The Burlington outdoor music series B-Town Sounds presents the Milwaukee-based Altered Five Blues Band Thursday evening at Echo Lake Park.
The performance, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., is the third in a series of seven presented at the park’s newly renovated gazebo/bandstand. The event will also feature the craft beers of Central Waters Brewing of Amherst. Samples and sales provided by series sponsor Rice’s Liquor will be available in the park pavilion.
Altered Five Blues Band comes to Burlington with a reputation for cranking out some of Milwaukee’s best original blues.
Here’s an excerpt from the group’s online biography:
“Proclaimed ‘a staple of the Midwest’s band scene’ and ‘a festival favorite’ by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in 2012, Altered Five’s delectable brew of blues and soul is now quickly gaining national attention. The group’s third album, Cryin’ Mercy, was produced by Grammy-winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, James Cotton, etc.) and released in October 2014. It reached No. 3 in the iTunes blues store and hit No. 1 on the Roots Music Report radio chart. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, frontman Jeff Taylor’s voice is ‘gloriously gritty.’ The Shepherd Express simply states he sounds like ‘a voice from Stax/Volt 45s.’ Downbeat magazine raves that Jeff Schroedl’s ‘high-wire guitar reaches the high bar of mixed invention and fluidity,’ while Blues Bytes magazine states that the group features ‘the funkiest rhythm section outside of Memphis.’ The band won ‘Blues Artist of the Year’ at the 2014 WAMI Award Show, and Cryin’ Mercy won ‘Best Self-Released CD’ at the 2015 International Blues Challenge.”
Here’s a video of the band recording “I’m in Deep” for it’s 2014 album “Cryin’ Mercy”:
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