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Steve Farley- Guitar, Slide Guitar, Vocals

Steve Farley is the musical director of the band. A true student of the guitar, Steve was a  music major a Marshall University. While there he played with the Marshall Show Choir as well as playing with several bar bands to help with college expenses. He spent a couple of years on  the road with several rock acts. More recently Steve played with the classic rock band “The Mojos” and he just spent the last year and a half with “Big Planet Soul” which he left in order to focus on, and promote the further efforts of the Steve & Steve band.

Steve has played with many good musicians, and listens to many more. He understands every other instrument in the band, and all the time he’s playing, he hears everything else going on in the mix. A perfectionist himself, he tries to attain perfection from each member. He is a realist, though. “I can accept little mistakes here and there,” Steve says, “That’s not nearly as important as maintaining the structure and feel of the music.”

Steve Criner - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboard

Want a Blues Singer? This is the Guy!

Steve's wonderful warm to growling voice will capture your very soul. You can really feel the emotion as he sings, and it all comes from the heart. He seems to have lived the life of the songs he sings and has personally known most if not all of the different situations that each song was about. He often says, “You have to have been dog-bit and door-slammed several times to sing the blues, and I have.”

Steve Criner is fun to watch on stage. He gets into the music, bounces around while the lead solos are being played, and often smiles widely, because he really enjoys what he is doing, which is singing the Blues. His skills on guitar are equally pleasing. He is an excellent rhythm guitarist, and can take a solo with confidence. For some songs, he will pick up a harmonica and fill the air with sweet, bluesy sounds. For other songs, he will sit at the keys and add another, tasteful and beautiful dimension to the music.

Steve has also formally studied flat picking guitar with two–time National Flat-picking Champion Robin Kessinger. With those skills he has gone on to win several Flat-Picking guitar competitions.

Phil Ruby - Bass, Vocals

Phil Ruby will never admit that he is a good bass player, although many others, upon hearing him play, have told him that he is. In Phil's mind, there are way too many greats out there to look up to for him to call himself good. He will say that his goal is to always get better, and he does that every day. He will also say that he enjoys the bass more than any other instrument he has played, which range from acoustic and electric guitars to drums and percussion instruments to keyboards. He will also say he loves Blues music better than any he has ever played.

Fred Moomaw – Drums & Percussion

He understands that the drums carry the beat…the rhythm and overall feel of the music. He is always looking for that special something that sets him apart from the crowd, and he usually finds it. It could be a couple of taps on the high-hats in just the right places, or a quick triplet on the snare.” I like to do something different with every movement in the song,” Fred says, “I like to do something special that goes with the bass, or the lead guitar, or the vocals, whatever is happening in the song should have just the right thing going on with the drums.”

Fred can pick up a pair of brushes and lay down a smooth, easy going background to a low-key Blues tune, or he can bring a crowd to its feet with a driving beat that will not allow you to sit still in your seat.

“I love working on original material that everyone in the band can contribute to.”

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