Over the years Howard "Guitar" Luedtke & Blue Max has opened for the likes of Johnny Winter, Hubert Sumlin, Tinsley Ellis, Koko Taylor, Jeff Healey and Lonnie Brooks.
Oliver moved to Atlanta, where he played guitar in cover bands before earning a spot in Tinsley Ellis’s touring act.
Ellis' next four releases were Fanning the Flames (1989), Trouble Time (1992), Storm Warning (1994), and Fire It Up (1997).
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He returned to Alligator Records in 2005 with the live album, Live! Highwayman.
Ellis Island | Kerry Ellis | Clough Williams-Ellis | Bret Easton Ellis | Tinsley Ellis | John Ellis | Albert Ellis | Tracee Ellis Ross | Ellis Park Stadium | Ellis Park | Warren Ellis | Perry Ellis | Jimmy Ellis | Carson Ellis | Doug Ellis | Anita Kert Ellis | Albert Ellis (psychologist) | Vivian Ellis | Trey Ellis | Sean Ellis | Osian Ellis | Havelock Ellis | Ellis Parker Butler | Alexander John Ellis | Tinsley | Robert Ellis Dunn | Kate Ellis | John Ellis (baseball) | George R. Ellis | Ellis Waterhouse |
As the house band at Toronto's Black Swan Tavern, the Kendall Wall Blues Band played with such blues legends as A.C. Reed, Pinetop Perkins, Eddy Clearwater, Tinsley Ellis, Little Willie Littlefield, Chubby Carrier, Bernard Allison, Eddie C. Campbell, Lefty Dizz, Eddie "Clean Head" Vinson, Eddie Shaw, Carey Bell and Fenton Robinson.
It was mixed by Rodney Mills assisted by Russ Fowler and Tag George at Southern Tracks Studios Atlanta, Georgia, mastered by Dr. Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital, Southborough, Massachusetts, and produced by Ricky Keller, Tinsley Ellis and Bruce Iglauer with Michael Rothschild as executive producer.