Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers

This California-based blues band led by Rod Piazza, the harmonica player and singer whose stratospheric harmonica wailings owe much debt to both Little Walter and George “Harmonica” Smith. Piazza started his professional profession as an associate from the Dirty Blues Music group in the middle-’60s. The Dirty Blues Music group documented two albums for ABC/Bluesway — an eponymous debut in 1967 and 1968’s Rock Dirty. Piazza remaining the band following the launch of Rock Dirty, choosing going to the street along with his idol George “Harmonica” Smith rather. Over the following decade . 5, Piazza and Smith performed collectively frequently beneath the name Bacon Excess fat; they also documented the occasional recording. In 1969, Bacon Body fat released their eponymous debut recording on Blue Horizon. While he was carrying out with Smith, Piazza released his personal single albums, the to begin which — Pole Piazza Blues Guy — made an appearance on LMI in 1973. The next, Chicago Soaring Saucer Music group, premiered in 1979 on Gangster Information. As Smith’s wellness began to decrease in the first ’80s, Piazza constructed the Mighty Flyers — along with his wife Honey Alexander on keyboards — which started playing night clubs in 1980. Between 1981 and 1985, the Mighty Flyers released three albums: Radioactive Materials (1981), File Under Rock and roll (1984), and Right away to the final (1985). Through the early ’80s, Piazza became a program musician, dealing with performers as different as Pee Wee Crayton and Michelle Stunned. In the middle-’80s, he started a full-fledged single career, launching Harpburn on Murray Brothers in 1986 therefore Glad to really have the Blues in 1988. Piazza & the Mighty Flyers agreed upon a agreement with Black Best Information in 1991; the label afterwards re-released the group’s albums on Compact disc. Through the entire ’90s, Piazza continuing to record and perform using the Mighty Flyers, launching the occasional single record, like 1999’s Right here and today. Beyond the foundation made an appearance in 2001. 3 years afterwards the Mighty Flyers came back with Keepin’ It True for the Blind Pig label, offering two new users, Paul Fasulo on drums and guitarist Henry Carvajal. Another four albums had been released by Delta Groove Information: For the Particular Who in 2005, Thrillville in 2007, Spirit Monster in ’09 2009, and Almighty Buck in 2011. In 2014, Piazza & the Mighty Flyers came back to Blind Pig using the album Emergency Scenario.