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** Booking Blues Traveler - Rock Music Artists - Jam Bands, American Trad Rock, Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock - © Richard De La Font Agency, Inc. - For serious booking requests only, click here: For More Information Formed while the four members were high school classmates in Princeton, New Jersey, Blues Traveler came of age after graduating and jointly moving to New York City. Everyone but Kinchla attended the New School for Social Research's jazz studies program, but their real education came in the city's clubs, as they climbed their way up from playing open-mic nights to become one of the Big Apple's biggest attractions.
Then John Popper had his epiphany: Why shouldn't all these improv-based bands get together for a formal tour? "I just figured that by joining together we would all be able to get out of the clubs and theaters and play some big places," Popper says today. And so was born the H.O.R.D.E. tour, beginning humbly in 1992, with eight East Coast dates each averaging 7,500 fans. Five years later, it is a certified smash, having featured the Allman Brothers, The Black Crowes, Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge, along with the original crop of bands, most of whom have gone on to huge, popular success.
"We've always been conscious that the live vehicle is a totally different mode of expression from capturing a performance in the studio," says guitarist Chan Kinchla. "We've always loved doing both. But the ability to really make things work in a vacuum, like you have to do when recording, is something we worked very hard at."
Often playing for ten people, the band would return to a town and find that the audience had grown exponentially to a hundred or even a thousand. In their travels across the United States, the band are one of the few touring artists who have brought music to each and every state. In 1992, after all of the big summer touring headliners had passed on Blues Traveler as a support act, lead singer John Popper started the H.O.R.D.E. Festival, which grew into the #4 grossing US tour of the 1996 summer. On their fourth studio record, the band was finally commercially acknowledged as A&M broke two Top 10 singles, "Run-around" and "Hook," and sold more than six million copies of the 1994 release "Four." Never a "critics darling," Blues Traveler were finally added to the playlists of KROQ and MTV because they became too popular to ignore. If one were to try and describe the band in one word, it would be "honest." Often they're too honest, revealing secrets which sometimes shock those who are entertained with these revelations. John Popper has often told interviewers that, "The reason the band hasn't been featured more prominently in our recent videos is because of the circumference of my ass." The bottom line is that on the road and in the studio, Blues Traveler have honestly loved playing together since they all attended high school together in Princeton, NJ. Leaving themselves no choice, the band literally got into the van and went on the road after graduation. Hits include: "Run-Around", Blues Traveler may be available for your next special event.
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