Roger Blevins Jr & Friends

Doors @ 7pmShow @ 8pmFull BarFree On-site ParkingAll AgesPURCHASE TICKETSHi, friends. I’mRoger Blevins Jr.Most folks call me Rog.Musicians usually pay someone to write our bios. I’ve done that plenty of times.But I’d guess I know me better than they do so…I grew up with a professional bassist as a father. That seems important. Ilistened to countless 45s spinning on the record player - everything from JamesBrown to The Doobie Brothers to Earth, Wind and Fire and Billy Joel - as hecharted out songs for gigs. My grandmother sat me next to her on the organbench and played old hymns while I tried to work out what all the buttons andswitches did. I’ve been surrounded by and in love with music my whole life.Around the fourth grade we sang harmony for the first time in school. The songwas “Shenandoah.”That was it. I knew.For three decades I was lucky enough to front my band, Mingo Fishtrap. Westarted Mingo in the early 90s at the University of North Texas. Just a crew ofcollege misfits who found some common ground in our love for classic soul andfunk. That wasn’t the typical sound you’d hear at the time on college campusesand it helped us grow pretty quickly in the scene around DFW. We startedwriting tunes and cut our first album a few years later. We cut our teeth and paidour dues playing those originals and the soul “standards” I had heard Popsplaying all those years before. He and I would end up playing together for nearlysixteen years with Mingo after he joined the band in the late 90s.Over nearly thirty years, we released a handful of albums, toured relentlesslyacross the country and abroad - well over a thousand shows, I’m told - and wegot to share the stage with some amazing people. Usually the folks that writebios would drop a list of names here, but that seems silly to me now. Most of thefolks I would include on that list I’m lucky to call friends, so hit me up and I’llsend you a playlist.The pandemic shut things down abruptly in March of 2020. Mingo released asing