The Lamont Cranston Band, legendary Minneapolis based blues band, has been at it since 1969. After 14 releases and many show stopping performances, the band is still going strong and turning out new material all the time. Besides leading the Cranstons through all the years of popularity they’ve enjoyed, Pat “Lamont” Hayes has solo ventures to his credit, touring with Bonnie Raitt as a member of her band on her 1999 “Nick of Time” tour and blowing harmonica duets with Charlie Musselwhite in Minneapolis and Hollywood at good buddy Dan Aykroyd’s House of Blues Grand Opening Bash. The Cranston hit “Excusez Moi, Mon Cheri” (written by Pat’s brother Larry Hayes) was recorded by the Blues Brothers on the flipside of their 1979 hit “Soul Man.” It was also used on the soundtrack of the Al Franken-TTom Davis movie “One More Saturday Night,” along with their biggest hit, “Upper Mississippi Shakedown.”
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