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1978:
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Form house band in
Vancouver’s Gastown. Play local club scene for 18 months. |
| 1980: |
Release debut album ‘Uncut’. Tour Canada
and U.S. on strength of four top ten records. |
| 1981: |
‘Uncut‘ goes double
platinum. Band wins ‘Best New Group’
at Juno Awards, airplay on the BBC and in Europe. Second
album, ‘Thirsty Ears’, is released on Capital Records.
Ships platinum and first single reaches top 5 nationally.
Touring continues at over 300 shows per year.
Record album with blues great Lowell Fulson. |
| 1982: |
Third album, ‘Party Line’ released.
First single gets heavy national airplay. Band plays 65
U.S. dates to promote. |
| 1983: |
European tour garners spectacular reviews
at prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and
North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. ‘Red Hot/ True Blue’, a double album
with 18 tunes, cut live in the studio, is issued on RCA
Records. |
| 1984-1985: |
Fifth album ‘Live At Montreux’ is released
on Blue Wave Records, to critical acclaim. CBC airs on
hour national TV special, ‘Powder Blues Live at Montreux’.
Band performs 175 dates in U.S. and
Canada. |
| 1986: |
The coveted W.C. Handy Award for blues
is presented to the Powder Blues in Memphis, Tennessee
for ‘Best Foreign Blues Band’. |
| 1988: |
Ten Year Anniversary sees the band
touring at a pace of over 100 dates per year. |
| 1990-1991: |
‘First Decade/Greatest Hits' is released featuring 19 cuts. Band performs 12 concerts in the Soviet Union, releases
product on Melodya Records. Touring continues and band begins work
on a new studio album. |
| 1993: |
‘Let’s Get Loose’ containing 12 new studio cuts, is released
on WEA records. Band tours nationally to support release. |
| 1994-1996: |
Band continues to tour playing an average
of 50 shows a year including major blues and jazz festivals
in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon,
Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec
City. |
| 1997: |
'Lowell Fulson with
the Powder Blues' finally released on Stoney Plain
Records. ‘Live at Montreux’ is restored to its
original concert length, re-mastered digitally and released
worldwide. Powder Blues ‘First Decade/Greatest Hits’ on WEA
goes ‘gold . |
| 1998-1999: |
Powder Blues play over 100 live shows
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |
| 2000-2001: |
Work begins on the writing
and arranging of ‘Swingin’ the Blues’, touring continues. |
| 2002: |
‘Swingin’ the Blues’ is
released in Canada and the U.S. on Blue Wave Records as
the band plays 70 live shows. |
| 2003: |
In studio to complete big
band CD. 25th anniversary for band. Touring
continues. |
| 2004- 2006: |
Big Band CD 'blues + jazz
= BLAZZ!!' released and band plays over 150 shows as the Blue Wave rolls on. |
