Bman's Blues Report

John Adam Estes (January 25, 1899 – June 5, 1977), best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee In 1915, Estes' father, a sharecropper who also played some guitar, moved the family to Brownsville, Tennessee. Not long after, Estes lost the sight of his right eye when a friend threw a rock at him during a baseball game. At the age of 19, while working as a field hand, he began to perform professionally. The venues were mostly local parties and picnics, with the accompaniment of Hammie Nixon, a harmonica player, and James "Yank" Rachell, a guitarist and mandolin player. He would continue to work on and off with both musicians for more than fifty years. Estes made his debut as a recording artist in Memphis, Tennessee in 1929, at a session organized by Ralph Peer for Victor Records. His partnership with Nixon was first documented on songs such as "Drop Down Mama" ...

W hether rockin out with the band or as a solo act, Luther Trammell brings the blues home. Luther has played with The Blues Imperials, Shirley King (Daughter of BB King). Luther and his band performed as House Band for the House of Blues in 2007. Placed third in the 2007 River City Blues Challenge and as a solo act, Luther commands a sound from his acoustic guitar like none other. Luther's strong voice gives his songs a depth of feeling and experience. Luther’s CD L.T. and the Blues Express is available now and his new CD “Luther Trammell Acoustic Blues Solo” will be out at the end of January 2012 . Cd Baby for Luther If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

Aktuelle Meldung: +++ Wir sind nominiert für die Blues Challenge 2o12 (baltic blues e.V.) +++ Der Endausscheid für die "German Blues Challenge 2012" findet am 29.o9.2o12 in Eutin statt. Wie genau wir nun in diese "Lage" gekommen sind, wissen wir auch nicht. Es verhält sich so, dass, im ersten "Wahlgang", eine Jury von 150 Journalisten, Veranstaltern, Moderatoren u.ä. zehn Bluesbands aus Deutschland erwählt hat, man kann sich hierfür nicht bewerben. Um sich für das Finale zu "qualifizieren" bedarf es eines zweiten "Wahlganges" und dieser läuft dann ab dem o1.o7.2o12 über die Internetseite des Baltic Blues e.V.. Hier seid IHR dann alle gefragt und gefordert weil: nur IHR entscheidet ob wir zum Finale fahren werden. Wir werden hier Anfang Juli einen Link zur Abstimmungsseite einrichten, dort kann ein jeder einmal * hoffentlich ganz viele für uns, das "Pass Over Blues Quartett" :-) * seine Stimme abgeben. If you like what I’m doi...

I remember a while back on one of my late night new blues band searches and coming across this cool band - Terry Quiett and thinking, wow... these guys are hot. I just received a copy of A Night At The Orpheum , a new release from the Terry Quiett Band . The release opens with Getting Through To Me , an Otis Rush like track. This is a great opening track and Quiett on vocals and guitar set a high bar for the rest of the show. He's a strong singer and wrings the neck of the guitar till it cry's out for Mama. Judgement Day is up next with Quiett demonstrating his ability on slide. Now I don't know what kind of axe he pulls out for this (typically a strat player) but it has a resonator fat sound and has a swampy sound. Quiett has an interesting vocal style that is very natural along the lines of Warren Haynes or Ronnie Van Zandt. He doesn't sound like he's trying to copy anyone...it's a special quality some people are just born with. next the band kicks out Big Ma...

NEW SENA EHRHARDT MUSIC VIDEO Singer Sena Ehrhardt has just finished a new music video with her band. To watch "On The Clock," one of the ten original songs from her Blind Pig debut album, Leave The Light On , please click HERE . You can also see the video on Blind Pig's Facebook page. To like us on Facebook, please click HERE . One of the freshest and most dynamic young voices on the blues scene today, Sena's been generating a buzz with her new release and her powerful live performances with the Sena Ehrhardt Band, which Blues Revue called "one of the hottest new blues outfits in the country." Ehrhardt forges her own personal and intelligent take on the blues, soulfully informed by her drive and intensity. Her songs are fresh and incisive, delivered in a style that moves effortlessly from sultry to declarative to passionately forceful. Fans and critics alike have taken notice. Living Blues said, "Sena Ehrhardt ...

