Al Holliday & the East Side Rhythm Band at City Winery STL
Start Date/Time:
January 15, 2026 at
7:30 PM
End Date/Time:
January 15, 2026 at
9:30 PM
Location: City Winery St. Louis
TICKETS: Al Holliday & the East Side Rhythm Band
City Winery St. Louis presents Al Holliday & the East Side Rhythm Band live on January 15th at 7:30pm!
Al Holliday & The East Side Rhythm Band, in a decade and a half, has earned their reputation as one of the St. Louis / Midwest region’s hardest hitting musical forces of nature, humbly learning from and working along-side their senior generation’s revered legends of St. Louis Soul and Blues legends, and in their time growing strong enough to be known to the younger generations as St. Louis music legends, in their own right.
City Winery St. Louis presents Al Holliday & the East Side Rhythm Band live on January 15th at 7:30pm!
Al Holliday & The East Side Rhythm Band, in a decade and a half, has earned their reputation as one of the St. Louis / Midwest region’s hardest hitting musical forces of nature, humbly learning from and working along-side their senior generation’s revered legends of St. Louis Soul and Blues legends, and in their time growing strong enough to be known to the younger generations as St. Louis music legends, in their own right.
In another decade and a half, this band has all the makings to be known and celebrated by multitudes of music lovers world-wide as a new American classic.
Imagine if Allen Stone had a tractor (and a bit more twang); and more specifically, hailed from a rich and storied musical region, widely known as a veritable, American Home of the Blues; where the Great River (Mississippi), and all of its’ music; intersects together with Soul, Jazz, Rock, Gospel, R&B, and Americana; at a most conspicuous crossroads, in the very heart of the nation.
Now imagine this singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was backed by a large ensemble with a full horn section, with a decade and a half of experience – and a couple hundred arrangements under their belt, originals and covers – delivering a potent message in their music, which is always particularly hard-hitting, and accompanied by the swinging jangle of “low-down” St. Louis piano, amongst the band’s many, other charms, as a hard-working, multi-generational coalition.
“You are Al Holliday. You’re a St. Louis Music Legend!” – Dominic (Next-generation LA pro drummer)
For fifteen years now, Al Holliday & The East Side Rhythm Band has grown, and been known as “Pound for Blues Pounding Pound amongst St. Louis music’s best”, all the while developing and evolving in their own signature St. Louis style, combining elements of classic Soul, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Country-Funk, and Americana; and weaving them into their instantly-familiar anthems, and serving them up on recordings and high-energy live shows – at home, across the country, and around the world.
Al Holliday & the ESRB’s most recent release all I want was the band’s first national success in the US, charting for two weeks in both SOUL and R&B TOP 10 on the Roots Music Report album charts next to contemporary giants like Trombone Shorty, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lee Fields & The Expressions, and PJ Morton – peaking at #7 in both categories.
“Y’all got that RIVER beat.”, says Greyhounds Andrew Trube, after a show late one night.
St. Louis music is a lineage the band is proud to carry on - and be a part of, in their own humble way. For those who like to study these kinds of things, when it comes to St. Louis music: It’s clearly not quite like New Orleans music, it’s not Memphis Blues and Soul, but it is definitely not completely unlike either of these other great music traditions of the Mississippi River, either.
This band strives to both carry on and exemplify what sets the St. Louis traditions apart from the others, for example, the raw soul power and intensity carried only by the likes of an Ike and Tina, Albert King, or Oliver Sain; or more to the point in this artist’s instance: Bonnie Bramlett, David Sanborn, or Michael McDonald.
