This Alabama trio has everything a blues fan could want: impeccable taste; a steady, no-frills rhythm section; and in Microwave Dave Gallaher, a first-rate guitar individualist (Blues Revue, November 2003)

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#		Title	Length	Sample
1		Road Runner	6:51
2		Hip Shakin'	2:50
3		20% Alcohol	7:04
4		Got No Automobile	4:24
5		Can't Stop Lovin' My Baby	3:43
6		Ray Brand	4:26
7		Body and Fender Man	4:09
8		From A Buick 6	4:11
9		It Don't Happen No More	3:05
10		Shot Gun Slim	6:01
11		Let's Say Goodnight	2:02
12		Hey Little Girl	5:02

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About Microwave Dave & The Nukes

The Nukes long-awaited live album, Down South Nukin, produced by Johnny Sandlin, was released in November 2006. Recorded live at 2nd Street Music Hall, this cd captures the raw energy of the bands best performance to date.

Entertaining U (Jacksonville, FL) Described Microwave Dave in February 2005 A dynamite, world-class blues show-from the bands first song I could tell that this amalgam was a first class outfit.

Guitar One (January 2004) raved: Microwave Dave Gallaher damn near vaporizes his strings.To quote Frank Barone, Holy Crap!

Chattanooga Times Free Press (February 2006): Microwave Dave cooks his blues.

Fifteen-plus years of performances in the U.S. and Europe and five albums, with more on the way, have helped Microwave Dave & The Nukes establish a wide multinational audience. Venues vary from French soccer stadiums to Bike Week in Daytona Beach, from blues cruises on the Big Red Boat to neighborhood saloons, but the thousands of shows delivered by the band all reflect once core element: the heritage blues music enjoys as a lifter of spirits. As Microwave Dave puts it: Blues is Americas first, and still best, self-help program.

While major-label stars gauge success by sales figures and chart positions, the predominate barometer for traditional blues artists is simpler: repeat bookings. Microwave Dave & the Nukes annual itinerary features music festivals and holiday engagements that have billed the act for fifteen consecutive years; motorcycle events for more than a dozen; and a considerable list of major hotels, international deep water fishing tournaments, schools and social organizations that re-acquire the groups services year after year.

Formed in 1989, Microwave Dave & the Nukes blues apprenticeship included a three-year stint as Jerry Boogie McCains back-up band, interspersed with shows backing Bo Diddley, whose styles are integral flavors in the bands recipe. Microwave Dave produced Gotta Get A Cadillac as a cassette release in 1991; the albun was re-released and promoted world-wide on compact disc by Australias Full Moon Records in 1999.

Producer Johnny Sandlin, legendary in his work with the Allman Brothers Band, Delbert McClinton, and Widespread Panic, among others, recorded the groups next release, Goodnight, Dear, for the Ice House (Blues Works) Records. The 1995 release propelled the band to Europe when their cover of Bo Diddleys Road Runner became a soccer stadium smash in Paris and subsequently a solid dance hit across America. Goodnight, Dear was re-released in Europe as Nothin But The Blues on the Dixie Frog label. Two other selections from the album appeared in the film soundtrack of The Poor & Hungry, broadcast on the Independent Film Channel, but Road Runner has remained the top seller and most leased record in the Icehouse catalog to date.

Johnny Sandlin returned to produce 2000s Wouldnt Lay My Guitar Down for Duck Tape Records, on which Microwave Dave fronted an all-star band of veteran players from the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Cowboy, and Little Richards band. The title cut and a swampy cover of Roosevelt Skyes Dont Care Blues became a staple on XM Satellite Radios Bluesville channel, and Hat was later covered by Little Milton.

Atomic Electric was released in the Distant Farmer label in 2003. Producer/ engineer, Tom Gallaher, returned to the bands own players and, utilizing vintage analog methodology and gear, garnered the best critical responses for the bands music to date and Atomic Electric found a home on many blues program playlists. The album scored well at Canadas REAL BLUES Awards, gathering wins in the 2003 Southern Blues Release and Southern Blues Band categories, and naming Microwave Dave 2003 Southern Blues Guitarist of the Year/Modern. Trail of Tears, the LoweBow instrumental composed by Dave for the album, received a nomination in the Best Other Instrument category from Nashvilles Music City Blues Society in the fall of 2004.

American Peasant is Microwave Daves fifth cd, a love recording documenting the groundbreaking solo electric blues style Dave has developed utilizing real-time loop accompaniment. The Distant Farmer release, also produced by Tom Gallaher, received excellent notices internationally and is the premier release showcasing live looping in the traditional blues idiom.