JD & The Straight Shot
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JD & The Straight Shot is a blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 band from New York
New York
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. JD is actually James L. Dolan, Chairman of Cablevision Systems Corporation and Chairman of Madison Square Garden, Inc.
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For two summers in a row, JD & The Straight Shot performed as special guests on Eagles member Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

's North American Tours which featured Walsh's original band, The James Gang.

In 2008, they released their new album, Right On Time, featuring Grammy Award winners Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

 and Robert Randolph and produced by Grammy Award winner John Porter
John Porter
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.

Right On Time

Released June 24, 2008
  • 1. This Kind Of Life
  • 2. Long White Cadillac
  • 3. Leap Of Faith
  • 4. Double My Order
  • 5. Slow Motion In Reverse
  • 6. What Now
  • 7. Lie No Better
  • 8. Train's A Coming
  • 9. Kill That Dog
  • 10. I Just Gotta Be Me
  • 11. Tightrope
  • 12. Beyond The Horizon

Nothing to Hide

Released in 2005.
  • 1. Ghost
  • 2. Slow Motion In Reverse
  • 3. Back Again
  • 4. There's Something Wrong
  • 5. Check It Out
  • 6. Transatlantic
  • 7. So Cold
  • 8. Wish I Had A Life
  • 9. Didn't Wanna Do It
  • 10. Gonna Kill That Dog

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