Al Nathan - aka Luther Crenshaw – has been music teacher in the Utica School District, since 1973. He also attended Berklee School of Music and worked the Boston music scene throughout the late 60’s and 70’s. He returned to the central NY in the early 80’s and now plays frequently in Utica, Syracuse, and the Adirondacks. Al also owns and operates Nathan’s Bakery in Old Forge, where people come to eat bagels, drink coffee and listen to blues music (this served as the inspiration for one of the songs on BlueStreak’s new CD - "Blues and Black Coffee").
BlueStreak is Al Nathan (keyboards and vocals), John Hutson (guitar and vocals), Darryl Mattison (drums, percussion and vocal ideas) and Dan Porter (bass and vocals).
John Hutson, guitarist, singer, and songwriter, is a veteran cabaret and club performer who can be heard playing electric guitar most weekends somewhere in Central New York. His diverse and eclectic career has taken him across the country, from Indiana to Boston to California and finally to central NY.
In 2005, after engineering and producing 25+ CD projects for other artists at his recording studio, he released his own effort, “I Can’t Remember This Song”. “Count the Tears” from that CD is featured on the MVBS compilation. John also appears on “Square Little Mama” by Tom Townsley, and seven of the cuts on the CD were recorded in his studio.
Hutson has worked with Al Nathan and BlueStreak on a regular basis for the past two years, and he played both guitar and bass on their latest recording, as well as doing all the engineering and production.
Darryl Mattison has a long history of playing drums and percussion, from roadwork in the 60’s and 70’s with the likes of the Chessmen, Bad Dog NY, and the Solid Oak Band, to more recent stints with Puttin’ On the Ritz, Seven Turns, King Kool and his Royal Blues, and Out of the Blue. A versatile drummer and percussionist, Darryl has frequently been called to fill in for such acts as Lil’ Georgie and the Shufflin’ Hungarians, the Paul Angerosa Band, Blueprints, and the Tom Healey Band.
Mattison appears on three of the cuts on the MVBS CD, “Sleepin’ With the Reaper” by Al Nathan and BlueStreak, “I Don’t Wanna Be Your Dog” by John Savage, and “The End” by Don Paul Way.
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