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| Tim Beavers II |
Two life-long friends, guitarist Tim Beavers II and bassist Matthew
Volkes, started People's Blues of
Richmond in 2009 in Richmond, Virginia. While attending college, they began
playing music together as a way to grieve the loss of a mutual friend. The
blues rock trio presently includes drummer Neko
Williams, son of Drummie Zeb of
the Wailers. People's Blues of
Richmond released its third album, Quit
or Die, on June 10, 2016.
Headlining at the Bowery
Electric tonight, People's Blues of Richmond played mature blues and grungy
garage rock. Rare for a trio of twenty-somethings, the thundering music traced
back to the very earliest days of classic rock, long before commercialism
infected the breed -- Jimi Hendrix
Experience, Cream, Blue Cheer, etc. The vocals were dark, gritty and passionate,
and the guitar jams were mean and dirty. Adding to the psychedelic motif, Dustin Klein of Videometry (who also
lives with the band members in Richmond) projected colorful swirls, spinning geometric
images and occasional shout-out chorus lines onto a screen behind the band.
This was muscular rock, echoing the freedom that hard rock musicians pioneered some
50 years ago.
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