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Backtrack Blues Band is one of America’s longest running and most accomplished blues bands. A six-piece, authentic, energetic blues band with harp, guitar, B3 organ, vocals and a relentless rhythm section, these guys have a Grammy Award, two Blues Music Awards, and a Keeping the Blues Alive Award among them.

Since 1980, their resume includes concert appearances with Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, George Thorogood, Junior Wells, John Lee Hooker, Jeff Healey, Robert Cray, James Cotton, Little Milton, Johnny Winter, Delbert McClinton, Gregg Allman, Albert Collins, Dave Mason, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and many more. Seven albums of original blues music that have charted in the top 10 on Living Blues and Roots Music radio charts. Their 2018 album was nominated by Downbeat Magazine as one of the best blues albums of the year.
Backtrack has won three prestigious Tampa Bay music awards for “Best Blues Band”. Backtrack has appeared at multiple, large blues festival around the world.

This six-piece unit has an upbeat, electric blues sound reminiscent of the early Chicago blues scene. The band leader, Sonny Charles, is a KBA recipient who writes most of the band’s original material and supplies great amplified harmonica and vocals. Kid Royal, one of Canada’s top blues guitarists, adds blistering Texas-style lead guitar and vocals. Grammy award-winning bassist, Stick Davis, brings solid bass sounds perfected from years of performing with the likes of B.B. King, Al Green, John Mayall, and others. Co-founder, Little Johnny Walter, provides stellar rhythm guitar; and Tampa’s finest percussionist, Joe Bencomo, performs on drums.
Wayne Sharp, multiple BMA winner and former Hammond B3 keyboardist with the Michael Burks band is on B3 organ. The band delivers its brand of original electric blues with the passion and integrity of a group that has spent decades refining its craft.