gary van miert

"The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!" are the brainchild of Gary Van Miert, who has been playing and singing old Country and Blues songs for years, more or less as a hobby. He cobbled together the duo's name from the names of different groups from his extensive collection of Gospel 45's. Gary recorded a cd with guitarist and old college buddy Rudy Moni as a lark, but soon got the fire in his belly to take this music out to the clubs for a test drive. Since Rudi didn't have the desire to go slogging around the dive bar circuit, Gary went out on his own, meeting Malcolm Marsden at an open mike in Jersey City. The two found that they shared a passion for American Roots Music and began a musical partnership that took them from the open mikes in Jersey to the clubs of Manhattan and Brooklyn and beyond.