Biography
SSFLBBB (which stands for Stevens State Forest Less Balls Blues Band) is a three-piece group hailing from the heart of the New Jersey Highlands. The group first met in high school, but didn't collaborate on musical endeavors until a few years after they had graduated. Their repertoire is eclectic; you're just as likely to hear the group perform a heavy metal inspired song about PROTEIN as a unique cover of Buddy Holly's classic "Not Fade Away", though their main draw is blues-based rock and folk rock (including a cover of The Band's "The Weight"). Their tone varies from heavily distorted humbuckers to clean, smooth hollowbodies. The three have only been playing together for a little while, but there is a seed of potential in there, somewhere. Somewhere between the PROTEIN and Miss Fanny.
The drummer for the group, Evan Cox, spent the first few years of his life in Mississippi, taking in crossroads inspired blues tunes. He relocated with his family to High Bridge, New Jersey, where he still resides. Cox began teaching himself to drum at the very beginning of the collaboration in 2009.
James Lestrange, the rhythm guitarist, grew up entirely in the state of New Jersey. He spent his life listening to music, with a concentration on electric blues. Like Cox, Lestrange picked up his instrument fairly late, yet it doesn't seem so. James first picked up a guitar at Penn State and he was taught by his two great friends Tom Martorelli and Sal Burgio. His solid, full rhythms provide a good backbone to the ensemble. Recently, James has picked up a new instrument, a ukulele. Whether it gets involved with SSFLBBB's music, has yet to be seen.
The lead guitarist, veteran Robert Loughlin, like Cox, was born south of the Mason-Dixon and spent a few years there before moving to New Jersey. Loughlin grew up listening to all genres of music, from blues, to folk, to classical, to punk, to hip-hop, to alternative and everything inbetween. Loughlin picked up the guitar in the eighth grade, quickly taking an interest in the blues. On his previous solo album, Blues from the Garage, Loughlin is heard playing mostly acoustic riffs. Here, he sticks mostly electric.
The group is young yet, but the potential is there. Somewhere.
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