Ron "Poke Chop"
Gill Blues, original music, Americana. For
booking please contact . . .
Ron Gill: 207-602-6708 |
Dec.
1, 2020 news
Of
Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters
Now
available on CDBaby and Bandcamp
10
tracks of all original compositions documenting several years
of weathering storms, relationships, and Washington DC
leadership. Download or drop me a line at
p0kech0p@mac.com with your particulars and for $15 I'll send
you a copy. You'll get a credit card sized USB drive
with all music (both .wav and .mp3 files) PLUS .pdf files of
all charts and dozens of photos of a number of band
incarnations. Lots of fun in a small package!
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Blues is pretty much all I do.
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Available
for solo, duo and full band performances.
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 Pork Pie Special Recorded in 1999 Pork Pie Special is a collection of 6 + 1 tunes penned by Ron Gill and Chad Thorne. (You can find the "1" here) |
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Click here for 2015 Schedule
Looking for Audio Demo?
LOTS of new stuff...CLICK HERE!
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Welcome to the web home of ...
Ron "Poke Chop" Gill
Bringing Rockin'
Blues, Rockin' Soul, Rockin'
Country, Johnny Cash and
Rock and Roll to the people.
From New Orleans to Chicago... this act is influenced by many of the storied and soulful blues acts up and down the Mississippi, Burnside, Carville, Baton Rouge, Lettsworth, Blackhawk and Waterproof. But that's not to say you won't find some west coast swing or a little Texas twang in an evening's
performance.
The blues has taken on many faces and feels, as much a celebration as a plaintive call and Poke Chop with his friends The Other White Meats brings them all to life once again. Our disk PORK PIE SPECIAL explores several of these routes in an EP consisiting of 7 original works. Get yours now at any scheduled performance, or download online at Bandcamp. Remember this is...
The
Portland Phoenix 2013 Best Blues Act
Also, be sure to check out the calendar and come see us at any number of classy venues who are hosting us. After all we're The Portland Phoenix 2013 Best Blues Act.
2006-2016 was a great time in Maine and we'll continue the tradition of the rockin' blues/soul/county/roll as Poke Chop heads south.
And as always, tell your friends, tell your babysitter, tell your teachers, tell the mailman, come on out and party some with us! Join us on FACEBOOK! The economy is picking up and you're going to need a place to spend some of that stimulus money!
We're debuting some new clubs every month, which means that it'll only be a short drive to wherever it is we're playing tonight. We haven't seen you lately. The nights are getting shorter so opportunity is knocking to get out and have some fun! Be sure to get out and support your local live music venue as well as the musicians. For them it's a labor of love, they do it for your appreciation.
Meanwhile check the schedule as we keep workin' it on through the winter. We routinely eclipse 100 performances a year.
MEANWHILE....
Be sure to get out and support live music at your
local
establishment and if we're in town we'd LOVE to have
you hear us!
Check the schedule and stop by. Checkout the Maine
Blues
Society or the Low
Country Blues Club website, join!
Support the Blues! See ya soon! 
T-shirts!
That's
right,
OFFICIAL Poke Chop and TOWM limited edition t-shirts
now come in black, navy and cranberry!
Sporting our mascot, pimp and shill, el
Puerquito, in all of his belting out the blues
glory! Check them out, a measly $10 ($12 for
XXL)for you to be stylin about town showing off the
love of your favorite blues band. (SOLD OUT FOR NOW)
Ron
Gill,
aka "Pokechop", has been playing rockin' rhythm and blues
guitar for any number of years now
.
He was born in New York City but spent most of his life in
the west. What began in
a
small Colorado cowtown as an experiment at playing a musical
instrument in the1960's
during
the heyday of the British Invasion turned into a lifetime of
study and devotion to the guitar, harmonica and all styles
of the blues. Influences are many as would be expected
over the period of this long a time but current favorites
are Little Charlie Baty, Freddie King and Hollywood Fats on
guitar, James Harman and of course Little Walter on
harmonica and Jimmy Reed and Lucky Peterson for their
songwriting skills. He is currently residing in
Summerville SC. Other groups he's performed in are The
Phantom Freeway Rhythm and Blues Revue, Otis T. and the
Hammers, Cindy Sweeney and Wichita River and Plymouth Rock,
and The Blues Mafia in Portland ME. Did I mention,
Once upon a time the blues boarded a riverboat down in New
Orleans. . . 
Dial us up when we come to your neighborhood, support your local musical establishment and have a great time! We're The Portland Phoenix 2013 Best Blues Act for cryin' out loud. We'll be layin' down the blues grooves all up and down the coastal stretches of North, South Carolina and Florida. Come say howdy so we can get to know you.
There
are 16 TONs of bluesplayers
both past
and present. Want to know who was born
today, or who passed on in the world of the blues?
Find their vital statistics
Today in Blues History.
Send us an email and we'll add you to the mailing list for updates on shows, and appearances! (r0n7719@yahoo.com)
Maybe you'd like to peruse the list of songs we cover along with our own creations.
Find
out more about us and our schedule, happenings, friends,
events and all sorts of other stuff at our page on 
Facebook.So what does it look like when Poke Chop and The Other White Meat hit the road?
Do
you
love blues? If so check out Murphy's
Saloon,
podcast home of the blues. He hosts a weekly
hour long show of blues artists, new, old, known and
unknown! He's even played some of my stuff! Tell
him Poke Chop sent you!y'know, everywhere you go these days you're besieged with pre-programmed, MIDI'ed, sampled, synthesized, pop drivel. Seems the era of the blues musician is going the way of the vinyl record.
In the future the only place you're going to get a chance to experience this form of ART is in your home theater after visiting your local Blockbuster store.
Well, get out your hats and sunglasses because in the great tradition of B.B King, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and the Blues Brothers, we're going to rock your soul with . . .
POKECHOP
and
The
Other White Meat!
