Dumb Blind Luck

A 5 piece, NEW-RETRO all original Rock, R&B, Indie with a touch of jazz band hailing from Clearwater, Florida USA.
At home playing professional concert stages large and small, from Fairs, Festivals, Theaters and Outdoor Venues to smaller more intimate gatherings such as Private Parties, Corporate events and everything in between.
Consummate entertainers and musicians at heart, Dumb Blind Luck love to perform and aspire to bring a fun and a playful vibe along with some of the best original songs ever performed to every stage and event they play — captivating and charming every audience that has the pleasure to experience them.

THE DUMB BLIND LUCK STORY… starts in San Francisco…
All of us (with the exception of Mark (drums), had been friends in San Francisco. Over the years we all played with different people around the Bay area but never formed into a band.
Cut to Clearwater, Florida. It’s now the 90’s. Cookie Leonard (vocals, violin, and keys) and Bob Forrest (vocals and guitar) had started playing together as a duo. Getting together to play songs for fun, appearing at local coffee houses, weddings, funerals, parties... you get it. Discovering that they were both good songwriters, they got busy and worked up a number of originals that became the foundation of DBL.
As luck would have it, it wasn’t long before Mike Alkema (bass and horns) also arrived in Clearwater from SF and became the third member playing trumpet and flugelhorn. We still needed a bass player. Cookie asked Michael to learn bass and he busted his chops and now holds down both horn and bass in his own inimitable style.
Mark Stevens (drums), originally from Michigan, was introduced to the band through a friend and fellow musician. Trouble was, we already had a drummer at the time. Mark persisted and eventually won us over to become the fourth member of the band.

Ric, guitar and vox came on the scene in the 2000s bringing a whole new element to the band having toured worldwide opening for bands like U2 and others, and having a wide musical palette fit right in.

That’s the DBL story in a nutshell. Just good friends creating a groove!