Big Moody and the Fender Benders are a red hot blues band with over 70 combined years of blues experience. Playing everything fro Delta and Chicago Blues to West Coast Jump Blues. They have shared the stage with Reba Russell and played on King Biscuit Time in Helena, Arkansas on radio station KFFA. Playing with notable legends such as A.C. Reed, Rufus Thomas, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, Snooky Pryor, and Frank Frost these guys are the real deal! Scorching blues or sweet slow blues, nobody can sit down when these guys are playing.
Led by J.D. 'Big Moody' Burke on guitar and Lee 'Lenny Boy Blue' Weglarz on harmonica these living blues legends will take you over 8,000 geographical miles in blues music. The man who has played with everyone from A.C. Reed to Rufus Thomas on bass is Larry 'Woody' Wood, and on drums Alan Gibson. Burke studied under blues legend Buster B.W. Morrison and has played with Neal Pattman and the Holmes Brothers. Weglarz studied under Snooky Pryor, Frank Frost, William Clarke and Rod Piazza. These guys will satisfy the hunger of any blues starved soul.