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- Duke's new CD Stomp the Blues Tonight! is here. Pre-order now and get it first! >>MORE
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- Duke presents this master class on DVD in playing blues guitar, Guitar Method Volume 1, which includes lessons for choosing chord voicings, experimenting with boogie and other rhythms, and using a variety of picking techniques! >>MORE
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- The production team of Producer Duke Robillard and recording engineer Jack Gauthier are available for productions in Roots music, Americana, Jazz, Blues, Acoustic Rock and more. >>MORE
- Duke's new soul jazz instrumental single of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" is available as a download. >>MORE
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- Duke Robillard Band's drummer, Mark Teixeira, is now available for private drumming lessons! For info contact Mark at: mleedydrum@yahoo.com
Duke's June News
Hello folks, It's been a busy period for me in this last several months with recording, producing and gigging. We had a successful European tour which also included Greece earlier this year. I have been busy getting our new CD "Passport to the Blues" finished up and ready to go. It will be released on August 25th on the Stony Plain Label. We are excited about it and there is a growing buzz about it.
Meanwhile "Tales from the Tiki Lounge" the Les Paul tribute/Exotica CD with Sunny Crownover has continued to gather airplay and great reviews culminating in a feature story in the new issue of Downbeat Magazine! Sunny and her Joy Boys have some cool summer shows in places like Watertown MA and Portland ME. Be sure and check their MySpace page for shows.
The Duke Robillard Band is currently touring the Midwest with stops in Oklahoma City, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor MI, Cleveland Ohio, Chicago and Louisville KY and more. Then home for a few days before a two night run at Warmdaddys in Philly, A show for the Baltimore Blues society and a live taping at the XM/Sirius Radio studios in DC.
Also of interest, we recently filmed our first DRB video at the beautiful Blackstone River Theater and it will debut on The Alternate Root TV show and also be seen many other places in the coming months. The video is of the first song from the new "Passport to the Blues" CD and is called "Workin' hard for my Uncle."
We are about half way thru Al Basile's next CD and will be finishing up Lil' Stevie Silver's 2nd CD soon. Mark Teixeira and Marty Ballou and I also did the tracks for RI singer/songwriter Keturah's new release which shows off her great voice and brilliant songwriting. All of the above projects were recorded at Jack Gauthier's Lakewest Studio where so much great music has been recorded over the last 20 years.
I will be scheduling some private lessons and classes soon so keep an eye out for info here. Also Jack Gauthier and I will be available for recording and producing of artists new and established in all roots related genres. Joe Louis Walker's latest CD "Between a rock and the Blues" recorded and produced by Jack and I, is the Blues Music Awards 2010 album of the year and the DRB's "Stomp the Blues Tonight" produced by myself, was nominated for a Grammy this year also!
So if you are interested in recording just click that "contact Duke" button at the bottom of my home page.
The Duke Robillard Band is looking forward to our summer dates and festivals all over the country and hope to see you out there!
....... All the best,, Duke
FOR GUITAR PLAYERS ONLY
Master archtop guitar builder James W. Murphy has build a masterpiece for Duke that Duke describes as "The best archtop I have ever owned!" It is now equipped with a 1967 model 1100 DeArmond pickup to give it the most classic of warm jazz tones, "gorgeous sound from gorgeous wood is the way I think of my Duke model archtop." Check out James work at his website.
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I would like to give a tip to all my guitar playing friends about an amplifier I am currently using. The the company is Louis Electric out of Bergenfield N.J. The owner, Louis Rosano makes amazing sounding custom amps based on the early Fender tweed 40 and 80 watt twins with several speaker configurations. Mine is called "The Duke" and its a killer!!! Its got an Eminence 12" Tonker and a 10" Delta Demon speaker and the amp produces tones as fat and sweet as you could ever dream up! Lots of sustain with warm yet bright tone that you just cant get out of most modern amps. Maybe its because they hand build and wind their own transformers. |
Or maybe because they use only the best components available and hand wire each amp with care and precision. It could have something to do with the beautiful 100 year old solid pine cabinet with only a stain on it to increase its tonal potential. Or maybe its that Lou tweeks each amp to what you specificly want with exacting skill to get the sound you want at the volume you play at to give you just the right breakup when you want it.
Until now I thought custom "boutique" amps were nonsense until I got my Louis Electric amp. If you've searched and you can't find you're sound, you owe it to yourself to check out Louis electric amps at www.louisamps.com.Yours truly, Duke Robillard.
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