Jammin'

Sonny Moorman

Talking about blistering guitar riffs and smoldering solos gets Sonny hot.
Even the mere mention of an awesome Allman Brothers album (yeah there used to be such a thing as albums) or a hard hitting Hendrix song gets Sonny fired up! It’s no wonder Sonny’s blood starts heat’n up because Sonny is able to get out his guitar and jam like Ole Gregg himself. Sonny is quite at home playing the blues ballads or the juiced up jam joints. If you have never heard Sonny up close and personal you really can’t quite understand. This cat’s one of those musicians Billy Joel was talking about when he sang “They sit at the
bar and put bread in my jar and say Man what are you doing here”. Yeah I’ve often wondered over
that past 10 years just how long I would get to see Sonny live locally. You expect that at any moment He may be up and gone...rollin’ down the road to the great blues towns like Memphis, Austin, Nashville
or Atlanta for good. Sonny loves Memphis, Memphis loves Sonny. Memphis has a music scene
Cincinnati will absolutely never parallel The streets are full of that Southern spice of life, the sounds of smoking guitars and the smell of smoking ribs. Annual Blues fests like the recent International Blues
Challenge (Feb. 07) Showcase the brightest talents in the music industry from all over the world.
The legendary local pubs are all crawling with regional acts that can make the grade. You could go
out seven nights a week for a month and never see them all. Memphis is awesome and what’s also awesome is the fact that Sonny finished an impressive second place
in the International Blues Challenge this year! Since we’re stuck here in Cincinnati we best be thankful we can see a local band that Memphis envies us over. Sonny Moorman is steadily booked on the Eastside as well as every other side. You can see the show for free most of the time. Sonny has been tearing up Cincy for over a decade now with his awesome performances and it just keeps getting better. The band has several CD’s out and I have every single one of them including a few Sun Studio un-reIeased stuff that I doubt anyone else has heard. Ask me nicely and I might shoot you a copy. They are all incredible and I have worn out and
replaced several. The first being Tele-graph Road a simply first class album with well written and performed radio ready tracks like Sonny’s Blues, Fast Cars Pretty Women and Low Down Rhythm & Blues, Up
To My Neck In The Blues, All Coming Down and of course Telegraph road. Crossroads Motel
is also an absolutely awesome record. They stay in shuffle in my 5-disc for days at a time. Sonny has
CD’s for sale at the show so if you don’t have it by now you had better grab one, I hear some earlier
releases are real scarce. Sonny’s not the only amazingly talented guy in the band either.
Bass player Mark Hoffman is so smooth he makes a baby’s butt feel like it has a 5 0’clock shadow...really. Backing Mark and Sonny up from the rear is drummer Dave Fair. Dave kicks the petals and
slaps the sticks to his skins in perfect time. Rather new to the band Dave has slid right into a groove with Sonny and Mark. The Sonny Moorman band puts on a show that makes veteran musicians stand up and cheer...not to mention the fans. Sonny keeps fueling the fire and the gigs get hot!
Get on www.eastsidevibe.com to see more about the band. You can hear the songs, see the pics, calender, and more or at www.sonnymoorman.com