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Run-Around
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Hook
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Run-Around
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The Mountains Win Again
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The Heart Brings You Back
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But Anyway
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Hook
(Duration: 4:25)
Jul 22nd, 6:45pm
But Anyway
(Duration: 3:06)
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Girl Inside My Head
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The Mountains Win Again
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Jul 22nd, 7:24pm
Conquer Me
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Blues Traveler
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A New York-based blues-rock quartet formed in 1988 by singer/harmonica player
John Popper
, guitarist
Chan Kinchla
, bassist
Bobby Sheehan
, and drummer
Brendan Hill
,
Blues Traveler
was part of a revival of the extended jamming style of '60s and '70s groups like
the Grateful Dead
and
Led Zeppelin
. Signed to A&M, they released their first album,
Blues Traveler
, in May 1990 and followed it with
Travelers & Thieves
in September 1991.
Popper
was in a serious car accident in 1992, leaving
him unable to perform for a number of months. Fortunately, he recovered, yet he still had to perform in a wheelchair for a period of time. In April 1993,
Blues Traveler
released its third album,
Save His Soul
, which became its first to make the Top 100.
Blues Traveler
's aptly named fourth album,
Four
, released in September 1994, at first looked like a sales disappointment, but it rebounded in 1995 when
"Run-Around,"
a single taken from it, became the group's first chart hit.
"Run-Around"
became one of the biggest singles of 1995, spending nearly a full year on the charts and sending
Four
into quintuple platinum status.
As the group prepared the follow-up to
Four
,
Blues Traveler
released the live double-album
Live From the Fall
in the summer of 1996. The group returned in the summer of 1997 with its fifth studio album,
Straight on Till Morning
. After completing his 1999 debut solo effort
Zygote
,
Popper
-- who'd been experiencing chest pains for months -- was forced to undergo an angioplasty; weeks later, tragedy struck on August 20, 1999, when
Sheehan
was found dead in his New Orleans home. He was just 31 years old. The new millennium saw a newly charged
Blues Traveler
, and their sixth record,
Bridge
, appeared in May 2001. The next winter,
Blues Traveler
released the live
What You and I Have Been Through
. The studio record
Truth Be Told
followed in 2003, and another concert album,
Live on the Rocks
, appeared in 2004. The group returned to the studio in 2004, releasing the
Jay Bennett
-produced
Bastardos
in September of the following year. In 2007,
Blues Traveler
released
Cover Yourself
, a collection of previous hits reworked with acoustic arrangements. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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