BUY THE BLUE RHYTHM BOY'S CD                                  $12 (includes shipping) --call to order 505-710-5100                                                       WWW                                                                                                                                      Bobby and Mike                                                Gator, cutting it loose.           e   Bobby and Fat Paul at the Bio Park           Dave Barclay sits in with the band                    Fat Paul tearing up a killer solo.                        The Boys playing the stage with back-up singers.                                             The Texas State Police support the Blue Rhythm Boys.                                                                    The MoonGlows join the Boys on stage.             Gator with Oak Cliff and BC Carpenter at JJ's, Ft. Worth                  Dancing at the historic Golden West Saloon.  Our buddy BIG DAN  ON "BEALE STREET " Dancin' at the Blues Fest.                                                                                                                                       You never know who will show up in Taos.                                                                           "I dig the Boys, but I gotta have more cowbell."                            Sitzmarker's Ski Club celebrates their 40th anniversary with the Boys.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      National Bluesman of the Year, Louisiana Red, playing Gator's "Black Beauty" '68 Les           Paul Custom &  4-time Grammy winner Bob Corritore on harp with the Kings.                                                                                         the Boys opening for Chris Duarte            FAT PAUL PLAYING BASS                                            Gator sitting in at Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Miss.                                                     Louisiana Red rocks out with the Blue Rhythm Boys                               And the bride sang "Ride, Sally, Ride."               WEDDING PARTIES WITH E & THE BOYS. YEAH!!!        "You guys rocked!! Thanks for making our wedding day perfect. Everyone from Houston loved your         music. We have gotten so many compliments on you all - thanks for doing a great job!         You made the reception really fun---thanks!!"      Erin and Daniel C. (Houston)       "The Blue Rhythm Boys MADE the wedding party!  You guys kick butt!"  --Jessie Dimas (Albuquerque)    "We came from Chicago to Taos to get married and you guys rocked the party---thanks for the fun and the show."        Jen Edingten.        "Best party our company ever had thanks to you guys---great job!"  -Design Systems Corp                      A hot night at the Devil's Playpen in Austin.           Mikey, getting crazy on the bass.      Horizontal Joe blowin' the harp. the                                                                                                                                                                                  kkkkkkk                                     I

GATOR'S GUITARS & AMPS (In case you're interested)                                                                                                 (I have others, but these are my very favorites)

