Laura Sterner: Bass & vox
Nathan Kingham: Keys & Vox
Ratatat Pat: The sticks
Daryl Rowland's Bleeding Hearts came together over a shared love of American roots music like blues, jump, jazz and swing. The band concept is simple: play it like you mean it and never play it the same way twice.
Combining original songs with thoughtfully curated blues pearls from the canon from artists like Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo or Albert King, the band focuses on taking a fresh approach to each tune and ideally, surprising themselves and the audience.
Daryl Rowland Guitar & Vox
A tasty stew of roots, blues, jump, soul and unpredictable fun
Daryl Rowland
Daryl, who cut his teeth in NYC’s blues scene, was described by LA Blues great, JJ BadBoy Jones as:The Mose Allison of guitar, noting his soulful jazzy blues riffs and witty lyrics. But by the second set, his playing can gather Albert Collins/Duane Alman sort of intensity that fires up the band and audience.
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Nathan Kingham
Nathan grew up playing the piano at church, and later branched out into the fertile Northern California Americana music scene. No matter how hard he tries, his gospel and jazz roots stubbornly peek through his thin veneer of pop professionalism.
Bassist and vocalist Laura Sterner delivers the tasty thunder from down under, responding effortlessly as the surprises unfold and locking into a solid groove every time with Sacramento’s top roots drummer, Ratatat Pat. Pat is known for getting more sounds from rim of his tenor tom than most drummers can get from an entire sample pack.
Ratatat Pat Balcom
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Laura Bates Sterner started her professional music career in 1978 in Washington, DC. Since then she has sung on top ten charting singles, and has played bass guitar and sung with bands based in DC, Philadelphia, Sacramento and the Bay Area.
An accomplished songwriter and producer, her debut solo EP “Songs for the Black Hole”-- a pandemic project featuring guest session players from around the world-- was released in 2021 under the name Lolly S, which is a nickname from childhood.
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Laura Sterner
Daryl's backstory:
Daryl Rowland has lived on all three American coasts -- from New York to Los Angeles to Northeast Ohio -- and has had the good fortune to play with many great musicians along the way.
In New York, he played with The Perry Roth Group, Wild Weekend, gospel choir The Bethlehem Travelers and jammed with musicians like the Holmes Brothers and Wayne Kramer of the MC5, Johnny Winter, B.B. King and Johnny Copeland.
For those who enjoy obscure blues bona fides: he played drums and guitar on a Victory Spivey Records album with Muddy Waters called “Dan Lynch Got the Blues.”
In Los Angeles he was featured playing blues guitar on the Ellen Degeneres show and played with many LA blues greats including Ray Bailey, Louisiana Red, Mickey Champion, Finas Tasby, James Armstrong, Cadillac Zack and Lucky Lloyd
