Conrad

Guitar / Acid Jazz / Electric Blues / Soul
Newton Center, MA

guitarist, vocalist, bandleader, songwriter, film soundtrack composer

Conrad has lived and played in London, New York, Austin, and Boston. He's toured around Europe with such bands as The English Beat, Joe Jackson, the Specials, and the Selector. He's played at CBGB's and at the Hammersmith Palais. Responsible for bringing Bob Mould's band Sugar to Rykodisc, he has held various jobs including guitar-slinger, band manager, special-effects builder, illustrator, music journalist, sub-label manager on Sire Records in England, as well as record company production manager.

Conrad is now playing guitar in Bees Deluxe, a full-tilt, acid blues/funk/rock collective comprised of Boston-based musicians from Brazil, England, and the US. Among their favorite venues, they've hosted the Weekly Sunday Blues Jam at the Loft, Tommy Doyle's (the venue formerly known as The House of Blues), and at Johnny D's in Somerville, Glory in Andover, played at the Newport Blues Café, Jake's Dixie Roadhouse, in Waltham, the Burren in Davis Square Somerville, the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain, Firefly's in Marlboro, private and corporate bookings, and many other venues. Their material and songs include over three sets of floorboard-stomping originals and rearranged covers from Little Feat, The Meters, Billie Holiday, Derek Trucks, B.B.King, ZZ Top, Robben Ford, McKinley Morganfield, SoulLive, Roy Buchanan, Derek & the Dominoes, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.