The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling Announce LUCKY GUY! Tour
"Pure blues at its most urgently expressive. A rollicking tour de force."
–Living Blues
"Dynamic excitement...Nick Moss is a major force in contemporary blues. Dennis Gruenling plays soaring harp...Infectious, finger-snappin’ R&B."
–Blues Music Magazine
The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling has announced North American and European dates for their 2019 Lucky Guy!tour. Lucky Guy!, the highly anticipated new Alligator album, will be released on August 9, 2019.
Since the 2018 release of their Alligator Records debut, The High Cost Of Low Living, the band -- guitarist/vocalist Moss, harmonicist/vocalist Gruenling, pianist Taylor Streiff, bassist Rodrigo Mantovani, drummer Patrick Sealshas -- have toured relentlessly, playing for wildly enthusiastic fans and winning over critics and radio programmers worldwide. UK tastemaker magazine MOJO said, “Guitarist and singer Nick Moss shows the world his fearsome guitar chops and his complete familiarity with the great tradition of Chicago blues music. Partnered with harmonica-player Dennis Gruenling, Moss creates a two-headed monster that takes the band thundering through crisp originals.”
Lucky Guy! features the classic Chicago blues sound the band is known for. But, as Moss himself notes, there are also “a few other flavors,” including Louisiana swamp pop, West Coast blues, New Orleans funk, and even some proto-rock and roll. The album was produced by Kid Andersen (guitarist for Rick Estrin & The Nightcats) and Moss and recorded at Andersen’s Greaseland Studio in San Jose, California. All but one of the 14 songs are originals, with 11 by Moss and two by Gruenling.
Although Moss and Gruenling had known each other for 20 years and had jammed together often, it wasn’t until 2016 that they decided to team up full time. Moss’ expressive and expansive blues guitar playing flawlessly meshes with Gruenling’s monster harmonica chops. On stage, the two communicate seemingly telepathically, as Moss' raw, fiery guitar and Gruenling's whisper-to-a-roar harmonica feed energy to each other and the band. “When the band and I get on stage,” says Moss, “the music takes over. We can’t hold back and the energy just comes pouring out. We get carried away and the audience gets carried away with us.”
LUCKY GUY!Tour:
Jul 31 97LAV Scully’s Statewide Moving Summertime Blues Concert Series, Grand Rapids, MI
Aug 02 Athens Performing Arts Corp. Summer Concert Series, Athens, NY
Aug 03 Bull Run Restaurant, Shirley, MA
Aug 04 Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA
Aug 06 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
Aug 07 Chan's, Woonsocket, RI
Aug 09 Festival de Blues de Donnacona, Donnacona, QC, CANADA
Aug 10 Heritage Music BluesFest, Wheeling, WV
Aug 12 WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, Lexington, KY
Aug 14 Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, MO
Aug 15 SPAH Convention, Tulsa, OK
Aug 16 BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, St. Louis, MO
Aug 17 La Porte County Blues Festival, La Porte, IN
Aug 18 High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
Aug 23 Bean Blossom Blues Festival, Bean Blossom, IN
Aug 24 Crossroads Blues Festival, Rockford, IL at Lyran Park
Sep 01 Alonzo's Memorial Picnic, Rosedale, MD
Sep 06 Blind Willie's, Atlanta, GA
Sep 08 Capitol Oyster Bar, Montgomery, AL
Sep 20 Jazz & Blues in the Village, Sarnia, ON, CANADA
Sep 27 Ignition Music Garage, Goshen, IN
Sep 28 New Albany Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival, New Albany, IN
Oct 10 Canal Bank Shuffle, Thorold, ON, CANADA
Oct 11 Rock Star Music Hall, Windsor, ON, CANADA
Oct 12 KBD Hall, Chatham, ON, CANADA
Oct 17 Move 2 Blues, Hasselt, BELGIUM
Oct 18 Sang a Klang, Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG
Oct 19 The Odeon Scene Jean-Roger Caussimon, Tremblay-en-France, FRANCE
Oct 20 Keeping The Blues Alive, Deurne-Vlierden, NETHERLANDS
Oct 26 Blues Station Concerts, Tournon-d'Agenais, FRANCE
Oct 27 Café Zaal De Gouden Leeuw, Dongen, NETHERLANDS
Nov 01 Blues Paradise 2019, Næstved, DENMARK
Nov 02 Blues Heaven Festival, Frederikshavn, DENMARK
Nov 04 Rockhouse Salzburg, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Nov 05 Reigen Live, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Nov 08 Bischofsmühle Cyclus 66 e.V., Hildesheim, GERMANY
Nov 09 Blaublues Festival, Haringe, BELGIUM
Nov 10 Haus Windheim No2, Petershagen, GERMANY
Nov 22 Reading Blues Fest, Reading, PA
