It’s been ten years since Harris Gilmore led HARRIS & THE HOTHEADS into with a soundtrack and appearance in the movie; SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS, (Columbia Pictures 1995), some airplay with the HARRIS penned blues/rock harmonica love song, STUCK ON YOU, and numerous appearances at Blues and Jazz Festivals on Vancouver Island and the Pacific Northwest. Harris followed that up with his first full length cd, (EVERHIP), with HARRIS GILMORE AND THE MIDNIGHT BAND.
HARRIS GILMORE is still smokin’ the blues, recently with THE MAJIC JOHNSONS and now with THE MOJOS. The band's recent fiery appearance at the 2006 Vancouver Island Blues Bash won over a pile of new fans and generated more interest in HARRIS' music and THE MOJOS intense live performances.
Besides his gritty vocals and passionate, harmonica playing, (Joseph Blake of the Times-Colonist once referred to HARRIS as a harmonica master and soulful singer), HARRIS plays a mean slide guitar, sometimes in fresh places as in his original reggae/bluesy tune IF YOU SEE MY EGO.
With his latest unit, THE MAJIC JOHNSONS, HARRIS and the band burn up the stage with hard driving blues and reggae, but also provide strange and wonderfu...
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