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Caleb Armstrong

KJL endorsee Caleb Armstrong asked by Gibson to endorse their new CS-336!!

Endorsee: Caleb Armstrong

KJL is proud to welcome Mississippi Blues and Funk Man Caleb Armstrong. Caleb plays with Grady Champion (www.gradychampion.com) who last year won the International Blues Challenge (held in Memphis - 39 States and 13 Countries from around the Globe, 110 Bands Competing) beating out bluesman from around the world. Caleb and Grady will be touring in 2010 playing over 20 festivals booked directly as a result of the Blues Challenge win.

But Caleb’s musical experience dates all the way back to the 70’s where he got his start playing gospel with his father. In 1975, he co-founded and was a principal song-writer for Freedom who released several albums on Malaco records and was a touring mainstay with the likes of the Bar Kays, Con Funk Shun, Cameo, SOS Band, Graham Central Station, and Lakeside. Other artists have noticed Freedom and took Caleb’s songwriting to the top 40.

It’s a privilege that after all these years in the biz, Caleb chooses KJL to help deliver the blues on stage.

 


Shawn Paddock

KJL Endorsee

KJL is proud to welcome New Orleans Rocker Shawn Paddock. Along with recording for CBS records (see bio below), Shawn was also manager for the House of Blues in New Orleans and Chicago. During this tenure he heard every piece of gear under the sun come across the HOB stage. Shawn brings decades of playing and music business experience to the KJL family.

Shawn Paddock Bio

CBS Recording Artist- Red Rockers- Schizophrenic Circus (Record Plant, NYC)

Endorsement - Rickenbacker Guitars

Sea Saint Studios Recording Artist- Various Artists (New Orleans, La.)

Sea Saint was founded by two legends in the business - Allen Toussaint and Marshall Seahorn. Both of their accomplishments are too numerous to mention (from Paul McCartney to the Allman Bros to Gladys Knight to helping form the roots of Rock N’ Roll in New Orleans).

Toured with The Go Go's(Vacation Tour) and U2( The Unforgettable Fire Tour)

Guitar Player Magazine- Featured in article "The South Rises Again"

Managed House of Blues Music Clubs New Orleans/Chicago

Band History- Freedom, Southern Smoke, Nebula, The Red Rockers, The Unattached (Band contributed songs to Alice Cooper)


Links
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNh9-7hYtg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF2R--PtZHs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4FFE5OgYw



"KJL Rocks Iraq”

"To the amp world - lately a lot of people have been adopting the name 'Category 5' for a lot of things. In the wake of Katrina I understand that. Rest assured that, as a personal survivor of Katrina, this name came to me in the months immediately following the storm and was not influenced by anyone else who may be using the name. My legal consults have suggested it would be very difficult to trademark something already in use for years by weather stations all over the nation and have it stick (like trying to trademark "exit signs"). From a philosophical viewpoint, having had my apartment in MISS blown to "Kingdom Come", losing my workshop in New Orleans, and watching dozens of friends and family lose everything they've owned, there's kind of an unofficial "I deserve to use this name" feeling even though everyone has that right. But on that note, even though we all wish we were the only amp company in the business, I would not wish any of our Katrina experiences on any of our competitors. To everyone making sound out there . . . Keep on Rockin' . . . There's enough to go around.

Sincerely,
KJL


 

"KJL rocks the 'Rocklahoma' show on July 13, 2008 with Zebra.
The 170 watt Kat 5 can drive all four cabinets in parallel (2 ohms)
so you don't have to buy another head and slave the two together.
The outputs are 2 and 4 ohms."

 

 

 


"After discovering the KJL Dirty 30 years ago,
Victoria Warne has never looked back.
It rocks as well on the high seas as it does on land LOL"
See Victoria on the endorsements page.


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