Tablerockers stay at Zoo
after national talent search
By Matthew Burton
Staff Reporter
Some people get no respect.
This appears to be the case with
Lincoln’s own blues band, The Ta
blerockers. As The Tablerockers’
bassist Larry Boehmer said, “We seem
to be the Rodney Dangerfields of
Lincoln music.”
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The Tablerockers, who serve as
the Zoo Bar’s house band, have been
performing in one form or another
since 1981, with guitar player Sean
Benjamin and Larry Boehmer the only
continuous members.
Despite the change in personnel,
The Tablerockers still play a solid,
authentic style of electric blues for
people across the Midwest.
Along with Benjamin and Boehmer,
The Tablerockers consist of Jim Cidlik
on keyboards, Joe Guriy on drums
and vocalist Annette Murrell, a crowd
favorite.
“She’s a real find; nobody can
believe we found her in Lincoln,”
Boehmer said. “We feel like we’ve
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got three real strong guns. Jim Cidlik’s
keyboard playing is very, very good,
Scan is a tremendous blues guitar
player and Annette is a tremendous
sin
being the house band at
the Zoo, The Tablerockers don ’ t lim it
themselves to gigs solely in Lincoln.
The band plays several venues in
Omaha, is a regular at the Grand
Emporium in Kansas City, the Get
away Inn in Topeka — “an ex-biker
bar” according to Boehmcr and the
Sioux City Blues Festival. Recently
The Tablerockers performed at the
First Annual Long Beach National
Blues Talent Search in Long Beach,
California.
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The Tablerockers
The Tablerockers were accepted
into the talent search, sponsored by
KOLN-FM, Southern California’s
largest jazz station, as a last-minute
decision after submitting a 10-minute
demo.
In order to make the five-band
roster at the competition. The Table
rockers had to play at a smaller, re
gional contest in Kansas City where
they received the invitation to go to
Long Beach.
In Kansas City, The Tablerockers
played against previous blues contest
winners such as the Blues Notions,
John Paul and the Hellhounds, and
occaisional Zoo Bar act, the Dan Doran
Band.
Photo courtesy of Larry Boehmer
“So there were three pretty good
bands that we competed against in
K.C.,” according to Boehmer.
“We pretty much got screwed by
the thing. It ended up being a $3,000
sound check, because that’s just about
how much it cost to fly us out and put
us up for three days.
“What we found out in the contest
is that we arc on that level; if the
sound quality had been equal, we
would have had a good chance at first
or second place.”
The Tablerockers will continue to
play at the Zoo Bar with at least one
gig a week there, and may even give
the Long Beach talcniscarch another
shot next year. ' -)
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