The Bliss Street Blues Band

The Bliss Street Blues Band was a Lebanese early 1970s band made up of students at the American University in Beirut. After the members graduation in 1974 the band split up. They reunited for a concert in London in 2003 to benefit victims of the war in Iraq. The original lineup was: Walid Boustany (guitar) Raja Kawar (drums) Otis Grand (vocals and guitar) George Bisharat (mouth harp and singer) - now a professor of law in California Craig Lichtenwalner (bass) - now an English professor in Tennessee Ted Swedenburg (singer) - now a professor in Arkansas (