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Biography
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From
his beginnings on the North Coast, Todd Hart has played his unique
style of blues and classic rock all over the world. Enjoying great notoriety as an acoustic
guitarist and playing coffee houses and acoustic venues for the formative years, his dedication grew. "From then on it was a clear course", and in 1977, he formed what would be his life's mantra -
"Todd Hart's
Blues Power
Trio".
Spending his
early years as a young guitar maker in Cleveland's Mayfield Music, then it's oldest music shop Prospect Music, he worked on many of the masters guitars, and became good personal friends with the late Robert Jr. Lockwood - the nephew of legendary blues pioneer Robert Johnson, who took him under his wing,
playing weekly at the famous underground club " The Flipside" in Cleveland for over 6 years. Along with other great
local notables: The Generators, Mr. Stress, The Numbers Band, Oroboros,
the great Glen Shwartz, Richard Whittington, and
more, he gathered the popularity and support of friends and fans, and
played for nearly 10 years, becoming "Cleveland's Original Rock n' Roll/Blues Power
Trio", playing many live radio simulcast Agora Concerts, and becoming a mainstay of the blues. After the untimely death of
dear friend/bassist - R. Timothy Smith, Todd joined his friend world
famous blues guitarist Kim Simmonds and his legendary blues/rock
powerhouse "SAVOY BROWN"
and toured from Florida to the
Northwest Territories, Newfoundland to Alaska, and most points in between.
"I miss my music", he said, and saying good-bye to Kim and
Savoy Brown repeated the basic beauty of his long-running power trio
to form "Todd Hart and the Thang". Touring out of
Memphis Tennessee, and playing the Mid-South district from the Florida
Keys to mid - Texas, he stopped touring only to record three albums of all
original material, including "What Doesn't
Kill You - Makes You Stronger" ( 1992), which enjoyed much
success.
Proud to be an
Official Hell's
Angel's support
band for Arizona's Mesa, Phoenix, &
Cave Creek chapters, various California's
Hell's Angels
shows and their many
events over the years, Harley
- Davidson dealers, Titan, S&S, and custom cycle
functions all over America, Canada, parts of Europe and Australia, the familiar name "Todd Hart"
and his "Blues Power Trio" are synonymous with international blues,
A.B.A.T.E. and motorcycle events everywhere.
Over the years, and thousands and thousands of gigs, "Todd Hart's
Blues Power Trio" has regularly been performing on such classic
world - class venues as: The World-Famous, Blues-Famous
Memphis' Beale St. music scene, The Cleveland, Akron, Painesville
Agora's, Harpo's - Victoria, B.C., The Misty Moon - Halifax, Nova
Scotia, The Nightshift - Edmonton Alberta, The Zoo - Winnipeg Saskatchewan, Cobo Hall -
Detroit, Char's, The Rhythm Room, The Blue Note, Jake - O - Mines -
Phoenix, Jelly Roll's, 544 Club, Dr. Breeze's, The House of Blues - New Orleans, Rosa's,
Malo's, The West End Club - Chicago, Club Soda's in Vancouver and
Montreal, The Caribbean Club - Key Largo, B. B. King's Blues Clubs in
Memphis, New Orleans, Chicago and Hollywood, The Cabooze - Minneapolis, The Whiskey A Go - Go, The Troubadour, The Starwood, Gazarri's, The Crazy Horse in LA, a regular at Memphis's "Rum Boogie Cafe", "W.C. Handy's Blues Hall", "The New Daisy Theatre", "The Stage Stop", and well, you get the picture.
After years on the road, jamming with and/or opening shows and
events for such masters as: Robert Lockwood Jr., B. B. King, Buddy
Guy, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Ruby Wilson & the King
Bees, Hubert Sumlin, Koko Taylor, W.C. Clark, Elvin Bishop, Johnny
Winter, Leslie West, Tab Benoit, Ted Nugent, Badfinger, Robin Trower, Jack Bruce,
Mark Farner, Bob Seger, Leon Russell, The Stampeders, Jason and the Scorchers, and the
late greats - Albert Collins, Albert King, Wm. Weasel Parker, Mick
Ronson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and many, many more, Todd revisits the fun
and intensity of the blues and classic rock favorites many have
forgotten.
Now, he's back in Naples playing various clubs and events in the Southwest Florida region. Still returning to
his second home Arizona to his fans and
friends there, Memphis - "Home of the Blues",
and Melbourne, Australia.
He's continually in the studio writing
new songs, recording, and completing his body of work, as well as touring select venues on the national/international blues circuit.
And oh yeah, riding the Harley and surfing. The road goes ever on............
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