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Jun 27, 2012

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Jun 25, 2012

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Q&A: John Popper of Blues Traveler

May 15, 2012

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Apr 18, 2012

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Blues Traveler Tour Dates

City	Venue	Date		Tickets
Atlantic City, NJ	Harrahs Atlantic City	Fri	May 24 / 13	Find Tickets
Rochester, NY	Riverside Festival Site	Thu	Jun 06 / 13	Find Tickets
Stroudsburg, PA	Sherman Summer Stage	Fri	Jun 21 / 13	Find Tickets
Mankato, MN	Vetter Stone Amphitheater	Sat	Jun 29 / 13	Find Tickets
Morrison, CO	Red Rocks Amphitheatre	Thu	Jul 04 / 13	Find Tickets
Bridgeport, CT	Seaside Park	Thu	Jul 25 / 13	Find Tickets
Billings, MT	Magic City Blues Festival Grounds	Fri	Aug 09 / 13	Find Tickets
Annapolis, MD	Rams Head On Stage	Sun	Aug 18 / 13	Find Tickets
Orlando, FL	Walt Disney World	Tue	Nov 05 / 13	Find Tickets

Blues Traveler Biography

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Blues Traveler is a rock band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band's music covers a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. They are known for extensive use of segues in their live performances, and were considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene of the 1990s, spearheading the H.O.R.D.E. touring music festival. Currently, the group comprises singer and harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, drummer Brendan Hill, bassist Tad Kinchla and keyboardist Ben Wilson. Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson joined the band following the death of original bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999. While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their Top 40 singles "But Anyway", "Run-Around" and "Hook". They gained mainstream popularity after their fourth studio album ''four'', released in 1994. Sheehan's death and Popper's struggle with obesity put a damper on the group's success, and A&M dropped the band in 2002. However, the band took this transition period as an opportunity to start in new directions musically, going largely independent and releasing on smaller experimental labels. In March 2012, Blues Traveler released a double-disk compilation entitled ''25'' on Hip-O Records; the album commemorates the band's silver anniversary and includes their hit singles, new covers, and previously unreleased b-side material. Blues Traveler's most recent studio album ''Suzie Cracks the Whip'', was released in 2012.

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