LONDON FLUSH

Yardbirds tribute band led by Eugene stalwart Steve Harvell

The Yardbirds emerged out of the early British blues scene around 1962, led by a fuzzy cheeked guitar played named Eric Clapton. The band soon pushed into experimental rock and had a string of hits, including "For Your Love", "Over, Under, Sideways, Down", and "Heart Full of Soul." The Yardbirds were pioneers in almost every guitar innovation of the '60s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, backwards echo, improved amplification. Harvell's take moves things into the present, diverse and tounge-in-cheek, akin to his other sharp-toothed Eugene bands like Jackass Willie and The Divers.

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BAJUANA TEA

Blues duo - original songs in the classic mode

Here we have Austin Armitage, 29, and Matrisha Armitage, 26, Eugene players with 10 years experience. Austin is a singer and guitar player in the classic blues/rock tradition who can turn out originals you are sure you've heard before. Matrisha is a drummer who chimes in on the vocals. With enough raw material to create two albums, Bajuana Tea’s music ranges from acoustic to electric, from blues to funk. Now with the jazz-based blues of Pappy Boynton.

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RICHWOOOD

An acoustic duo doing all original music

Two guitars and two voices influenced by the Eagles, Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne, U2 and Hall & Oates. Bobby Wood is the lead singer and songwriter and the rhythm guitar player. He's been writing songs since he was 13. Richard Parris, the lead guitar, has a background that includes a cover band on the Gulf Coast and a recording studio in Tulsa. The two bumped into each other on the Oregon Coast and are making their first appearance at the Landmark.

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NORMAL BEAN

Psychedelic jam band flowing from the Valley energy

"...in the moment add-lib songs....everything is played in the NOW....you never Know what’s going to happen...or what twist the songs will take.....real Music from the MUSE....! In the Kesey day’s, it was "Get On The Bus" Normal Bean say’s "Get On The Stage"

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T. RAY & THE SHADES

Rock and blues from a band with roots on the Oregon coast and New York

T. Ray, the lead singer, and Matt Murray, the drummer, are South County locals who moved to Portland, started a band, got a lot of gigs and keep the vibe going with each show at the Landmark. The others in the group bring musical influences from around the country -- New York, San Francisco and Portland -- that make a funkified rock style that rips through the covers and originals alike. T. Ray's style has evolved over the years and she's in the best voice of her career.

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Special National Attraction!
L'IL DAVE THOMPSON

From deep in the Delta, the blues redefined

A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Thompson has kept in touch with the Delta through good times and bad. He had a fast start and was nominated in 1996 at the WC Handy Blues Music Awards for "Best New Blues Artist" and "Contemporary Blues Album" with a Fat Possum Record release. His career has taken several twists and turns since then and he finds himself 10 years later on the road, backing up a brand new CD on Electrofi Records that reestablished his soul blues guitar mastery and maturity as a songwriter and performer. When he was here last year, he knocked out the crowd with a combination of sizzling blues and charisma.

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THE SUMMIT UNDERGROUND

Mike Riley brings in the blues from up the mountains

Riley is a consistent and generous blues player who has lived the life all his life. This band is 15 years old, a testament to the mellow style and the depth of appreciation its members have for the music. The blues lives because musicians live the blues. Mike is backed by Vegas and LA session harp player Kooch Kucera and Bongo Bob Pettit on drums.

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Some of the best indie rock the Northwest has to offer

The Dimes have been getting a lot of good press these days, with a great feature in SPIN magazine, a piece on NPR and a bushel basket of positive reviews for the CD "The Silent Generation." Frontman Johnny Clay keeps on writing, finishing some new songs in just the past couple of months, including one called "Celia's Garden," based on the paintings of Childe Hassam, a 19th Century impressionist from Boston, who spent his summers in Maine, in Celia Thaxter's garden. Johnny wrote an earlier song about Winslow Homer. He's into it.

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Callin' all stagehogs...

Grab your 12-bar magic box and come on down...

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JERRY ZYBACH BAND

One of the Northwest's top bluesmasters

Accomplished singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, arranger, and band leader, Jerry Zybach does it all. Thirty some years into it, he's at the top of his game and just keeps growing as an artist. Classical voice training as a young man gives him a unique take on the songs he loves. He has a great ability to project emotion whether he's playing his Gibson 135, his Harmony H50, his collection of resonators or acoustics, finger style and slide. He's ripped up the Landmark on many occasions and is one of the coast's favorite performers.

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Portland's premier bluesman, four decades of gritty, beguiling music

Jones got his start in the '70s Portland band Brown Sugar and learned his craft as backup for touring performers such as Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Otis, Big Mama Thornton and the like. In the 80's he joined forces with Curtis Salgado in a band called Yo' Face, then built the Lloyd Jones Struggle after Salgado left to join Roomful of Blues. His late 80's records won over a dozen local music awards, as well as acclaim from national music publications such as Down Beat and Guitar Player, which in turn led to some extensive touring under a Miller Beer Sponsorship Program. In 1995, Blues Revue called his release "Trouble Monkey" "one of the best albums of the 1990s." Jones and his band have become a mainstay on the West Coast circuit and toured from New Orleans to Canada to the Caribbean. Along the way he's played with Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, B.B. King, Dr. John, John Hammond, Etta James, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy.

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Eugene piano master brings in his own band for some rollicking blues

Jones is a piano player partial to roots, blues and barrelhouse piano, and has made it his mission to keep the music alive for future generations. He's played in several bands at the Landmark, but this is his own baby, cooking with the NOLA juice since 2003. Like many musicians, Jones dabbles in a number of styles and flavors, but always returns to his favorites: Booker T. and the MGs, Doctor John, James Booker and Professor Longhair. "Our shows are like a blues travelogue, but we always return to New Orleans. New Orleans is our base camp," he explains.

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Garage, soul, powerpop -- John Michael Young can play them all -- and does

Hookah has evolved. And like all evolution, the progress is sometimes hard to see until ... a CD -- "Hits from the Hookah," puts the Stew in a new niche, that of tribal hook masters, rattling the bones of the 80s. John Michael Young formed this band over 10 years ago and gave it a crash course of Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Aquarium Release and the Five Fingers of Funk. Now playing on the van stereo: Oingo Boingo, Nirvana, Run DMC, The Subways, Anti-Flag, Kings of Leon, Mac Dre, Fat Boys, Rollins band, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jd Hardy, Human Rights, Van Halen. The riff is hotter than it was; the energy is jacking up. Evolution at work.

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Blues, jump blues and swing from jazzy Eugene outfit

This band plays music by everybody from Louis Prima to Ray Charles, presenting a different approach to the blues. The lead guitarist is Michael Anderson, a West Coast guy who has performed all over, solo, in jazz groups and behind the sound boards recording and producing. He can whip his guitar through just about anything and has a solid voice perfect for the style. On drums is Rick Markstrom, keeping the beat since the late 60s, and on bass is New York City native Mike Hatgis, who has performed Top 40, Middle-Eastern dance, R&B, Blues, Jazz, and Latin.

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Best Rock Band in the 2008 Eugene Weekly Readers' poll

The Weekly describes this band as "The Red Hot Chili Peppers on some really mellow and smooth acid. Maybe Pink Floyd in bed with the Meters." Volifonix is a funk-infused rock band that originated in Oakland, Oregon, with brothers guitar/vocalist Trevor and drummer/vocalist Blake Forbess. Two bros moved to Eugene and leded their styles with University of Oregon student and fellow sonic spelunker Joe McClain. "Reckless yet focused… crazy yet smooth."

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