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Blind Willies is Alexei Wajchman, guitarist/singer/songwriter; Alex Nash, drums; Misha Khalikulov, cello; Max Miller-Loran, keyboard/trumpet; Daniel Riera, bass. Max Miller-Loran is a trumpeter, keyboardist, producer, and graduate of Berklee College of Music. He's performed extensively around Boston and the Bay Area with The Kev Choice Ensemble, The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, The Dave Scott Nonet, The Getback, The Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra and many others. Misha Khalikulov graduated from UCLA with a concentration in Classical Cello. He's toured the world this year with Rupa and the April Fishes. Daniel Riera is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, beatmaker, award-winning (ASCAP) composer, and arranger. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Synthesis. Alex Nash is officially 21, a drummer since birth, graduate of various academies, disciplines, and schools of thought. He's the newest member of Blind Willies and we're happy to have him. Alexei grew up in San Francisco's Mission District. After learning to play clarinet and sax, he taught himself to play guitar and began writing songs at 15. Alexei recorded the first two Blind Willies albums with fiddler Annie Staninec. Blind Willies has played San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival(NY), Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, SF's Great American Music Hall, The Folk Project's Minstrel Concert Series(NJ), San Luis Obispo Folk Music Society Concert Series, LA's The Mint, Davis' Whole Earth Festival, SF's Summer Sailstice Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Zeum, SF Folk Festival, and smaller venues in the Bay Area, Pacific Northwest, and NYC. The Unkindness of Ravens(2007) and Everybody's Looking for a Meal(2008) were recorded and mixed by Lemon DeGeorge(Jolie Holland, film Genghis Blues) at Crib Nebula in San Francisco, and mixed and mastered by Paul Carlsen(Nirvana's Nevermind, Neil Young). Needle, Feather, and a Rope(2011) was produced by Lemon DeGeorge and Blind Willies, recorded by Jay Pellicci(Deerhoof) at Tiny Telephone, mixed by Justin Phelps(Dresden Dolls, Cake) and Gabriel Shepard(Peter Case, Frank Black), and mastered by Paul Stubblebine(Ry Cooder, John Lee Hooker). Alexei's songs have been played on over 200 radio stations around the world. Confirmed radio play includes Better Days Radio, Vancouver, BC; Pirate Cat Radio, SF; KPIG, KRSH, WXPN, WFUV Woody's Children, KPFA, WFDU, KALW, KZSC, KUSP, KYOU, KQED, KDVS, KKUP, WOBC, WTJU, WTSR, WDVX Writer's Block, WCOM Taproot Radio, Americana Roots, WWUH, KZSU, KRCB, KSCL, WBGU, KAOS, WTUL, WCBN, KBCS, WEFT, WMBR, KCBX, KBGA, WSDP, WDCB, KXCI, WRKF, KACI, WLRN, KCSC, WFHB, WMUD, KAFM, Thayrone's The Bone Conduction Music Show(syndicated), WRFL, WDBX, KGLP, Radio Marabu/Europe/No Pigeonholes, Hanx/Netherlands, Crossroads/NL, Arjen Dekker's Blue Wednesday/NL, Dutch Roots Radio's Landslide, Gerrit Casper's Goodnoise/NL, Thomas Kaldijk's Blueprint/NL, Rootsrevival, Michel Penard's ISA Radio American Roots Music/France, Friedrich Hog's Radio Free FM/Germany, Heart of the Night and TransAtlantic Acoustic indieheart.com podcasts, indieSF.com, Todd Mack's Off the Beat-n-Track, Suffolk 'n Cool/UK, CKUA Tom Coxworth's Folk Routes/Canada, WYEP, WGDR, CJLX, CKHA, WHAY, WBSD, WKZE, WHDD, NHPR, KRCC, KLOI,CHES Erin Radio, CJTR,Progressive Roots/WSJF, WHJX, WFJO, KFOK, WMRD-AM, WLIS, WMPG, WXIN, KVMR, WMUC, WPSU, 2 MAX/Australia, Triplej/Australia, 3 INR/Australia, 2AIR/Australia, 4RED/Australia, Radio Upper Galilee/Israel, Highway 61 Radio Voce Spazio/Italy, Radio EVW/Germany, Radio ZuSa/Germany, Radio Shalom/Canada. |
3/24/11 at The Blue Macaw photo by Alex Akamine
