Proudly representing the musical legacy of Louisville, LJ&45’s are a band of best friends, brothers, a husband and a wife. Their sound is a melting pot all their own of 1950s big city electric blues combined with the high-energy sounds of early rockabilly and soul. Laurie Jane’s jazz-influenced vocals, sincere and restrained, float across the churning depths of Cort Duggins’s twelve string slide guitar, double stop leads and deep blues picking. Jason Embry’s upright “catt-house” bass and Scott Dugdale’s drums lay down raucous, swinging backbeats.
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