Curtis Marlatt & The Kicks are presently announcing our new band format and line-up! Curtis has decided to add horns to his already smokin', Memphis/Soul Stax brand of Southern "Bourbon-Smooth" Blues! This "Smokin' White Cat" now intoduces The Suicide Horns-consisting of: Mitchell Brown on trumpet/fluglehorns and Goldie on alto sax/flutes to his now much-talked-about cookin' rythmn section of Anthony "T" Scott on bass/vocals and Ernest "Ernesto" Stevens on drums/vocals!
Curtis has just added Ed Melberg to the Kicks Mix on Hammond B-3!
| Date | Time | Event |
| 2/28/10 | 2 to 10 pm | Curtis Marlatt will host/emcee the Blues guitar Extravaganza II at Whiskey Junction this Sun., Feb. 28th! |
| 3/5/10 | 9 to 1 am | Curtis Marlatt will front Anthony "T" Scott's "Keepin'-It-Real-Tour" at McMahon's. |
Other Blues News: The Blues Guitar Extravaganza at the Whiskey was a huge success and, from all accounts, quite the music event! I was so thrilled to see many of the Blues community's faces in the crowd and will take this opportunity now to thank each and every one of you. The event was everything that all the people involved in the making of it expected, and more! So much so that I am going to produce the Blues Guitar Extravaganza II on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 at the Whiskey (2pm to 10pm)!!!
You can now order Curtis & The Kicks latest CD
release Live at The Metaphor on Blue Bayou Records
(651) 793-9072 (BBYR-CD-01502). Just order, for now, through our contact us
(651) 324-0134 CELL page and include address and email along with your name.
buzzme@curtisbluz.com
For Bookings.
Curtis "Don't Hurt Us" Marlatt - "Smokin' White Cat" has been blowin' the blues now for well over 
forty years. Aside from a couple forays into Rock, R&B, or Jazz/Fusion, Marlatt has stayed pretty much true to his roots- the Blues. Marlatt has been fortunate to have rubbed elbows with and fronted such bands in the past such as the Doors, The Grateful Dead, Steppin- Wolf, Steve Miller Band, Bruce Springsteen, Janice Joplin,The Allman Brothers and Dr. John - just to name a few. However, since rediscovering his roots with the Blues with his rendition of "Curtis & The Kicks" 24 years ago, Curtis has performed many concerts and blues festivals with blues greats such as Albert King, Gatemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Elvin Bishop, Savoy Brown, Junior Wells, Lucky Peterson, Joe Louis Walker, Robert Cray, Anson Funderberg, Sam Meyer, Rod Piazza and many more.
Originally Curtis is from Louisville, Kentucky and graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA; paid for by the GI Bill after spending 2 years in Viet Nam (an experience which will be unfolded in his up-and-coming book Capn' Zig Zag's Blues Band). Marlatt has been the guitar slinger for such Blues luminaries as Homesick James, Mitch Woods, Fenton Robinson, James Harmon, Candy Kane, Mojo Buford, Delbert McClinton & Marcia Ball. His band, Curtis & The Kicks, also was the back-up band for the late James "Thunderbird" Davis of Black Top Records before"Thunderbird" fatally succumed of heart failure on the Blues Saloon stage during Super Bowl weekend of 1991.
"Singer/guitarist Curtis Marlatt is undeniably proficient..." -Living Blues Magazine
"...Good ensemble feel; very clean, melodic guitar; good dynamics, nice overall feel...
Good writing. All in all, quite a good CD...definitely a superior band." -Bruce Iglauer,
Alligator Records.
"Listening to Curtis' recent show at Stevie Ray's in Louisville, his music has become
more sophisticated and complex with lots of jazz influences-but still emotionally
based in the Blues. -Keith Clements, Louisville Music News.
Curtis Marlatt is the best slide guitarist in the South next to Duane Allman. -Cream Magazine
Curtis (or The Smokin' White Cat) now resides in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota where he moved from California six years go. He currently has five CD's released on the Blue Bayou Records label and has just released his sixth CD, on Blue Bayou Records, along with Curtis Blake, as the Brothers Curtis, called Its You Thats Got To Go. He also continues recording and performing with his "baby", Curtis Marlatt & The Kicks.
