Turning heads every time they take the stage, Uncle Billy's Smokehouse is quickly becoming one of the hottest live music acts in the Northeast. With an in-your-face stage presence, dark and nasty jams and beautiful melodies UBS combines an obvious passion to create unique and emotion evoking music, resulting in rock driven originals that take you back to the good ole days of rock n roll.

Named in part as a tribute to their father (Uncle Billy), and a surprisingly inspirational hot-dog cart (Billi's Smokehouse) seen for sale on the side of the road while living in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Uncle Billy's Smokehouse was created by brothers Jody and Sean Ryan in November of 2000. First formed as a classic rock cover band with friends Chris Peacock on bass and Michael Desrosiers on drums, UBS soon grew into a vehicle for Jody and Sean to explore original songs and sounds.

Longing for the concrete landscape and random hostility of their hometown, the brothers Ryan returned to Worcester, MA in 2002. Before the musician's musical chairs episode, back home Uncle Billy's Smokehouse entered the New England circuit with friends and former bandmates Jon Golen (bass) and Bill Connor (drums). Infusing the varying musical tastes of each member, UBS began to churn out new songs that exposed a wide range of influences and genres, five of which were captured in the studio in the fall of 2002 for their debut EP. With live show consisting of numerous originals and the occasional tasty cover, UBS kept audiences dancing and jaws dropping all night long with their classic compositions and UBS was quickly filling clubs throughout Central Massachusetts.

Around December of 2003, UBS made a rhythm section change to old friends Matt LeBoeuf and Brad Simmons. And even more original songs began to find their ways into setlists. Life was good for UBS but there was something that was missing, a bassist from hell, and then long time Worcester musician Steven 'Janky Bones' Sullivan returned from an 8 year absence from California's Bay area. California was the perfect place for Janky to hone his skills playing a variety of styles of music. From the jam sessions with Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction and Banyan to the tourning funk band .dias funK, to the king of punk/jazz Willie Waldman, to the L.A. based Pop Killers with guitar great Ronnie Rey Gunn. It was time to return home to the east coast where he quickly started to admire the direction Uncle Billy's Smokehouse was taking their music.

Today in 2006 Uncle Billys Smokehouse armed with its hand selected line up is resurrecting the soul of rock n roll past. With an all out musical attack of towering beats, heart thumping bass lines, gritty guitar licks, and pounding keys, the band pays tribute to when rock and roll was both exciting and revolutionary. With electrifying performances that leave their audiences exhausted and spell bound, Uncle Billys Smokehouse has been gaining peoples interest from industry big wigs to kidz in the lot, to 1960's flower children, to some of the best bands out there. "That means a lot to the band; having another band compliment your performance is more satisfying to us then anything. We have played shows with some really talented guys, some are humble others arrogant shit heads we prefer to be humble."

Hailing from Worcester Massachusetts this four piece rock out fit seems to have found what rock n roll has desperately been in search of for so many years. Songs that have feel good lyrics, intricate composition, and music that fuses the blues based psychedelia of the 60s and 70s with modern day intensity.

The March 2005 release of their first full length album titled Tracks, has already sold over 1,500 copies with out any outside help in its sales. The album has already recieved a numer of very positive reviews from a variety of differnt types of media, including a cover feature on the March 2005 issue of the Pulse Magazine "One song and youll be converted by the power of their blues and funk inflected rock n roll" -Pulse Magazine March 2005

A review by Mick Skidmore a writer for Relix Magazine for over 20 years "A hot quartet thats intent on taking the ballsy blues-rock and psychedelic rock of the early 70's and melding it with a savvy 21st century jam sensibility, and on the evidence of their recent Tracks album that was released earlier this year they are doing a pretty darn good job at it!" -Mick Skidmore September 2005; A review by Jambands.com "A thick, blues-based classic rock influence, for sure, with solos a-plenty, grungy organ, and hopping backbeats" -Jesse Jarnow July 2005 Jambands.com; A cover feature in the Boston based music publication Metronome Magazine "They have resurrected the energetic pomp and circumstance of bands and days gone by that arose out of the ashes of the flower-child movement of the late 1960's" -Shaun McNamara December 2005 Metronome Magazine; A review in Massachusetts' internet live music playground Wormtown.org "Its the vocal harmonies that do it. They really hark back to the AM radio days of the mid 60s. No one even bothers trying to harmonize like this nowdays, but Im glad they did" -Phil McNamara September 2005 Wormtown.org.

Now playing throughout New England, Uncle Billy's Smokehouse is steadily carving out their niche in the scene, kicking out some good ole' down-home Rock n' Roll and bringing a party to every new club they set foot in. So whether you like to dance, stomp your feet, raise a fist, or just toss back a few and get a little silly, Uncle Billy's Smokehouse will be there to throw it down and make it happen.

With a brand new studio recording that is due out in June 2006 and a host of shows from Vermont to New York City following its release the band is poised to take the national scene by storm. After the Saturday night CD Release Show at New York City's Kenny's Castaways on June 24th the band has plans to release a DVD of the night along with a few shows recorded within the past six months in the coming months.