Artist:Greg Piccolo
Song:The Freeze
Album:Blues Guitar Power
Greg Piccolo is best known as the sax player and vocalist for the popular Roomful Of Blues. He has occasionally recorded as a solo artist but usually works as a sideman. He was born May 10, 1951 in Wersterly, RI. He was playing sax with a band called The Rejects at age 13. A couple of years later, he got together with guitarist Duke Robillard and they started Roomful Of Blues in 1970. Robillard was replaced by Ronnie Earl in 1979 and Piccolo became band leader. The group split up in the early 90s and Piccolo went out on his own. The Freeze is a hard driving instrumental from Piccolo's 1990 album Heavy Juice. Robillard is featured on guitar. The album was on the defunct Black Top Records and the song only appears to be available on this budget various artists comp on Easydisc. Piccolo recorded a couple of CDs for Fantasy Records in the 90s. His most recent CD as a leader was in 2000. He still tours blues festivals but has been a regular in Canadian bluesman Colin James' band and most recently was part of Ray Norcia's latest band Sugar Ray & The Bluetones. Here's Greg Piccolo performing Let Me Put My Sugar Ray On You at the 2004 North River Blues Festival in Marshfield, MA Aug. 22, 2004.
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