Blind Bubba Blues Band

OK so you've made it this far. If you leave now you'll be missing some really good tunes. If you're looking to hear some REAL blues click on one of the songs. We play music for the fun of it...not to get rich and famous. And hey...don't forget to read the bios if you're looking to really be entertained. AND IF YOU LIKE THE SONGS PLEASE GIVE US A "HOT" VOTE...IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR GIVE US TWO. Enjoy!

About the members of the Blind Bubba Blues Band. Blind Moldy Roll He was born Cyrus Molby Rollins, a poor black child in the spring of 1899 in a tiny shack just outside of Louie Louie, Louisiana on a little plantation where his family had lived for three generations. The same plantation where his grandfather was brought from Africa as a slave. His mother was a good looking woman who was forced to raise her family of 16 children all by herself. His father had died when Cy was only four. Killed in a fight over an illegal parcheesi game. At the age of ten Cy decided he needed to get a job in order to help support the family. So he quit school and went to work in the only factory in town. The one that made the little wax rings that go under your toilet bowl. One day he slipped on one of those rings and as he fell he tried to grab whatever he could to prevent his falling. He grabbed a wire that was attached to one of the machines and although it did not prevent his falling he did notice that the sound of the wire as he slipped off it made a pleasant sound. This event would change his life. He decided that if he could harness that sound he could make music and maybe it would be his ticket out of Louie Louie, So after much thought he contrived an instrument out of a toilet seat bolted to a two by four with a piece of this wire strung over it. He spent all of his spare time teaching himself to make music on this instrument. He even played it on what would be his first first recording and first regional hit song on that little "Toilet-O-Caster" Paper On Your Shoe in 1922. By the time he was 13 he was able to give his mother the Christmas present she had always wanted. An indoor bathroom. She loved having this bathroom and so did little Cy. So much so that he spent hour after hour in the bathroom practicing his Toilet-O-Caster and reading National Geographic Magazines. Then tragedy struck. Within the year Cy inexplicably went blind. He had also developed mysterious callouses on his right hand. Could there be a connection? The doctors were baffled. One day when Cy was 16 or so a promoter from up north by the name of Uncle Tom Barker heard Cy’s little combo Cy Rollins and the Igloo Lepricauns play at the county Catfish Skinnin’ Festival. Almost everyone in that part Louisiana played Cajun and Zydeco and Cy wanted to do something different. A blend of Irish and Eskimo music. They called their music Blubbish and even had a regional hit "A Pint and a Poke, ahh". Uncle Tom decided to bring them to the big city and make them stars. And so begins the start of the long journey that would become the story of one of the most influential blues icons in musical history. As a footnote some of the other players in the Igloo Leprechans were Robert Johnson, Jimmie Johnson, and Howard Johnson. All of whom have contributed much of their success to the teachings of Cy Rollins. Although he would never accept the fact that people just didn’t catch on to Blubbish music he did have to eat. So he thought about what kind of music the people might like to hear and better yet PAY to hear. He thought about inventing Disco but decided nobody would buy that shit. He was so down he didn’t know what to do. And then it came to himHe would play the blues. So he put together a band and hit the road. He also started recording again. And then he needed a stage name. His new manager and wife at the time Sylvia Finklestein decided that he should use would use his middle name of Molby but was afraid Rollins was too ethnic sounding so she shortened it to Roll. And as everyone who sang the blues at the time adopted the moniker Blind (not to mention the fact that he was blind). He would become Blind Molby Roll. Or so he thought. When his first record came out the damned graphic artist made a mistake in the spelling (don’t they always) and spelled Molby with a "d". Hence Blind Moldy Rolland so for budgetary reasons Molby became Moldy. Anyhow, Blind Moldy Roll has been on the road ever since playing the blues and influencing every major blues player till this day. He even claims that he was with Robert Johnson at the crossroads that day but was behind a bush taking care of some business when the infamous transaction took place. Maybe that’s why he never became as famous commercially as he should have been. Now at the age of 102 Blind Moldy Roll has seen a lot of them come and go, including 13 wives. He still travels the roads except nowadays in a bus or a jet instead of that old 1958 Edsel that finally died last year. He has received every major award there is including Employee of the Quarter. (He still can’t figure that one out.) So much more could