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Sleepy Eyed Jay & Chicago Slim on MySpace

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 Sleepy Eyed Jay (JohnJay) and Chicago Slim (Shane Parch) are two of the founding members of popular Richmond, VA based band The Bush League. Sleepy and Slim have been playing together since the fall of 2009 and have meshed Slim’s love of traditional Delta blues with Jay’s gospel tinged vocals to breathe new life and passion in to long forgotten tunes by some of the founding fathers of the blues, while always paying respect to the art and the artist.

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 Forming in late 2009 to compete in Greensboro, NC  for the International Blues Challenge (IBC) hosted by the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society (PBPS), they won a berth in the 2010 IBC solo/duo challenge in Memphis, TN.  Two nights of performance’s at The Pig on Beale Street left a mark on the blues world as this duo re-introduced their audiences back to the essence of ‘The Blues’.  Since winning the competition, the PBPS booked Sleepy & Slim at the Asheboro Fall Festival in 2009, the 24th Annual Carolina Blues Festival with The Debbie Davies Band & Robin Rogers, Tinsley Ellis, The Charlley Ward Band & The Matt Walsh Band, and had them open for blues legend Duke Robillard.  Sleepy & Slim have also made their mark locally in Richmond, VA gigging around town, most notably at Ashland Coffee & Tea’s Listening Room, and Capital Ale House’s Music Hall.

 

Sleepy & Slim at The Pig on Beale Street

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You may catch the duo sometimes occasionally at a The Bush League show, but you never know what may be in the future…  ?   Stay tuned!!!

 

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