The duo BlueBird consists of
Leigh Harrison and Bobby Perfect.
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BOBBY PERFECT is a lifelong musician and composer of numerous instrumental music pieces.  He has played throughout the US, and in Europe in bands where he played guitar and/or bass.  His college band, Good Neighbors, opened for NRBQ on several occasions.

Bobby plays 6-and 12-string acoustic and electric guitars, and bass guitar, and has been playing in bands since childhood.  He has performed at numerous venues throughout the New York area, including The Back Fence, The Bitter End, and The Red Lion, in Greenwich Village, as well as The Scotland Yard Blues Bar in Hoboken, N.J.

He has worked with numerous bands, including the Night Owls, Blue Fuse, The Blues Blazers, Lonesome Valley Riders, and Blue Rooster Pie.

He currently plays lead guitar and sings with the band The Smoky O Band, the Backporch Pickers, and the duo, BlueBird.  He played lead guitar and sang harmony with the band Bokum Road in CT.

Bob composed the guitar instrumental heard in the opening and closing credits of the Poet to Poet TV show, now on You Tube.  Bobby has released three CDs on the SongCrew label: "Light Blue," "Shackles," and "Slim Junior's Christmas."

LEIGH HARRISON is a lifelong composer, and a songwriter with two CDs released by SongCrew Music:  "Eclectic Chanteuse" (2003) and "Oh, Wow!" (2010)  She plays 6- and 12-string acoustic and electric guitar, Dobro, banjo-guitar, percussion, and African flute.  She first sang when she was young, in a circle of women hosted by Janis Joplin in Janis' attic in San Francisco.  Over the years, Leigh met or spent time with Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Johnny Winter, Malvina Reynolds, Koko Taylor, Ronnie Earl, Phil Lesh, and Muddy Waters, among others.

Leigh has written songs since childhood, and had written over 100 songs by the time she was in her 20's, in styles as diverse as pop, rock 'n' roll, country, blues, rockabilly, Western swing, jazz, Ladino, reggae, and classical.  Her voice was described in the 1980's as "whiskey with a shot of honey" by noted rock press photographer Russell Reif. Leigh has played with Jaco Pastorius, Moogy Klingman, and in numerous rock, pop, country, and blues bands.

Leigh is also the author of numerous poems, and her four poetry collections ("Tour De Farce," "Our Harps Upon The Willows," "Finding Sermons In Stones," and "From A to Zeus") are available wherever she performs.  Sample songs from Leigh's earlier CDs ("Eclectic Chanteuse" and "Oh, Wow!") are on this website.  She is currently recording her third CD of original songs, and produced the 2nd concert in a series of concerts she created called "Babes On Board," held in NYC, which featured female-fronted bands.  She's also worked with Bob in the band, Hot Strings Cafe.

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Bobby Perfect's website
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Leigh Harrison's website
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The two met in the mid-1980s while playing gigs and jam sessions in the Greenwich Village area. They
performed around the city with the King Biscuit Blues Band, then began performing under the name, BlueBird. They also formed a 4-piece combo called Jukebox Jamboree -- Leigh, Bob, Zebra (drums) and Steve Zavack (bass) -- which featured Leigh's country-styled vocals.

A second incarnation of Jukebox Jamboree featured Leigh, Bob, and George Roberts (drums) and Alan Allen (bass). Jukebox Jamboree played in the NY/NJ, area for several years before the band members moved on to other projects.
About BlueBird
photo credit: Ellen Iovino
Besides their duo, BlueBird, Leigh and Bob have also performed together at various times as members of the following bands: Night Owls, Magic Mechanism, Jukebox Jamboree, the Cheyenne Social Club, Bokum Road, Blue Rhythm Sandwich, and Hot Strings Cafe.  Currently, they work both in BlueBird, and in 2024 finished BlueBird's 2nd CD.

BlueBird's first CD, entitled "BlueBird At My Window," includes a selection from among their favorite songs as well as an original by Leigh. BlueBird's second CD, entitled "Jazz Hands," includes songs available on several streaming services, and was reviewed in 2024 by Andrew Kerbs in Sound Waves magazine.

To see the CDs, go to the Music page of this website.