The Perpetrators
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The Perpetrators are a rock and roll
/ blues
band
formed in 1999 in Winnipeg
, Manitoba
, Canada
. The band was nominated for a 2006 Juno Award
in the Blues Album of the Year
category for The Gas and the Clutch.
Past members include Scotty Hills, Chris "MAMA" Bauer, Chris Carmichael and Chris Saywell (also of the D.Rangers).
They have played back up for Hubert Sumlin
, Louisiana Red
, Paul "Wine" Jones
, Downchild Blues Band
, "Wild Child" Butler, Jim Byrnes
, Kenny Brown
and Cedric Burnside, as well as recording with Juno
winners Sue Foley
and Big Dave McLean.
The band was a 2006 Western Canadian Music Award receipiant for Outstanding Blues Album. The Perpetrators have also been nominated for a Juno
and for Electric Act of the Year at the Toronto Blues Society's Ninth Annual Maple Blues Awards.
On January 25, 2007, The Perpetrators released a new single on Winnipeg
radio stations titled "You're Gonna Kill Me" for their new album titled Tow Truck
. The album was released in April 2007 and was nominated for two 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards - best blues and best independent recordings. In the fall of 2008, their fourth album, recorded live at their home base, the High & Lonesome Club, was released just before they undertook their fourth Europe
an tour, with Scotty Hills behind the drumkit.
Nowicki currently performs regularly with Romi Mayes
. McMahon and Menard perform with a variety of acts. The Perpetrators continue to play shows in and around Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and occasionally tour as the members' schedules permit.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
/ blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
formed in 1999 in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The band was nominated for a 2006 Juno Award
Juno Awards of 2006
The Juno Awards of 2006 were held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the weekend of 31 March to 2 April 2006. These ceremonies honour music industry achievements in Canada during the previous year....
in the Blues Album of the Year
Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year
The Juno Award for "Blues Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1994, as recognition each year for the best blues album in Canada. The award was previously a combined blues and gospel award category.-Best Blues/Gospel Album :...
category for The Gas and the Clutch.
History
Currently they are J "Howik" Nowicki (guitar, vocals), Ken "KMac" McMahon (drums, vocals) and Ryan "ODL" Menard (bass, vocals). Their best known songs include "Six Pack" and "She Lets Me Know."Past members include Scotty Hills, Chris "MAMA" Bauer, Chris Carmichael and Chris Saywell (also of the D.Rangers).
They have played back up for Hubert Sumlin
Hubert Sumlin
Hubert Sumlin is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer, best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing is characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic...
, Louisiana Red
Louisiana Red
Louisiana Red is an African American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who has recorded more than 50 albums...
, Paul "Wine" Jones
Paul "Wine" Jones
Paul "Wine" Jones was an American contemporary blues guitarist and singer.One commentator noted that Jones, along with R. L...
, Downchild Blues Band
Downchild Blues Band
The Downchild Blues Band is a Canadian blues band, described by one reviewer as "the premier blues band in Canada". The band is still commonly known as the Downchild Blues Band, though the actual band name was shortened to "Downchild" as of the early 1980s....
, "Wild Child" Butler, Jim Byrnes
Jim Byrnes (actor)
James Thomas Kevin "Jim" Byrnes is a blues musician, guitarist, and actor.-Life and career:Byrnes was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a homemaker mother and a municipal accountant father. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since the mid-1970s...
, Kenny Brown
Kenny Brown
Kenny Brown is an American blues slide guitarist from Nesbit, Mississippi, United States. Skilled in the North Mississippi Hill Country blues style popularized by his mentor R. L. Burnside, Brown began his career by apprenticing with Mississippi Joe Callicott, Johnny Woods, and Mississippi Fred...
and Cedric Burnside, as well as recording with Juno
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
winners Sue Foley
Sue Foley
Sue Foley is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.-Career:Foley has been writing and playing professionally since 1984. She has recorded ten albums, for both Antone's Records and Shanachie Records. She has spent over fourteen years on the road as a bandleader, lead vocalist, guitarist and...
and Big Dave McLean.
The band was a 2006 Western Canadian Music Award receipiant for Outstanding Blues Album. The Perpetrators have also been nominated for a Juno
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
and for Electric Act of the Year at the Toronto Blues Society's Ninth Annual Maple Blues Awards.
On January 25, 2007, The Perpetrators released a new single on Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
radio stations titled "You're Gonna Kill Me" for their new album titled Tow Truck
Tow Truck (album)
Recorded by Len Milne at Bedside Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tow Truck is the third album from The Perpetrators. The follow-up to the 2005's The Gas and The Clutch, it is the first Pepetrators album to feature Chris "MAMA" Bauer on drums alongside founding members, Nowicki and Ryan...
. The album was released in April 2007 and was nominated for two 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards - best blues and best independent recordings. In the fall of 2008, their fourth album, recorded live at their home base, the High & Lonesome Club, was released just before they undertook their fourth Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an tour, with Scotty Hills behind the drumkit.
Nowicki currently performs regularly with Romi Mayes
Romi Mayes
Romi Mayes is a Canadian born musician. Romi Mayes was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and began performing on stage at the age of 15 years, and touring throughout the United States and the UK playing at festivals, theatres, bars, halls, cafes and even living rooms.-Styles:Mayes' style has been...
. McMahon and Menard perform with a variety of acts. The Perpetrators continue to play shows in and around Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and occasionally tour as the members' schedules permit.
Albums
- The PerpetratorsThe Perpetrators (album)The Perpetrators is the debut album from Canadian blues-rock group The Perpetrators. The album was released in 2003.-Track listing:# "12,000 Miles"# "One More Day"# "Crappy Job"# "Look at You"# "Hollywood"# "1/4 to 5"# "Stay Strong"# "Toe Stub"...
(2003) - The Gas and The ClutchThe Gas and the ClutchThe Gas and The Clutch is the second album from Canadian Blues-Rock group The Perpetrators. Recorded by Len Milne at Bedside Studios, the album won the Outstanding Blues Album at the 2005 Western Canadian Music Awards and was nominated for a Juno Award....
(2005, WCMA Blues album of the year) - Tow TruckTow Truck (album)Recorded by Len Milne at Bedside Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tow Truck is the third album from The Perpetrators. The follow-up to the 2005's The Gas and The Clutch, it is the first Pepetrators album to feature Chris "MAMA" Bauer on drums alongside founding members, Nowicki and Ryan...
(2007) - "Live at the High & Lonesome ClubLive at the High & Lonesome ClubRecorded by Len Milne at 234 Main Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Live at the High & Lonesome Club is the fourth album from The Perpetrators...
" (2008)
Compilations
- Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years, Vols I and III (2002 and 2004)
- Guess Who's Home - tribute to The Guess WhoThe Guess WhoThe Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
(2005) - We Best Choose to Pick the Blues - tribute to Big Dave McLean (2005)