by Sarah Chauncey

Hometown: Moncton, NB
Music: Contemporary blues
Contact: Ron Dupuis, 1261 Ryan St., Moncton, NB E1C 8Z4 (506) 852-3496

Although each member of Moncton’s Glamour Puss Blues Band has been in the music industry more than 20 years, their first album together was only released last summer.

Veteran producer Hayward Parrott (Bryan Adams, Beau Dommage) spotted the Glamour Puss Blues Band at the 1997 East Coast Music Awards, literally moments before the band won the Media Choice Award.

Recorded in four days of April 1997 at Solar Audio in Halifax, the self-titled album contains 14 tracks, almost all first- or second-take. Parrott mixed the entire album in two 11-hour days (”He was really tired,” explains drummer Dupuis).

They followed their 1998 EMCA nomination for Best Blues/Gospel band with performances at a flurry of summer festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival and dozens of blues gatherings throughout Quebec and the East Coast. The band is currently at work on a second CD, scheduled for release in April 1999.

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