Bad News Blues Band
Inducted in 2014
Mike Blommer and Alex Flores founded the Bad
News Blues Band (first known as Full Moon Blues
Band) in 1992, and have amassed a great number
of fans, national and international appearances
and awards since then, headlining and sharing
festival and club stages with many blues
legends.
The band tours several times a year, appearing
at Buddy Guy's Legends, Zoo Bar, Stevie Ray's,
State Theater and other major blues venues in
the U.S., and performed at the 2000 Handy's in
Memphis. Festival appearances include, among
others, The Waterfront, Mexico City
International Music Festival, W.C. Handy Blues
Festival, Tucson Blues Festival, Phoenix Blues
Blast and many others in the U.S. and Canada. In
2000 they toured with Long John Hunter, and
shared the bill with Hunter, The Holmes Brothers
and Lil' Brian & the Zydeco Travelers in a
series of festivals throughout Turkey and
Russia.
Together Mike and Alex also formed Bad News
Blues Music, under which they publish and
release their CDs on ARV Records. CDs include
Cruisin' For a Bluesin', Bad news indeed!!!
(both reissued in 2002), Badnewzapalooza, Best
of Bad News, Knockout! and several singles.
Knockout! received substantial national airplay,
getting listed in Living Blues Top 25 in the
summer of 2001. Blommer's One More and I Gotta
Go (first released on ARV's 1997 Bad news
indeed!!!) was the most frequently downloaded
blues song on the Internet in 2000, 2001 and
2002. BNBB is currently working on their next
studio release.
The horn-driven high-energy band regularly
garners front-page newspaper coverage when on
tour, and is by most accounts the most popular
ambassadors of Arizona blues. In addition to
individual players' awards, the band is
frequently voted TAMMIES Working Blues Band of
the Year, Blues Band of the Year (including
2003) and Band of the Year. Bad News Blues Band
has twice won the Arizona Blues Showdown and
represented the state at the International Blues
Talent Competition (1997, 2002), and is the
first blues band to be placed on the Washington
D.C.-based Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts' International Artist Roster.
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