Bay Area Royalty, the Delta Wires, bring their rockin’ Big Band Blues sound back to one of the group’s favorite haunts, Almost Famous Wine Lounge, 2271 S. Vasco Rd. in Livermore, Saturday, January 3. Show: 7:30pm-9:30pm. Tickets start at $12.51. Info: (925) 315-5355 or visit eventbrite.com/e/delta-wires-tickets-1736131288419.
Delta Wires are celebrating the release of two new singles that are both tributes to famed longtime label, Chess Records: “Devil Got My Woman” and “Searching for a Woman.” Both songs are on Mud Slide Records and are available on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify, and the majority of world-wide digital download/streaming sites.
What The Press Is Saying About Delta Wires’ Two New Singles
“Longtime California band Delta Wires continues to celebrate the great Chess Records catalog by releasing their latest single, a remake of the great Devil Got My Woman originally done by the legendary Skip James…this killer release deserves a place in every blues fan’s library.”
“Delta Wires turn in a gritty, robust version of Searching For A Woman... Ernie Pinata, bandleader/vocalist/harmonica player, has long been a fan of the Albert King tune and has wanted to cover it for a long time. He also wanted it to be a tribute to Chess due to the label’s importance to the blues genres since the late ’40s.”
Photo by Claire Hawley
More About…Delta Wires
The Delta Wires band was created out of a love of the blues, its beginnings in the Mississippi Delta, and the migration to Chicago of the Delta blues-men. Band leader, Ernie Pinata, started the band as a college project for sociology credit. It was a musical presentation with dialog, which followed the regional migration of the blues from the South [after the Cotton Gin came about] to Chicago, He wrote songs and received poetry credit. These studies culminated in the first performance of the Delta Wires.
Delta Wires have been generating powerful blues for over thirty years, performing at festivals from Monterey to Italy, and always with monumental audience response — all of which earned them membership in California’s Blues Hall of Fame in 2012. Delta Wires were also voted “Best Live Band” in a poll by the East Bay Express and Oakland Magazine.
It began with traditional field hollers, to Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson, along with a few of Ernie’s original compositions. A Muddy Waters-style blues band (or a “Little Walter style band with a sax added”) finished out the program. Ernie Pinata and his brother Stephen worked together on creating the concept and the band which performed the project, and Ernie’s childhood friend, bassist Tom Gerrits, became a part of the band around this time. A three-piece horn section was added and has been part of the Delta Wires’ sound ever since.
Delta Wires began by playing the clubs in Oakland – Esther’s Orbit Room and The Continental Club; Mandrake’s and The New Orleans House in Berkeley. Around this time, the great, late guitarist Lowell Fulson sat in with the group at the New Orleans House in Berkeley, while Pinata sat in with the Freddie King Band at Mandrakes in Berkeley. This was followed by performances with Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, and Little Milton. The Delta Wires then began to open shows for these blues greats, and continued to grow as musicians and as a band. They release a critically-acclaimed album, If Somebody Told Me, in 2023. Fast-forward to 2025, they are still going strong.
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(Livermore CA) – dougdeutschPR
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