The Blues Project

The Blues Project

Live 2025, the new album from The Blues Project, shows the acclaimed and influential band hasn’t slowed down at all after 60 years. If anything, they’ve gained a step and expanded their already broad musical template. Currently led by co-founding member and original drummer Roy Blumenfeld, this incarnation of the quintet is even funkier than before, adding NOLA vibes to their already diverse groove.

The 13-song set on Live shows what made them the first jamband, as they color outside the lines and then bring it back time after time. "We were trailblazers in 1965, years before the term jamband even existed. Working outside the box was very appealing, it influenced a lot of musicians to open things up." The album revisits classics from their back catalog, along with new originals destined to take their rightful place as new classics in the band’s canon.

"I think the band now has more of an R&B edge," Blumenfeld notes. "We’re more rhythm-driven, a bit more funky, there’s some zydeco in there now too; it’s a pretty big sound but you can still hear everything that’s going on, we don’t step on top of each other. The original band took inspiration from classical, jazz, tin pan alley, blues and folk. That was the soup we cooked up to create a very original and eclectic sound. I wanted to maintain that eclectic aspect with this lineup, and now we have a bit more of a funkier point of view. We’ve added some spice and some heat, and turned that original stew into more of a gumbo."

"We will always be a band who attempt to think out of the box, but what is the box anymore? Everything is so accessible and available that the box has become one of those hundred-sided inflatable origami spheres. It’s about live music and creating that live space where we flourish." Even though that panoply of styles is in the forefront, it really always does come back to the blues. The Blues Project set the table in 1965, and with Live 2025 they’re back to reclaim their seat.

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