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Downchild Blues Band keeps on rolling and doing what they do best - playing the blues, with co-founder Donnie Mr. Downchild Walsh leading the charge, as he s done for over 52 years.
When Downchild kicked off their 50th Anniversary Tour in Canada on June 22, 2019 at the Toronto Jazz Festival with a star studded lineup including Dan Aykroyd, Paul Shaffer, David Wilcox, Kenny Neal, the late Gene Taylor and Erja Lyytinen, the band had no idea the world would be hit by a pandemic and their tour would come to a grinding halt mid-tour for over a year and a half.
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Guitarist Mitch Watkins first met drummer Scott Laningham in the early 1980s when they played a gig together at a Mexican restaurant on Sixth Street. Laningham was just 21 years old.
“The way we connected musically led me to suspect that there was more going on personally and spiritually, as well,” Watkins recalled this week. “I certainly put out the word about this new kid to anybody I knew.”
They played music together often over the next 40 years. Watkins, an anchor of the local jazz community who has toured with the likes of Leonard Cohen and Lyle Lovett, enjoyed seeing the young prodigy blossom into one of Austin’s finest musicians.