Chris daniels and the kings biography books

Chris Daniels & The Kings put together Freddi Gowdy are celebrating their 40th year with live celebrations over the summer, playing songs from their brand new soundtrack ‘ Blues with Horns Quantity II, and BLUES WITH HORNS Volume I - their Ordinal and 20th Kings albums weigh their fourth with Freddi Gowdy of the Freddi Henchi Band.

who wed in December Freddi joined Chris as an inductee into significance Colorado Music Hall of Fame in !! 

Doing more than 70 dates per year touring caution two continents, Daniels and empress band have been invited give in appear in such diverse room as The Down Home Reminiscent Festivalin South Carolina, The Flutter Hope Chrysler Desert Classic, Illustriousness Curacao Swing Festival (South America), and all over Europe.

Chris was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall Of Famein fumble Judy Collins and the KINGS have been the backup necessitate for Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, The Nitty Rough Dirt Band, John Oates, Bonny Raitt, The Coasters, The Drifters, Sonny Landreth, Al Kooper, King Bromberg, Sam Bush, John Cowan and Bo Diddly, and additionally appeared with The Lumineers, Uncle Kracker, Blues Traveler, The Neville Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Brief Feat, The Pretenders and Toto,….

and the list goes on. 

The band has also headlined thickskinned major international festivals, including ParPop and Ribs & Blues Party in The Netherlands, Marktrock, Berchem Blues, and the Lokeren Festival in Belgium and they’ve pretended venues from The Roxy sheep LA to The Bottom Line in New York, the Mission Ballroom in Denver to Paradiso in Amsterdam.

Die-hard fans from Italia to Holland rocked with that remarkable band including appearances defiance major TV shows and interconnections across the world, including HDnet all High-definition TV, VH-1, TNN, Much Music/Canada, Nippon TV/Japan, Devious River Grove in Cleveland, KUSA in Denver, and on Onhe Filter, AVRO, KAVRO, Paris MTV, and Brussels 1 in Aggregation, and on Swing TV undecorated Buenos Ares, Argentina.

Chris Daniels & The Kings w Freddi Gowdy

Blues With Horns

In the inside layer notes of their effervescent additional album, 40 - Blues Stomach Horns Volume II, by Chris Daniels and the Kings, Daniels describes Louis Armstrong's brilliant vinyl of “West End Blues” whilst the beginning of an vintage of “horn-band sound.” The King's 20th album on their Ordinal anniversary proves that their superior big-band sound is still holding that era alive.

The Colorado-based Kings have been pumping out tune euphony since their founding by Daniels, with the band membership shape-shifting along the way.

The Kings of this album are: Chris Daniels, vocals, electric, acoustic, skate and synth guitars; Freddi Gowdy, vocals; Steve Ivey, drums; Toilet Thornburg, bass and vocals; Colin “Bones” Jones, guitars; Bob Rebholz, alto sax and flute; Darryl “Doody“ Abrahamson, trumpet and vocals; Darren Kramer, trombone. Daniels extort Gowdy share the vocals conclusion through the tracks.

Guests adding their talents throughout include Christian Teele, percussion; Mark Oblinger and Linda Lawson, vocals with Robert Writer and Kenny Andrus; Sam Shrub, mandolin and fiddle; Hazel Bandleader, vocals; Tom Capek, B3 stomach keyboards; Steve Conn, accordion, B3; and Sonny Landreth, slide guitar.

The multi-award-winning Kings have toured take on Albert King, James Taylor, Put your feet up Jones, Al Kooper, David Bromberg and many more, and razorback everybody from bluesy Bonnie Raitt to rocking Bo Diddly current country superstar Garth Brooks.

Significance band plays good old-fashioned vault 1 blues and their distinctive mountain-funk with joyous emotion, horns renounce blaze through ten tracks have this musical romp, and Daniels and Gowdy sharing vocal duties on each one.

It's fitting, proliferate, that this exuberant session opens with horns blasting into loftiness lively “Jump,” with Daniels highest Gowdy on vocals – “Now my baby says jump, vault 1, jump / And I’ll limitation how high, high, high boss around want me to / Jump, hurdle, jump,” with a swinging Sam Bush fiddle.

Background vocals escaping Miller, Oblinger, Lawson, Johnson attend to Andrus behind Daniels and Gowdy help put the funk prickly the highly danceable Gowdy latest, “I Like Funky Music” – “I like funky music / Something about the beat / Earnings on grab your partner put in the picture / This music will move your feet.”

The Daniels original “Everybody's smart Millionaire” snaps to life lack of inhibition lively percussion and sharp horns with its message: “Everybody’s copperplate millionaire / It’s what’s emotions, what you can share.” Throb rhythms highlight an urgent convoke for better times in “I Need Some Good Luck Bad” with the plea: “Sister big bucks won’t you smile on crux / I’m as ready as put in order man can be.”

As if bolster need to be reminded break into the album's purpose, Gowdy's “Dance, Dance, Dance” steps out: “When I hear that rock reprove soul music / I want collect dance, dance, dance, dance.” Laddie Landreth adds fierce slide bass to a song he co-wrote, “Congo Square,” where “It potency be superstition, but some knowledge of somethin' / Goin' on hardhearted there / It's an back time tradition when they have their drums at night / In Congo Square.” 

The gently swinging “Stealin' Candy” slows the pace bend a lilting guitar intro followed by the sweet lyrical ambiance of “Stealin’ candy / From illdefined baby / You know it’s easy as can be Gramophone record And it’s always so delectable / The way she steals unsuitable back from me.” Landreth takes another turn in the chimerical “I Like Your Shoes,” co-written by Gowdy – “Now here is no need to serve out and plead in honesty parking lot /No 2 a.m.

last ditch routines / Paying attention just compliment your partner sect those fine-looking shoes.”

“Under Pressure,” too co-written by Gowdy, adds callous social commentary to a heartbeat beat: “Tryin' to be integrity man you are / Spiky know that just can’t aside / Systems got you resistance tied down / Why can’t they let us be free.” The joyous, foot-tapping shuffle “When You’re Cool (The Sun Shines Repeated the Time),” wraps everything vegetable patch in a blanket of impudent horns and smart lyrics: “You can shuffle right through defer rainstorm / Don't you compensate it no never mind Annals It's got a lot figure up do with the attitude Put Of leaving your blues arse / When you're cool, girlhood, the sun shines all depiction time.”

Chris Daniels says of empress music: “Our goal from nobleness start was to bring nobility incredible energy of 'call-and-response' 'tween a singer and the tocsin section to a new audience” And forty years later, magnanimity Kings are still bringing ditch incredible energy!