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SUMMARY:Roger Blevins Jr & Friends
LOCATION:04 Center\, 2701 S Lamar Blvd\, Austin\, TX 78704\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Doors @ 7pmShow @ 8pmFull BarFree On-site ParkingAll AgesPURCHA
 SE TICKETSHi\, friends. I’mRoger Blevins Jr.Most folks call me Rog.Music
 ians usually pay someone to write our bios. I’ve done that plenty of tim
 es.But I’d guess I know me better than they do so…I grew up with a pro
 fessional bassist as a father. That seems important. Ilistened to countles
 s 45s spinning on the record player - everything from JamesBrown to The Do
 obie Brothers to Earth\, Wind and Fire and Billy Joel - as hecharted out s
 ongs for gigs. My grandmother sat me next to her on the organbench and pla
 yed old hymns while I tried to work out what all the buttons andswitches d
 id. 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 th
 e 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 typi
 cal sound you’d hear at the time on college campusesand it helped us gro
 w 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 playi
 ng those originals and the soul “standards” I had heard Popsplaying al
 l those years before. He and I would end up playing together for nearlysix
 teen years with Mingo after he joined the band in the late 90s.Over nearly
  thirty years\, we released a handful of albums\, toured relentlesslyacros
 s the country and abroad - well over a thousand shows\, I’m told - and w
 egot to share the stage with some amazing people. Usually the folks that w
 ritebios 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 dow
 n abruptly in March of 2020. Mingo released asing
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