The Tony Soul Project has a new band, and it's called Tony Soul: The Delta Blues Project.
The band, as it says on its Facebook page, takes "many of the standards of the Delta and surrounding areas and their influence and put a monstrous bass line and backbeat to make the likes of Elmore, Muddy, T-Model, RL, Wolf, Hooker come to life."
The Delta Blues Project was formed two months ago and includes Tony Parente on lead vocals, Matt Sambito on bass and vocals, Mike Kalenderian on guitar and vocals, Mississippi Bob Cramer on slide guitar and Phil DeLaine on drums.
"I have always loved the blues from the Delta region, old school, such as Son House, Elmore James, Lowell Fulsom, Muddy and John Lee Hooker," said Parente. "I wanted a band that could modernize some of those old haunting tunes and put a monster bass and drum beat to them. This led us to rocking versions of old blues standards."
Parente started playing in 1968, sang for two years and quit for 42 years. He decided he wanted to play again within the last two years.
"Our style is the modernization of old blues standards," said Parente. "We also include a Jimi Hendrix set, as Jimi was heavily influenced by this type of music."
Tony Soul: The Delta Blues Project plays Friday, Feb. 22, at JJ's Sports Bar and Grill. As always, there's no cover and the tunes start around 9:30 p.m.