Steve Gannon

after-hours clubs and jam-sessions and then working with the bands of J.J.

Malone, Eddie Ray and Sonny Rhodes with whom he co-produced the

critically-acclaimed 'Just Blues' album.

For six years he was guitarist in Troyce Keys' houseband at Oakland's 'Eli

Mile High Club' where he accompanied artists such as Lowell Fulson,

Jimmy McCracklin, Buddy Ace, Sugar Pie DeSanto and Charlie Musselwhite.

For almost fifteen years he hosted the popular 'Blue Monday' jam-session

at Larry Blake's in Berkeley, artists who dropped by and sat in included Ike

Turner, Irma Thomas, Joe Louis Walker, Harvey Mandel and many others.

In recent years he has toured the U.S. with Sonny Rhodes and Lady Bianca

and has played many festival and concert-hall dates with both Jimmy

McCracklin and Sugar Pie DeSanto (including this years' San Francisco

Blues Festival).

For the last four years he has been a member of the Craig Horton Blues

Band with whom he has recorded and toured extensively in the U.S.A. and

Europe.

Recording credits include albums by Jimmy McCracklin, Sonny Rhodes,

Sugar Pie DeSanto, J.J.Malone, Craig Horton, Jimi Mamou and Freddie

Hughes as well as two albums under his own name, 'Oaktown' and '52

Ford'.