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Junior Wells - Snatch It Back And Hold It - By the Booze Blend
Cover made by the Booze Blend, band from Montreal, Canada

The Booze Blend

Junior Wells - Snatch It Back And Hold It - By the Booze Blend

American percussionist and bandleader. 
Born 24 September 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. Nicknamed “Mr. Bongo” for his role in making the instrument popular, almost starting a “bongo craze” as latin rhythms influenced jazz and pop following World War II. Originally a dancer, Costanzo visitied Cuba several times to learn conga playing, before reportedly being the first bongo player to join a jazz band. He played with Stan Kenton (1947–1948), Nat King Cole (1949–1953], Billy May And His Orchestra, Peggy Lee, Perez Prado, Charlie Barnet, Ray Anthony, Xavier Cugat, Frank Sinatra and others. In the 1950s Costanzo formed his own “Exotica” style band. In the early 1960s he was a member of the studio musicians group Surfmen, The. He has continued to play for more than half a century, retiring in 1998 but making a comeback in 2001.

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It is said that Booze Blend was born in Montreal in the basement of a rehab center on Prince-Arthur Street between 2006 and 2008. It took its first steps in an Acadian punk squat on De Lorimier, then in a backyard shed in Saint-Henri, eventually reaching maturity at the end of town where the smell of the refineries mixed perfectly with that of the alcoholic sweat of the four members of the group. Originally composed of Loïc, Lazy Boy Tarbox (piano, vocals), Seb 'Dirty Pickin' (guitar), MOnOnCle TouTou Dave (bass guitar), and Ugo MoRisOn (drums), Booze Blend has had a new apostle in its ranks since March 2019, Carl TuCker (harmonica), skillfully completing the joyful band of eternal lovers of booze and blues. The Booze Blend revisits a mixed repertoire of Chicago blues, old rhythm and blues, soul, and rock n' roll, from Sonny Boy Williamson to Junior Wells, including Bo Diddley, Memphis Slim, Ray Charles, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Link Wray, without forgetting some jewels from Plume Latraverse and Galaxie 500.