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Season Opener 2006! - Norton Buffalo and the Knockouts

Saturday, February 18, 2006

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Norton Buffalo is regarded as one of the most versatile and talented harmonica players in the music business. In rock, R&B, and blues circles, as well as in new age, country, and jazz circles, he is widely acclaimed as the finest multi-genre harmonica player of our time!

nortonknockouts.jpgFor the last twenty-five years Buffalo has been a highly celebrated member of The Steve Miller Band, recorded and toured with some of the top names in music, worked in movies and television, and performed with his own band, the Knockouts.
 
In addition to his work on record and on stage with Steve Miller, who spotlights Norton's playing at shows and introduces him as "my partner in harmony," Buffalo has also been highly sought after as a recording artist, having played on over 100 albums by artists as diverse as Bonnie Raitt (he did that searing harmonica solo on "Runaway"), Johnny Cash, The Doobie Brothers (including the Grammy Award-winning "Minute By Minute"), Kenny Loggins , The Marshall Tucker Band, David Grisman, Juice Newton, Laurie Lewis , and Elvin Bishop.

While Buffalo has performed live before millions of Steve Miller fans over the last quarter century, his musical talents are also in demand by notable musicians such as Kenny Loggins and Olivia Newton-John, who have enlisted the harmonica ace for their U.S. touring bands.
Norton is no stranger to television either, with numerous TV performances down through the years with such notables as Bonnie Raitt, Steve Miller, America, Steven Stills, Graham Nash, Lacy J. Dalton, Kris Kristofferson, Roy Rogers, and Willie Dixon, even a guest appearance on Starsky & Hutch. As part of the Steve Miller Band he's appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Arsenio Hall Show, as well as The David Letterman Show. Buffalo and his band had a full hour special on Austin City Limits, and Norton was recently featured on a segment of San Francisco's Bay Area Backroads.

Though he's adept at many styles of music, his CD King Of The Highway finds Buffalo standing firmly and comfortably on the blues side of town. Taking the harp from a whisper to a scream, he gives a master class of many blues harmonica stylings, all infused with his originality and truly phenomenal brand of harmonica musicianship. And his deep, soulful and penetrating vocals, though unique, also reflect the many jazz, country, rock and blues singers from whom he honed his vocal style. On this new recording, Norton Buffalo becomes the king of the blues highway, and his many fans will be thrilled to be along for the ride. www.nortonbuffalo.com