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Sly Fox and the Hustlers are a high energy 6 piece blues-based Rock N' Roll band from Albany, New York, USA. The band has shared the stage with National Recording Artists - Blues Traveler, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robin Trower, Burton Cummings (The Guess Who), Sam Kininger (Soulive) and Sean Rowe (among others). The band is made up of an all star cast including the powerful lead vocals and blues-soaked guitar of Sly Fox, the solid in the pocket drumming of Mark Tritico, the throbbing funky bass playing of former Epic recording artist Dylan Storm, the sizzling saxophone of Luke McNamme (who previously played with Stevie Ray Vaughn), the swirling keyboard playing of Drew Costa and rounding out the group with her soulful vocals and percussion is Donna Tritico (who has previously performed on stage with Sting). A live show has been described as "Heavy Voodoo Blues over Swampy Funky Grooves" and “an exciting show not to be missed!” Guaranteed to get you on your feet! The band puts on a high energy show not to be missed with songs sung with an emotional delivery from the heart of their originator.

Sly Fox
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Gary "Sly" Fox is a salesman at heart. It's how he got his nickname as a kid, and it's a talent he has put to good use in both his day job as a car salesman and as a lifelong musician. Fox, 39, has been playing guitar since he was 10 years old. Inspired by a cousin who played, he and his childhood friend and neighbor, singer-songwriter Sean Rowe, both picked up instruments at the same time. The two soon realized that someone needed to sing, and both of them gave it a go. Rowe ended up the singer, and developed his distinctive baritone alongside Fox's bluesy, hard rocking riffs in Dionysus and later The Clockwork Orange, which played legendary New York City punk club CBGBs in the late '90s. When Rowe began playing solo acoustic, Fox bowed out of the music business for a time. He continued to write and play on his own time, though, and about four years ago he had amassed enough material for a short album.

"The songs were just coming to me," he said. "Basically, I knew I wanted to write and record them, but I didn't know if I would end up playing out. I just knew that I need to make a CD. I had all these songs just bouncing around in my head."

Because Rowe had done all the singing in their previous bands, Fox had to first teach himself to sing. He rented a practice space and filled it with gear, including a drum machine and recording equipment, and began working on demos for the songs that would eventually end up on "The Low-Life."

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