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 | John Edelmann and the Deep Down Fools.....
John began his musical career after dropping out of college, surely not the brightest idea...but after landing in Chicago he embarked on an education that isn’t taught in books. Beginning with countless gigs on the city’s south and west sides, backing bluesmen, comedians and occasional strippers....then finding his own way to years of an an extended road trip playing in 48 states, Canada and Europe. John has performed and recorded with the likes of Hubert Sumlin, Warren Haynes, Little Mike and the Tornadoes, Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Sam Lay, AC Reed, Buster Benton, Artie “Blues Boy” White to name just a few. John is best noted for his work with Chicago blues shouter Little Al Thomas, as both a guitarist and a producer, and whom he originally met in the late 80‘s at the Spitz Lounge at 71st and S. Chicago Avenue.
A ten year musical hiatus found John slinging a badge and a gun belt, working as a cop in South Florida, then Colorado. “Not too different from playing the blues”, John says....just part of a continuing and unorthodox education that has been happening since he packed his bags and left for Chicago.
His return, like the Deep Down Fools, came to be in a studio back in Chicago in 2007, when he assembled some of the city’s finest sidemen to demo some songs he had written. That session in turn led to another reuniting John with Little Al Thomas. The session with Little Al was released in March of 2010 on Blues Boulevard Records and is available wherever fine blues records are sold. New projects await, and John is looking forward to the band’s future. “There’s gonna be some cool stuff happening with this band...I can feel it, and I think the time is right.” Stay Tuned!
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Organist-keyboard player, Rob Waters, is a 40 year veteran on the blues & jazz scene. He has spent 7 years with the Lonnie Brooks Blues Band and is on 3 recordings with him. He has also recorded and played with Jody Williams, Lurrie Bell, Billy Flynn, Dave Specter, Steve Freund, The Charles Walker Band, and others. In 2004 he produced and played on a recording for Nora Jean Bruso that was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award in 2 categories. A recording with Jody Williams was also nominated. Rob's specialty is a fiery/jazzy style on the Hammond B3 organ.
W.C. Handy award winning drummer Drummer Marty Binder is a recording and touring veteran of The Buddy Guy Band, Albert Collins’ Icebreakers, Coco Montoya, Deborah Coleman, Junior Wells, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins amongst dozens of others. Marty is a first call drummer who has shared the stage with the likes of Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Johnny Johnson, and Steve Miller.
Bassist "Eddie G" Galchick grew up in Northeastern Ohio. He taught himself to play the electric bass at age 16 and performed with local rock and country bands although his passion was to listen and study the music of BB King, Muddy Waters and other blues legends. He moved to New York City in 1975 and studied classical harp. When his day job transferred him to Chicago in 1979, he rekindled his musical relationship with old Ohio drummer friend Thomas "Mot" Dutko who was performing with future Delmark recording artist, Little Arthur Duncan. Ed was hired to play bass in Duncan's "Backscratchers" band and performed in mostly West Side Clubs for the next few years. In the late 1980's he performed throughout the Midwest with future Earwig recording artist Liz Manville Greeson and her band "The Supernaturals". Ed met and performed with John Edelmann and Little Al Thomas in 1988 at The Spitz Lounge on Chicago's Southside on Sunday nights for the next several years, a charter member of Dutko's Crazy House Band. This collaboration led to the studio release of "South Side Story" and the live performance at the Lucerne Blues Festival of "In the House". Ed freelanced throughout the 1990's playing with notable artists Barkin Bill Smith and Sharon Lewis. Ed also played on tracks of Eddie Vaan Shaw's Wolf Records release of "Trail of Tears".
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