Downchild Blues Band

Led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh, the Downchild Blues Band may be the leading blues music group in Canada. Their saxophone-driven leap blues provided a significant motivation for Dan Aykroyd as well as the past due John Belushi’s Blues Brothers, who included Walsh’s music, “Everything I WANT (Nearly)” and “Shotgun Blues,” on the 1978 debut recording, Briefcase Filled with Blues. Shaped in 1969 by Walsh and his sibling, Richard “Hock” Walsh, the Downchild Blues Music group endured continuous employees turnover. A lot more than 18 music artists came and proceeded to go, including Gene Taylor, who continued to play using the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Kenny Neal, who became a member of after departing the use of Buddy Man and relocating to Toronto. Turmoil between your Walsh brothers led to Hock Walsh becoming fired through the music group shortly before function began on the third recording in 1974. Although he came back to utilize the music group in 1977 and 1985, his hard living swept up with him on Feb 1999 when he succumbed to an obvious heart attack. Because the early ’90s, Downchild Blues Music group offers benefited from a more-fixed lineup. Vocalist/songwriter Chuck Jackson, who became a member of in 1990, received a Maple Blues honor as “greatest man vocalist of 1999” along with a “Blues with a sense” award, through the Toronto Blues Culture, for his “accomplishments during a recognized profession”. A previous person in ’60s rock-band, Rhinoceros, Michael Fonfara received a Maples Blues honor, in 2000, as “piano/keyboards participant of the entire year.” Mike Fitzpatrick offers performed drums with Big Joe Turner, Sonny Rhodes, Hubert Sumlin, and Bob Margolin and it has documented with such blues performers as Snooky Pryor and B.B. Odom. Gary Kendall, who performed bass for the band’s first recordings, returned following a 12-yr break, where he booked concerts at Toronto blues golf club the Silver Buck. The receiver of a Toronto Blues Culture “Blues with a sense” award, in 1993, he received Maple Blues honours as “bass participant of the entire year” in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2002. The personal sound from the Downchild Blues Music group is constantly on the emanate from saxophone participant Pat Carey. An associate of the music group since 1985, Carey previously caused the Winnepeg Symphony, the Jimmy Ruler Golden Boy Brass, Tony Faim & the Dukes, and Richard “Hock” Wilson. Furthermore to offering horn agreements for such Canadian performers as Jack port DeKeyzer, Big Daddy G, Sonny Fournier, and Chuck Jackson & the All Superstars, he provides documented with Rita Chiarelli, Fathead, the Unity Music group, Danny Brooks, and Curley Bridges. The receiver of a Maple Blues award as “horn participant of the entire year”, in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, he documented an record, Starlight along with his group, Pat Carey’s Jazz Navigators. Elevated in north Ontario, where their parents went a resort resort, Donnie and Richard “Hock” Wilson relocated to Toronto within their teens. Alongside the Downchild Blues Music group, they documented among the initial independent albums to become released in Canada. Documented in two evenings in a little makeshift studio room at Rochdale University, the album, entitled Bootleg, was found for distribution by RCA Victor and re-released in Canada and Japan. Their second record, DIRECTLY, released in 1974, included the band’s just strike, a reworking of Joe Turner’s “Turn, Flop and Take a flight.”