MP3 Blackjack Tailor - Rockin The Boat
Los Angeles 80''s hard rock meets the blues. Originally released in 1986, Rockin The Boat represents Papa Rah''s first album with then band Blackjack Tailor.
7 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Blues-Rock, ROCK: British Blues
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“Papa” Robert A. Hill is a guitarist/singer/songwriter from Alameda, California. His music is a blending of several different styles, namely blues (his first love), ‘60s and 70’s pop rock, and English/Irish acoustic folk music.
Papa started playing music in the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s through the late 1980s, playing in numerous bands. In 1984, he formed Blackjack Tailor, a hard-blues rock outfit that played throughout the Greater L.A. area and release an album, Rockin The Boat, in 1986. When that band dissolved a year later, he became the lead vocalist for a Ventura-based hard rock band Tomorrow’s Reign.
Papa relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1991 and shifted musical styles, playing fiddle and mandolin for English country dancers, morris dancers, and Irish dancers. In 2003, he shifted back to playing the blues and rock, but brought along the perspective of traditional folk music into the mix. In 2005, production began on his second album, Paroxysms Of Apathy, a solo endeavor which was released on his website, https://www.tradebit.com.
Currently, Papa is in the process of converting the first album into digital format for a planned 2007 re-release. Work is also scheduled to begin on the third album due sometime in 2008. Papa is currently performing live in clubs throughout the San Francisco bay area.
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