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Robert Mugge - All Jams On Deck - Film Review
I have had the pleasure to watch Robert Mugge's All Jams On Deck, a documentation of late night jams as they take place on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise. The scene opens with an interview of guitarist…
Continue Reading »New Release: Andrew D. Gordon - Boogie-Woogie and the Blues - Review and the Blues
I recently received a cd of piano boogie and blues by Andrew D. Gordon called Boogie-Woogie and the Blues. This is a straight up piano cd with 9 original tracks. The cd opens with the title track and…
Continue Reading »Mayne Stage/ Act One Pub Newsletter 3.21.12
March 21, 2012 Just Announced BOB STROUD HOSTS ROCK & ROLL ROOTS LIVE! May 4 SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS JUNE 2 IMPROV EVERY TUESDAY WITH ONE GROUP MIND 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 The largest stage to see improv…
Continue Reading »Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival headliners, dates announced
CANDYE KANE, FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, MUDDY WATERS TRIBUTE AND ROSIE LADET HEADLINE 23rd ANNUAL SIMI VALLEY CAJUN & BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 26-27 Los Angeles areaβs largest Cajun and Blues festival, held over Memorial Day weekend, features two…
Continue Reading »Dirty No Gooders' Blues' - Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942) in Blackwell, Arkansas; (a small community on US 64 in western Conway County) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arrangerMyers started singing and playing the piano and…
Continue Reading »Please Warm My Weiner - BO CARTER
Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon (June 30, 1892 β September 21, 1964) was an American early blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts, and on a few of their recordings. Carter also managed that…
Continue Reading »Deja Vu Blues - Gaye Adegbalola
Gaye Adegbalola (born Gaye Todd, March 21, 1944, Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States) is an American blues singer and guitarist, teacher, lecturer, activist, and photographer.Gaye Todd was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She graduated as valedictorian of the…
Continue Reading »Blind and Dumb Man Blues - Big Smokey Smothers
Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers (March 21, 1929 β July 23, 1993) was an African American, Chicago blues guitarist and singer. He was once a member of Howlin' Wolf's backing band, and worked variously with Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers,…
Continue Reading »Reconsider Baby - Marcel Flemr Band
Marcel Flemr Band was established in October 2006 by extraordinary young blues guitarist and singer .Marcel Flemr Blues project of the new ingoing generation of young blues men who honor the black roots electric blues heritage. Their style…
Continue Reading »If Heartaches Were Nickels - Dudley Taft
Dudley S. Taft (born July 4, 1966, Washington, D.C.) is an American musician. Taft is a blues musician that also was a songwriting member of Seattle band Sweet Water and member and chief songwriter of Seattle, Washington based…
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