Cory bates

The impact of blues on rock music arises from the emotionally honest, timelessly powerful, trance-inducing music of American bluesmen like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Listening to this simple, haunting music has compelled artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Stevie Ray Vaughan, T.S. Mcphee, Buddy Guy, Frank Marino, Johnny Winter and Jimmy Page to unleash their mind expanding music on the world. The Corby Yates Band, a power trio, brings this heavy, guitar-driven, blues-based music back into the present time. Corby won the 18-and-under division of the 1998 international Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition finals in Seattle, WA. Later that evening, Al Hendrix, Jimi's father, personally gave this young guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter the coveted Voodoo Chile award.