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Singer, guitar player and songwriter Debbie Bond has been paying her dues in the Alabama backwoods for over 30 years. Influenced by the famed sounds of Muscle Shoals, and juke joint blues, her sound is contemporary and original. Her impressive musical story includes years of performing with older traditional Alabama blues musicians, including Johnny Shines, Sam Lay, Eddie Kirkland, Willie King Little, Jimmy Reed and more. Her immersion in Alabama blues has deeply flavored her guitar playing, soulful voice and original song writing - yet her sound is contemporary and original, incorporating soul, blues, and jazz influences. Her collaboration with her British born keyboard/harmonica player husband Radiator Rick has added a swampy New Orleans edge to sound to her sound. Debbie is a blues activist and the founder of the award winning Alabama Blues Project dedicated to promoting and preserving the states blues heritage. UK drummer, Miky Barker, has joined the pair on their last four UK tours. Equally comfortable in jazz, rock, folk and blues his storied past includes, recording and touring many UK and international artists including John Etheridge, Andrew Cronshaw, and international tours and 8 studio albums with famed rock giants Magnum. In recent years Micky has dug back down to his roots performing with many US blues acts including Big George brock, Sherman Robertson, Jimmy Grizwals, Debbie Bond and more

Support artist at this concert Is Alex Golisti. This is the first performance in North Staffordshire of this blues-tinged acoustic guitar player & singer-songwriter from York with a husky voice & a presentation that hits exactly the right note for "the blues genre in modern guise"

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Boon Hill Road,

Stoke-on-Trent,

Staffordshire,

England,

ST7 8LA.