
the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1985, as well as several European
engagements. In 1988, they issued their second LP, Mr. Boogie's Back in
Town.
In 1991 their third album, Solid Gold Cadillac, was released, followed by
Shakin' the Shack (1993). Woods, capable in four styles of piano playing,
Chicago blues, Kansas City boogie-woogie, West Coast jump blues and the
poly-rhythmic accents of New Orleans, got the opportunity to play with
some of his musical heroes, when he recorded his 1996 Viceroy album,
Keeper of the Flame. Their next album, Jump for Joy, appeared in
2001.
The 2006 release, Big Easy Boogie featured veteran New Orleans musicians
backing Woods.
In 2007 Woods was nominated for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the
Year Award at the Blues Awards in Memphis, Tennessee, presented by the
Blues Foundation.
Latterly he and his band toured with the Efes Pilsen Blues
Festival.
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