Standing 6'5" and weighing 300-plus, Ernest "Big" Crawford loomed large in Chicago's explosive postwar blues scene. Crawford's slapped upright lines pushed recordings by the likes of Little Walter, Big Bill Broonzy, and Memphis Slim, but his work with former plantation hand Muddy Waters carved Crawford's name for all time in the blues bass hall of fame. In April 1948, fellow South Side denizens Waters and Crawford recorded "I Can't Be Satisfied" for the Chess brothers' Aristocrat label. (Seven years earlier in Mississippi, Waters had recorded the song as "I Be's Troubled" for musicologist Alan Lomax.) On the'48 track, Crawford's slap-bass accompaniment begins with a simple root-5 pattern that hangs on the I chord's G and D notes even when Waters goes to the IV. On the turnaround, Crawford pedals an A under the V chord (and tosses in a non-chord E), and on the IV he introduces a chromatic lick with a syncopation ...

Big Dave Reniers (born 1969) began playing harmonica at the age of 14. A few years later he got in touch with blues music listening to harmonica-players such as William Clarke, Kim Wilson, James Harman, etc.. He formed “the Dizzy Dave Band” when he was seventeen and they played steadily for about eight years. Learning more and more about the old-school blues he wanted to play forties and fifties style and so co-started “the Electric Kings” in 1994. This band knew a lot of recognition in Europe with their mixture of Swing, Jump and Chicago-blues. The last few years you could also hear Big Dave play as a sideman in “the Elmore D. band” (pre-war blues with a 21st century approach). Influenced by all the great harp-players (both Walters, both Sonny Boys, G. Smith,...) Big Dave plays a fat-toned, straightforward harp while singing with a strong relaxed voice. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audien...

Johnnie Bassett (born October 9, 1935, Marianna, Florida, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band and has since released six albums. He has cited Billy Butler, Tiny Grimes, Albert King, B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences. Born in Florida, Bassett relocated with his family in 1944 to Detroit. As a guitarist in his local group, Joe Weaver and the Bluenotes, they won talent contests, and locally backed Big Joe Turner, and Ruth Brown. In 1958 Bassett enrolled into the United States Army, but on his return to Detroit worked with the Bluenotes as session musicians for Fortune Records. During this time he provided accompaniment to Nolan Strong & The Diablos and Andre Williams. He later backed The Miracles in a short tenure at Chess Records, working on their debut single, "Got a Job" (1958). In concerts while in Detroit...

Tubie is a Texas native, Texas blues songwriter and BMI artist from Navasota....the 'Official' Blues capital of Texas. In fact, Tubie and The Touchtones played in the state capitol rotunda in Austin on April 5th, 2007 for the reading of the resolution in the Texas state legislature that named Navasota as the official blues capital. Tubie was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Texas Music Awards in 2009, and the Touchtones were the opening band for the awards ceremony in the civic auditorium in Palestine, Texas. Tubie was also nominated for Blues Artist of the Year in the Upstate Indie Awards in Syracuse, New York. They have been the signature band for the Navasota Blues Fest Organization for 6 years!!! AND played for the state of Texas at the Washington on the Brazos State Park for the 4th of July celebrations in 2008 and 2009. Recognized for years as a premier a blues and classic rock band, their 3rd CD Blue With Envy and their 2nd CD The Lonestar Blues, both produce...

I just received the newest cd, Detonation , from Dave Fields . Fields has assembled 12 strong blues rock oriented tracks, all with a different twist from Reggae to straight Blues. The cd opens with Addicted To Your Fire , a a rocker with somewhat of an arena style. In The Night takes it to the next step with a funky beat and some pretty tasty guitar riffs. Doin' Hard Times opens with some fiery riffs and features Joe Louis Walker. This track has some more contemporary blues lines and features some real sweet guitar soloing. Bad Hair Day gets a real serious reggae beat and Fields really digs in for some hot riffs on this track. The Alter , again a more contemporary use of music with blues roots features some fiery guitar riffs. Better Be Good takes the blues from a swing jazz direction for a pretty cool track. Fields again shows he has the chops and can make is guitar talk big time. Pocket Full Of Dust hits dead center with an Albert King/Otis Rush/Big Mamma Thornton style blue...

