by Cub Koda The Blues Busters were a group of local Memphis musicians who banded together and toured and recorded for a short period of time in the 1980s. The core group was comprised of guitarists Lee Roy Martin and Earl The Pearl Banks, bassist James Price, Chicken George Walker on drums and Thomas Blue Cornes on keyboards. The group only stayed together for about a year and only recorded 13 sides which were originally released on a High water album by producer David Nelson in 1986 with a 1999 CD reissue that also featured three tracks of an earlier lineup which featured Funky John Cole on bass and William Boogie Man Hubbard on keyboards.