Blues Friday with the Bad News Blues Band featuring Terry Hanck

The Bad News Blues Band has a reputation for “house burning live performances” all over the USA and Canada, Turkey, Holland, Ireland, the UK, Romania, and even Russia. Their music has been described as big band swing meets hard core blues and after years of performing together, this band knows how to get the house rockin!
Over the past 16 years, in countless shows around the world, they have been praised for  
 their high energy shows and crazy stage antics and they are a must see live act in every sense of the phrase. Blend a soulful blues guitar with hard hitting horns and a smoking rhythm section, add a bit of Louis Prima and you begin to get the picture.

TERRY HANCK 
                          

As Living Blues writer Lee Hildebrand testified, “Hanck is one of the most formidable saxophonists in the blues and soul business. He has a virile tone and attack and an uncanny command of upper-register notes.” But, whether it is a joyous jump blues romp or a steamy slow dance of a stroll–this is the kind of music that has mattered to the tall tenor man all his life…”

Blues and soul music fans know that the soundtrack to early rock’ n’ roll ran on three-minute instrumentals with sax in the lead, and was directly related to 1950s and 1960s New Orleans R&B hits, along with that deep-fried wildness that came from Memphis. With this history lesson in mind, old school rock ‘n’ soul saxophonist and singer Terry Hanck makes perfect sense. Clearly, Hanck has worshipped at the right Southern altars– those of such iconic R&B brothers as Fats Domino, Ray Charles, B. B. King, Lee Allen and King Curtis. “I write songs that you think you’ve heard for years,” says the South Florida-based Hanck, who’s got suave movie-star looks and a good time presence that immutably anchors the old-style R&B he adores.