Robert Randolf & The Family Band
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 7, 2013

Again this year recorded from KBOO FM 90.7 here in Portland. A volunteer radio station that has broadcast the festival each and every year. It has become a huge festival & we stopped going due to the big crowds. I now record all that I can & enjoy sharing with you all. As with any all volunteer station there are a few blurps along the way, which I have "fixed" as well as I can. Enjoy, twofthrs

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A virtuoso on the pedal steel guitar, Robert Randolph set the music world on fire in 2000 when he began playing his first club dates in New York City. Randolph started playing the instrument as a church-going teenager in Orange, NJ, a small city just outside of Newark. He attended the House of God Church, an African-American Pentecostal denomination that had been implementing steel guitars (or "Sacred Steel") in services since the 1930s, with the pedal steel in particular being introduced during the '70s. Randolph learned to play by watching other steel players during church services; years later, he updated that sacred basis with a secular mix of funk and soul, giving a new multicultural facelift to an instrument that had long been associated with country music.

Randolph's own group, the Family Band, includes cousins Danyell Morgan and Marcus Randolph (bass and drums, respectively) and John Ginty (Hammond B-3 organ). The band began opening gigs for a variety of blues, jazz-funk, and jam bands such as the Derek Trucks Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, and Soulive. Within a few months they were headliners. Robert Randolph & the Family Band released Live at the Wetlands in 2001. The group's studio debut, Unclassified, followed in 2003 and introduced Randolph to an even wider audience. One new fan was guitarist Eric Clapton, who brought the band out on tour and appeared on Randolph's third release, Colorblind, in 2006. In 2010, Randolph teamed-up with producer T-Bone Burnett and released We Walk This Road which featured guest appearances from Ben Harper, Leon Russell and Doyle Bramhall II.

Set List
01 Good Time Jam
02 Get Your Hands Up?
03 Unkown
04 You Got to Lose?
05 Get Ready (From New CD)
06 Unkown >
07 Lickety Split (From New CD)