Brian Lee & the Orbiters

 “Slide Monsters!” celebrates blues slide guitar, bringing together three monsters of the slide guitar style:  Brian Lee, Rod Cook, and Kevin Sutton! Orbiters Hank Yanda, Steve Yonck and Orbiter alumni "Drummerboy" Jeff Hayes will be on board to make this one great show you don't want to miss! 

  These Northwest greats each have a unique and distinctive slide guitar voice, and together they’re a perfect compliment. They are also all superb singers, and songwriters.    Kevin Sutton of Seattle's "The WIRED! Band" won the 2012 INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE in Memphis! This in a remarkable accomplishment- competing with blues acts from around the world! Kevin also won 2012 Best of the Blues awards from the Washington Blues Society in the Performer, Songwriter,  Blues Act, and Male Vocalist catagories, and for 2013 he's nominated in the Electric Guitar, Performer, Blues Recording, Traditional Blues Band, and New Blues Band catagories! Wow! He's also great guy, a superb singer, performer, songwriter, and great slide player!!!   Rod Cook is known for his stylistic versatility and soulful, melodic playing. As part of his versatile  repertoire, he is an amazing slide man.  From the early 1980's to the early '90's he played with The Royals, a mainstay in the Seattle blues and rock scene. He then teamed up with singer/songwriter/bassist Laura Love , recording seven albums, two of which were released on Mercury Records, and touring the United States, Canada and Europe. In 1993 he also teamed up with former Steve Miller Band guitarist James "Curley" Cooke and formed the acoustic guitar duo "Double Cookin'." In 1996 he launched his own band, Rod Cook and Toast, a band performing original and cover material based in blues, rock, country, Americana, surf and American roots music, releasing two albums. Since 2004, he has performed with Vicci Martinez (a finalist on The Voice Television series) recording three albums.  Rod can be seen performing periodically with Northwest icon Little Bill Englehart, Snake Oil with Mark Riley, and Rod Cook and Toast.     Rod has backed  Taj Mahal, and opened for Todd Rundgren, Sonny Landreth, and Charlie Musslewhite. He has been nominated numerous times for the Washington Blues Society's "Best Of The Blues" Awards, winning three times. Rod is also one of the nicest guys around and is broadly reccognized as one of the finest guitarists in the Northwest.    Brian Lee leads Brian Lee & the Orbiters, and the Brian Lee Trio. Brian and the Orbiters have opened for Little Charlie and the Nightcats and Tommy Castro. Brian and the Orbiters were honored with seven "Best of the Blues" nominations by the Washington Blues Society in 2012, winning the Best Recording category for their album "identity Theft" , and Brian individually for songwriter. Their Identity Theft album hit #1 for radio airplay among Washington bands on the Roots Radio report, and hit #15 in the Living Blues World Wide Blues Radio charts. In 2013, Brian and the Orbiters have been nominated by the WBS in the Slide Guitar and Traditional Blues Act categories.   Backing the Slide Monsters are the stellar Orbiters Hank Yanda on bass, Steve Yonck on guitar, and on drums we have a special treat with Orbiter alumni and Highway 99 regular "Drummerboy!"  Jeff Hayes!!! Don't miss this fabulous celebration of blues slide guitar!!!