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Blue Note Brothers

Members of the four-piece band have changed since the group
formed in 2014 but the spirit of the music remains the same, Henry
said.
“Our bass player, when I was younger, he used to change my guitar
strings,” Henry said. “They’re not hired guns. We’re definitely a band.
We play every weekend. I started playing at age 12 or so. My brother
put the guitar down and I picked it up.”
Every song on their extended-play album was written by Henry or
co-written by the band leader and another band member. Henry also Cody Ray Henry
plays harmonica, a self-taught skill. The band plans to return to the
studio for a full-length record in the coming months. room and the door was locked. She said, ‘You’re not getting out until
“We’d like to expand our horizons,” Henry said. “Maybe someday I’ll you play that beat.’”
be a history teacher and pursue my music on the side. For right now, Pavlock’s grandfather on his dad’s side taught him how to play guitar,
this is a way to keep doing what I love to do.” and his uncle Al Sulak, who plays guitar, trumpet and piano for Al
The band frequently jams with the Blue Note Brothers, another Sulak & the Country Sounds, also was an influence. His father also had
Orchard-based group. a hand in guiding the family’s boys into music.
“We jam a lot,” Henry said. “We’re all friends. The Texas scene is a “I was really into Nirvana,” Pavlock said. “I had this great
great thing.” background in music and I knew I’d be able to play with by brothers
Bryan Pavlock heads up the Blue Note Brothers and says their music one day if I could teach them how to play.”
is “diverse, everything from Texas country to blues to funk.” The 37-year old grew up on Stone Temple Pilots and Poison, while
Pavlock, son of Orchard Mayor Rod Pavlock, plays with his brothers his brothers were more into Green Day and the punk rock scene.
Cody and Shane. “It was kind of a collaboration of all that,” Pavlock said. “We meshed
The family’s music roots run deep. Pavlock’s mother played bass and and fed off that. I’d say that now we’re probably more blues and funk.”
was a “huge influence,” and his grandmother taught him how to play The Blue Note Brothers play about twice a month at Saddleback
drums. Saloon, Buffalo Creek Winery and “a lot of private parties,” but their
“When we were younger, I grew up around my grandparents playing gigs have slowed down in recent months as Bryan Pavlock recently got
music,” Pavlock said. “My grandmother on my mom’s side taught me engaged to a woman who lives in Ecuador, and Shane Pavlock just had
how to play drums. I thought that would be kind of cool to play like a baby and underwent knee surgery.
that. She put me in a room and showed me how to play a beat. I got “In the next year, we’re going to pick it back up,” Bryan Pavlock said.
frustrated and mad and threw the sticks and went to get out of the “We do really enjoy it.”
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