Lamont Cranston

From the rural hometown settings of Hamel, Minnesota and the riverbanks of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the blues influence surfaced as early as the mid 1960’s for what was to become The Lamont Cranston Blues Band. Pat (Lamont) Hayes (with his brother Larry) founded the band in 1969 and he hasn’t stopped driving the renowned boogie blues train of the one and only Lamont Cranston Band. This Minneapolis based band has a rich history in the music scene, having recorded 14 albums and written and produced a number of hit songs including the chart topping ‘Upper Mississippi Shakedown.” The band is going strong and turning out new material all the time. The Cranstons have shared bills with some of the biggest names in the industry including Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, Albert King, Albert Collins, Jimmy Rogers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charles Brown, and many more.