VOCALS: BYRON WORD Byron was born in St. Louis, Mo. and moved to Atlanta in 1992 to study music at Morehouse College, after which he joined his first band, Josiah's Reign, playing what they called progressive soul. During the past five years he’s performed as a soloist with a gospel choir called Deeper Shade of Soul at venues The Coca Cola Roxy and The Georgia Dome to Music Midtown. From 1999-2000 he did musical theatre with starring roles from the voice of the plant in Little Shop of Horrors to the prince in Cinderella at The Gwinnett Civic Center.

"A child of the 70's, I've always loved the music of that era. My wife & I love it so much that we had a 70's theme wedding two years ago. Some of my nicknames are Shaft, Richard Roundtree, Lamont [from Sanford & Son], and Freddy "Boom Boom" Washington [from Welcome Back Kotter]"

VOCALS: DANYELLE WORD DanYelle was also born in St. Louis, and moved to Atlanta in 1992 to attend college at Clark Atlanta University, where she sang in the a capella group Fortress. After college, she joined a band called Soul Foundation which performed cutting-edge soul music. She's performed with the gospel choir Deeper Shade of Soul at The Coca Cola Roxy and Music Midtown. She’s also sung background vocals on studio recordings for local artist T. Lucas.

"As you can probably tell by now, I love to sing. I love the 70's and almost everything about it - the music, clothes, cars, hairstyles, dialect, everything. I was born in the 70's and I think I'm stuck there. Peace, Love, & Hair Grease!!"

DRUMS: RON BURNS The founder of Elektra-Glide, Ron is one of those rarities - a native of Atlanta. As a teenager, Ron toured the Southeast with Fragile, Atlanta’s premiere rock ’n’ roll dance band. After that, he earned an Art Degree at Georgia State University. He wrote songs for Room Full Of Circles’ 1996 CD, Fortune, which was voted one of the year’s best local albums by Atlanta radio station 99x. That same year, he played with Room Full Of Circles at the Lollapalooza festival at Hi Fi Buys' Lakewood Amphitheater. Since then, Ron has dabbled in jazz, blues (Chicago Joe Jones) and rockabilly (Johnny Knox and Hi-Test).

"The other guys in my band used to call me ‘Bam-Bam’, I guess because I hit the drums pretty hard. Then one night during a show Johnny Knox got it wrong and called me ‘Boom-Boom’. That kind of stuck, and now a lot of people call me that."

GUITAR: DOUG BRISTOL Another Atlanta native, Doug attended the same high school as Ron, where he had the highest S.A.T. score out of 2,200 students. After that, he, too, toured with Fragile. Later, he earned an engineering degree at Georgia Tech. Doug is blessed with an amazing memory; he can memorize guitar parts precisely, line for line - so much so, that to hear him play an Eric Clapton or Duane Allman riff, you would think you were hearing the record. His old bandmates used to call him "Cap’n Dreg". A favorite band pastime was attempting to "stump the dreg" which was not easy to do because of The Cap’n’s amazing ability to retain facts.

"A plain ol’ Strat is perfect for our funkadelic songs, and for more R&B-sounding stuff, I’ll whip out the old Steve Cropper Telecaster."

TENOR SAXOPHONE: BILL ST.JOHN Bill is a tireless behind-the-scenes workhorse for the group. Besides being the horn section leader, he also transcribes and arranges our horn charts and manages the web site. His heroes include Dexter Gordon, Pat Metheny, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Frank Sinatra and Etta Jones.

In a quarter century of alleged adulthood, Bill has paid taxes on wages as a reporter, junk-mail writer, law clerk, sailor, UNIX programmer and full-time layoff ... and thus mercifully refuses to publicize his alma mater.) He has lived in NJ, CA (both ends), MO, OH, VA, DC and TX.
In 1991, after twice being laid off from newspaper reporting jobs, Bill, then 30, enlisted in the Navy, which made him pay in advance for a tour in Hawaii by ordering him to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., the Naval Air Crew Candidate School at Pensacola NAS, then to S.E.R.E. school at Brunswick NAS.

In the Spring of 2003 he and his wife (a medical researcher from Inner Mongolia, China) moved to Atlanta from St. Louis, where Bill gigged around and played fourth tenor for The Original Knights of Swing He has also subbed for The Gateway City Big Band and The Blue Knights.

GUITAR: KEITH BOLDEN Keith was born in McKeesport (a suburb of Pittsburgh), PA, where his uncle (and biggest influence) had a doo-wop group. He joined The Young Suggestions, as a singer in the Early 70's. From 1975-77, he studied in Westminster College's esteemed Broadcast Communications school, where he learned to play the guitar. For the next 15 years, he traveled the globe for Westinghouse as a field service technician. His guitar was a constant companion.