Singer, songwriter and guitar-player Peter Bandit  was born in Los Angeles, California.He started playing music in his schooldays.Beginning of the nineties he decidied to come  to Europe to make his fortune. After playing in several bands, he founded his own:

Peter Bandit’s Root 66

Root 66 is an old concept, but made fresh and modern by its five excellent musicians. Before the days of electric music, there was only acoustic music. No effects, tricks or others bits of modern technologie to hide behind. The halls became bigger, louder and most of all electric.

What Root 66 tries to accomplish, is to create the original effect those celebrated players had on their audience, Root 66 wants to have.

Bringing back the old intimate feeling, one associates with blues, gospel and soul.With 2 guitars, bass, snare, hihat, saxophone and an emotional singer Root 66 takes great songs,such as Swing-Songs à la Sinatra, earthy R&B like John Lee Hooker, Rock’n’Roll-tunes from the Beatles, the Stones and Chuck Berry also soul-classics from James Brown. Their repertoire covers pre-war songs like “Flip, flop and fly” or “Nobody knows you” all the way to Stray Cats and Black Crowes.

- But always playing with respect to the “old” times, when whisky was a dime and the juke-box was not invented.