Keri Leigh

Vocalist, songwriter, record manufacturer, journalist, and writer Keri Leigh is among these multi-talented, accomplished people who the blues music globe can’t appear to get a sufficient amount of of. And the actual fact that she’s hardly 30 years previous means that she’ll end up being around, seeking her number 1 passion — performing the blues — for a long period. Her most recent album, Entrance, (1995), for the Jackson, Mississippi-based Malaco Information label, isn’t with her normal backing music group, the Blue Devils, nonetheless it was documented at Muscles Shoals Studios (which Malaco possesses), and Leigh and her hubby acted as co-producers from the record. Leigh transferred to Austin from her indigenous Oklahoma with her guitarist/spouse Tag Lyon in 1990. Luckily, these were welcomed (generally) with open up arms from the Austin blues community, and certainly by Clifford Antone, owner of Antone’s blues nightclub, who booked them into his place weekly for approximately a yr. Within a yr of therefore of her shifting to Austin, she started focus on her 1st publication, Stevie Ray: Spirit to Spirit, (Taylor Books, Dallas), a separate account from the fluctuations of the past due guitarist’s all-too-short existence. Leigh 1st fulfilled Vaughan when she interviewed him in 1986, and after many interviews, they truly became friends. IN-MAY 1990, they started work on that which was to become his autobiography, however in August of this yr, Vaughan was wiped out inside a helicopter incident in Wisconsin. Leigh’s recordings all possess a Joplin-esque quality to them, and one of the ways to spell it out her singing design is really as a Janis Joplin for the ’90s; actually, some critics possess referred to her as the best voice to emerge from Tx since Joplin. Leigh provides used her history being a radio and paper journalist to obtain promotion for the Blue Devils, and a look into her overflowing press-clips folder displays just what a hustler she actually is. But Leigh and her band are hard as the various other touring blues music artists across the U.S., plus they spend up to 150 evenings a year on the highway. Leigh’s hubby Lyon is among the most normally gifted glide guitarists you’ll ever listen to, and the convenience with which he grips the instrument helps it be look deceptively basic. In fact, great blues guitar is quite challenging to play, but Lyon provides all the goes down pat. Leigh and her Blue Devils possess two releases from Amazing Information (a now-defunct label), No Newbie (1993) and Blue Devil Blues, their debut (1991), furthermore to their most recent Malaco album. Introduction, comprising one-half originals and one-half cover music, is certainly probably the most available of her recordings. Leigh and her group possess many more great years before them; wherever each goes, their affable methods earn them fresh friends and followers in the blues globe. There is also a knack to make new blues changes out of rock and roll & rollers.