be said about this fine man and gifted musician but I’ve got to get this CD done tonight and I’m tired, and hungry, and thirsty, and I’ve got a little nookie waiting on me. In closing I would like to thank Blind Moldy Roll for the opportunity to share in his genius...he is truly a god. He’s like a father to me and I don’t have a better friend on the face of the earth. Glenn H. Martin Delta Dan da Harpmann Born in Connecticut’s small but rich delta region in 1960. He was the only child of Dr. John and Mabra O’Brien. He was descended from a great Kazoolo warrior on his father’s side and Chief Windy Lips of the Mohican Nation on his mother’s side. Mabra was, how should we say, very well endowed. It is rumored that little Opie Juan Dano’be (as he was affectionately called) breast fed till the age of sixteen until one day he accidentally sucked on the harmonica his mother was wearing around her neck. And that’s where it all began. A life of music and occasional crime. When he was 17 he found out Dr. John was not his real father. So he packed up his harps and set out in search of his biological father. Within days the young scoundrel got arrested for solicitation in New Orleans when he was caught in bed with 3 undercover and underdressed female police officers in a sting operation (or so they say). The arresting officer was heard to have said book ‘em Dano and he was thrown in the county jail with a guy named Jerry Jeff who was sitting in his cell writing a song about an old man in the next cell that he called Mr. Bojangles. As it turns out that old man in the next cell was none other than Blind Moldy Roll who had been incarcerated for tearing the label off a mattress. Opie started up a conversation with the old man. They got on immediately, like they had known each other all their lives. They talked for hours and hours. They also discovered that they both shared a deep love for the Blues. That night as Blind Moldy Roll lay sleeping Opie noticed he had a birthmark on his left shoulder blade that was exactly like the one he was born with. It was in the shape of the profile of Mikhial Gorbachev. He knew at that instant that this old man was in fact his biological father. From then on the two were inseparable. They formed a new band and went on the road sharing wine, women, and song from one end of the country to the other as the Blind Bubba Blues Band. This is also the period when he picked his stage name. He decided on Delta Dan (remember the part about the Connecticut Delta?) and because of his love of fine French(?) wines (Thunderbird and Mogen David to name a few) wanted a French sounding ending to his namehence da Harpmann. BINGO. Here you have it. Delta Dan has many interests. He is a great carpenter. He loves model cars. Actually he loves all sorts of models and has quite a collection of blondes, redheads, and brunettes. The faster the better. He also likes building ships in bottles. He hasn’t actually gotten to the ship part but he sure can empty out those bottles in preparation for the ships. Over the years he has spent a little time here and there in the pokey as he is quite a character when he gets to drinking. He’s always picking a fight in some honky tonk or getting caught in the sack with the sheriffs wife. And then there are his other musical adventures. For instance a little known fact. One night he was jamming with the legendary Muddy Waters and accidentally drank to much and tripped over his mic chord. His microphone went flying and flew right through the soundhole of Muddy’s Guitar. Then his beer bottle flew out of his hands and slid down Muddy’s guitar strings. This is the true story of how and why Muddy went electric and how he got turned on to bottleneck slide style. Delta Dan is the musical director of the band these days as Blind Moldy Roll, at his age, has enough to do just making sure that his fly is up and he don’t have paper on his shoe. When he’s not on the road with the Blind Bubba Blues Band he writes and produces musical scores for porno movies. A very lucrative gig with lots of perks (if you know what I mean). That’s actually where he met his fifth wife...and sixth...and seventh. It seems to keep him out of trouble. As with any great musician with a history like Delta Dans so much more could be written...and one day maybe I’ll write his biography...but for now I will close by saying. It is privilege working with this fine man...he has taught me a lot...and I hope to be working with him for many years to come. Even if he hardly ever finds the money to pay me what he owes me. Dan O’Brien

Engineered and mixed at Laughing Angel Studios in Maryland. We virtually tour all over the world.

Jimi Hendrix, Lowell George, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Johnson, Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musslewhite, and the late great William Clarke.

Believe it or not everything is recorded on a Boss BR8 portable studio. All instrumentation is done by Glenn and Dan does the harp work. Glenn and Dan share the vocals, wine, and women. Amazing isn't it?

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