Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2008
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Traveling Light
Blues Traveler will appear at the Tropicana Showroom on Saturday, June 28 at 9 p.m. Ticket prices range from $25 to $45.
The hard-touring, hard-jamming former garage band known as Blues Traveler touches down at the Tropicana Showroom on Saturday, June 28 for a night of rock-the-house blues.
The Princeton guys who first got together in the 1980s have remained true to their band’s name, which reflects both its philosophy and its marketing strategy. From the early days, they built their fan base at the grass-roots level, with a non-stop tour-and-travel approach that eventually attracted the attention of concert promoters, then record executives.
They signed with A&M in 1989, released a self-titled debut album shortly thereafter, and by the mid-1990s had earned international recognition through the album Four, which went platinum six times over and spawned their most enduring hits.
Though the band no longer grinds out 250 shows a year, the members continue to criss-cross the country each year, with popular frontman John Popper, his signature harmonica, and a repertoire of wittily contagious hits including “Runaround,” “But Anyway,” and “Hook.”
