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The Allman Brothers Band, Neil Young and Crazy Horse and The Black Crowes were the established recording artists who headlined the event. ran from 1992 to 1998 and featured such emerging artists as Beck, The Dave Matthews Band, Sheryl Crow, Wilco and Ben Folds Five. (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere), which was inspired by Perry Farrell’s Lollapalooza. During the ‘90s, you had to make more of an effort.”Īnd the highlight was their touring music festival H.O.R.D.E. Today everybody knows everything about everybody. We wouldn’t have had the success we had if it weren’t for those early years in which we learned so much about being a band.”īlues Traveler hit the charts during the early ‘90s with such tunes as “Run-Around,” “Hook” and “But Anyway.” The band’s fourth studio album, “Four,” went platinum and the group headlined amphitheaters. We learned so much on that bar scene on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village.
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“It was us, the Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne and Chris Whitley, to just name a few recording artists. It will accomplish that one week from the show here, when it finally plays Hawaii.“It was a great scene,” Kinchla says while calling from his Los Angeles home. One of Blues Traveler's goals was to play all 50 states. The band built a large fan base, which helped when the group exploded in popularity earlier this year. It has traveled constantly since its first album, winning audiences on the road when its eclecticism kept it off radio and its looks kept it off MTV. Are they blues? Rock? Jazz? Funk? They are all that and more, and their diversity has turned out to not matter because they do everything so well. Its eclecticism used to be considered a problem, because the band is hard to categorize. Bassist Bobby Sheehan and drummer Brendan Hill provide a solid rhythm foundation for the band's wildly diverse range of styles. When the band improvises, which it does often, he really soars, demonstrating inventiveness, wit and style. Guitarist Chan Kinchla shows impressive range, playing solos and fills that interconnect blues, jazz and rock riffs. Blues Traveler is an amazingly talented bunch, starting with Popper, who is a virtuoso harmonica player and an exceptional singer. Even the band's back catalog took off, with its debut album going gold six years after it was released. "Run-Around" soared into the Billboard Top Ten singles chart, and the disc it came from, "four," hit the Top Ten albums list, and went double platinum. It was the key to an elusive success that the gifted, eclectic band had been working hard for since it released its debut "Blues Traveler" album in 1989. The song turned out to be a turning point for Blues Traveler. The final track on the album ('Brother John'), written by the late Bassist Boby Sheehan about his younger brother, whose personal problems foreshadowed Bobbys own drug overdose in 1999. VH1 also picked it up, and it is that cable channel's third most-played video of all time. The fourth studio album from Blues Traveler. It quickly was in heavy rotation, and became one of MTV's most popular videos of the year. Though 2020 sidelined a lot of our plans, the band was able to get together in Nashville and spend some time in the studio.
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Besides, as soon as they played it (initially late at night) they started getting requests for it. Run-Around (2.0) & Hook (2.0) Released April 2, 2021. MTV couldn't deny the video, because it was clever, funny and good-spirited - and the song was dynamite. I don’t know if anybody copied anybody, th e y both came out in 1994. Then the curtain falls, the audience sees the real band of normal, if imperfect, human beings - and doesn't care what they look like, because the music is so good. Back when I was in college I mentioned liking this one song on the radio which turned out to be Run-Around by Blues Traveler, and my boyfriend at the time said, If you like that, you’ll like this other song by Sister Hazel because it’s exactly the same song and I heard it and I was like, WHAT. It produced a video for the song "Run-Around" that mocked the snub, showing Blues Traveler playing behind a curtain while a fake band of slim, good-looking young men lip-synched in front, for a wildly appreciative young audience. When MTV wouldn't play Blues Traveler's videos because its frontman, John Popper, was fat, the band didn't just get mad, it got even. Concert previewīlues Traveler, 7:30 p.m.