Blues Traveler playing at Newport

When: October 19, 2005 Blues Traveler
Newport Music Hall
1722 N. High St., Columbus Ohio

Hours: Wednesday 7 p.m.
Contact Phone: 614-431-3600
Admission: $20.

Singer/harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, bassist Bobby Sheehan and drummer Brendan Hill formed the rock quartet Blues Traveler in 1988. Blues Traveler released its self-titled debut album in May 1990 and followed with Travelers & Thieves in September 1991. In April 1993, Blues Traveler released its third album, Save His Soul, which became its first to make the Top 100. Blues Traveler's aptly named fourth album, Four, released in September 1994, at first looked like a sales disappointment, but it rebounded in 1995 when single Run-Around became the group's first chart hit. Run-Around became one of the biggest singles of 1995, spending nearly a full year on the charts and sending Four into quintuple platinum status. As the group prepared the follow-up to Four, Blues Traveler released the live double-album Live From the Fall in the summer of 1996. The group returned in the summer of 1997 with its fifth studio album, Straight on Till Morning. Tragedy struck on August 20, 1999 when bassist Sheehan was found dead in his New Orleans home. The new millennium saw a newly charged Blues Traveler, and the sixth record, Bridge, appeared in May 2001. The next winter, Blues Traveler released the live album What You and I Have Been Through. Studio record Truth Be Told followed in 2003, and another concert album, Live on the Rocks, appeared in 2004.