Allen Fredrick is a dynamic vocalist, as well as guitarist, keyboardist and harmonica player, whose style is rooted in R&B, blues, rock, and jazz.  
	He was keyboardist and singer for the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils (Fantasy Records) for two years where he played many club and concert dates in the San Francisco Bay area. He left the Hoodoos to join Maria Muldaur (Midnite At The Oasis) as musical director, keyboardist and singer. He performed with Maria for five years touring throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada. He was Harmonica player for famed bluesmen Yank Rachel (She Caught the KATY) and Sleepy John Estes (Diving Duck Blues). He has also performed with Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Bonnie Raitte, Dan Hicks, The Shirelles, Chubby Checker, The Drifters, Jules Broussard, Zigaboo Modeliste, and Cab Calloway.  He has extensive live performance experience, having played internationally for large concerts, showcase clubs and television, including the David Letterman show.  
		He holds a bachelors degree from Indiana University where he studied jazz improvisation from renowned trombonist David Baker, electronic music from composer John Eaton and composition from composer Iannis Xenakis.

TRACK DOGS

Track Dogs have spent the last couple of years barnstorming the UK with some major festival appearances and collaborations. 2023 has seen them release their third album in 18 months, debut at Glastonbury and perform at The Royal Albert Hall with Show of Hands. 

Well-established in Spain where they are based, they are surprising UK music lovers with “Sun-shiny songs thriving on dark themes behind irresistible rhythms.”
 
The two Irishmen, one Englishman and an American (Garrett Wall, Dave Mooney, Howard Brown & Robbie K. Jones) whose artistic names derives from the dark subterranean world of New York's subway system, celebrate 17 years together in 2023 with 10 albums under their belts, including their most recent release "Blind Summits & Hidden Dips", an album that grows on the work that has opened so many doors for the band.

What they're saying about "Blind Summits & Hidden Dips";

“Track Dogs play jukebox hits for the apocalypse… If you were looking to mark your card for the end of the world party; head to wherever Track Dogs are playing; for they surely will be playing. Squeeze in at the bar, drink up and thirst no more.”
Americana-UK.com 7/10  

“You can make the journey from Laurel Canyon to twelve-bar blues (with a twist) from one song to the next…‘Blind Summits & Hidden Dips’ is packed with inventiveness and surprises around every hairpin bend; you won’t get bored with this anytime soon.
” musicriot.co.uk - ****  

“Their latest album flits from the country-rock of Cover Your Tracks, the brass-boosted Way Of Things and the funk of Blues Brother. Top that all off with a stonking cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Rhiannon alongside Spanish vocalist Lu Garnet” 
Daily Express - ****  

“The good news from this latest release, Blind Summits & Hidden Dips, is that their musical smörgåsbord is as varied as ever, arguably even more so, while the bad news is… Well, there is no bad news…the lyrics and music of Blind Summits and Hidden Dips also reveal a depth and complexity on repeat listens. Sometimes what is revealed can be deadly serious, and sometimes it shows they’re a band with a finely tuned sense of humour; two Track Dogs for the price of one, I’ll settle for that.” https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2023/09/track-dogs-blind-summits-hidden-dips/

“The band’s tightness is exemplified in So Much Dust, which demonstrates the band’s rich vocal harmonies and strong sense of melody. A memorable original…reflected on human existence: A song for our times.”
Robert Trussel, Kansas City Theatre.

““Groovy” is not a word I often use in this column, but that’s just the adjective I need to describe Madrid-based Irish band the Track Dogs. The band’s music is, like the band of ex-pats, an eclectic cultural crossover.
The Irish Echo, New York

“This band turned out to be a total discovery, with vocal harmonies on a par with groups like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, America or the most melodic style of, for example, the Eagles mixed in with the graceful irreverence of The Pogues.”
Renacer Eléctrico Music Magazine, Spain

“Their lively, melodic music has a strong American/Latin sentiment, a strong sense of fun and an abundance of sunshine”.
Folkradio.co.uk

“Superior Americana…joyous stuff”
Hot Press, Ireland

“Never in danger of overstaying their welcome”
R2 ****

For more information please contact 
info@trackdogsmusic.com

Diary
28/10/2020
New Medley track on here recorded last August in Milan, including excerpts from a new song and many first live acts  + compositions by Astor Piazzolla and Gabriel Fauré.
A new, strong album, "INCIDENTI (Lo Schianto)" is ready from August 2019 (and another one almost finished) but we can't publish it in this sad moment......stay safe as we will. 
Yours, Claudio Milano.

Last copies of NichelOdeon and InSonar's CD/DVD here:
"Il Gioco del Silenzio"(2010); "Come sta Annie? DVD"(2010); "Bath Salts"(2013); "L'Enfant et le Ménure"(2013) at: http://www.lizardrecords.it/

"Ukiyoe - Mondi Fluttuanti"(2014) at: snowdonia@snowdonia.it

COMPLETE NichelOdeon/InSonar/Claudio Milano's digital HQ DISCOGRAPHY + cooperations + HUNDREDS of bonus (and on request official and unofficial VIDEOGRAPHY) is available here: 
https://claudiomilano.bandcamp.com/
E-Mail: nichelodeon@gmail.com

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