Al Holliday & the East Side Rhythm Band @ City Winery

For fifteen years now, Al Holliday & The East Side Rhythm Band has grown, and been known as “Pound for Blues Pounding Pound amongst St. Louis music’s best”, all the while developing and evolving in their own signature St. Louis style, combining elements of classic Soul, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Country-Funk, and Americana; and weaving them into their instantly-familiar anthems, and serving them up on recordings and high-energy live shows – at home, across the country, and around the world.

St. Louis music is a lineage the band is proud to carry on – and be a part of, in their own humble way. For those who like to study these kinds of things, when it comes to St. Louis music: It’s clearly not quite like New Orleans music, it’s not Memphis Blues and Soul, but it is definitely not completely unlike either of these other great music traditions of the Mississippi River, either.

This band strives to both carry on and exemplify what sets the St. Louis traditions apart from the others, for example, the raw soul power and intensity carried only by the likes of an Ike and Tina, Albert King, or Oliver Sain; or more to the point in this artist’s instance: Bonnie Bramlett, David Sanborn, or Michael McDonald.