Up coming show dates and shows

Alton Block Party's

The Blues Brothers Other Brothers do a number of shows every year for the fire house at the Alton block party's. Its a fun gig and always a good time.

The band at the Alton block party in june of 2002

This is a good family event that is fun for all ages. Good people, tasty food, cold beer, and great music.

Al Mozer the Iron Chef, making his way to the stage

Bring a lawn chair and dress for warm weather at these summer block party's. The weather can be as hot as the music.

The Elks

At the end of every year the boys come back home to Jerseyville to perform a show at the elk's. This has become a time honored tradition that is always allot of fun.

Here is a picture of the boys playing music at the Elks

Jerseyville Music festival

The 1st annual Jerseyville music festival was a smashing success. The crowed was estimated around 800 to 1000 people. Their was 5 bands that played that night Alter Echo, Eclipse, Blues project, Cruel Cuts, and at last the Blues Brothers Other Brothers. The boys in the show had a good time that night. We even had a surprise visit from Pairs and Nicky Hilton.

The hard working Chamber of Commerce who organized the event sponsored the show. Hanson Trucking provided the sound stage and the beer was brought to you by Coors light. Many other people and Business helped bring to you the music festival. They are Jerseyville Discount Carpet and Furniture, Gtec, CIPS, all the banks but especially Jerseyville Banking Center, Updike Gas, Mulligans, and many many more.

How the animal got his name

The Animal Devin Botts was born with the gift of music in his soul. And an uncanny desire to perform great blues music. But most people do not know how or why the animal got his name.
It all started back in the 1970's when he was just a little boy. You see the animal was borne to a kind genital and loving parent in the sleepy little town of Jerseyville Illinois. Every thing in Devin’s life started out very average and normal until he and his parents went on holiday to Africa. The Dark Continent has many interesting and exotic things to see and many American’s still like to go on safari there. But on the last day of the trip the little 2-year-old Devin Botts was lured into the dark thick jungle by the infectious sounds of a African drum beat. His nanny only turned her head away for a second and he was gone. It would be almost 20 years before his parents would see their son again.
In late 1989 Guitar Terry was playing music for the greatest garage band in the world “Full Flight” in eastern central Africa. After another great show at a gritty little bar called the Naughty Gorilla Guitar Terry was still a little restless and went out on the town of Zimbabwe to see if he could sample any of the local talent. That was when he heard of the jungle boy who would come to town with a troop of black and white bug eyed monkeys and play music. They would play for 3 or 4 hours then some of the monkeys would pass the hat around for money then they would slip back into the dark gritty jungle.
After many days of tracking the animal boy Guitar Terry finally caught up with him in a pigmy village. It turns out the animal was stolen away from his parents camp by a band of wild monkeys then he was raised by wolves until this Pigmy tribe adopted him as their own. There was some debate amongst the tribal elders as to what to do with the little tike. But finally after much debate, and some regret, they maid him apart of there tribe. They would later regret their decision because all the Animal wanted to do is play music all night and sleep all day.
It was late in the Afternoon when Terry and Howling Steve found the little Pigmy village and soon found what they were looking for. After meeting the chief they soon came to a arrangement. They would trade an old Zippo lighter for the animal.
At about 4:30 pm they sneaked into an old dark dirty hut and while the Animal was still sleeping they hit him over the head through him in a bag and the pigmy’s helped carry the unconscious animal back to town where he was tossed into a boat bound for America.
When they got back home to Illinois the Animal was reintroduced to his natural family. Even though they could never teach the Animal to speak English he did learn to sing old blues songs.

Here is a picture of the Animal returning to visit the tribe that adopted him.

The Blues Brothers Other Brothers is a high powered show band with a big horn section and hot jazzy blues sound. The Musician's in this hilarious offbeat band, with there dancing, singing, and joking around, will leave you laughing at every outrageous and surprising twist and turn. If you get a chance to see these entertainers perform always keep one eye on your wife and one hand on your wallet.

The old blind man throwing

knives trick

One of the bands classic gags were when we blindfolded Guitar Terry and had him through knifes at a dartboard, which was in Al’s hands. The Iron chef looked a little nervous at first but soon got into the swing of things.

Terry never did hit the board and luckily He never hit Al either. But it was a close call with Rocking Ralph.

Soon it was time for Hunk a Burning Love to show him how the trick worked.

There is allot of time when guitar Terry has no clue to what's going on around him. This is one of those times. But he does know when to take a bow.

Every time the boys take the stage it is a adventure. But in the end every thing comes out all right. Most of the time.

The boys like to play good music and party really hard. They give it 110 % every time they walk on stage

Blues Boys out of control and coming at you.

The boy's having some fun with the Blues Mobile.Hold on guitar Terry!

Here is the only known photo of the bands legendary photo Journalist John (the Hammer) Flaut.