Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys is a blues band from Long Beach (California) founded in 1994. The band was founded by Johnny Mastro in 1994. The band's first appearances were in various blues clubs in Los Angeles. From 1996 onwards they were the house band at Babe's & Ricky's, one of the oldest and most famous blues clubs in the greater Los Angeles area.The owner, "Mama" Laura Mae Gross, gave the band the name Mama's Boys.
Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys play a rough Chicago blues.The sound of this band is unique, no other existing band sounds like the Mama's Boys.Rough, dirty, hard to the bone, but performed authentically, without clichs and without compromise. Johnny says of his music: "sledge hammer blues".Johnny Mastro can be found on stage on his knees, blowing the entire contents of his lungs into the harmonica.
Smokehouse Brown sometimes coaxes the strangest tones out of his guitar, straining the six strings to the limit.Jimmy and Mike provide the necessary solid foundation with thunderous rhythms. Between 2001 and 2010, the band released a total of five albums and one EP.From 2004, they also toured Europe, visiting Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany. In 2006 and 2007, they played at two of the major European festivals, in 2006 at the Moulin Blues Festival in Ospel, the Netherlands, and in 2007 at the Peer Blues Festival in Belgium.The first German tour followed in May 2009.
In 2010, they were again guests at the Moulin Blues Festival in Ospel, the Netherlands.
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