The Bluerunners - the band from Lafayette Louisiana that defies categorization....

The Bluerunners

the band from Lafayette Louisiana that defies categorization....

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Black Cat Bone

Added by Jill (Johnson) Meaux
Doorway

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bluerunners

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Hey - Welcome to the new community website for The Bluerunners. We were looking for a way to connect to our fans and a way for our fans to connect to each other, so this is what we've come up with. This site is easy for us to maintain, plus we can make it look the way you want. Feel free to post pics or video, or post a question down in the forum. We're also looking for suggestions on how to make this site more useful/fun/interesting, so let us know that too! Check back often for new blog posts from us.
All the best,
Mark Meaux: guitar, fiddle, accordion, mandolin, vocals
Will Golden: lap steele guitar, rubboard

Blog Posts

New friends, new babies, and new music

Hey folks,
Sorry for taking so long since my last post. I thought being on the road would give me lots of time to write, and fill up the blog with colorful characters, and anecdotes from our travels. Turns out, being on the road is very time consuming. I absolutely enjoyed our runs this summer, but I didn't have a lot of down-time. Down-time on the road is called sleeping....then eating...then sleeping again. Driving is also important, and you don't want to do your sleeping while you're doing yo… Continue

Posted by Mark Meaux on July 22, 2008 at 2:30pm

Red Beans and Rice Revue

I love this band. When I was growing up, in the late Seventies, here in Lafayette, LA., they ruled the dance halls. Most times the clubs would be so packed with revelers that you could just make occasional glimpses of the musicians through flailing arms and legs of the dancers. But that sound! There was no problem hearing the amazing music coming from these guys. It was the sound of South Louisiana...rock and roll, blues, Chank-a Chank...the Beans did it all. And the best thing, for me personall… Continue

Posted by Mark Meaux on June 6, 2008 at 5:00pm

Last year or two

Hi Folks,

This is Mark from the Bluerunners. We've been going through some changes in the last year or so, and I wanted fill you in about what we're doing these days. It's a long story, so I'll cut to the bigger aspects. About two years ago, our bassist Cal Stevenson told us he needed to stop traveling because he and his wife Melissa were starting a family. Then, about a year later our accordion player Ade Huval told us that he and his wife Laura were also starting a family, and he needed to st… Continue

Posted by Mark Meaux on May 24, 2008 at 5:00pm