Jeff Golub (Goal-Ub, like club), Contemporary Jazz Guitarist, released his 14th studio album, THE THREE KINGS. The album is a jazzy blues album featuring piano man Henry Butler on keyboard and vocals, with special guest vocalist, Robben Ford and Sonny Landreth, and band member Josh Dion, drummer and vocalist.
Golub is probably best known for his association with Rod Stewart, whom he played with from 1988-1995, on 4 albums and 5 world tours, and that fabulous head of hair, now somewhat gray. He was also with Billy Squier, for several years and Dave Koz and the Kozman’s.
The Ohio native started out his career by imitating the best rock guitar men in the world like Clapton, Beck, and Jimi Hendrix, but later developed an interest in the blues, and was inspired by the work of Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Freddie King, BB King, and Albert King; consequently his tribute to THE THREE KINGS.
Henry Butler, “The Pride of New Orleans”, adds the blues sound with energetic vocals, and accomplished key boards. Blind since birth from glaucoma, Butler is the consummate blues musician and a great addition to the Golub Band Album.
The 56 year old Golub recently lost his vision. When he started making this album he began having issues with his right eye, and tried to ignore it, but persisted and it was eventually determined he had a collapse of the optic nerve, that has permanently impaired his vision in the right eye and most recently he began having the same problems in the left eye and has since been declared legally blind.
He has a great attitude about his misfortune, because he can still play the guitar, and his good friend Henry Butler, is helping him cope with the world as a blind man.
If you like jazzed up blues greats this is an easy listening album in more ways than one.
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