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The Juke Hounds were drawn together by a love for rock and roots music and a shared Midwestern grit that values hard work, perseverance and well-earned fun.
The Juke Hounds play the ”blues with a feeling” all right, but the feeling’s one of defiance and swagger that says "you can't keep me down."
Brittany Nader Of Buzzbin Magazine agrees that when the Juke Hounds start to play,
“it’s impossible not to get up and start shaking along to the rhythm.” Mike Fuller of Water Street Tavern, echoes the observation: "There are a lot of people dancing and moving around. Not a lot of people are sitting down…”
The Juke Hounds are rocking to packed houses across Northeast Ohio -- and twice they’ve rocked all the way to Memphis. The Jukes won the Cleveland Blues Society “Road To Memphis” competition and represented Akron, Canton, and Cleveland at the 2011 International Blues Competition in Memphis, showcasing at the Hard Rock Café’ on Beale Street. In 2014, The Juke Hounds won the NEOBA Blues Competition and played the New Daisy Theater at the IBC. 2016 saw the Jukes representing Northeast Ohio in the International Hard Rock Rising Competition.
Steeped in rock music and electric blues, the Jukes--who are Bob Gardner, Gerard Dominick, Keith McFerrin, and Jay Calvin--hit hard, that's for sure. Their fast moving sets offer bluesy defiance -- swagger in the face of adversity -- and a pace that feels like an accelerating train moving inexorably toward deliverance from earthly burdens.
The Juke Hounds play the ”blues with a feeling” all right, but the feeling’s one of defiance and swagger that says "you can't keep me down."
Brittany Nader Of Buzzbin Magazine agrees that when the Juke Hounds start to play,
“it’s impossible not to get up and start shaking along to the rhythm.” Mike Fuller of Water Street Tavern, echoes the observation: "There are a lot of people dancing and moving around. Not a lot of people are sitting down…”
The Juke Hounds are rocking to packed houses across Northeast Ohio -- and twice they’ve rocked all the way to Memphis. The Jukes won the Cleveland Blues Society “Road To Memphis” competition and represented Akron, Canton, and Cleveland at the 2011 International Blues Competition in Memphis, showcasing at the Hard Rock Café’ on Beale Street. In 2014, The Juke Hounds won the NEOBA Blues Competition and played the New Daisy Theater at the IBC. 2016 saw the Jukes representing Northeast Ohio in the International Hard Rock Rising Competition.
Steeped in rock music and electric blues, the Jukes--who are Bob Gardner, Gerard Dominick, Keith McFerrin, and Jay Calvin--hit hard, that's for sure. Their fast moving sets offer bluesy defiance -- swagger in the face of adversity -- and a pace that feels like an accelerating train moving inexorably toward deliverance from earthly burdens.
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