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The Brooklyn Blues Project
The Brooklyn Blues Project Brooklyn, NY Blues / Classic Rock / Accoustic Play Songs ยป Share Songs ยป Visit Profile ยป This Friday Night, February 10, 2012 The Brooklyn Blues Project Presents http://www.facebook.com/BrooklynBluesProject Blues Bonanza NYC ! With…
Continue Reading »Kenny Neal to host blues festival
KENNY NEAL TO HOST BLUES FESTIVALRenowned modern swamp blues master Kenny Neal will host and perform at a festival he's organized in his native Louisiana. KENNY NEAL'S FAMILY & FRIENDS HERITAGE BLUES FESTIVALSATURDAY, MARCH 3rd 12 NOON -…
Continue Reading »Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes
Frank Stokes (January 1, 1888 โ September 12, 1955) was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar styleStokes was born in Shelby…
Continue Reading »Bob Dorr and the Blue Band with Erick Hovey
Bob Dorr & The Blue Band started in Cedar Falls IA, in the early summer of 1981, simply as a way to satisfy the remaining contracted obligations of a band that had broken up in the spring of…
Continue Reading »Treat Me Like I Treat You - Chris Beard
When you grow up in a house filled with the blues, when your father grew up on Beale Street, when music was in your DNA, then blues is who you are and what you do.Chris Beard is a…
Continue Reading »Levitt Shell - Memphis Tennessee
Sometimes as a part of seeing a concert or in this case watching a video I am just taken by the presence of the venue. I have noticed this venue a number of times and this time as…
Continue Reading »Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair - Eden Brent
Eden Brent (born 15 Nov, 1965 in Greenville, Mississippi) is an award-winning American musician on the independent Yellow Dog Records label. A blues pianist and vocalist, she combines boogie-woogie with elements of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop.…
Continue Reading »Caldonia - Boog-A-Loo Aimes
Abie "Boogaloo" Ames, who died at the age of eighty-one in February of 2002 in Greenville, Mississippi, was a master of the boogie-woogie piano style. Born in rural Georgia, he taught himself to play the piano by listening…
Continue Reading »Mayne Stage/ Act One Pub Newsletter 2.8.12
February 8, 2012 JUST ANNOUNCED MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF CHICAGO'S 175TH YEAR OF INCORPORATION MARCH 2, 3 & 4 IMPROV EVERY TUESDAY WITH ONE GROUP MIND 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 The largest stage to see improv in Chicago! UPCOMING SHOWS…
Continue Reading »New Release by Tip Of The Top - From Memphis to Greaseland - Review
I have just receiver a copy of the new release by Tip Of The Top called From Memphis To Greaseland. You like traditional Chicago style blues...this thing smokes! The release is made up of 13 original and cover…
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