Sitting in with Delta Wires TONIGHT 6/22/24!

Looking forward to a jamming night of blues, with Delta Wires at Biscuit & Blues!

BISCUITS and BLUES is REOPENED MAY 31 2024!

On Saturday, June 22nd, Delta Wires will be perform 2 shows at one of the nation’s premier Blues Clubs…

Reserve your seats on Open Table or call the club.

Biscuits and Blues is committed to providing blues fans of all ages with a comfortable, intimate and exciting venue to enjoy fantastic live blues music in tandem with outstanding Southern cuisine. Now, twenty years later, it is one of the top blues clubs in the nation, and offers San Francisco’s best in national and regional blues acts while showcasing award winning Southern cuisine.

2 Shows – 6:45pm and 9:15pm, Reservations Highly Recommended

BAND BIO

The DELTA WIRES is a big, rockin’ harmonica and horns blues band from the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area.  They were Finalists in the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge held in Memphis TN, and were voted “BEST LIVE BAND” Oakland/East Bay in Oakland Magazine’s annual readers’ poll, and also by the East Bay Express.  The DELTA WIRES were inducted into the California Blues Hall of Fame in December, 2012.

The DELTA WIRES have recorded 8 Albums,and just released in January their latest “if somebody told me…”, which is receiving rave reviews and national and international airplay. They have appeared at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia Italy, the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Russian River Blues Festival, the Monterey Bay Blues Festival 8 times, headlined the Shasta Blues Society’s Redding Blues by the River Festival, have played Crescent City Blues Festival, Central Valley Blues Festival, Oakland Blues and Heritage Festival, Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee, and many others.

The DELTA WIRES have shared the stage with many noted artists including Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, The Neville Bros, Dr. John, The Doobie Brothers, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, Boz Scaggs, Bad Company, The James Gang, Elvin Bishop, and numerous others…

A Brief History:
Band Leader Ernie Pinata was a blues lover and collector.  While in college, he created a band to perform for credit, an anthology of the evolution of the blues from it’s birth in field hollers to it’s electrified form in the big cities like Chicago.

The band started by playing the clubs in Oakland – Esther’s Orbit Room and The Continental Club, and Mandrake’s and The New Orleans House in Berkeley.  Around this time, Lowell Fulson sat-in with the DELTA WIRES at the New Orleans House in Berkeley and Ernie sat-in with the Freddie King Band at Mandrakes in Berkeley.  This was followed by a performance with Buddy Guy and Junior Wells at Keystone Berkeley.  The Delta Wires then began to open shows for these blues greats, and continued to grow as musicians and as a band.  The DELTA WIRES name was derived from the image of a band playing a high-energy electrified musical style born in the field hollers of the Mississippi Delta which evolved into the blues and ultimately led to the migration to Chicago of the Delta bluesmen.  What began as a college project and anthology of blues music from the Mississippi Delta to the South Side of Chicago, inevitably evolved into a band which has become known for its originality, versatility, and crisp, tight, exciting sound.

PRESS

“DELTA WIRES rocked the stage at the 36th Annual (2008) San Francisco Blues Festival, proving what great talents these stalwarts of Bay Area blues truly are. They got the crowd shaking and moving and set the pace for a simmering day of blues.”   –Tom Mazzolini, Producer, San Francisco Blues Festival

“a tough, rocking, socking band, knocking out crowds…the WIRES are burning up!”   –Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle

They’re a 7 piece harmonica-driven band with a sassy brass section that tips their collective hats to everything from the Mississippi Delta to the south side of Chicago, and I think you’re gonna dig this…. one of the keys to the likeability of this record- they keep moving around, never staying in a particular pair of shoes for too long…  The musicianship is excellent, and these blues are ready and willing to show you a good time- let’s party! – John Kereiff – The Rock Doctor

This new album from Delta Wires [Born in Oakland] is full of the big musical ideas that keep the blues genre evolving and ever satisfying.. All the while, the choices made along the way, from sizzling harmonica to crashing waves of horn harmony work together toward one result: … If you’re new to Delta Wires, you’re about to be blown away by some of the finest arrangements around. – Greg Victor – parkbench.live, New York City

Delta Wires – Born In Oakland is a Blues treat right out of the box with trombones, saxophones, and trumpets blazing away. Add in some fine harmonica by bandleader, Ernie Pinata, some saucy lyrics, and you have a modern Blues album worth giving many a listen. … Hit the play button again, as once around it not enough for this stellar Blues release. – Debra Angen, LuxuryExperience.com/music_scene

DELTA WIRES/Born in Oakland: They love Chicago and the south, but you know this crew is from the bay area by the distinct sound of Tower of Power vibes lurking in the background of this harmonica and horn driven white blues band. A real party crew that has earned their local treasure status over years of showing up and delivering, this funky, fun set gets the party started—and that’s the only statement it wants to make. A rollicking good time no matter where you hear it. – Chris Spector, Midwest Record – Chicago, IL