Bman's Blues Report

Markus Strasser is an instrumental teacher and lives in Neuötting (administrative district Altötting, Upper Bavaria). He has studied music educational theory and psychology at the university of Passau and published in 2004 his CD "Kiss me, I'm Frog". The works at the " guitar school for left-handers " are concluded. Since 2007 famously by the "Lokalistensong". In 2007 the pupil's CD " Charlie in the snail house " followed as a benefit performance project for abused children (Suibamoond). The studio admissions for the CD Horst Biewald " Boarisch Grooving " are concluded. Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

The most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's eve, "Auld Lang Syne" is an old Scottish song that was first published by the poet Robert Burns in the 1796 edition of the book, Scots Musical Museum. Burns transcribed it (and made some refinements to the lyrics) after he heard it sung by an old man from the Ayrshire area of Scotland, Burns's homeland. It is often remarked that "Auld Lang Syne" is one of the most popular songs that nobody knows the lyrics to. "Auld Lang Syne" literally translates as "old long since" and means "times gone by." The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten and promises to remember people of the past with fondness, "For auld lang syne, we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet." The lesser known verses continue this theme, lamenting how friends who once used to "run about the braes,/ And pou'd the gowans fine" (run about the hills and pulled u...

"Blind" Lemon Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues". Jefferson's singing and self-accompaniment were distinctive as a result of his high-pitched voice and originality on the guitar. He was not influential on some younger blues singers of his generation, as they did not seek to imitate him as they did other commercially successful artists. However, later blues and rock and roll musicians attempted to imitate both his songs and his musical style. His recordings would later influence such legends as B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Canned Heat, Son House and Robert Johnson. Blind Lemon Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas. Jefferson was one of eight children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson. Dis...

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Paris 1979. Jerry Portnoy (harp), Bob Margolin & Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnnson (guitars), Calvin "Fuzz" Jones (bass), Wllie "Big Eyes" Smith (drums). Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

The Hangover Blues Band is a five-piece Rhythm and Blues band, based in Warwick, England. Formed in early 1990, we have played many hundreds of gigs throughout the UK and Europe, from St. Ives to the Orkneys and Shetland Isles, from Castlebar in the west of Ireland to Montreux in Switzerland. Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

Jules is a former truckie, oil-rigger, boxer, engineer (not a train driver), poet, model, renaissance man, amateur beach bum and he has some stories to tell...." With a a taste for the arcane, Jules Boult delivers a nice line in blues and hokum. His is the poetry of plain speaking and this collection of original songs fits comfortably into a long tradition. Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

Steve Kozak was born in Vancouver BC Canada in 1956 and since the mid eighties has been a mainstay on the Vancouver scene as a guitarist, band leader, singer, songwriter, and tireless cheerleader and promoter of Blues and Roots music. Backed by some of Vancouver’s top musicians, Steve has built a reputation as one of the premier Blues acts in western Canada. Steve began playing guitar and singing at age sixteen and took to the Blues like a duck to water. His passion for the Blues flourished after meeting and hanging out for a few memorable nights with the legendary Muddy Waters in May of 1977. Muddy encouraged Steve and set him straight on a few things. After that Steve was ‘on a mission’-- his musical future as a Bluesman was sealed. Throughout his career Steve has shared the stage, and played with many Blues greats including; Pee Wee Crayton, Big Joe Duskin, Sonny Rhodes, Eddie ‘The Chief’ Clearwater, ‘Ice Pick’ James Harman, Duke Robillard, Rod Piazza, Rick Estrin, Mark Hummel, Lee...

Odetta Holmes, (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008) known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time included her song, "Take This Hammer", on its list of the All-Time 100 Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music." Odetta was born in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Los Angeles, California, attended Belmont High School, and studied music at Los Angeles City College while employed as a domestic worker. She had operatic training from the age of...

I remember the first time I heard this song. Before I played guitar I played drums and was really blown away by guys like Ginger Baker and john Bonham... but then there was Tony Williams .. and Billy Cobham! I was still living with mom and dad...well, I think I was home from college and I had like the best full blown stereo system that a kid could imagine... i won't go into all of my obsessions... but anyway I had all of my gear in the 2nd story of a two story house and the pool table of course was in the basement. I rigged wire to the basement and would put LP's on and then go down and play pool for 20 minutes to play pool with my pal Blues Ace. I would buy lp's by the armloads and play them all day while we played pool (I had a reel deck for parties). Anyway I would buy stuff I never heard (who'd a thunk it) and put it on and then go down to play pool. Spectrum comes on and and I about drop my pool cue. I had to find out who was playing guitar...I mean I bought a drum...

