Honeyboy Turner- Harmonica & Vocals
John "Honeyboy" Turner and Harvey Brindell go back two decades to when they put together Honeyboy Turner & Cryin' Heart. They toured together throughout the nineties opening for Mighty Joe Young, James Harman, Jimmy Thackery, Magic Slim and many others. Honeyboy embodied the spirit of the great front man harp players that he so idolized. They released "Preachin the Blues" on the ismest label in 1994. Honeyboy moved to Madison Wisconsin in 1997 and joined Cadillac Joe and the Blind Wolf Blues Band. They released an album and quickly began getting attention in Mad Town. Honeyboy moved back to Lincoln in 2000 and had a short run with a band called the Blues Cruisers who jammed with Magic Slim, Nick Holt and Chubby Carrier. During his playing with the Cruisers, he joined forces with Sean Benjamin and recorded Sean's fantastic self-titled cd "Big Highways". Their harmonica and guitar duo were featured on River City Folk with Tom May. When Honeyboy and Harvey realized their paths were crossing again, they both jumped at the opportunity for a blues reunion that's been a long time in the making.
Harvey Brindell- Guitar & Vocals
Harvey Brindell learned his craft by listening to some of the local guitar players while he was living around Macon, GA. Not a bad place to get educated considering that it was the early seventies and Capricorn Records/Studios was in full swing and homebase for such bands as The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Wet Willie. What that meant was that on any given night you could walk into one of the local clubs, places like Grants Lounge and run into Duane or Dickey or ........ Harvey took full advantage of this by hanging on every opportunity to see these guys playing live and asking question about style, technique, playing in a band, and life on the road. Several attempts at local bands and a move in 1985 to Lincoln, NE. led to Harvey's first success as a guitar player in a blues band, The Honeyboy Turner Band. After the demise of Turner's band in the late 90s, Harvey joined with several other local musicians to form The Hydramatics, a successful jump blues band. The Hydramatics underwent several band member changes and eventually became Jukehouse. After a couple of years of constant gigging, Harvey decided it was time for a break. BUT NOW HE'S BACK !
Gary Williams- Drums
Gary grew up in a small town south of Seattle.... Maple Valley, Washington. At a young age he became a professional musician, (or should we say a drummer, after all, drummers just hang out with musicians). His career spanned parts of the 60's, UNI Recording Artists "The Sundae Funnies".... all of the 70's "The Loco Brothers", "Kiss Porky", "Silverlode". And most of the 80's including "Tall Chic", featuring Darci LaRae. He's been in so many bands he can't remember them all....... he's have played with so many great players over the years; He moved to Nebraska in 1987 and performed live and recorded with "The Tablerockers"(house band for the Zoo Bar), blues artist "Honeyboy Turner & Cryin? Heart", Blues Rock Group "The Travis Wagner Band", country artist "Jerry Quaid", and Rock group "Steele Dreams", and "Jellyroll"? From 1989 to 1994 he was the soundman for the world famous "Zoo Bar" in Lincoln, Nebraska. If you?re not familiar with the Zoo Bar, for over 30 years it has been the premier place to go for live blues in the Midwest, having had such players as "Gatemouth Brown, Eddy Clearwater, Magic Slim, Charlie Musselwhite", Matt (guitar) Murphy and a host of other national blues legends.
Dave Wagner - Bass & Vocal
Dave has been playing blues around Lincoln for as long as there's been blues around Lincoln.
He's the guy that gets called when someone needs a bass player that can fill in "on the fly." No rehersal,
no time to learn the tunes, just follow along. Dave was on the road for the better part of the seventies
and the eighties. In the nineties he returned to Lincoln and played with the likes of The Honeyboy Turner
band, The Travis wagner Band, and even did a
stint with Magic Slim while Slim's own bass player was on the mend. When Harvey called Dave and told him the Honeyboy Turner Band was getting back together Dave's response was "I'm in !"
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