About B-4

Barry Tannenbaum is the leader of B-4, also providing guitar and vocals. 

New York is where Barry Tannenbaum was bornand raised. After coming to Minnesota in 1986, Barry decided to make Minnesota his home. After a brief stint in St. Cloud, he located to Minneapolis. From there Seattle, Washington. Then back to the Twin Cities area. Barry played guitar from the age of 12 to 19, then for many reasons he stopped. 10 years ago, being bored, his wife suggested he get a guitar and play again.

Since then, Barry has been very active in the Minnesota blues scene.He also runs a Blues Jam at the Rosetown American  Legion in Roseville

Erik is a MN native who grew big in Winona, MN, then moved to Mpls in 2011 and was given the opportunity to grow up. At the age of 4, Erik was given a cassette player and would walk around the neighborhood listening to cassette tapes. It was then he knew he had to play music in his life. Erik started his musical journey singing in choirs as a youngster. Drums became his main obsession at age 9. At the age of 21, the harmonica picked him and the rest is history yet to be written. Erik specializes in that 1950’s Chicago sound as well as the west coast stylings of David Barrett, who he worked with for a year during Covid. Erik’s philosophy is that it’s “All In The Groove” and that entertaining is the largest part of what people come to see.

Minnesota native John Kraft is the B-4 Bassist. John grew up in Austin, Minnesota and moved to Minneapolis after dropping out of college. John has been in music all his life starting with singing in the church choir with his mom. He started playing violin at nine, switched to saxophone at eleven, then picked up the bass just after high school so he could play in bands with his friends. He’s stuck to the bass ever since and is comfortable on both upright bass or bass guitar. John has played in all kinds of configurations and styles, but especially likes to play anything with a groove that will make folks bob their heads, snap their fingers, tap their feet, and dance.

Despite not filling out the application, Doran Wetzel is a guitarist for B-4. Having been born into a musical household, he went through drums, bass, five years of piano lessons, guitar, and tuba (for 2.8 seconds) before finally settling back on guitar. Since then, he’s played in many bands and learned the golden rule “any gig you can walk away from is a good gig”. His musical influences range from blues, jazz, classical, classic rock, Americana, funk, and indie music. Forever a student of strings and sound.