Blue Monday is back in Houston Texas. That's right. Houston's own Sonny Boy Terry Band and Midtown's Junction Bar and Grill are bringing back The Original Blue Monday Blues Jam and Open Mic from 8:30PM - 12:30AM starting on April 9th, 2012. Sonny Boy Terry ran his former band leader, legend Joe Guitar Hughes' jam every Monday at Evening Shadows in Third Ward/Southpark on Old Spanish Trail in the early nineties and in the late nineties, as his own band leader, Sonny Boy Terry hosted his own jam at the city's top blues room Billy Blues.

A veteran of Houston's blue scene, Sonny Boy Terry has recorded and worked with many legends in the blues and rock world from Joe Guitar Hughes, Johnny Copeland, Calvin Owens and Roy Head to  Brownsville Station's H Bomb Weck and Mark Andes of Heart/Spirit/Firefall fame. Sonny Boy Terry founded the Houston Blues Society in 1993 while running Joe Hughes' residency jam at Club Matinee. In 2010 The Sonny Boy Terry Band represented Houston in Memphis TN for the International Blues Competition sponsored by the Blues Foundation after winning  Houston's reginal competition. He also has tweo excellent albums released on the Austin imprint Doc Blues Records.

Considered Houston's top blues harmonica player, Sonny Boy Terry mixes jazz, rock, country, roots rock, and gospel in his soulful up termpo sound.

Ideally located in Houston's fourth ward also now known as midtown, right in the heart of the city, The Junction bar and Grill offers good parking, great food, a full bar, friendly proprietors who support live music. Now every Monday SBT and his top drawer up tempo band will perform and lead a variety of up and comers along with stellar professional blues friends. "I've been thinking about bringing back a Blue Monday in Houston for a few years now", Terry says.  With a keen eye for the business of blues. "The Junction has great possibiities location wise to connect with the entire Houston blues community.  I am also well aware people in town for business and tourists came out to the blue Monday's I have been a part of before. It's a great chance to serve and promote the Houston's diverse blues scene"

So please join us atthe Junction Bar and Grill for the GRAND OPENING on Monday, April 9th, 2012. Music starts at 8:30PM.