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John Elijah Band, Port Aransas
John Elijah Band, Port Aransas
John Elijah Band, Port Aransas

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John Elijah

Guitar, vocals · Port Aransas, TX

Official Lone Star Beer artist

Hard to put a genre on it. Blues, rock, soul, jazz, R&B and Americana all pass through, and it always comes out sounding like him, smooth, greasy, beautiful. A rough-but-soothing voice, a guitar that raises hair, and the coastal ease of Port Aransas carried into every room. Never the same song twice.

Port Aransas raised, the family moved to the island to open Lisabella's, and there was always an instrument within reach. University of North Texas in Denton, then four years as a working guitarist around Dallas–Fort Worth and a year on the road, then back to the coast, where the small-town pace and the island crowd shaped how the songs get written and how the shows get played.

Blues and soul at the root of everything, even when a song wanders into reggae or funk, that's where it comes home. Loud and fast, quiet and slow, mostly originals these days. The full band cut Take and Give live in a room in 2025; the solo acoustic set is the same songs with the volume down and the stories up.

“No joke, this is easily one of the best bands I've ever gotten to play with. Deep, deep grooves and tons of original music, all with an improvisational depth that's really exciting. We never know where a song might end up going.”, Kris Redus, producer / studio drummer

Official Lone Star Beer artist

John Elijah is part of Lone Star Beer's artist roster, the National Beer of Texas backing Texas music. Venues, festivals, and brands looking for a Lone Star night: that's this band.

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The band

Gary Graves

Organ, piano

Corpus Christi, TX

Joseph Soto

Bass

Corpus Christi, TX

Kris Redus

Drums

Corpus Christi, TX

Jose Felix

Guitar

Puerto Rico

Cody Strong

Drums

Corpus Christi, TX

Josh Lee

Guitar

Corpus Christi, TX

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