14/11/2025
VizzTone is very proud to announce the new single “Off The Rails” from 11 GUYS QUARTET is available today!
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Here it is in time for the holidays. Another romping stomping instrumental workout from 11 Guys Quartet. "Off the Rails" features the kind of grooving slide guitar riffs and blistering harp playing that are sure to get you moving. Tell your Ma, tell your Pa you
better get it before it's come and gone! Lively up your seasonal soirees with "Off The Rails" by 11 Guys Quartet
A note for harmonica aficionados: This track marks Rosy's first attempt to play one of Will Wilde's "Wilde-Tuned" harps. Definitely some new notes on this one!
The 11 Guys Quartet — A Little History:
Paul Lenart (guitar), Bill “Coach” Mather (bass), Chuck Purro (drums) and Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt (harmonica) got together in the early 1980s as the 11th Hour Band — played some great rockin' blues, hit the Boston area clubs and had some wild times.
They released Hot Time In The City Tonight in 1985, the flagship album of the fledgling Tone-Cool Records imprint, and went on to play together off and on for the next few decades. They all stayed busy with other pursuits, but their unique musical chemistry and friendship kept bringing the "11 Guys" back to their original quartet.
Around 2008 they decided to go into VizzTone's basement studio to record some original blues instrumentals — straight-ahead, unadorned live takes, mood pieces and variations — no screaming solos, all self-contaiined and, well... small. After considering the possibilities for another decade or so, they decided in 2020 it was time to release.