Jason Ricci & the Bad Kind **OLD SHOW**
4-5-2019
Jason Ricci's style of harmonica playing is so revolutionary that you have simply never seen anyone play quite like he does. His effect on the music world has been so influential that there exists and entire new generation of players imitating his music, clothes, gear and even stage presence. He is one of the most popular harmonica players on the planet today, and his music is listed in almost every top ten playlist on college, blues and internet radio. Jason is a “players player.” He is in demand and on the lips of critics, musicians and fans everywhere.
Through two plus decades of endless touring, TV appearances, recordings and social media, Ricci has been an almost constant force in the studio, festivals, club dates and press. Through performing, song writing, teaching, harmonica prowess and activism in the fields of mental health and addiction, this young man is literally changing the world through music and education. His over-blowing harmonica techniques are second to none and his songwriting, while based in deep blues, is contemporary, relevant & boundless.
With his personal demons well in check and a killer new band, The Bad Kind, Jason is back with a vengeance and taking no prisoners, from "low down in the alley to out of this world!"
His new recording, “Approved by Snakes,” has an official release date of June 16 and is already causing quite a noise.
Jason has been a Featured TV performer at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for the Paul Butterfield Band induction, 2015. - Featured performer on Johnny Winter’s Grammy winning CD “Step Back” 2014 - Received multiple Blues Music Award Nominations and won one in 2010 - Worked and recorded with Little Charlie Baty, Anson Funderbrugh, Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside, Nick Curran, Walter Trout, Ana Popovic, Cedric Burnside, Joe Louis Walker, Sue Foley and many others.
Jason Ricci's style of harmonica playing is so revolutionary that you have simply never seen anyone play quite like he does. His effect on the music world has been so influential that there exists and entire new generation of players imitating his music, clothes, gear and even stage presence. He is one of the most popular harmonica players on the planet today, and his music is listed in almost every top ten playlist on college, blues and internet radio. Jason is a “players player.” He is in demand and on the lips of critics, musicians and fans everywhere.
Through two plus decades of endless touring, TV appearances, recordings and social media, Ricci has been an almost constant force in the studio, festivals, club dates and press. Through performing, song writing, teaching, harmonica prowess and activism in the fields of mental health and addiction, this young man is literally changing the world through music and education. His over-blowing harmonica techniques are second to none and his songwriting, while based in deep blues, is contemporary, relevant & boundless.
With his personal demons well in check and a killer new band, The Bad Kind, Jason is back with a vengeance and taking no prisoners, from "low down in the alley to out of this world!"
His new recording, “Approved by Snakes,” has an official release date of June 16 and is already causing quite a noise.
Jason has been a Featured TV performer at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for the Paul Butterfield Band induction, 2015. - Featured performer on Johnny Winter’s Grammy winning CD “Step Back” 2014 - Received multiple Blues Music Award Nominations and won one in 2010 - Worked and recorded with Little Charlie Baty, Anson Funderbrugh, Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside, Nick Curran, Walter Trout, Ana Popovic, Cedric Burnside, Joe Louis Walker, Sue Foley and many others.