If you like good blues played the way it should be played you will enjoy hearing Johnny Roy and the Rubtones!! We are a new blues band made up of old friends with many years of quality performance experience -- turning on audiences to all types and styles of down home, unashamed, straight ahead blues!!
Johnny Roy - Singer/Guitarist
Guitarist & blues and R&B crooner Johnny Roy, with his former band Jumpstreet and Jack O'Diamonds, has over 20 years of blues experience under his belt, fronting and/or backing up artists such as Johnny Copeland, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Son Seals, Jimmy Johnson, Bo Diddley, Roy Buchanan, Lonnie Mack, Koko Taylor, etc.. Johnny humbly acknowledges and realizes that he has learned so much about the blues from the experiences of seeing and hearing these legends perform first hand.
Johnny's personal style of singing and stinging blues guitar licks has entertained audiences as far as
The Rum Boogie Cafe on Beale Street in
Memphis and on the stages of such pretigious blues venues as The Slippery Noodle in Indianapolis.
Johnny also holds a Masters Degree in music composition and is an active classical guitarist, renaissance lute player, and college instructor.
Sean McLaughlin - Bass / Backing Vocals
RubTones Bassist Sean McLaughlin has been playing blues, jazz, and roots related music for many years...12 years with Zydeco Bon fronting artists such as, Buckwheat Zydeco, Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas, Jo-El Sonnier, Geno Delafose, The Turtles, and Jefferson Starship. Sean has played the W.C.Handy Blues Festival in 93,94,96 in Henderson, Ky...also the Evansville Riverfront Festival, and The Cincinnati Riverfront Chili Festival. Sean studied jazz bass at Morehead state Univ. w/Rusty White , and has also plays blues with the Patty Butcher Blues Band.
Jim Turner - Drums / Backing Vocals
Jim Turner, Rubtones drummer, has been playing blues since about 1990 ...First with Junior Wells guitarist Marty Charters & The Medicine Men, Marty & the Medicine Men also backed up Cincinnati artist H-Bomb Ferguson. Jim has also played with Tom Truly & the Truetones, Jimmy Roberts & The Triple Crown Blues Band, and several years with the Patty Butcher Blues Band along with Johnny Roy.
Johnny Roy & The RubTones - Sizzling Blues Band
Altogether, the Rubtones are a high energy, yet relaxed & seasoned blues ensemble with a deep love and understanding of the blues. A sound that will make audiences stop and take notice! ...and keep those crowds coming back for more great, high intensity soulful sounds from Johnny Roy & The Rubtones!!
For Good Blues Anytime...Just Call Johnny Roy !!!
Cheapside Bar & Grill
Look at our Calendar Dates on www.johnnyroy.com and you can see why we call this place home !! A great place to meet folks and hang out and listen to some high quality bands!
Jimmy Rogers, Slim Harpo, Magic Sam's "west side" Chicago blues, Otis Rush, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Son Seals,Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Robert Lockwood, Sam Cooke, Little Willie John, Junior Parker, Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Taj Mahal, Phillip Walker, Anson Funderburgh and Sammy Myers...etc..etc...
52 Les Paul, 60's Kay archtop, Gibson Invader amp, Magnatone 280 amp, tube Echoplex, Matchless RV-1, MXR 10-band eq
For Good Blues...Anytime!...Call Johnny Roy!!
