BAND SPOTLIGHT | Laurie
Morvan Band
Illinois Times | August 6, 2009
Let's just dispense with all the female blues guitar player
business and forget the tall California blonde girl stuff
and get to the heart of the matter right now. Laurie Morvan
can play the blues. Go check out some YouTube cuts of her
singing and playing and listen to the killer tone she gets
on her classic Fender Stratocaster. Morvan, a finalist at
the International Blues Challenge in 2008 and winner of
the Blues Artist on the Rise, plays with taste and abandon.
She's backed by a dynamite band of bassist Pat Morvan and
Kevin Murillo on drums, and in a distinctive move for a
blues band, uses female backup singer Lisa (Grubbs) Morvan as a permanent
member of her touring combo. Morvan, who teaches college
math in California when not playing the blues, lists herself
as an Illinois native and attended UIUC for electrical engineering
in the 80's.
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