Ghost Mountain
at Town Pump Tavern
Saturday June 26
at 8:30pm
Playing Classic R&B and Soul, Chicago Blues, New Orleans Funk, and Original Mountain Mambo..... Based near Asheville, NC, Ghost Mountain is an imaginary musical centerpoint in a triangle between New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, Memphis, Chicago and the Piedmont. The group gets its inspiration from the spirit of the musicians who have gone before them and the mountain of great music they have graced us with. Ghost Mountain R&B has played throughout the Southeast since 1998 at numerous clubs, festivals, and special events. The band has released two albums, "Live At The Down Home", and, more recently, "Transmitter", which both received international airplay and critical acclaim.
Ghost Mountain plays rhythm and blues you want to dance to, the feel-good music of the roadhouses and the chitlin circuit, and also the uptown jive and jazz changes that polish up the form. But make no mistake, this is the blues, no matter how you dress it up.
With influences from Chicago to New Orleans, from the Piedmont to the Delta, frontman J P Delanoye is a versatile and powerful performer on guitar, lap steel, harmonica and vocals. J.P. Delanoye has played the Blues, both acoustic and electric, from New Orleans streetcorners to New York City clubs, for over twenty-five years as a professional. An enthusiast and student of various styles of "roots" music, he has also been involved with folk, reggae, west African, swing, bluegrass, and other musical explorations over the years. Based in North Carolina since 1992, he has played clubs and festivals all over the Southeast, both as a solo act and with JP & The Mojo Workers.
Originally from Pascagoula, Mississippi, keyboardist Rick McQuillis was based in New Orleans for many years, playing in numerous bands, on Bourbon Street and on the road. Largely self-taught on the piano, Rick started playing professionally at age 15 with the Mississippi-based Dynamics, and spent twenty years touring with various acts from Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, winding up in the Seattle area for a stint with the band Sidekick. Returning home to New Orleans a year later to raise his young daughter, he embarked on a 10-year musical odyssey in the Crescent City, playing with outfits including The Groove Band (who played the West Bank at the Fat Cat for several years), Yazoo, Blue Horizon with Chewy "Thunderfoot" Black, the legendary Ernie K-Doe, and ultimately a two-year residency at the Jazz Cafe on Bourbon Street (the old Storyville club) with Rooster and the Chickenhawks. Hurricane Katrina forced Rick and his family to relocate to the Asheville area, along with many others, and we were lucky to begin playing together in the summer of 2006.
Rounding out the band lineup are Jim Millard and Brian Wardrep.
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