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artist The Johnny Max Band

Mississauga, ON, CANADA
Pour Soul Records
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The brand New JMB album, It`s A Long Road`, has received Their 2nd JUNO nomination, 3 Maple Blues nominations for "Entertainer Of The Year", Vince Maccarone as "Drummer Of The Year" and John Johnson "Horn Player Of The Year". The JMB are honoured to have receieved an Indie Award nomination as well

To listen to Johnny Max tell it, and to watch Johnny Max present it, you understand very quickly that there’s more to creating great music than simply performing a first-rate piece of music well. It’s much more all encompassing than that.  Johnny's take includes engaging the audience, making his show accessible. He wants to more than simply feed off the audience, he looks to make them part of the experience. And he does so with his good natured wit.  Using humour to get your point across is always risky because there’s a fine line between entertaining and being the comic. To his credit Johnny Max knows how to tread that line because the music always comes first. 

Max’s music doesn’t always follow conventional Blues lines. Rather than be confined to the traditional 12 bar influenced forms, this veteran of the musical wars favours substance rather than convention. While his first three releases firmly established Max in the Blues idiom, it was on his fourth, the Juno nominated A Lesson I’ve Learned, that Johnny added to his Blues sensibilities, and found his groove. And that groove had more to do with Southern Soul than straight up Blues. Of note, check the title track whose chorus might have been lifted from the Dan Penn songbook.

  Max’s new disc, It’s A Long Road, picks up where “Lesson” left off – with a wallop! Partnering with a brand new band, Johnny lays down a dozen tracks with a heavy dosage of Gumbo R&B, nods to Rock’em Sock’em Soul, and hints of all-out Boogie work-outs and Tom Waits styled tonalities. Along the way, Johnny relates his most deeply personal stories to date.

  You would think that all of the above would be enough to keep anyone busy but Max also finds time to host a radio show: (“Sunday Morning Soul” on The HAZE FM, www.thehazefm.ca, Canada’s only commercial web radio station Sunday mornings at 11AM and Wednesdays at 10PM.), and co-program the CNE Bandshell BluesFest, (with Rico Ferrara), among other ventures.

  It’s all in days work for Max. And he and his fans wouldn’t have it any other way.

For more information on the JMB you can go to www.johnnymaxband.com

lineup

Johnny Max Vocals
Vince Maccarone Drums
Wayne Deadder Bass
Uli Bohnet Bass
John Findlay Guitar/vocals
Martin Aucoin Keyboards
Jesse O`Brien keyboards
Howard Moore Trumpet
Ed Zankowski saxophone
Ride & Roll
Independent
May, 2005
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September, 2010
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Sunday Morning Soul on The Haze FM for Sunday August 8th

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Sunday Morning Soul brings you the best in new Blues, R&B, Soul and Roots music from across the planet, every Sunday morning at 11AM(EDT). We also repeat the show on Wednesday evenings form 10PM to midnight(EDT) on www.thehazefm.ca, Canada’s only commercial webradio station. We report to as many Blues Societies as possible and many blues lists…we get it out!

Come on along and see what all the fuss is about…….thousands are doing that every Sunday morning!

 Playlist for Sunday Morning Soul August 5th 

JW Jones – Kissing In Memphis – Midnight Memphis Sun – Northern Blues Music – www.northernblues.com  - www.jw-jones.com

Rockit 88 Band – I Feel Helpless – Sweet Sugar Cane – independent – 7 Arts Entertainment – www.7artsmusic.ca

Buzz Brothers – Freight Train – Norsk Blues – independent – www.bluesnews.no

Digging Roots – These Hands – We Are – independent – www.diggingrootsmusic.com

Albert Castiglia – Sweet Southern Angel – Keeping On – Blues Leaf Records – www.bluesleaf.com

Alfie Smith – In My Time of Dying – Brass & Steel – independent – www.alfiesmith.com

Big Bill Broonzy – Long Tall Mama – Just A Dream – Baur Music

Big Dave MacLean – Right From The Start – Acoustic Blues – Stony Plain Records – www.stonyplainrecords.com

Blackburn – Sister Rosa – Brotherhood – Make It Real Records – www.makeitrealrecords.com

Colin Linden – God Will Always Remember Your Prayer – From The Water – True North Records – www.truenorthrecords.com

Little Miss Higgins – Wash Those Blues Away – Across The Plains – independent – www.littlemisshiggins.com

Dan Penn – Where There’s A Will There’s A Way – Do Right Man – www.danpenn.com

The Maple Blues Revue – I’ve Changed My Ways – Live At Twisted Pines – independent – Preservation Music - www.maplebluesrevue.com

Duke Robillard – Look Out – World Of Blues vol 1 – Stony Plain Records – www.stonyplainrecords.com

Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne – Let Me Go Home Whiskey – Let It Loose – Electro-Fi Records  - www.electrofi.com

Rick Fines & Suzie Vinnick – We Got A Love Like That – Nothing Halfway – independent – www.rickandsuzie.comwww.rickfines.comwww.suzievinnick.com

Paul Reddick – Hooks In The Water – Villanelle – Northern Blues Music – www.northernblues.com

The Johnny Max Band – (You’re ) A Lesson I’ve Learned – A Lesson I’ve Learned – independent – Pour Soul Records – www.johnnymaxband.com

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley – Shake Blues – Deltaphonic – Electro-Fi Records – www.electrofi.com

Lowell George – What Do You Want The Girl To Do – Thanks I’ll Eat Here – Warner Bros.

MonkeyJunk – Give Me Time – Tiger In Your Tank – Vizztone Records – www.vizztone.comwww.monkeyjunkband.com

Rhythm & Truth Brass Band – Rhythm & truth – Fife & Drum –independent -  Maple Music – www.paulneufeld.ca

Jon Cleary – Smile In Awhile – Pin Your Spin – independent – www.joncleary.com

 

New Blues, Roots, R&B and Soul music, every Sunday morning at 11AM(EDT) and repeated Wednesday evenings at 10-midnight(EDT) on www.thehazefm.ca

Where new music comes to play, every Sunday morning!

We send playlists out to all Blues Societies and Blues playlists and all the important people!!!!!

For promo please send to

Johnny Max

c/o Sunday Morning Soul

2165 Stir Cres.

Mississauga, Ontario

Canada

L4Y 3V2

See you next week…..support independent Blues & roots music….because it’s fun!

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She's Not the Marrying Kind 3:47

She's Not the Marrying Kind

a typical Johnny Max song, a little humour in a story...from the new Album "It's A Long Road"

Johnny max Promo for "It's A Long Road" 7:42
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