The Expanders, performer profile

Since the 1990s, one of the more satisfying listening pleasures for many music fans has been the development of Americana music. The genre incorporates elements of country, blues, rock and roll, bluegrass, and R&B to give it a distinctive, original sound. Its proponents developed the music as a reaction to over produced and polished pop and rock music that saturated the airwaves with forgettable material that either felt/sounded the same or lost its way in embracing its historical “roots.”

Similarly, fans of another genre, reggae, longed for a return to the roots and traditions of a rocksteady style of reggae, epitomized by classic 1970s Jamaican bands and singers. One group of musicians also shared that feeling and in 2003 joined together to form one of the hardest working and popular reggae bands in Southern California. That band is The Expanders.

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