Jan James

b. 22 August 1967, Portland, Michigan, USA. Performing in cathedral and hearing blues and rock and roll on record, by her teenage years Adam had turn into a self-confident and achieved performer. While at Michigan Condition University she fulfilled guitarist Craig Calvert plus they begun to play and compose jointly. Their music group, the Traveling Tigers, built a good following around Detroit and shortly they were wanting to expand their bottom. Shifting to Chicago, Illinois, with a new music group called Jewel Fetish, Adam and Calvert performed in lots of locally mentioned blues night clubs, including Buddy Man’s, Blues Legends, Flavor Of Chicago and THE HOME of Blues. As Wayne’ prestige grew she started carrying out under her personal name, with Calvert carrying on to provide effective and fiery support on her behalf singing. Wayne sings an interesting and exhilarating combination of traditional nation blues and traditional rock, with solid undercurrents of gospel and also hints of nation music. Within the middle-90s, James put into her dedicated regional following with the release of the album around the Netherlands-based Provogue Information. Her European target audience has continued to develop and although documented in Chicago, her following few albums had been also released by Provogue and received rave evaluations in European countries and the united kingdom in addition to back home in america. In Chicago Wayne appeared inside a stage demonstration of Like, Janis, based on letters compiled by Janis Joplin, a vocalist to whom she’s been favourably likened, and constructed around her lifestyle and music. The documented work of Adam and Calvert displays them to end up being decidedly more advanced than many better-known performers.