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Robert Lee Teague left his native Connecticut home in 1980 to pursue music in New York City. He studied guitar with jazz great Remo Palmier while playing blues and soul in Greenwich Village.  His blues trios have played throughout northern Europe, featured often at the acclaimed Djursland Blues Fest alongside the likes of Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor. After a seven year sojourn into the Rhode Island music scene (honoring a Bonnie Raitt grant to teach music at Boys and Girls clubs of RI), Robert has returned to his CT stomping grounds  with Hartford Turnpike: A soul-drenched foray into MODERN blues as rarely embraced in today's music.

 

 

 More than just holding up the bottom end, Shawn Vincent exudes depth and breadth beyond the expected bass line. He lays it down non stop, whether drawing slap funk from Sly Stone or sheets of sound from John Coltrane. In the tradition of Oscar Pederford and Charles Mingus, yet in his own right, Shawn Vincent gives the bass a "voice."

 

A full range drummer and percussionist who has traveled many musical miles through terrain from metal, R&B, jazz, and now the blues with Turnpike. Friday has a flow and a sense of purpose on the traps that unites their work. The premier of New Haven percussionists, his credits are many. To experience Willie "Friday" Solomon play drums is akin to a night at the ballet.