Wesley Junebug Jefferson (1944-2009) Bassist, vocalist, and bandleader Wesley Jefferson has been a stalwart of the Clarksdale blues scene since the mid-1960s. He was born in Roundaway in Coahoma County on March 23, 1944, the oldest boy of thirteen children. As a youth he picked and chopped cotton, plowed with mules and later with a tractor, and lived in extreme poverty. He recalls being influenced by his grandfather, Claude Jefferson, who played guitar at his home in Clarksdale. He also furtively listened to records by “deep blues” artists at a juke joint run by his mother “way out in the field,” where they sold catfish and moonshine made by his stepfather. Local musicians who he saw playing at small venues in the country included the one-man-band “Popeye,” guitarist Ernest Roy—“the best guitarist I ever seen,” and the band led by Tutwiler’s Lee Kizart, who hauled his piano from gig to gig. What happens when you mix 3 completely different people into a blues band? You get Mississi...

Mike Farris (b. ca. 1968) is an American musician. He was the founder and lead singer of Nashville, Tennessee group Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, but has been a solo act since 2001. He has put out 2 studio releases as well as a one live record as Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue as well as a charity EP as Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints. His music is diverse but tends to be rooted in early American gospel and blues. Farris's parents divorced when he was eleven years old; he began using drugs and alcohol from an early age, and almost died from an overdose before he was 21 years old. He recovered and went on to form the group Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies in 1990; they released three major-label albums and had sustained success on the U.S. rock charts in the 1990s. After their breakup, Farris sang with SCW, Peaceful Knievel and for a time fronted Double Trouble, the backing band for Stevie Ray Vaughan. Farris became a practicing Christian and rejected drugs and al...

Curtis Salgado (born February 4, 1954, Everett, Washington) is a Portland, Oregon based blues, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter. He plays harmonica and fronts his own band as lead vocalist. Salgado was the inspiration behind John Belushi's creation of the Blues Brothers characters in the late 1970s. They met and became friends while Belushi was in Eugene, Oregon filming the movie Animal House. The Blues Brother's debut album Briefcase Full of Blues is dedicated to Salgado and Cab Calloway's character in The Blues Brothers film is named after Curtis. For six years he performed with Robert Cray's band, and sang lead on Cray's debut album. Later in 1995 he spent a short stint as the lead vocalist with the latin rock band, Santana. Salgado was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2005 and underwent a successful liver transplant in 2006. He continues to record and perform his music. On June 13, 2006 a benefit concert was held in his honor in Portland to raise funds for ...

David Lynch & Friends San Luis Obispo, CA Folk / California Bluegrusion / Acoustic Play Songs » Share Songs » Visit Profile » DROP KICK 2011 !! Happy New Year Everyone, This will be my last email for the year of 2011. It has been a VERY eventful year indeed. As I reflect on events of the year, I am staggered by both the number of and the size of the changes. I have mentally morphed away from my dependence on the “normal” job (not initially by my own intention). WITH REFLING IN THE STUDIO. I have (with the help of some very gracious supporters) completed a new album, I Can See Sound , which is my greatest musical endeavor to date. I have increased my global visibility (again with the help of many, very kind people.) The result has been a number of great reviews on both the record itself and my live performance, which help confirm for me the validity and...

Randy Bluesman Hock, Steve Arvey, Liz Pennock, Shawn Brown, Hana-li, Pug Baker performing Randy's blues song "OK Just Aint Good Enough" in the studio. Began playing Soul and Blues with Recording Artists Professionally in 1965. Won a Band contest in miami, and played For President Johnson's Reception at The Dupont Plaza Hotel. In 1965 worked with Recording Artist Billy Miranda. (Soul Band) Band Members: Jazz Bo Brown Guitar formerly with Percy Sledge; Eddie Hope Drums Formerly with Roy Orbison; Al Colson Tenor Sax formerly with Little Richard. While I was with the group had the good fortune to play with the late Legend LES PAUL. 1966 in chicago to 1970 was Bass player for: LEGEND and BLUES HALL of FAMER-LONNIE BROOKS ; MOTHERS FINEST; Ronnie (Skeets Anderson) guitar Sam Cooke; Drummer Leon Recorded "Higher and Higher with Jackie Wilson;- Ray Parrish (guitar)Elvin Bishop- Band leader of The Original Soul survivors (Baby Hueys rythym section) Worked with Sammy Fen...

The Blues Band is a British blues band formed in 1979 by Paul Jones, former lead vocalist and harmonica player with Manfred Mann, and vocalist/slide guitarist Dave Kelly, who had previously played with the John Dummer Blues Band, Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker. The band’s first line-up also included bassist Gary Fletcher, guitarist Tom McGuinness (also of Manfred Mann) and drummer Hughie Flint, (the two had previously formed McGuinness Flint). In 1982 Flint left and was replaced by former Family drummer Rob Townsend. Their first album The Official Blues Band Bootleg Album, a mixture of blues standards and original songs featured the Jones and McGuinness composition "Come On In" and their long-standing stage favourite "Flatfoot Sam". This album initially attracted no interest from major record companies, so the band pressed a limited run of 3,000, hand-stamped their logo on the cardboard sleeve and signed them all. After unqualified endorsement from BBC Radio...

