Ten Thousand Islands - Music

JJ Grey & Mofro Up To 2007 Billed Just As Mofro Is An American Soul/funk/R&B/blues/southern Rock Band From Jacksonville Florida Composed Of JJ Grey Vocals Electric Piano Acoustic Guitar And Electric Guitar Harmonica Andrew Trube Electric Guitar And Slide Guitar Anthony Farrell Hammond Organ Anthony Cole Drums And The "Hercules Horns" Dennis Marion Trumpet Art Edmaiston Tenor Saxophone And Todd Smallie Bass Guitar . The Band Made Its Recording Debut In 2001 With Blackwater Following Up In 2004 With Lochloosa Both Released Under The Name Mofro Both Albums Reissued By Alligator . In 2007 The Band With It's Current Name Released Country Ghetto Followed By The 2008 Album Orange Blossoms. With The Release Of 2010’s Georgia Warhorse The Band Stepped Further Into The Mainstream View With The AAA Radio Breakout Single The Sweetest Thing. In 2011 The Full Fury Of The Band’s Live Show Was Captured On The Live CD/DVD Brighter Days. April 2013 Brings The Release Of The Band's Sixth Studio Album This River. Named For The St. John’s River A Centering Point For Grey's Childhood Near Jacksonville Florida B This River Flows From Freewheeling Celebrations Florabama To Dark Inner Journeys Somebody Else From Late Night Beer-Soaked Testimonials Your Lady She’s Shady To Heartfelt Ballads Of The Almost-Forgotten The Ballad Of Larry Webb And Ends With The Title Track And A Singularly Devastating Vocal Performance. With Dan Prothero At The Helm As Producer JJ And The Band Once Again Returned To Retrophonics Studio In Nearby St. Augustine Florida And Muscled Out Some Of JJ’s Strongest Material To Date. The Band Has Played Countless Festivals Including Lollapalooza Bonnaroo Wakarusa Austin City Limits Festival Byron Bay Blues Festival Australia Montreal Jazz Festival And Fuji Rock Japan . Over The Course Of His Career Grey Has Shared Stages With The Likes Of Lenny Kravitz B.B. King The Allman Brothers Band The Black Crowes Los Lobos Jeff Beck Ben Harper Booker T. Jones Mavis Staples And Many Others. In 2011 The Band Extensively Toured The UK. That Same Year Back In The U.S.A. Grey Embarked On His First-Ever Solo Tour Playing Packed-To-Capacity Clubs. The Band Returned To Europe In 2012 Playing Multiple Dates In The UK Germany And The Netherlands. JJ’s Songs Have Appeared In Film And Network Television Including House Flashpoint Crash Friday Night Lights The Glades The Deadliest Catch And The Film The Hoot. In November 2009 JJ Wrote His First Film Score For The Critically-Acclaimed Emmy Award-Winning Documentary The Good Soldier That Appeared In Theatres And On Bill Moyers Journal On PBS. In 2010 JJ Played Piano Sang And Contributed A Song The Wrong Side To Buckwheat Zydeco’s Grammy-Winning Alligator Records Album Lay Your Burden Down. JJ Also Appears On Shemekia Copeland’s Grammy-Nominated 2012 CD 33 1/3. read less