“Slide Monsters!” The Highway 99 Blues club celebrates blues slide guitar, bringing
together three Pacific NW monsters of the slide guitar style: Brian Lee, Mark Riley, and Rod Cook, with the Orbiters! These
Northwest greats each have a unique and distinctive slide guitar voice,
and together they’re a perfect compliment. They are also all superb
singers, and songwriters.
Mark Riley has been honored with fourteen
Best of the Blues Awards from the
Washington Blues Society , including Best Slide
Guitar in 2011. He played for 7+ years with Lil’ Bill & the Blue
Notes. Following the Blue Notes, he has been front man for his Mark
Riley Trio, as well as the recent Snake Oil project with Rod Cook. Most
recently, Mark has joined
Blues Redemption.
Mark has opened for slide great
Sonny Landreth, as well
as
BB King,
Taj Mahal. Mark and his band also backed 2011 British
Blues Awards Male Artist of The Year
Ian Siegal. As owner and builder
of RnB guitars, he’s also built guitars for both Sonny Landreth and Ian
Seigal.
Rod Cook is known for his stylistic versatility and
soulful, melodic playing. As part of his versatile repertoire, he is an
amazing slide man. From the early 1980's to the early '90's he played
with The Royals, a mainstay in the Seattle blues and rock scene. He then
teamed up with singer/songwriter/bassist Laura Love, recording seven
albums, two of which were released on Mercury Records, and touring the
United States, Canada and Europe. In 1993 he also teamed up with former
Steve Miller Band guitarist James "Curley" Cooke and formed the acoustic
guitar duo "Double Cookin'." In 1996 he launched his own band, Rod Cook
and Toast, a band performing original and cover material based in
blues, rock, country, Americana, surf and American roots music,
releasing two albums. Since 2004, he has performed with Vicci Martinez
recording three albums. Rod can be seen performing periodically with
Northwest icon Little Bill Englehart, and Snake Oil with Mark Riley.
Rod has backed Taj Mahal, and opened for
Todd Rundgren, Sonny Landreth, and
Charlie Musslewhite. He has been nominated
numerous times for the Washington Blues Society's "Best Of The Blues"
Awards, winning three times.
Brian Lee leads
Brian Lee & the Orbiters, and the
Brian Lee Trio. They've opened for
Little Charlie & the Nightcats and
Tommy Castro. Brian and the Orbiters have been honored with seven "Best
of the Blues" nominations by the Washington Blues Society, including
nomination for "Best Slide Guitar" in 2011. Backing the Slide Monsters
for the night are the stellar, soulful, Orbiters, featuring Hank Yanda,
Russ Kammerer, and Steve Yonck.
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