Fred & The Healers - Green Wave

Album: I Gotta Leave Photos of January Jones for Vogue and Vanity Fair. Fred and the Healers is a blues & blues-rock band from Belgium. After a break of about 8 years and the last gig at the Ancienne Belgique of Brussels on november 12 2004, the band is back with a brand new line-up in 2013 with Fred Lani on guitar, Cedric Cornez on bass and Nico Sand on drums. Fred Lani creates the band in 1994 at the age of 17 together with bassplayer Papy X and drummer Marc Lhommel. As most teenagers stepping into the blues, Fred is mainly influenced by guitar legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Other major influences of that time include Freddie King, Albert King or Peter Green. The style of Fred and the Healers could then be named as ‘Texas Blues’. The band benefits from the baby blues hype of the mid-nineties with musicians such as Monster Mike Welch, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Jonny Lang, Ainsley Lister, Julian Sas.