Electronic Press Kit
Three Guitars. One Sound. No Substitute for Live.
Blues Torch
Genre
American Roots / Blues Guitar
Members
6 (3 guitar/vocals, bass, keys, drums)
Based
New England
About the Band
Nobody called a meeting. Three young guitarists — each making a name on different stretches of the American roots circuit — showed up to the same gig rehearsal one afternoon in New England. The set list could wait. They started trading riffs for fun, playing with what fit. Within a few bars it stopped being casual. Something locked in — a sound that pulled from delta blues, Chicago electric, and Southern rock without belonging entirely to any of them.
Behind them sits a backline with decades of road under their belts — players who have held the stage with Chuck Berry, Big Mama Thornton, Eric Sardinas, and more. They don’t need the spotlight. They need the music to be right. That combination — young intensity channeled through veteran discipline — is what makes a Blues Torch show land differently than it should.
Word traveled. Not press releases or marketing campaigns — just musicians telling other musicians, venue owners comparing notes, phone videos passed around in group chats. The kind of momentum that doesn’t need permission.
What People Are Saying
“I walked in to set up mic stands and the three of them were just messing around in the corner. No set list, no amps turned up. I put the stands down and didn’t pick them back up for twenty minutes. They weren’t trading licks — they were having a conversation, and nobody wanted to interrupt.”
“Somebody sent me a phone video from a rehearsal — terrible audio, half the frame blocked by a cymbal stand. Didn’t matter. The sound those three make together is older than any of them. And then the backline kicked in and I realized this wasn’t guys killing time before a gig. This was the gig.”
“My sound guy sent me a clip and said ‘just watch the first thirty seconds.’ I watched the whole thing twice and called him back before it was over. Kids that age aren’t supposed to sound like they’ve been doing this for forty years.”
The Torchbearers

Ryan Newman
guitarist
Chester, Connecticut. Sat in with John Mayall at eleven. NEMHOF Best New Artist. Ryan Newman plays with the kind of voltage that made them call him the Continental Kid — and he's just getting started.
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Matt Swanton
guitarist
Shirley, Massachusetts. Guitar since age nine, IBC semi-finalist by his twenties. Matt Swanton writes every note he plays and delivers it like a sermon — blues carved in overdrive.
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Brad Dubay
guitarist
With singing & guitar playing straight out of the late 60s & early 70s blues rock era, Brad revives “that” lost sound that so many have longed for, bringing it to life in its most authentic form, delivering all-original, raw energy, soulful phrasing making him truly exceptional.
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Michael Avery
Drums
Credits: Chuck Berry, Big Mama Thornton, Fabulous Thunderbirds
Paul Loranger
Bass
Credits: Eric Sardinas, Candye Kane, Popa Chubby, Jason Ricci
Max Chase
Keys / Hammond B3
Credits: Marble Eyes, Brad Dubay’s Planet 9
Audio Samples
Testify - The Matt Swanton Band — Matt Swanton
Brad Dubay - River Festival — Brad Dubay
Downloads
Stage plot, hi-res photos, and technical documents for venue production teams.
Tour Poster
Download a printable poster or social media image for your venue.
Full resolution 8.5" x 11" at 300 DPI. Ready for print.