Andy Aledort & The Groove Kings

Andy Aledort & The Groove Kings

Genres: blues rock, rock, blues, guitar, electric blues

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About Andy Aledort & The Groove Kings

The New CD: Andy Aledort & the Groove Kings - Live at North Star 2009; available at andyaledort.com. Andy Aledort has been a significant figure in the international music scene over the last 20 years. As a senior editor for the top guitar-oriented music magazines GUITAR WORLD, GUITAR FOR THE PRACTICING MUSICIAN, GUITAR EXTRA, GUITAR LEGENDS, and GUITAR WORLD ACOUSTIC, among others, his work is unsurpassed as a music transcriber, instructional columnist and journalist. He has authored over 200 books of guitar transcriptions as well as a series of guitar-related instructional books and videos/DVDs, all of which are distributed worldwide, for the leading music publishers Hal Leonard Corp., Warner Brothers Publishing and Cherry Lane Music. Over the last 3 years, Andy Aledort has sold well over 500,000 instructional DVDs, and continues to produce new DVD products for Guitar World and Truefire. Aledort is also featured nationally on Comcast Music On Demand every day, seven days a week, and has been for the last three years. All of the many different products he's created for GW are featured, including excerpts from the Axis: Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland instructional DVDs. Also, Andy Aledort has been touring for the last five years with Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, and plays slide guitar in his band. He appears on the new “Dickey Betts & Great Southern: 30 Years Of Southern Rock" 2 Disc DVD (http://www.amazon.com/Rockpalast-30-Years-Southern-Dickey-Betts/dp/B001S21N1Y) and his double live CD, “The Official Bootleg: (2006 North American Tour” (http://dickeybetts.merchnow.com/products/104742). Andy Aledort also regularly participates in the Jimi Hendrix Tribute Tours of the last nine years; he is featured on the live Experience Hendrix DVD available from jimihendrix.com (http://www.experiencehendrixtour.com/dvd.php) appearing with Paul Rodgers, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Mick Taylor, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Robert Randolph and others. He's also performed and recorded many times with Double Trouble, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section of Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton. They appear with him on a cut from his upcoming studio album. Andy Aledort performs regularly in the tri-state area with his own band, Andy Aledort & the Groove Kings, and is looking to expand their touring parameters. The group released a studio album, “Put A Sock In It,” a few years ago, and has just released a new live album, “Live at North Star 2009.” Aledort has two albums worth of studio material that he plans to release within the year. Here are a few links: The website: www.andyaledort.com New Truefire series: http://truefire.com/slowbluespower/slowbluespower.html Guitar World DVDs: http://secure.nps1.net/guitarworld/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1 Of the 20 DVDs shown on GW’s site, I’ve done 15 of them. Bio on GW’s site: http://secure.nps1.net/guitarworld/index.php?main_page=page&id=1&chapter=1 Experience Hendrix DVD: http://www.experiencehendrixtour.com/dvd.php Interview: http://www.guitarworld.com/article/andy_aledort_the_guitar_world_interview Facebook: www.facebook.com/andyaledort

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