December 1, 2005
-BHBB would like to welcome Greg Nimtz to the line up! Greg is an accomplished saxophone player and music instructor. Greg will be assembling and arranging our horn section.
We are also beginning a make-over for our website. You may experience slow response or broken links while we make the changeover. Please be patient while we work on the site.
November 10, 2005
- Jane Bassett and Tzer have been added to the BHBB line-up! Both Jane and Tzer are members of Tight Fit (as is Jimi Ray), and we are honored to have them in our project!
We are also launching the bighousebluesband.com website today, separating it from the vinylwall.com domain. You should start to see things change and improve as we get our thoughts organized here. Thanks for visiting!
November 5, 2005
- Jody Addicott has officially joined the BHBB as our new bassist! Jody is an accomplished motocross rider and is the owner of Thundersticks, a company developing some extremely cool lighted drum sticks. Welcome Jody!
With this addition, Jimi Ray now officially moves from bass to drums.
November 2, 2005
- Doug, Nick and Jimi returned to Vinyl Wall. Nick worked on the guitar for "The House Is Rockin'" and Jimi added another guitar to "Midnight Hour". New mixes are available here. The House Is Rockin' (2.6MB) Midnight Hour (3.7MB)
October 29, 2005
- BHBB with Tzer on keys began work on the Stevie Ray Vaughan tune "The House Is Rockin'".
October 28, 2005
- Doug and Jimi with Tzer on keys began work on the Picket/Cropper tune: Midnight Hour.
March 15, 2005
- BHBB put more work into the "Mockingbird" recording this evening. Still no vocals though... Here is a rough mix of the music tracks: Mockingbird (5.2MB)
March 13, 2005
- BHBB began recording the oldie "Mockingbird".
December 18, 2004
- Doug, Nick and Jimi polished up the BHBB recording of the Beatles' track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (6MB). P.S. Don't forget you can right click (Ctrl click - Mac) the links to music files on this page to save them to your hard drive :)
November 26, 2004
- Doug, Nick and Jimi completed the BHBB track "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" (4.4MB). The guys also polished up "She Caught The Katie" (4MB).
November 13, 2004
- Doug, Nick and Jimi worked on a track for the Big House Blues Band. In a fun session the guys put down the song "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" with Nick on lead vocal.
November 6, 2004
- Doug, Nick and Jimi worked on the BHBB track "She Caught The Katie".
October 16, 2004
- Doug and Jimi conducted their first session of 2004 recording the old Curtis Mayfield track "People Get Ready". Except for a needed organ overdub, the track is pretty much complete.
September 18, 2004
- Doug and Jimi completed work on "Hey Bartender" (2.7MB) for the Big House Blues Band.
March 27, 2004
- BHBB began recording on the Beatles classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". When the track has been completed we will post a link to it here.
January 27, 2004
- BHBB began work on the song "She Caught The Katie" this evening.
January 12, 2004
- Pat Houseman was kind enough take a few photos of the Big House Blues Band while rehearsing at the Rahn Street Studio. You can view the photos here: Big House Blues Band.
January 3, 2004
- BHBB put down another two tracks today. Hoochie Coochie Man (3.4MB) and I'm Easy (2.4MB).
December 16, 2003
- The new Big House Blues Band were the first to make a proper recording in the new Vinyl Wall Rahn Street studio. It was a very fun and upbeat session. The Big House Blues Band is: "Big Daddy" Doug (axe, vox, harmonica), Nick Houseman (axe, vox), Jimi Ray (bass, vox) and Kathy Jo Eacker (drums). The group [without Kathy] recorded the song Walking By Myself in a Tuesday evening session. Click here to hear it: Walking By Myself (4MB) (Jimmy Rogers recorded in 1956).
