Alan 'Dealer' Wheeler

Alan started playing guitar in 1970, when he was just ten years old. By the age of sixteen, he was playing pro guitar with bands and honing his guitar skills along the way.Alan's brother Kenny is his longstanding drummer and together they have played in many bands together, and Kenny is currently playing along side Alan with "Dealer". Alan has played with the like of "James Dewar" ex Robin Trower, Lulu and Alan is proud to have played along side this legend of a man.


Alan started "Dealer" in 1999 and has kept faith in this outfit for 10 years now. The band are tight , expressive and deliver the blues right where it matters, live onstage. After three albums they are still churning out the Chicago electric guitar based blues rock sounds and continue to do so. Alan's playing speaks for itself, and if you care to listen to some of his work, you will see what I'm talking about.

Ricky Hardy

86-96 Founder member of the Hideaway Blues Band" who were held in the highest regard on the Scottish blues scene along with the likes of "Blues in Trouble" and "Big George and The Business".
90-96 Catapulted onto the English Blues Festival circuit. Went on to open for a catalogue of blues greats like Tinsley Ellis, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Canned Heat, John Hammond, Joe Louis Walker, The Red Devils, Walter Trout, Ten Years After, BBM AKA Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Gary Moore. Backed BBM at the famous Barrowlands Venue in Glasgow.

96 Moved to Dublin and joined forcs with Irish Blues Diva Mary Sokes Band, again playing support to the likes of Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Son of Muddy Waters Big Bill Morganfield, Eric Bibb.
98-04 After a two year stint packed up and went to the States, playing Acoustic blues from San Francisco to New Orleans.
Having returned back across the pond in 2004, hooked up once again with Blues Virtuoso Alan "Dealer" Wheeler now seeing the blues growing from strength to strentgh.
Albums recorded
"Nice work if you can get it" with The Hideaways
"Confessin the blues" Best of British Blues

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Jamie Temple

Kenny Wheeler

Kenny is the driving force behind dealer. He has been playing percussion since his early teens and has developed into one of the most exciting drummers you'll ever see live. Kenny has toured extensively with "Dealer" and along the way, has been involved with his brother Alan making music together a long long time. Together they are a formidable force, both instinctively reacting to each others playing almost telepathically. Kenny has played with a number of other bands to keep the pennies rollin in, but "Dealer" will always be his main focus.