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Mayne Stage/ Act One Pub Newsletter 4.4.12
April 4, 2012 Just Announced PInk Floyd Laser Spectacular Show 8/17-8/18 IMPROV EVERY TUESDAY WITH ONE GROUP MIND 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 The largest stage to see improv in Chicago! UPCOMING SHOWS LEE RITENOUR 4/4 @ 8PM THIS IS…
Continue Reading »Albert King classic album reissued by Stax Records
CONCORD MUSIC GROUP RELEASES ALBERT KING’S I’LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU AS PART OF ITS STAX REMASTERS SERIES 2012 release date marks 40th anniversary of landmark blues recording. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group will release…
Continue Reading »Provogue Records artist: Walter Trout - Blues For The Modern Daze
I have been listening to the soon to be released cd, Blues For The Modern Daze by Walter Trout for a few weeks now. Why have I been holding out on you you ask? The cd isn't going…
Continue Reading »Music Maker artists at Jazzfest!
Music Maker Artists and Founder at New Orleans Jazzfest! We're thrilled that four MMRF artists as well as MMRF board members the Carolina Chocolate Drops will all be performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival !…
Continue Reading »Jim Marshall has passed
The guitar amp pioneer and founder of Marshall Amplification passes away Jim Marshall, 1923 - 2012 © Frank Maechler/dpa/Corbis Dr Jim Marshall OBE, founder of Marshall Amplification, has died aged 88. Since the company was founded 50 years…
Continue Reading »Sonny Landreth's first-ever all-instrumental album features Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani
SONNY LANDRETH’S 11th ALBUM ELEMENTAL JOURNEY IS FIRST ALL-INSTRUMENTAL OUTING May 22 release features Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Robert Greenidge and Steve Conn. BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Sonny Landreth’s 11th album, bearing the fittingly evocative title Elemental Journey,…
Continue Reading »Tin Pan Alley - Big Al Calhoun with H. Townsend and V. Townsend
This session, featuring Big Al Calhoun on amplified harmonica and vocals, with Henry Townsend (electric guitar, vocals) and Vernell Townsend on vocals, was recorded in August, 1979, in St. Louis. Big Al had worked for years with Henry…
Continue Reading »Johnny & the Devil - Hans Theessink
We've already had an American in Paris, but a Dutchman in Vienna? And one who has dedicated himself, body and soul, to American blues and roots music? Okay, Hans Theessink (pronounced Tay-sink) did not pick the easiest way…
Continue Reading »First Line - Bob Stewart Quartet
Jerome Harris has won international recognition as one of the more versatile and penetrating stylists of his generation on both guitar and bass guitar. Jerome's first major professional performances were as bass guitarist with Sonny Rollins in 1978;…
Continue Reading »Highway 61- Willie Foster
Birthdate - September 19, 1921 Birthplace - Outside Leland, Mississippi Death - May 20, 2001 Last Residence - Greenville, Mississipi Willie James Foster, known around his home of Greenville, Mississippi as the "Godfather of The Blues", says, I…
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