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Rhett Tyler, Roxy Perry this weekend at Delta Blue

LAKE PLACID – Rhett Tyler and Roxy Perry will perform two shows Friday and Saturday night from 9 p.m. to midnight at the Delta Blue inside the Hotel North Woods.

A child prodigy, Perry started out fronting swing bands at the famous Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle and performed her first major concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California at age 9. In her early teens, she began fronting her own bands. By her late teens, she was working six nights a week with her 10-piece soul band at the Peppermint Lounge on 45th Street and Times Square in New York City. It was there that she was discovered and did her first studio recording as a back-up vocalist. This led to her going on tour for four years with the pop-rock band, Dawn, representing their hits of the time. The band headlined concert tours with Kenny Rogers, The Carpenters, Rare Earth, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Iron Butterfly, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Mike Nesmith, Mark Lindsay and many others. In the ’80s an EP was released on Personal Records, produced by Richie Cordell, which was high on the Billboard charts for two months.

Perry launched her blues career in the late ’80s, when she quickly became known for her exciting live performances at clubs, concert halls and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad and won her reputation as “the real deal” through her riveting live performances and highly acclaimed CDs in blues and jazz circles worldwide.

In recent years Roxy has appeared on the concert bill with Rod Piazza, Shamekia Copeland, Leon Russell, Marcia Ball, John Mayall, Saphire, Hubert Sumlin, Gatemouth Brown, Koko Taylor, Taj Mahal, the Neville Brothers, Popa Chubby, Derek Trucks, The Black Crowes, Susan Tedeschi, Duke Robillard and a host of others. In 2007, Roxy and her band performed at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival, where they headlined two stages, including the Lake Geneva Blues Cruise

As a recording artist, Roxy has performed, produced and written the material for four highly acclaimed CDs.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Mississippi, Ohio, and St. Louis, Rhett Tyler grew up listening and learning about music and the blues from his father, an Air Force officer and talented classical, boogie and blues pianist, and about writing from his mother, a published poet.

His musical talent became apparent at the age of 15, when his parents gave him his first electric guitar. Rooted in the blues, Tyler incorporates jazz, rock, and gospel influences, which define his signature guitar style and innovative musical approach. Rhett was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on Sept. 25, 2011 as “Master Blues Artist from New York.”

Tyler attended Mannes College of Music and the Berkley School of Music in the early ’70s. He soon found himself on tour as bandleader for R&B recording artist Ruth Copeland, and in the mid-’80s, he formed the band, Early Warning. Tyler has independently recorded and released four CDs, Total Package (’92), My Passion ’97), Live at Manny’s Car Wash (’99), and Don’t Put Me In No Box (’05), culminating with his new CD, The Rhythm The Power The Blue to be released at Delta Blue this coming weekend.

John Swenson of Rolling Stone called Tyler “a powerful front man, in the tradition of Johnny Winter and Jimi Hendrix, Rhett Tyler is the certain face of future blues.”

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