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Lousiana Tour Starts this Weekend - Gregg Wright
"KING OF THE ROCKIN' BLUES!" The Official Gregg Wright Newsletter August 10, 2011 LOUISIANA TOUR STARTS THIS WEEKEND! LOUISIANA SHOWS START THIS WEEKEND! Greetings friends, Our 3 week tour of Louisiana opens this weekend at Chuck's in Addis…
Continue Reading »This Time I'm Leaving - Bill Perry
This is an absolutely incredible blues player! If you don't have any of his recordings, I'm not doing my job! William Sanford Perry, (December 25, 1957 - July 17, 2007) born in Goshen, New York, was an American…
Continue Reading »BRIAN'S BACKYARD BBQ - Correspondent Mike Packer
Sometimes legends begin quietly. It all started in 1993 as a family reunion in the backyard on a summer's day at Brian and Robin Remaly's house in rural Cambell Hall in upstate New York. Brian & Robin decided…
Continue Reading »If You Didn't Come Up And Touch Me (It Wasn't Me) - Vance Kelly
Vance Kelly (born January 24, 1954, Chicago) is a soul-blues singer and guitarist, who has performed regularly at various music venues in the Chicago area, chief among them the 1815, Checkerboard Lounge, Rosa's Lounge, Kingston Mines, Buddy Guy's…
Continue Reading »Boom! - Tom Hambridge - New release review
I've just got this new release by Tom Hambridge. Tom is the Grammy Award winning producer of Buddy Guy's "Living Proof" cd. This release includes a blend of music from a lot of different areas. It is strongly…
Continue Reading »Full Moon Lightnin - Documentary
A spiritual journey of two tortured souls... one seeking to discover what will make him whole again... the other desperate to hold on to what he already has. It has been over 60 years since New York City…
Continue Reading »THE NATCHEZ BURNING - Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early
Both Elmo Williams and Hezekiah Early are from Natchez, Mississippi. Hezekiah, formerly of Hezekiah and the House Rockers, is still the only man going who can simultaneously beat drums and blow through harmonica with the aid of electrician's…
Continue Reading »MARIA MULDAUR’S SOULFUL NEW CD, STEADY LOVE, SET FOR WORLD-WIDE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 27
MARIA MULDAUR’S SOULFUL NEW CD, STEADY LOVE, SET FOR WORLD-WIDE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 27 ON STONY PLAIN RECORDS New Album Recorded in Her Musical and Spiritual Home of New Orleans Is a Return to Her “Bluesiana Sound” EDMONTON, AB…
Continue Reading »Done Got Old - Robert Belfour
Robert "Wolfman" Belfour (born September 11, 1940, Holly Springs, Mississippi) is an American blues musician. His father, Grant Belfour taught him the guitar at a young age and he continued his tutelage in the blues from musicians Otha…
Continue Reading »The Evil One - James "Blood" Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 2, 1942 in St. Matthews, South Carolina) is an American jazz and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer's distinctive guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging." His singing has been called "raggedly…
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