Nick Curran

Comin’ on such as a sci-fi cross types of T-Bone Walker, Small Richard, and Electric guitar Slim, guitarist/vocalist Nick Curran was a powerhouse performer who all owed a solid debts to blues and rockabilly performers from the ’50s. Originally from Biddeford, Maine, Curran started executing in his early teenagers along with his father’s music group, Mike Curran & the Tremors. At 19, while using local rockabilly music group Ruler Memphis, Curran fulfilled rockabilly star Ronnie Dawson and finished up touring with him for approximately six months. Immediately after arriving off the street, he got a contact to accomplish a tour with Tx rockabilly queen Kim Lenz and finally joined her back-up music group, the Jaguars. Subsequently, Curran shifted to Dallas where he quickly immersed himself within the city’s lively blues traditions along with the origins music picture in Austin. It had been during this time period that Curran toured with retro-country feeling Wayne Hancock. Citing such affects as Wynonie Harris, Otis Western, Roy Brown, and several additional postwar blues and rock and roll & roll performers, Curran released his single recording debut, Fixin’ YOUR MIND, in 2000. Documenting live, single assumes vintage tools, Curran offers cultivated an extraordinary retro ’50s leap blues sound that’s only improved by his predilection for classic clothing and Nu-Nile pomade. Nitelife Boogie adopted in 2001 and additional solidified Curran’s status among the most genuine and exciting origins music artists of his era. Inside a move that garnered him a somewhat higher profile, Curran authorized with legit-blues label Blind Pig Information in 2002 and released his third recording the following yr. Featuring even more of Curran’s old-school blues and R&B, Doctor Velvet discovered the still twenty-something designer branching out into Delta blues, reworking the Sonics’ garage area rock traditional “Shot Down,” and carrying out alongside one of is own musical idols, unique Fantastic Thunderbirds guitarist Jimmie Vaughan. Further accolades adopted in 2004 as Curran received the W.C. Handy Honor for Greatest New Designer Debut and released his 4th album, Participant! Toward the second option stages from the tour advertising Participant!, Curran parted methods along with his longtime Nitelifes tempo portion of ex-Fabulous Thunderbirds bassist Preston Hubbard and drummer Damien Llanes. Ironically, Curran after that became a member of vocalist Kim Wilson’s most recent incarnation from the Fantastic Thunderbirds with time to record the band’s 2005 launch Painted On. After departing the T-Birds, Curran created the punk-blues combo Deguello with T-Birds’ bassist Ronnie Wayne Weber, and performed in various part projects like the old-school punk- and garage-influenced music group the Flash Males before relaunching his single career. In ’09 2009, Curran was identified as having oral malignancy. He was going through treatment when he released his 5th studio recording, 2010’s Reform College Lady, on Eclecto Groove Information. In past due 2010, doctors considered him cancer-free. Nevertheless, in 2011 the malignancy came back and Curran once more experienced a circular of chemotherapy. Curran celebrated his 35th birthday and was going through even more treatment for his malignancy when he passed away on Oct 6, 2012.