The Heavy Chevy Band doesn't just
bring the one-two-three punch of Darcy Lee's award-winning volcanic
vocals, Janie Smith's screaming sax, and Brian Chevalier's electric and
slide guitars to the audience. These front-line experienced musicians
connect with music, humor and personal experience, interacting with the
crowd while featuring an encyclopedic span of blues genres - soul,
hip-grinding Chicago-style, Motown funk, delta-blues, '70s blues-rock,
bluegrass, Mississippi hill-stomp and zydeco. This style of music
combined with an artist-audience connection infuses the listener with
emotion, passion and musical education, drawing the audience into the
Heavy Chevy experience. Michael Axel Fleming and Tom Martin comprise the
live act's rhythm section with a fatback groove, deep and thick and
butt-wagging, keeping the music and the dancers jumping at every show.After two-plus years and over 300 gigs (including professional jams,
benefits and private functions), Heavy Chevy's emotional,
blues-genre-spanning album of new songs delivers some Motown-funk meets
Mississippi-Hillstomp bleeding into soul-searing torch-tune
house-rockers with Darcy Lee's voice sounding like Etta James channeling
Adele and Aretha Franklin, backed by Chevalier's guitar-licking sounds
of Albert Collins mixed with Stevie Ray, Keith Richards and
slide-master Hound Dog Taylor, topped by Janie Smith's overwhelming
saxophone presence that stabs your heart, sweeps you up and carries you
off with celebration. Heavy Chevy delivers new old-school music with
love and intensity.THE HEAVY CHEVY BAND
