A couple of months later and Bill answered an advert in a music store, the guys met up and instantly hit it off, Devils River was born.

Johnny has been playing guitar for a couple of decades now and has played live and jammed with various rock and rhythm line ups over the last fifteen years and many years ago played bass with a Beatles cover band.

Pete has been involved with various bands since the age of 12 when he was a heavy metal singer, but has found a home in the deep and solid tones of the bass guitar!

Bill has never been able to stop his heart from beating out fine rhythms and has played with numerous musicians and line ups over the years, always happy to jam!

When the band first started playing together they had a mixed background, Johnny was a keen student of Texas style blues and named the band after an area of natural beauty in South Texas called Devils River. It is a national park close to the border with Mexico and has a beautiful and interesting landscape.

There are a couple of myths as to why the River in this area was named Devils River. The one the band favour was that it was so called by the native Americans because they could not locate the source of the river, it just springs up from within the earth, and so they felt it was a work of magic by a devil or demon.

Devils River have their grounding in the blues having started life playing sets of cover songs by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Freddie King, Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The raw energy and passion of blues music is something that is loved worldwide and in days where the commercial mainstream is increasingly full of stylised music that seems to be more about fashion than passion many people find solace in music that is gritty and packed with energy and emotion.

The band are exhilarating live, and audiences can feel the passion for the music as the trio give their all to each note and beat.

Building on their solid blues foundation Devils River have penned a number of their own songs which are becoming increasingly popular with live audiences. The band have a great time playing superb renditions of songs by their much loved influences argely based around 50's and 60's blues and blues rock, and continue developing their body of original material which builds upon the rhythms and tonality of the blues and maintains the passion of the lyrical content without losing a fresh and new appeal.

Devils River have had radio airplay on BBC radio Merseyside, their local station Dune FM, The Double Trouble radio show on Osnabruecker Radio, Germany, and BeauBFM, Limoges, France.

They have an original CD for sale from their website, amazon.co.uk, cdbaby, and from HMV Southport (available to order from any HMV outlet), in its first week of release it outsold Robbie Williams, Madonna and Depeche Mode in the local HMV store.