Dynamic, guitar driven rockin' blues... a masterful performance!

Rick Tobey is a skilled, highly regarded multi-instrumentalist who resides and plays in and around New Orleans. This song is often performed live by Rick's band "Ricky T and the Rockets" and in his solo act "Ricky T and the Robots" where he plays and sings live over tracks he recorded in his studio; performing all parts and playing all the instruments.

Guitar and vocal driven Rockin' Blues and musical adventures...

Rick Tobey is a 5 time Blues Challenge winner from the Piedmont and Cape Fear region of North Carolina, and 20 year resident of New Orleans now living in Hammond LA. For more info and booking email ricktobey@rickyt.rocks and go to http://www.rickyt.rocks...

Reviews of his music and performance: “He tackled the stomp board, mouth harp and guitar with grace and fluidity. He blew the crowd away…” “The crowd remarked about his outstanding originality…” “...downright black snake hoochie coochie blues…” “This seriously entertaining set from the southern backroads defies the 'roots' label with the broad range of styles it encompasses, but it’s sure to satisfy listeners partial to that brand of music and then some …”

“Witness a harmonica rack strapped, fedora-outfitted dude playing a National Resophonic axe and chances are he’s a pedantic purist playing only the obscurest Delta material. Yet, given Rick Tobey’s unusual take, all preconceived notions derail right there. His repeated North Carolina migrations have left this New Jersey refugee-Louisiana transplant with an unmistakable Piedmont stamp that’s melded with a Mississippi Delta identity. That’s enough to turn things upside down which he adroitly does…”

“Tobey’s not anybody’s Blind Mississippi wannabe, which explains the African percussion dancing around his nimble fretwork, steel shaving slide and banshee-shaving harmonica wailing. Sometimes it feels as if it’s eerie blues for werewolves… while others are laid back enough guaranteed not to harsh your mellow. … he straps on a ’57 Gibson Les Paul Jr. and rocks out … a John Lee Hooker-meets Duane Allman type of encounter … Good stuff !”

Incredible live performance of blues-jazz improvisation with great players including Benny Hill on sax, Taylor Lee on bass, and Gerard Torchio on drums- with Rick Tobey on guitar and vocals.

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to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech. to compose, play, recite, or sing (verse, music, etc.) on the spur of the moment. to make, provide, or arrange from whatever materials are readily available:

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“I was born in a south Louisiana chicken coop with a bottle neck on my little finger and a guitar in my hand. Been playin’ dem Chickenhead Blues for a thousand years, from the Mississippi Delta to the North Carolina Piedmont, from the Cape Fear River Basin to the Smokey Mountains.” Rick Tobey’s latest CD “CHICKEN ROAD” was a top ten finalist in the 2010 BEST SELF-PRODUCED CD COMPETITION. His debut CD “CHICKENHEAD BLUES” was declared to be “one if the best sounding, well produced blues CDs ever recorded!” The Chickenhead Blues Band won the 2007 Cape Fear Blues Society Blues Challenge; he won the 2009 Cape Fear Blues Society Solo Blues Challenge and the 2010 Triangle Blues Society Solo Blues Challenge. His current CD “RICK TOBEY PLAYS WILLIE DIXON (the Chickenhead Blues Way)” is a contender in this year’s IBC BEST SELF-PRODUCED CD COMPETITION. For more info or bookings call 985-981-1753.

Recorded LIVE at the Rusty Nail Saloon, Wilmington, NC- July 24th, 2009

Rick Tobey- guitar, vocals, harp, drums on “Oh Well” (studio overdub) Dave Hervey- bass, vocals Perry Smith- percussion, guitar on “Pretty Thing”, “Oh Well”, “One Two, 1,2” Troy Pierce- drums

recorded LIVE at the Rusty Nail Saloon, Wilmington, NC- July 24th, 2009 engineered by Bordly Palk mixed and mastered by Rick Tobey any questions call Rick Tobey @ 985-981-1753 © 2010 Rick Tobey

Traditional and original Blues and other musical adventures… Currently one of the top 12 semi-finalists of the International Best Self-Produced CD Competition. Winner to be announced in Memphis on January 23rd, 2010.

Sweet Gypsy, won't you take my hand, will you speak my fortune, tell me what is the plan? She said "fi fye fiddle e-eye-oh, get back to Chicken Road..."

Winner of the 2009 Cape Fear Blues Challenge!