BAND SPOTLIGHT | Hard Road Blues Band

When Bruce Baise (guitar, vocals), Dave Marr (guitar, vocals), Craig Wood (bass, vocals), Mark “Doc” Janis (drums), Steve Jackson (saxophone, clarinet, flute) and “Bad” Bill Robinson (harmonica, limericks) join together to create music, they bring decades of experience to the stage. Hot Property, Picture This, Wabash Run, Porkpie & The Northend Allstars, Rock of Ages, U.S Navy Band, Shadow, Nashville North House Band, Groove Daddies and Hipbone Sam makes for a short list of this band’s immense lineage. The catalog of high-energy, blues-soaked tunes played during a show is incredible, including songs by Eric Clapton, Siegel-Schwall, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Allman Brothers, The Animals, The Doors, John Prine and B.B. King. When Bad Bill and Steve go wireless, working the room to address “the age old question, is harmonica more fun than sax,” the band rocks the house with attitude and aplomb and the audience becomes the lucky recipient of the talents inherent in these “really rode hard” guys in the Hard Road Blues Band.