Biography
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AGENT: BOB WILSON
Telephone: 1-819-685-9871
Mobile: 1-416-886-6894
Email: bob@thewilsonagency.ca
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"this is an amazing blues band, and I've played with the best!" Dan Aykroyd (aka Elwood Blues)
"One of this country's top blues guitar stars" Globe and Mail
At 27, JW-Jones has played throughout the world (Canada, Usa, Europe, Australia, Brazil) and has been invited to share the stage with some of the biggest names in blues today (and that's playing with, not opening for), The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Junior Watson, Little Charlie and The Nightcats, Rusty Zinn, Rick Holmstrom, Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers, Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets, The Mannish Boys, the legendary Hubert Sumlin, and many more.
JW's discs have garnered radio-play worldwide, including heavy rotation on some commercial radio stations, and features on shows such as the internationally syndicated House of Blues Radio Hour. The buzz this band has created over the last few years earned them a national award for Electric Act of the Year at Canada's Maple Blues Awards and rave reviews throughout the globe. With their heavy schedule, this ranks the band as one of the hardest touring blues acts in the country.
2008 welcomes the band's fifth release, Bluelisted on NorthernBlues Music, featuring two of the most influential blues guitarists on the west coast: Little Charlie Baty, and Junior Watson, playing together on the same tracks for the first time in a combined 70 year career. This first time collaboration has been called "a recording of historic importance". It also features arguably the best rhythm section in blues, Richard Innes on drums and Larry Taylor on bass. Dan Aykroyd is also on board and penned the liner notes.