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The Skyla Burrell Blues Band
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Out of 16 votes - Similar Artists: Susan Tedeshi, Debbie Davies, Deborah Coleman
Out of 16 votes
- Location: Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Genre: Blues » Electric Blues
Editor's review
Fronted by the vibrant vocals and fiery guitar leads of Skyla Burrell, this Pennsylvania group dishes out strong, well-made electric blues. Put down that beer and get ready to get down.
Biography
The Skyla Burrell Blues Band is a hard working full time traveling blues band playing local, regional, national and international venues. The band averages 200+ shows a year. With co-founder Mark Tomlinson on lead guitar and Skyla Burrell on vocals and lead guitar, the band's live show consists of all original high energy electric blues. In July of 2004 the band released their debut studio CD, "Working Girl Blues", containing 12 original songs - several of the cuts topping the charts on independent music websites and internet radio stations. "Working Girl Blues" has received local, national and international airplay on blues and mainstream radio.
The SBBB was a top 25 finalist in the 2004 Blues Idol competition and "Working Girl Blues" was selected by WTMD 93.7 as one of the top 5 blues releases in 2004. In 2005 the SBBB was invited to play the King Biscuit Blues Festival under the Emerging Artist Stage and was a semi-finalist in the 22nd Annual International Blues Challenge. Also in 2005 Mark Tomlinson received an Honorable Mention for his track from the Working Girl Blues CD, "Bad Dream" in the 14th Annual Billboard Songwriting Contest.
So far in 2006 the band has toured in Europe and are in the final post production stages of their second full length release of all original electric blues due to drop in May 2006. The new CD contains 14 all new original songs penned by Tomlinson and Burrell.