Now you might be thinking: "Not so fast, asshole, where does the name come from?" Well, it's true, no one in the band is named Eric, and we rarely play straight blues numbers, but the name has a very interesting, and fictitious story. Being a total Diva, Nick created the character "Eric", to hide behind to protect himself from his mounds of tax troubles, and paternity suits. By naming the rest of the guys "The Blues Band", Nick created an environment where he can fire anyone at any time, for no reason at all, and still keep the same name!(Why didn't I think of that!) Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! - Here

The Peterson Brothers Band are keeping the Blues alive, thanks to inspiration from the legends of the past and present. Mentors including Pinetop Perkins, Buddy Guy, Bootsy Collins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Fernando Jones, and many others have supported the band through their experiences and their gifts. They pay homage to their heroes by showcasing their favorite songs, most written long before they were born. They honor their home with a familiar Texas sound, drawn from many local favorites such as W.C. Clark, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Gary Clark, Jr. Legendary venues, including Antone's, Gruene Hall and Saxon Pub have welcomed the Peterson Brothers Band many times. Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

Twisting their way through blues, funk and rock 'Dukesy and The Hazzards' feature the talents of Nick Brown (vocals/guitar), Dave Evans (bass/keys/vocals) and Adrian Violi (drums/vocals). With a firm respect for the traditional side of blues 'Dukesy' combine this with their love of groove and the freedom and improvisation of jazz and funk resulting in a tasty, modern blend for all to enjoy! Coming together in 2009 (but having known each other for years) the boys released their debut EP - a 6 track combo of rollicking shuffles, solid groove and a little room to move (just to keep things a little relaxed!). Featuring 5 originals and a cleverly chosen cover ('You're A Mystery' by the legendary Aussie blues favourites The Bondi Cigars) 'Dukesy' have been enjoying airplay on many independent radio stations such as PBS, RRR, 3MDR and Bluesbeat across the country over the last year. On a wider scale Dukesy have shared the stage recently with the likes of...

  "KING OF THE ROCKIN' BLUES!" The Official Gregg Wright Newsletter December 30, 2011 MAVERICK'S FLAT EVERY WEDNESDAY! ...

Joe & Vicki Price performing at a fundraiser August 22, 2010 for Jason Allen of Solon, Iowa. Jason recently was added to the potential lung transplant list. The purpose of the fundraiser was to help defray the living expenses immediately following the transplant. For more information on Breath N For Jason contact jballen@southslope.net or on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Breathe-N-for-Jason/107624985947427 NEW YEAR’S 2012 Bob Dorr & The Blue Band also Matt Woods & The Thunderbolts Joe and Vicki Price Six Ways To Sunday The Erick Hovey Band Tony Brown Tom Gary December 31, 2011 Hilton Garden Inn Des Moines/Urbandale, 8600 Northpark Drive, Johnston, IA for tickets &hotel reservations call: 515-270-8890 Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

Alan Lomax, circa 1942. Courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity In an age where Justin Bieber can skyrocket to the highest heights of pop consciousness thanks to a couple well-placed YouTube videos, we've forgotten how hard it once was to spread popular music to the populace it described. In the 1930's and '40's, while  Woody Guthrie , Lead Belly , and others were crafting the folk songs that laid the foundation for uniquely American styles like rock and roll and the blues, they mostly sang in obscurity to local audiences in the country quarters where they lived. Recording equipment was bulky, fragile, and expensive, and those who could afford access to recorded music were listening mostly to European imports and early jazz. Thus, the music that best captured the lives of workaday Americans could only be heard by lucky locals in small-town dance halls and living rooms.    Enter Alan Lomax, an upstart folklorist who in his early teens began...

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As Years Go Passing By, Mick Clarke & Lou Martin, Happy Home Start:   20:01:00   End:   20:08:37   Duration   : 7:37 Calling Card, Rory Gallagher, Calling Card Start:   20:09:37   End:   20:14:58   Duration   : 5:21 Stranger Blues, Elmore James, Shake Your Moneymaker Start:   20:14:58   End:   20:18:18   Duration   : 3:20 Just Got Back From Baby's, ZZ Top, ZZ Top's First Album Start:   20:18:18   End:   20:22:30   Duration   : 4:12 See What Love Can do, 49 Ford, That's How We Roll Start:   20:27:30   End:   20:33:14   Duration   : 5:44 Heart on Fire, Grin, All Out Start:   20:33:14   End:   20:37:34   Duration   : 4:20 No Returns [with Tommy Lep...