The Electric Revelators

The Electric Revelators
Origin	Swansea, Wales, UK
Genres	Blues
Years active	2004 - Present
Labels	Independent,
Website	https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/189716235771/
Members	Jerry Donahue Simon Gregory Gordon Wride
Past members	Colin Goldring Luke Evans Rhys Morgan Lisa Pedrick Rob Thomas Terry Clarke

The Electric Revelators are a blues band, formed in Swansea 2004, Wales, added Jerry Donahue ex-member of Fairport Convention and Chris Rea Band to the line-up in 2011. Originally called The Revelators they added Electric to the name in 2009 when they toured with The Animals and David "Honeyboy" Edwards.

The band play an electric set of Chicago blues, Texas blues and British blues all with an indie twist.

Their acoustic set is a mix of original and standard Delta blues they have performed at UK and European Blues Festivals since 2004.

Feeling at home in the US as well as in the UK, Donahue musically draws from influences of both countries like Celtic music, rock, blues and country. Technically, Donahue mostly plays in fingerpicking or hybrid picking style with his right hand. However, his left hand technique made him famous among guitar players.

Technically Gregory's style of playing slide guitar is fingerpicking, and plays guitar on his lap, he plays acoustic guitar in normal position but once again he will use finger style playing. Gregory's harmonica style or better known as blues harp is strongly influenced by Chicago players such as Junior Wells and Little Walter.

Gordon Wride's guitar technique is reliant on a heavy rhythm to compliment the intricate styles of Donahue and Gregory, he will use both plectrum and hybrid picking Wride's slide technique is quite robust in the style of Son House and Jack White (musician) vocal style and influence is based on the early delta blues singers such as Robert Johnson, Skip James etc. Wride was also trained bel canto style by an operatic teacher for many years.

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