A true ambassador of the blues, Zach has spent a lifetime playing blues all across the United States of America and the World at large. The list of bands that he fronted and played with is extensive…A few blues legends that Zach Zunis spent years on the road with are: Great William Clark, Rick Holmstrom, Lester Butler, Mason Casey and countless others. Zach’s signature blazing West Coast-on-steroids sound can be heard on countless blues albums. Zach is currently backing up the Alligator Records’ star Janiva Magness. ‘Love Wins Again’, the sixth album he has recorded with Janiva Magness, was recently nominated for a Grammy Award. The Grammy nomination is a first for both Ms. Magness and Mr. Zunis, whose career is also a study in perseverance. When he was a youth in Dayton (“the funk capital of the world,” he informed a colleague), his first band, the Slugs, attracted the attention of members of the Ohio Players, including Marvin Pierce, who produced and shopped a demo for the band. Mr. Zunis and a girlfriend later moved to San Diego, where he played with several bands. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he held a succession of daytime jobs until, […]