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Podcast: What the Riff Next Gen
Episode: 1994 - September: Blues Traveler “four”
Description: Blues Traveler formed as a high school garage band in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987, and their fourth studio album, aptly named four, was their true breakout album.
Blues Traveler is composed of guitarist Chan Kinchla, bassist Bobby Sheehan, drummer Brendan Hill, and front man, harmonica player, and primary songwriter John Popper. Sheehan would die in 1999 and be replaced by Tad Kinchla. The group would add Ben Wilson on keyboards in 2000. This group is hard to define from a genre standpoint, as they have a little prog rock, a little psychedelic, a little funk, and surprisingly for a ban...