Bluesman Dave Riley Performs at The Frog and The Hummingbird Co & Butterfield's Roadhouse September 10, 2010

Dave Riley Performs at
The Frog and The Hummingbird co
& Butterfield's Roadhouse
Friday September 10th 2010
7:30 to 10 PM $15.00 Cover

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2008 Blues Music Awards Nominee: Dave Riley
"Travelin' the Dirt Road" -- Acoustic Album of the Year

Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, guitar player/singer/songwriter DAVE RILEY spent his formative years playing and singing Gospel music. He moved to Chicago's west side as a teenager living near Maxwell Street and it's vibrant Blues scene.

After joining the army he played in a military band traveling from base to base entertaining the troops and opening USO shows. In the mid-90s Riley met Blues legends Sam Carr, Frank Frost, and John Weston. They formed a friendship and a musical bond which lead Riley back to the Delta and back into Blues full time.

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Dave Riley was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on March 18, 1949. His parents moved to Chicago when he was a small child, leaving Riley and four siblings in the care of his grandparents. Riley’s grandparents owned cotton fields and he worked in them. Riley started playing the guitar at age nine but didn’t get serious about the guitar until he met up with his parents in Chicago in 1961. Riley’s father was a preacher in the Church of God in Christ. When the rest of the family moved to Chicago, they started a family band called “The Riley Singers," Riley says, “My father started training us, he and my Uncle Sam, to sing gospel music. And they used to whoop you back then and make you sing,” Riley said.

Shortly after Riley’s arrival in Chicago, his family moved from the North Side to a housing project on the West Side near the Maxwell Street Market, where he first heard live blues. Riley also recalls watching Howlin’ Wolf perform through the open doors of a local club, and although his parents tried to keep him within the sphere of the church, he managed to sneak off and play Motown Songs with other kids in the projects.

After graduating from high school, Riley was drafted for duty in Vietnam. After basic training he was stationed briefly in Washington State, where he attended a show of Seattle-area native Jimi Hendrix, who became a major influence on the young guitarist.

After his release Riley married his current wife, Tanja, and after she became pregnant with their son, Riley left soul music to play gospel with Tanya's group, the Mighty Gospel Wonders.Soon after, t he bought a house in the suburbs and began working as a prison guard at Joiliet State Penitentiary, a job he held for about 25 years

Dave Riley found himself in the 70’s playing bass, and occasionally sitting in, with Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, and Howlin Wolf. In 1973, he gave up his on the road musical career to help raise his only son, Dave L. Riley, Jr. Now that his son is grown, Riley is continuing with his music career. Riley formed his own band in 1996 and soon enlisted his son, Dave “Yahni” Riley, Jr., to play bass.

In 1998 Riley’s neck was broken in a car crash with a drunken driver, ending his career at the prison and leaving him unable to play the guitar for nine months.

His first CD, Living on Borrowed Time, is the story of his own personal tragedies. His second CD, Blues Across America has been a great success.

The blues has many forms- rock, bluesy jazz, electric Chicago blues and certainly Delta Blues. A few weeks ago, Hattiesburg-born bluesman Dave Riley released a CD with his musical partner of some five years, harmonica player Bob Corritore ( who pretty much owns the Phoenix blues scene as a radio host, club owner and musician). Lucky To Be Living is pair's second release, a unique blending of Riley's acoustic guitar and gravelly Delta voice with Corritore's spare, direct harmonica

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