The Black Beauty.  1968 Les Paul Custom -- my favorite guitar. Old Texas Bluesman T-Bone Turner owned it when I first started playing with him in Austin years ago. When he passed away (some 15 years back) I was already living in New Mexico. I flew back to Austin for  his funeral. His widow said that he had wanted me to have his guitar. This guitar is all original except for the brass nut on the neck which T-Bone installed. It has tremendous sustain. When I was playing with Louisiana Red last year, he borrowed it "for a couple of songs" and played the entire rest of his set with it. He told me later that he fell in love with it. Besides T-Bone and Red, I don’t know what other old South Texas blues and rock guitarists might played it, but this 43 year-old guitar is so full  of mojo that there are times I feel like I’ve got some magic hoodoo strapped to my body. The tone is so varied and complete that it's hard to describe. I play it almost exclusively through my  '54 Bassman, Concert Reverb, or my 1937 Gibson EH-150 amps.                   "Tone---what else matters?"                    1937 Gibson EH-150                                                                            Jimmie Vaughan & Kim Wilson 1972    The '37 EH-150 was the first ever class A tube amp with an overdrive channel. It still sounds better than just about anything out there.  The back snaps off when you play it. The back of the amp has been signed by Muddy Waters, BB King, Buddy Guy, Gatemouth Brown, Keb Mo, Big Jerry, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, Pinetop Perkins, Jimmie Vaughan, Bo Didley, and Louisiana Red.  It has one knob---volume.         Gator's Gibson ES-335 from the Memphis Custom Shop                                     1954 Bassman             59 Bassman with 68 LesPaul Custom        Fender Concert Reverb                              There's not much to say about these old Fender amps except, they're great.  In the book "Soul of Tone" by Keith Richards, George Fullerton is quoted as saying "The 54 Bassman tweed was probably the best guitar amp we ever made. Though the 57-59 are most famous, this one had the greatest tone."                                         FAVORITE ACOUSTIC GUITARS                                                                                                                         '51 Gibson LG-1               2002 Pederson Resonator Guitar                1951 Gibson LG-1. This acoustic was known as "the old Bluesmen's" guitar in the 1930s-50s. They liked the smaller body and, back then, Gibson sold them for less. The famous picture of Robert Johnson in a suit---he's playing one just like this. The Gibson acoustics made in the 40's and early 50's were really special. I don't know their secret for those guitars from that period, but it's so sweet it just drips with tone and is very playable and responsive. This one is a bit beat up, but the spruce and mahogany have aged beautifully the last 57 years for a sweet, full tone that is hard (and some say impossible) to find in a newer guitar.  When I was visiting with Keb Mo in May, he played my old Gibson and said "Man, this baby is Sweet!" I couldn't have had a better endorsement.  Pederson Resonator.  Noted luthier, Craig Pederson has been hand-building custom guitars since the early 70's.  His guitars are prized by discerning guitarists world-wide, but they are hard to find.  He rarely builds more than 3 or 4 resonators per year.  While he is based in New York, Pederson spent a few years in the early 2000s living on the Nambe Pueblo Indian Reservation, north of Santa Fe, NM.  During this time, he built this guitar. It is made with a cedar top, Macassar Ebony back and sides, a maple neck with an ebony fretboard.  It has maple binding in-laid with turquoise and silver. His resonators carry an amazing amount of deep bass sounds in contrast to most resonators which have a strong high end and a very weak low end. Blind Blake, Keb Mo or Leon Redbone would be right at home with this guitar. It's a wonderful contrast that compliments the old Gibson.  1985 G&L Broadcaster (by Leo Fender)             This 1985 Broadcaster was one of the few made by Leo Fender and George Fullerton (who both signed it). They had sold Fender Musical Instruments to CBS a few years before.  Later,  Fender and his old partner (George Fullerton)  formed G&L Guitars (named after their initials).  In some ways, it is more of  a pure telecaster than a Fender Telecaster*. It was carefully hand-made and soon after, Gretsch Guitars forced them to quit using the Broadcaster name. Leo changed the name thereafter to the ASAT. However, the Broadcaster is different from it's successors in some ways. Its body and hardware are all black, it has a beautiful maple neck with an ebony fingerboard, and black tuner buttons. The bridge pickup has a very piercing sound like Albert Collins' old Fender. The neck pickup has a very deep and full sound--more so than most Fenders I hear today.  The guitar was purchased new and has been played by many others besides me in it's early years in South Texas including T-Bone Turner and Randy "Maypole" May. The past 21 years in New Mexico, it has shared a stage with the Muddy Waters Band, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton,  George Thorogood, Chris Duarte, and young guitar sensation Ryan McGarvey (the "next SRV?").  It has a lot of memories for me and sounds great played through my '54 Bassman, my '59 Bassman or my '37 Gibson amp. --Gary "Gator" Millhollon

* Noted guitar technician, Bill Richardson told me "This is the Telecaster that Leo Fender always wanted to build. When he finished this one, he told many of us that this was his ultimate Tele. Billy should know. He has been the guitar tech and worked with such historic guitarists as Scotty Moore (Elvis' own), Neil Young, Chris Isaac, Rick Derringer, Mick Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, and Tracy Chapman. Other guitars I own --a 60's Burns (British) 335, which I use for slide, a Brian Moore Custom Shop Strat, a 1932 Gibson lL-50 acoustic, a 1914 Washburn acoustic, an '88 Washburn acoustic ("camping guitar') and 2 basses.                                    I welcome any comments, questions, etc. -- gmillhollon@bokf.com                                                                                   "Tone--what else matters?"