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The Blues Project
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Miami Vice Performer
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1965-present
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Danny Kalb
David Cohen Tommy Flanders Al Kooper Roy Blumenfeld |
The Blues Project is a blues/rock band whose song "Catch the Wind" appeared in the episode "Golden Triangle (Part II)" of the show Miami Vice.
Career[]
The Blues Project was formed in 1965 in New York's Greenwich Village. They recorded their first album, Live At The Cafe Au Go Go (featuring "Catch the Wind"), which did moderately well and made rock critics look at the band as the East Coast Grateful Dead. Al Kooper (later of Blood, Sweat and Tears, also worked with Lynyrd Skynyrd and scored the series Crime Story) joined the band on the Live At... album and their next one, Projections (a more ecletic album with music ranging from blues to rock to psychedelia). Kooper left in 1967 and the band's last live performance in the 1960s was at the Monterey Pop Festival in San Francisco. Four more albums followed between 1967-1973 but the band's albums did not do well and the band went back to touring in the Northern California area sporadically with members Steve Katz, Roy Blumenfeld, Joe Bouchard, John Kruth and Kenny Margolis, but no new material has been recorded since 1973.