Louie Zagoras
Guitar, Ukulele, Bass, Songwriting
Louie tells a great story with his guitar, his voice and a great collection of songs.
—Joe Satriani
Louie Zagoras is the founder, lead singer/lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the band ROLLOVER. Louie and the band toured the country extensively in the 90’s when the band’s first record broke big on Chicago’s 93.1 WXRT-FM radio. Louie’s song “Shipwreck” was the break-out single. Louie was the first Chicago rock artist to be signed by the legendary Bill Graham Management (Santana, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Neville Brothers, Joe Satriani, etc.). With the popularity of ROLLOVER’s debut CD growing, Bill Graham Management put The band on the road supporting top rock acts like The Allman Brothers Band, Joe Satriani, Sheryl Crow, Blues Traveler, The Neville Brothers, John Hiatt, Hot Tuna, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, Robin Trower, Cheap Trick, Eddie Money, and many others.
Louie lets his music speak for itself and by his own choice always adds plenty of Guitar. He loves and has been influenced by the music of Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Tom Petty and other classic bands and artists. His sound is described as “roots rock meets the blues”.
In 1995, Louie’s song “Shipwreck” was featured on A&M Records “H.O.R.D.E. CD Sampler”. They were constantly on the road, sometimes spending months traveling from L.A to New York and back again. This gave the band a chance to really develop their sound and tighten up their already exciting live shows. The band did many tour dates supporting Joe Satriani and performed with him in the U.K for a month of sold out shows in 1996. Upon returning to the states the band did two more sold-out nights with Joe at the famous Fillmore in San Francisco.
Louie’s songs have been used for TV shows (CBS’s The Rachael Ray Show, Nash Bridges, Spelling Productions etc.) and movies (Lost and Confused). For the last 17 years, he has been writing songs with Roy Marinell. Roy co- wrote “Werewolves of London”, “Excitable Boy”, other hits with the late great Warren Zevon. Roy also recently co-wrote “All Summer Long” with Kid Rock. Louie is also a Producer, Recording Engineer and Session Musician. He produced all of the ROLLOVER CDs as well as the new “Twenty Fingers” solo CD. He has also produced many other artists including 9-year old Guitar Wizard, Tallan T-man Latz. Louie is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays piano, bass, drums, sitar, harmonica, Hammond B-3, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, percussion and many other instruments.
After three nationally distributed CDs and countless tours with ROLLOVER, Louie has released his first solo CD, “Twenty Fingers” on Isis Records. Produced by Louie and The Herron Brothers, it features top Chicago musicians Jay Davenport on Drums, Ed Stevenson and Mark Gleed on keyboards and former Black Crowes/Jimmy Page bassist Greg Rzab. Joe Satriani says “Twenty Fingers” is a joy to listen to.”
QUOTES
Twenty Fingers” is a joy to listen to. Louie tells a great story with his guitar, his voice and a great collection of songs.
—Joe Satriani
Louie is one hell of a guitar player…one of the finest I’ve had the pleasure of working with…he always manages to add just the right part to set the tune off perfectly…
—Roy P. Marinell, Co-Writer
Warren Zevon Classics
“Werewolves of London” and
“Excitable Boy”
Kid Rocks “All Summer Long”
and many others
Zagoras knows that guitar heroics can add to a song instead of define it, and his fills throughout the disc and “Sun” bring home the point that a guitar hero need not take center stage to be the hero.
—Daily Vault Album Reviews
Louie’s voice and guitar are so distinctive. The album is a nice combination of rock and blues and acoustic bluesy ballads. Great guitar fills throughout.
—CD Baby
If you have any interest in hearing some great guitar music then you need to get Louie Zagoras’ “Twenty Fingers” CD.
—Indie Music Stop
Louie is a very talented longtime rocker of note who specializes in classic sounding blues-rock stylings amply displayed in his own originals as well as in some really well done covers.
—Greg Easterling
Veteran Rock DJ
WRDV-FM, The DRIVE
97.1, Chicago
WXRT, WCBR, WDCB
PERFORMANCES
Current
Double Door, Chicago, IL
Martyrs’, Chicago, IL
Bill’s, Evanston, IL
Gabe’s, Highwood, IL
Hanson Brothers, Glenview, IL
Metro, Chicago, IL
Blue Bayou, Chicago
House of Blues Atlantic City, NJ (w/ OAR)
Pianos in New York City
Rock and Roll hall of Fame Benefit show. Raleigh, North Carolina,
With “the Dave Mason Band”
Past (with ROLLOVER)
Fillmore, San Francisco, CA (w/Hot Tuna)
Wembley Arena, London, UK (w/Joe Satriani UK Tour)
Glasgow Center, Glasgow, Scotland (w/Joe Satriani)
World Music Theater, Chicago, IL (w/The Allman Brothers Band)
Metro, Chicago, IL (w/Dave Matthews Band)
Park West Chicago, Chicago, IL (w/Robin Trower)
Sand Stone Theatre, Kansas City, MO (w/Blues Traveler)
Slims, San Francisco, CA (w/Sheryl Crow)
House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA (w/Joe Satriani)
House of Blues, Chicago, IL (3-nights w/The Neville Brothers)
Fillmore, San Francisco, CA (Fillmore poster made for this event) (w/Joe Satriani)
Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, IL, (w/Cheap Trick and Eddie Money)
