The Blue Method - Kill The Music: Volume 1 (2004)

Funk / Soul Straight from Philadelphia. Deep thumping grooves and a soulful voice to make you shake your ass.

Philadelphia's The Blue Method brings together the sounds of old school and douses them with a modern influence of fusion, funk and experimental rock. When on stage, the band strives to make each and every person in the crowd move to the sounds they lay down from deep thumping funk to smooth grooving soul. Fronted by the powerful Brian Williams, The Blue Method are on their way to becoming one of the finest funk outfits in the country. Having recently returned from their incredibly well received tour of the Midwest, the band is poised to take on new markets and to make sure no funk fan is left untouched by their amazing live show.

This 5 piece powerhouse have had the opportunity as a group or as individuals to share the stage with such acts as Chick Corea, Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band), Jeff Coffin (The Flecktones), The Drum & Organ Duo, Railroad Earth, Addison Groove Project, Raq, Ulu, Global Funk Council, The Assembly of Dust, The Bridge, deSol, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey The Bomb Squad, DJ Logic, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Vince Welnick, Amos Lee, and Antigone Rising to name a few. With influences like Al Green, Galactic, Earth Wind and Fire, Deep Banana Blackout, James Brown and Sly Stone, The Blue Method are turning heads and charting their own path in the road already laid down by their funk predecessors.

The Blue Method was founded in 2001 by current members Mike Patriarca, Brian Williams and Tom Long. Over the past three years the band has been shaped and molded and has finally evolved into the powerful musical force it is today. The lineup consists of these 5 amazing performers:

Energized by the release of their debut CD "Kill The Music: Volume 1", and with their intense focus on the mastery of their amazing live performance, the future for The Blue Method looks extremely bright. The band logged over 100 shows in 2004 while playing from Vermont and Rhode Island down to North Carolina and out to Michigan and has every intention of adding to that number of gigs in 2005.