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Continue Reading »11th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival: New Location, All-Day Headlining Acts, All-Star BB Chung King Tribute Jam
11TH ANNUAL VENTURA COUNTY BLUES FESTIVAL FEATURES NEW LOCATION; ALL-DAY HEADLINING ACTS; FESTIVAL-ENDING ALL-STAR "JAM SESSION" DEDICATED TO MEMORY OF THE LATE BB CHUNG KING …
Continue Reading »128 Records artist:Claude Hay - I Love Hate You - New Release Review
I just received a copy of I Love Hate You, the newest release from Australian singer/guitarist Claude Hay. The opening track, I Love Hate You, is a very stripped down modern blues track a la White Stripes/Black Keys…
Continue Reading »12th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival, A Spring SoCal Tradition, Keeping the Blues Alive
ANNOUNCING THE 12TH ANNUAL VENTURA COUNTY BLUES FESTIVAL, A SPRING SOCAL TRADITION, KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE SINCE 2005; YEAR #2 AT BEAUTIFUL STUDIO CHANNEL ISLANDS IN CAMARILLO, CA …
Continue Reading »13 Years In Prison - Big Leon Brooks
Big Leon Brooks’ deep voice and heavy harmonica tone harkened back to Chicago blues of the 1950s—his style having been preserved by a long hiatus from music. He was influenced very little by the funkier, guitar-driven blues of…
Continue Reading »13 Years In Prison - Big Leon Brooks
Only one Album under the name of Big Leon Brooks. Let's go to town was the first album Bob Corritore ever produced. Sadly this album never saw the light of day whilst BL was alive. All songs where…
Continue Reading »13th Almost Annual Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival - Concert Review - Stilladog - Guest writer
This year’s festival started off under partly cloudy skies with Patty Reese rendering an acapella version of the Star Spangled Banner. As she sang you could gaze out over the Chesapeake Bay and imagine, as I did, the…
Continue Reading »13th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival, SoCal's Longest-Running Yearly Big Blues Event, Dedicated to the Late Mickey Jones
13TH ANNUAL VENTURA COUNTY BLUES FESTIVAL, SOCAL'S LONGEST-RUNNING YEARLY BIG BLUES EVENT RETURNS TO LOVELY CAMARILLO; EARL THOMAS, JOHN NEMETH HEADLINE THIS YEAR'S STRONG LINEUP **Festival Also Dedicated to the Late Actor/Musician, Mickey Jones** …
Continue Reading »14th Annual Blues From The Top Festival: Trampled Under Foot Reunion, Much More!
14TH ANNUAL BLUES FROM THE TOP FESTIVAL FEATURES SPECIAL TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT REUNION, AND FINEST MUSIC LINEUP YET! Two Big Days - Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26 At Winter Park, CO PRESENTED BY THE GRAND COUNTY…
Continue Reading »15 Minutes of HDT- Hound Dog Taylor
Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor (April 12, 1915 - December 17, 1975) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.Taylor was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1915 (although some sources say 1917). He originally played piano, but began…
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