Roomful of Blues

Roomful of Blues Formed in 1967 in Providence, Rhode Island. The longest-running and best-known blues big band of the modern era, founded and headquartered in the unlikely blues location of Rhode Island, served as the single most productive talent incubator of the genre. The band, with more than fifty members through the years, accumulated an extensive and accomplished list of alumni, but it began as the duo of guitarist Duke Robillard and pianist Al Copely. It grew to a quartet with the…