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Bleu Lane came together out of Austin, Texas in 1999. Bleu recorded a demo in Atlanta in 2000 with session musicians including Steve Walsh of Kansas on Vocals & as co-producer. Bleu Lane recorded their rookie CD in 2002 at "The Train" in Nashville. The mastered CD done at Rodney Mills Master House was released in May of 2003. It is still finding new fans and listeners around the globe. The CD was cut in less than 36 hours total. The feel and power comes out in every song which were recorded in 1 take and any extra backing or lead vocals were done later.

Lane's keen production skills and mixing great Tommy Spurlock and the assistant engineer, Voitek Cohanhen, kept the session going at a very fast pace. All the pros like Ian Wallace and Jim "Moose" Brown did the songs without rehearsal or doing take after take to get each song down. Instead Lane just went with it and that is why the album sounds like you are standing in front of a stage listening to a live performance. Many groups spend endless hours refining each take and honing the mix for the perfect performance and sound. Lane made a choice to cut it live as if the musicians had showed up for a gig at a show, went on stage, and let it all hang out. It worked. Each song has a strong performance from each musician leaving the listener with that feeling the band is in the room playing live for them. Just in your face no holds Rock'n'Roll the way it should be done.

Lane was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1950. His family moved to Wisconsin in the Spring of 1957. Lane went into the Marines in June of 1968. When he finished his tour of duty in the Marines in 1970 he was already in Jacksonville, Florida, hanging out on the West Side and in Jax Beach with the boys from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Allman Brothers (Dickey Betts' "Second Coming"), ARS, Grinderswitch, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet and Derek & The Dominoes. After spending some time down in Miami Lane began to work as a lead guitarist in bands like: Peck's Bad Boys, Carolina, Renegade, Every Mother's Son, Servants Of Soul, Bad Influence, and 44 Magnum. Every experience building his feel, taste, and tone. As a sideman to many and recognized by a number of great artists Lane has maintained a laid back easy going lifestyle which led to his touring with numerous bands that he has seen so many miles of road that he is close to 10 million mile club.

Reforming Renegade in the early 1990's he began to pick up steam. However by mid decade all the hard work to get noticed had been lost to bad management, sleazy talent managers, talent agents, and those around him who kept him tied down in lawsuits after they stole his money. Fighting back nearly led to his demise but for a friend who pulled him away from the front lines to help him recover and heal. Resurfacing in July of 1999 in Austin his rep began to rise again. After numerous attempts to get anyone to listen in Nashville led Lane to sign with Southern Tracks Records and Lowery Publishing, a part of the Lowery Music Group in Atlanta, who had handled the publishing for so many great artists over the years. Lane however did find the studio to record his album with help from Country Rock Icon, Mark Collie, who introduced Lane to Tommy Spurlock. Mark Collie also introduced Lane to a number of folks in Nashville which led to many doors being opened for his music to create a buzz for Lane.

Interest of late made it possible for Bleu Lane to be rated number 2 on the charts at WHMB for the week ending 5/12/2007. A local college station Bleu Lane was discovered by a disc jockey there at WHMB while surfing on the Noisehead.com site. Shortly thereafter a CD was sent to Cap'n Barney who debuted the entire CD on 5/7/2007 to the joy of listeners who where pleasantly surprised to bring about the CD receiving the ranking it did. Since then the Bleu Lane CD has jumped to number 1 all do to Cap'n Barney playing the CD and rating it at the Noisehead.com site that he found the CD at.

Over the last 4 years Lane has fought back from 2 Heart Attacks, a degenerative spinal bone and disc disease that had left him unable to walk, and Cancer in his prostate and throat. After 31 surgeries Lane has battled his medical problems to return to touring and hopefully recording his second CD during the Summer of 2008. A new touring group which like the group that went in to the studio in 2002 brings the music from his current CD to life and will be the band that records his new CD with most of the Nashville session group that still remains in Nashville this September except for the late Ian Wallace who died of Cancer in February of 2007. This band is even hotter than the session group, if that is possible, and has a number of younger musicians who are working in their first major band.

At a recent show in Dallas the band played on into the early morning hours until the club had to shut down as the audience applauded until the band returned for 3 encores playing for a total of 3 hours. Once done the exhausted band headed back to Austin to work on new material to work into the live set.

I have had the privilege of writing up bio's for the band after seeing Lane at the Chicago Blues Foundation Concerts in Grant Park over Memorial Day Weekend numerous times over the years past. I am a fan and a supporter of the current CD which has been out 5 years this last May (2008). It is still finding new fans everywhere it is found on the World Wide Web. Could it be the time for the success this artist so strongly deserves? Only you the fans who find the group here and at other sites will make it possible for Bleu Lane to find that kind of success.

So take your time and listen to each song from their CD. Give each song a rating and pass the word on to everyone else on this site and the others I have mentioned below. Let's make 2008 the year that brings Bleu Lane to the front lines of Rock'n'Roll and get them on stages around the world. You should keep your eye out in the deep South and the South West for shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Little Rock, Dallas & Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Raleigh Durham, Greenville (NC), Asheville, Charlotte, Greenville/Spartanburg (SC), Macon, Jacksonville (Florida), Orlando, and Tampa for double bills with Judge Parker. The new album should be out by early 2009 with live cuts from these shows.

(Submitted by: Catherine Ann Wray Chicago, Illinois)

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