The B.Rad Blues Band
Brad Rumery of the B.Rad Blues Band While the South Bay has come to be musically renowned for its punk and reggae scene, we do dabble in a bit of everything, from electronic and pop to jazz and hip hop. But with the loss of Boogaloo as our go-to sanctuary hub for southern roots music, has our local Blues element become as faded as your denim jacket from 1983? The B.Rad Blues Band doesn’t know, and they probably don’t care; they just do the Blues because the Blues does them. “To me, Blues is raw, vibrant, unadulterated, earthy and real,” says Brad Rumery, South Bay native and founder of the B.Rad Blues Band. “As Robert Lucas of Canned Heat once said to me, the Blues is the only original pure American music -before rock, before jazz.” The B.Rad Blues Band is Brad Rumery (vocals, guitar, songwriter), Robert Lovato (drums), and Paul Alford (bass). Alford was born and raised in Oklahoma, but now lives in the South Bay; for 8 years he and his wife had a local top 40 band called The Mix. Lovato grew up in Hollywood and as a music major he headed his own band called Rock and Blue for four years, touring another 15 with Kelly and the Cowboys. He and Rumery met at a local Blues jam and…
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