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DVD - "Live at North Atlantic Blues Festival"

Released October 5, 2012 DVD Randy Oxford Band
Live At North Atlantic Blues Festival
Filmed at The North Atlantic Blues Festival By Real Media Solutions,
Aka Juke Joint Video
Here is a 3 minute sneak preview.

Buy this DVD $16.00 + $3.00 shipping Us Post Office First Class mail.

CDs by the Randy Oxford Band

Want to hear all/any of the bands songs go to CD Baby or ITunes. Here, you can buy a single song or an album from The Randy Oxford Band, digitally. If you are one who likes the art and cd in your hand, buy  through the mail or buy one during the band's gigs.

The Randy Oxford Band's Newest CD, "Festival" SAMPLE all CURRENT SONGS, CLICK HERE!    The nine songs from "FESTIVAL" are, Big Long Sliding' Thing, My Heart is Mended, Little Boys, Someone Else is Steppin' In, Little Bill, Smooth Feeling, Just Ain't My Plan, Sababa, Hey Baby.  FESTIVAL 1 CD $15.00 2 CDs $25.00

TEACH YOU A LESSON (CD, January 2010, by The Randy Oxford Band SAMPLE all CURRENT SONGS, CLICK HERE!   To buy the entire album, click the button to add to your cart and then check out. You can also buy this on I-Tunes.

RANDY OXFORD: TEACH YOU A LESSON (Della Records, 2010)

reprinted with permission from Big City Blues Magazine, April/May 2010

Vibrant trombonist and notorious wild-man, Randy Oxford, has been keeping the blues alive in the Pacific Northwest for more than two decades, sitting in with local favorites like Little Bill and the Blue Notes, Fat Cat, and Junkyard Jane, as well as leading various incarnations of his own big, little combo on four previous albums. His growing popularity has also resulted in a regular gig as jam host on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise sailings and induction into the Washington Blues Society's Hall of Fame. His current six piece band features two international guitar slingers - Mexico City native Rafael Tranquilino and Japanese-born Jho Blenis- along with dusky-voiced singer Jada Amy, bassist Eliud Atondo and drummer Asael Gutierrez.

Among this project's thirteen tracks, I find a couple composed and sung in Spanish by Tranquilino especially appealing. "Salvo Mi Alma" proves a lengthy slow blues that allows plenty of space for him to stretch-out on guitar, with a slightly distorted, slashing, note-laden sound, reminiscent of Pat Hare, at times. "Sababa," which the liner notes explain is the "language of babies," is a hip-shaking and spicy guitar embossed affair. Ex-Army "brat'. Amy began her singing career in the choir at Mt. Tabor Baptist Church in Tacoma. A relative newcomer to the blues scene, she sounds like a quick learner. She's impressive on a pair of songs she co-composed - the jazz-tinged, beefy trombone-furbished title tune and the wistfully soulful breakup ballad, "The Next Day." She also does a stellar revival of the legendary Charles Brown's, "My Heart is Mended," a funky rearranged cover of Delbert McClinton's "Standing on Shaky Ground," as well as a steamy, Etta James-like redo of Willy Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You."

Also checked is a great Mexican rock 'n roll version of Little Richard's smash hit, "Good Golly, Miss Molly," titled "La Plaga." Blenis' vocal and fretboard chops come to the fore on his wryly observant composition, "I Got to Quit Drinkin' Again." Guest vocalist Patti Allen channels Dinah Washington on a playful rendition of "Big, Long Slidin' Thing," with Oxford demonstrating just how sexy a trombone can be. On the set closing jazzy jam favorite, "Smooth Feeling,"Gutierrez gets a chance to showcase his stick-work. Oxford and his band are justifiably proud to be representing the Washington Blues Society at the 2010 IBC in Memphis, and you can read about his midwest tour elsewhere in this very magazine. Catch them, if you can. - Gary vonTersch

"Memphis to Motown" Features a variety of American music - blues, Motown, funk, gospel, and a touch of jazz. New band members, Heather Rayburn on vocals and Dominique Stone on bass and vocals, make their debut on this lively CD.  The CD is available at shows, on iTunes, at CD Baby, and from randyoxford.com.

"All The Buzz,"  the Randy Oxford Band's first CD, was released by Della Records in 2004.  Winner of "Best CD" awards from the Washington Blues Society and the Inland Empire Blues Association, the only CD to have honored state-wide.  Tracks played on the radio include "Bumblebee" and "Hard Way to Go." "All the Buzz" is available at CD Baby and from randyoxford.com.

"Comin' Home" was recorded in 2005 at the Winthrop Rythmn and Blues Festival and includes several tunes the band had never recorded before, including the popular "Candy Store."  Fans of the band were pleased with the inprovisational nature of the solos, something live audiences have always appreciated and the band itself has always enjoyed.

As a bonus, two previously unreleased studio tracks from the "All the Buzz" sessions were included.  Available on CD Baby only.