FATHEAD performs at the 2012 Maple Blues Awards at Koerner Hall, Toronto. Photo courtesy of Dougal Bichan.
FATHEAD performs at the havelock Jamboree, August, 2011
John Mays celebrates his 70th birthday with the release of his first solo album, “I Found A Love”. (photograph: Tracey Savein)
John, Jan from Rockabilly's Clothing, and Bucky at the Nanaimo Blues Fest, August 2011
Most people know the band was named after David "Fathead" Newman. The legendary saxman was pleased to learn this from one of our fans, and proudly donned a Fathead "First Class Riff-Raff" cap. Pretty cool.
Couldn't resist another photo-op with the giant pinto bean, 12 years later.
Darran winding out at the Bow Theatre, Bow Island, Alberta
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Drawing a crowd at the Beaches International Jazz Festival. Playing the Beaches Jazz Fest, Toronto 2008.
Backstage at the 2008 Juno Awards
Juno Photoshoot |
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Sweet potato pancakes for breakfast in Memphis
Omar and Darran hanging out on Beale while Bucky makes a call.
Darran at Sun Studios
Al and Bucky inside SUN studio
This is one of the first gigs Fathead ever played. It was at a place out in Scarborough. We're pictured here warming up the crowd before bringing John onstage. The owner didn't like us much and never hired us back again. A few years later, after we won a Juno Award, that same bar owner saw us playing to a jam-packed house in Penticton, BC. He told us if we would have had this group of musicians playing his place, he would have surely had us back. I guess he didn't realise that the band members were exactly the same!
The band kicks back in BC at the "Backwoods Paradise"
Al & Bucky share a laugh with bluesman James Armstrong
Omar & John take a photo op with blues great Sam Lay. Sam played drums for Howlin' Wolf, Paul Butterfield and a host of others. A true icon.
This was taken in Thorald during the Canal Bank Shuffle. It was Bucky's debut with the band. The music on the breaks was so loud, we were trying to seek some refuge in the stairwell!
Jesse O'Brien (left) played piano on a few tracks on the "Building Full of Blues" disc, while Shakura S'Aida was featured on a duet with John on the track "What About Me?"
The great Lance Anderson provided some soulful Hammond B-3 organ on the disc as well.
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