The Gramblers

Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers
Origin	San Francisco, California
Genres	Rock, soul, Alt-Country, Folk
Years active	8
Labels	Little Sur Records
Associated acts	Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers, Infamous Stringdusters, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Gov't Mule,
Website	Nicki Bluhm
Members	Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers: Deren Ney on lead guitar/vocals, Steve Adams on bass/vocals, Dave Mulligan on rhythm guitar/vocals, and drummer Mike Curry.
Past members	Bill Cramer, Tim Bluhm,

Nicki has said she sang as a teenager in the Bay Area and took up guitar in college in San Diego. She met Tim Bluhm, singer of Bay Area cult favorite The Mother Hips, who offered to produce tracks for her in his home studio in San Francisco. She soon moved to San Francisco and performed shows with guitarist Deren Ney (a friend from high school) at night as she worked on the album. While making the album Nicki and Tim married. The record, "Toby's Song" (Little Knickers, 2008), featured an ad hoc studio band of Ney, singer/songwriter Jackie Greene (Jackie Greene Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, The Black Crowes), ALO's Steve Adams (bass) and The Mother Hips' John Hofer (drums). When Toby's Song was Bluhm started using the name Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers.

Nicki writes or co-writes most of the band's songs, but also performs ones by the other songwriters in the band, predominantly Tim. In an interview with The Independent Bluhm said:

Bluhm's second album, Driftwood, was the first to be recorded mostly with the live lineup of the Bluhms, Ney, Adams, and drummer Mike Curry (Jackpot, Jackie Greene). Greene was back on keys along with Adams' ALO bandmates Dave Brogan and Dan Lebowitz and Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone contributing to several tracks. Shortly before the album was released singer/songwriter Dave Mulligan joined the band on rhythm guitar/vocals.

The band became widely known after their "Van Sessions" videos, where the band performs cover songs in a van while driving between gigs, became a viral hit in March 2012. Their cover of the Hall & Oates song I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) was viewed over a million times a week after it was posted. It gained the band noteworthy fans such as Cameron Crowe, Ryan Adams, Melissa Etheridge and even John Oates and Daryl Hall. The video's popularity brought the group media attention. MSN, CBS News This Morning and New York Magazine all did features on the band. Their "nbluhm" YouTube Channel as of this writing has nearly 10 million views. Bluhm subsequently guest performed with John Oates several times.

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