Blue Mama

PlasticMeltdown Records is proud to announce the red hot, sizzling release of Blue Mama’s debut CD Saturday Night Suburbia. Performing together as a group for just a year and a half, Blue Mama plays both blues and rock ‘n roll with calculated abandon. Saturday Night Suburbia displays a wide variety of influences that Blue Mama make all their own. Whether ripping through an electrifying blues or performing an acoustic ballad, they exhibit great chops and a somewhat twisted sense of humor.

In live performance Blue Mama perform a tasty blend of original songs, plus blues and rock standards. Saturday Night Suburbia showcases over an hour of great original material. Blue Mama deals with songwriting subjects such as frustrated suburban housewives, turf quality, the effect of television sexpots on certain couch potatoes, and enforced dancing. They purposely try to avoid topics like cotton picking or poison whiskey.

All members vocalize, and the band features Brent Hoffenberg on drums, Tim Horrigan on keyboards and mandolin, Joe Lehr on lead guitar, Marty "Cadillac" McPhee on harmonica, Dennis Roger Reed on guitar, and Steve Zoerner on bass. Hoffenberg worked briefly with John Mayall carrying his amp into the Coach House, Horrigan has been noted as playing the piano like "Chico Marx on Benzedrine," Lehr once saw Eric Clapton at the airport, McPhee has a brother named Wee Geordie, Reed actually traveled out of the United States with a bluegrass band and was allowed back in, and Zoerner is a licensed chiropractor who could easily provide a negative attitude adjustment to a recalcitrant music critic.

PlasticMeltdown has added yet another masterpiece to their catalogue of eclectic music and spoken word releases.

Blue Mama would like to thank and recognize Barry Wood of The Other Room for a fine job in mastering "Saturday Night Suburbia"