Dan Hubbard and the Humadors

Based in not-so-faraway Normal, Dan and the gang list themselves as an original rock and roll band, which is pretty cool when you think about it. No hyphens or hype, invented categories or inverted genres, just a guy writing good songs with a fine band backing him up. They claim influences from Tom Petty, Neil Young, Van Morrison and others farther up the music chain doing the same thing. Head honcho Dan Hubbard covers songwriting, lead vocals, guitar, piano and harmonica, while the Humadors play the backing band with Scott McRae on lead guitar and sometimes bass, Kyle Yap on guitar and vocals, Kevin Yarger on drums, percussion and vocals, and Rob Hill on bass. Hubbard lists four CDs to his credit with the most recent in 2008 getting good reviews as a well-produced, nicely played and strongly written recording done with the Humadors. They’ve opened for fellow Bloomington-Normal rockers Backyard Tire Fire and played all over the Midwest. Word has it they’ve even played Springfield before. Were you there?