- Kenny Neal
Kenny Neal (born
October 14 1957 , New Orleans,Louisiana [ [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=KENNY|NEAL&sql=11:kifuxq95ld0e~T1 All Music Guide biography data] ] ), son ofRaful Neal , is ablues andswamp blues guitar player,singer and band member. Neal comes from a musical family and has often performed with his brothers in his band.Career
Neal preserves the swamp blues sound of his native south Louisiana, as befits someone who learned from
Slim Harpo ,Buddy Guy and his father, the harmonica player, Raful Neal.cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
edition=
publisher= Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 150
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]In 1987, Neal cut his debut
album for theFlorida record producer , Bob Greenlee — an updated swamp feast initially marketed on King Snake Records as "Bio on the Bayou".Alligator Records picked it up the following year, retitled it "Big News from Baton Rouge!!" [ [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=KENNY|NEAL&sql=11:kifuxq95ld0e~T1 All Music Guide biography data] ]In 1991 he also proved to be a talented actor in the Broadway production of the folk musical "Mule Bone" (by
Langston Hughes andZora Neale Hurston ), singing numbers written byTaj Mahal .cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
edition=
publisher= Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 150
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]Neal has played with blues stars including
Lucky Peterson andLazy Lester .In September 2006 Neal announced he was taking a year's break from recording and performing, due to an undisclosed illness. [ [http://www.livingblues.com/showNews.php?ID=42 Living Blues website] ] He returned to the public eye at the Monterey Blues Festival in June 2007. His illness was also disclosed as
Hepatitis C . [ [http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/archives/2007/2007-Jun-21/Article.cover_story_4/1/@@index Monterey County Weekly - accessed January 2008] ]Awards
Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award)ee also
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List of blues musicians
*Long Beach Blues Festival
*San Francisco Blues Festival References
External links
* [http://www.kennyneal.net/ Official Home Page]
* [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=KENNY|NEAL&sql=11:kifuxq95ld0e~T1 Neal biography] atAllmusic website
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