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From the Lansing Jazz Festival website: As the guitarist for the internationally acclaimed and award-winning band Root Doctor, guitarist Greg Nagy's playing has earned praise from many significant publications, such as Down Beat, Hittin' the Note, The Chicago Sun Times and Living Blues, to name a few.

Greg is regarded as a fierce, tasteful, and creative guitarist in the international blues community. As Living Blues notes, "...guitarist Greg Nagy knows when to fly with a solo and when to kick back," and Hittin' the Note describes Greg's playing as "...forceful and precise."


Greg is looking to record this fall (2008) with his own band, The Greg Nagy Band, and Root Doctor is also expecting to release a live album at that time as well. Source: Greg Nagy MySpace

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Album Review

Greg Nagy: Stranded

Read "Stranded" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


First, of course, is the voice. Tonally-even voices are boring. That explains the appeal of voices like Louis Armstrong's (pitch-perfect gravel in a coffee can); Richard Manuel's (pleading voice of a dying man); Levon Helm's (Scotch-Irish Delta dirt) and Neil Young's (dry ice on the range). Greg Nagy has a voice like that. It is beautifully shaped out of Detroit grit, tobacco, and haze. Nagy's voice is informed equally by every Motown act he heard in his 1960's youth as ...

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Greg Nagy: Walk that Fine Thin Line

Read "Walk that Fine Thin Line" reviewed by Clifford Allen


It's not necessarily obvious to think of Michigan's “thumb" as being a hotbed of blues music. Sure, Detroit has produced a large share of jazz, R&B and Doo-Wop groups, and the state was home to the frantic blues-fueled rock of the Stooges and the MC5, but despite its proximity to Chicago, Michigan's lower third doesn't exude “blues." Don't tell that to Greg Nagy, guitarist in Lansing's Root Doctor who steps out on his own with Walk that Fine Thin Line, ...

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Greg Nagy: Our Time Has Come

Read "Greg Nagy: Our Time Has Come" reviewed by David King


Root Doctor had its humble beginnings in Lansing, Michigan's fertile open mic scene. Freddie Cunningham (lead vocals) and James Williams (bass, vocals) first played together as a pick-up band, but both instantly recognized their chemistry and Root Doctor was soon born.Root Doctor continues to amaze audiences and wow critics. Playing a diverse mix of classic soul and R&B, alongside traditional blues and inspired original material. Root Doctor's Been A Long Time Coming (Big O, 2005), catapulted the band ...

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Root Doctor Guitarist Greg Nagy Interviewed at AAJ

Root Doctor Guitarist Greg Nagy Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Root Doctor had its humble beginnings in Lansing, Michigan's fertile open mic scene. Freddie Cunningham (lead vocals) and James Williams (bass, vocals) first played together as a pick-up band, but both instantly recognized their chemistry and Root Doctor was soon born.

Lead guitarist Greg Nagy, considered an exceptionally soulful and creative blues player, has shared the bill and stage with such luminaries as John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Macy Gray, G.E. Smith, Eddie Clearwater, Larry McCray, Ronnie Earl, Teddy Morgan, and ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Stranded

Big O Records
2015

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Walk that Fine Thin...

Big O Records
2009

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