Fraser/Daley

Alec Fraser has played bass with international artists such as Bo Diddley, The Drifters, Kim Wilson, Ian Gillian, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Ray Benson, Ben. E King, Walter Trout, and Mel Brown as well as Canadian artists like Jeff Healey, David Wilcox, Jack de Keyser, Morgan Davis, Steve Strongman, Danny Marks, Jerome Godboo, Rick Fines, Jimmy Bowskill and Danny Brooks. Recently he has played bass on the new Ron Hynes CD "Stolen Genius." These credits have helped earn him the 2004 and 2009 Maple Blues Bassist of the Year award as well as the MBA Lifetime Achievement nomination for several years in a row. Brief list of Alec Fraser productions: * Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues (Juno nomination, Blues Music Association, MBA and lndependent music awarded) * Jeff Healey - Songs From The Road (MBA Recording of the Year ) * Billy Boy Arnold - Billy Boy Sings Sonny Boy * Julian Fauth - Ramblin' Son (Juno awarded) * Julian Fauth- Songs of Vice and Sorrow (Juno nomination) * Jack deKeyser - Six String Lover (Juno awarded) * Jack deKeyser - Down ln The Groove (Juno nomination) * Morgan Davis- Painkiller (Juno awarded) * Morgan Davis - Blues Medicine (Maple Blues Award ) * Harrison Kennedy - High Country Blues (Juno nomination) Mike Daley is a guitarist and singer versed in blues, country, rock and roll and jazz. He has performed and recorded with Jeff Healey's Blues Band, Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards, the Travellers, Suzie Vinnick, Justin Rutledge, Rita Chiarelli, the Hogtown Syncopators and countless others over a twenty-five year professional career. Mike is also a trained musicologist, with a Ph.D from York University and publications in international academic journals and books, including his acclaimed study of Bob Dylan's voice, which won the York Thesis Prize. country, blues and country blues.