International performing and recording artists, Harold Stewart & The Blues Hounds, are based out of Columbus, Ohio and consistently offer high-intensity, upbeat, funky blues music with a wide range of flavors. The Blues Hounds have headlines many international events and opened for various pro-musicians overseas, as well as recording 2 CDs in Japan. The Blues Hounds sound is a modern, funky, powerful good-time, high intensity electric blues with horn-line and Hammond b-3 backing in the vein of the music created in the late 1960s by Stax Records and made popular by Blues giants like Albert King, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Freddie King, Jr. Wells, Lucky Peterson, Little Milton and BB King. Jump and swing Blues tunes fill out the band's repertoire from artists such as T-Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Roomful of Blues and Delbert McClinton.