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Willie J Laws
Bio written by GIBX staff:
We’d say Willie J is first and foremost a showman… if he weren’t such a damn fine musician. He doesn’t just sing songs, he tells stories with them. His unique brand of funky Texas blues has this uncanny tendency to get dancers off their butts and onto the dance floor. There’s a rumor going around that before Bud Lite’s PR department could use “The Sure Sign of a Good Time” as their slogan, they had to ask Willie J first. Come see him and his band burn the house down on Friday night of GIBX.
Willie J's official bio:
The Willie J Laws Band sound is deep Texas Roots music, add some Funk, and Jazz influenced bass patterns, and the influence of various Afro-Caribbean drum beats, all tempered with a groove from Motown, Memphis or Muscle Shoals, New Orleans. The sound is traditional African-American music with a unique twist, skillfully played and performed.
The Willie J Laws Band has performed nationally and internationally, including 2 recent tours of Russia at the invite of the US Consulate in St Petersburg. Once the house band at The House of Blues/Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and Margeritaville in New Orleans. Winners of the Mass Blues Society Challenge 2011, Semi-finalists at the International Blues Competition 2012 and Beale St Kings Awards. A two time nominee for New England Music Award - Best Blues Act 2015 and 2016, 2015 Nominee for Boston Music Award - Best Blues Act 2015. Come see what many are calling the "Real Deal"
We’re gettin fancy at this dance, see
Andi Hansen’s necromancy
Raise the dead and have some fun
With triple steps and finger guns
Here’s our newest DJ
She’s Boston own home grown
But she’s rolling with the big dogs
And she’s come into her own
And should you like a song out there
Thinking “someone’s got good taste”
Take a gander at the DJ booth
And observe her smiling face
A wind blows south
From Montreal
That brings someone
Who pleases all
If she plays music
We all win
(If customs will just let her in)
The experience
Of Gabsolute Power
Nobody’s sad
Nobody’s sour
So let’s all dance
The funky butt
And we won’t stop
Kern Down For What
P is plays good music
A is any day
A is also awesome
A good guy anyway
A is for his androids
A cause for PhD
And also lives in Boston
A local devotee
A is for the ample
A words inside this poem
Unless we stop this rhyming soon
Let’s bring this whole thing home
When Julie’s face emits a smirk
You know that it’s too late
She’s set events in motion
She’s already sealed your fate
Your feet begin to move themselves
Your body can’t sit down
You get up on the dance floor
Because of Julie Brown