Jules Leyhe & The Family Jules with Jefferson Bergey

Jules Leyhe might look like your everyday, average, unassuming guy, but he’s one of the world’s foremost blues slide-guitar players—so much so that even Premier Guitar magazine called his music “the best blues slide licks since Derek Trucks, maybe even Duane Allman.” Those might sound like some big boots, but this Oakland native not only fills them, he wears them out and has to order new ones. This year, he is showcasing a new blues series at the Sound Room, where Leyhe and his Family Jules Blues Blowout will be joined by local blues players from around the Bay each month. This month, they’re joined by guitarist and vocalist Jefferson Bergey.

Oakland based, Chicago native Jefferson Bergey leads a musically schizophrenic life. For the last 13 years Oakland-based vocalist Jefferson Bergey has been zig-zagging through multiple genres of music and comedy. At the Sound Room, he’s been taking on his most challenging musical costume yet, covering arguably the greatest singer of the 20th Century, Frank Sinatra. Bergey pulls no punches as he tells sordid stories of the singer’s life against the musical backdrop of some of the best-known songs of the Great American Songbook.

For this event, 2 friends team up with guitars in hand. It will be magical!

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