DELTA GROOVE IS PROUD TO WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY THE BLUES BROADS Dorothy Morrison , Tracy Nelson , Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli , all highly regarded vocalists in their own rights, have joined forces as The Blues Broads . Reflecting more than two centuries of collective experience in blues, country, gospel and rock, the awesome aggregation is nothing less than a roots music "super group" of the first order. The Blues Broads, the group's recording debut is a CD/DVD combination set, recorded live, that will be released by Delta Groove on September 18th. Delta Groove Music president Randy Chortkoff stated, "I'm overjoyed to have these fabulously talented women join the Delta Groove family. They bring a history and commitment to the music I love, and I know they're a perfect fit for our label." The Blues Broads CD/DVD includes both familiar songs associated with their respective august careers as well as newly...

MICHAEL SCHENKER "TEMPLE OF ROCK" APRIL 2013 UK TOUR TICKETS ON SALE: MONDAY 30th JULY BOOK ONLINE: www.thegigigcartel.com TICKET HOTLINE: 0844 478 0898 Due to the critical acclaim Michael Schenker received on his 2012 UK tour, the legendary guitarist will return with his classic rock band "Temple of Rock" on a 12-date UK tour in April 2013. The tour kicks-off on Tues 9th April at ARC , Stockton on Tees . Tickets for all twelve Temple of Rock UK concerts go on general sale Monday July 30th . Book online: www.thegigcartel.com or call the Ticket Hotline: 0844 478 0898 . Following his acclaimed 2009/10 world tour performing the MSG 30th Anniversary Show , Michael was joined by (original MSG vocalist) Gary Barden, with a host of other classic rock legends including Carmine Appice, Simon Phillips, Chris Slade and Chris Glen. Schenker’s Temple of Rock is ready to conquer the UK with a celebrated kick-ass, all-star line-up. Boasting Ex-Scorpi...

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Big Jack Johnson, born July 30, 1940 in Lambert MS is one of the most popular and influential of the contemporary Delta Blues musicians active today. He is affectionately known as the "Oil Man", a nickname he earned during his early years working for Shell Oil as a truck driver. He was first influenced by his father to take up the guitar and quickly mastered the finer points of the blues by sitting in with his father's band around the area in his early teens. As a young blues musician, he came under the sway of the eloquent electric single string work of BB and Albert King. Influenced not only by the blues music all around him, but also by the sounds of the white Country artists emanating out of the Grand Ole Opry, Big Jack's music is that of the Mississippi juke joint. He peppers his blues with not only the traditional blues of his fellow Mississippi and Chicago forbearers but also brings elements of funk and soul that keeps the dance floors packed. His music bears t...

Happy Birthday to Buddy Guy...the greatest living blues player. This is an extremely recent concert and if you've seen the footage you are one of the 11. Enjoy this footage of the great Buddy guy!! George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. Critically acclaimed, he is a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound and has served as an influence to some of the most notable musicians of his generation, including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In the 1960s Guy was a member of Muddy Waters' band and as a house guitarist at Chess Records. He can be heard on Howlin' Wolf's 'Killing Floor' and Koko Taylor's 'Wang Dang Doodle' as well as on his own Chess sides and the fine series of records he made with harmonica player Junior Wells. Ranked 30th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", Guy is known for his showmanship on stage: playing his guitar w...

It’s been a long and dusty, winding road for Austin singer/songwriter Guy Forsyth that’s lead to a recent surge in praise over his dazzling live shows and his rich Americana roots sound. Forsyth (vocals, acoustic, electric, & slide guitar, harmonica, ukulele, singing saw), along with Will Landin (bass/tuba) and Rob Hooper (drums/Cajon), bring a unique mixture of styles such as folk, rock, country, and Tin Pan Alley to create a sound that’s as heterogeneous, raw and compelling as America itself. You’ll hear powerhouse vocals deliver energetic yarns about love, the government and the apocalypse, to name a few, as Forsyth and company squeeze everything they have into each song and rarely come up for air. Forsyth brought his skills as a stellar live performer to help found and make infamous nationwide the theatrical acoustic group The Asylum Street Spankers. He gave Wammo his first washboard and Christina Marrs her first guitar and ukelele. His time with the Spankers touring and record...

Harmonica Shah (born Thaddeus Hall, March 31, 1946, Oakland, California) is an American Detroit and electric blues harmonicist and singer. His playing was influenced by Junior Wells, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Lazy Lester, and Little Sonny. Born in California, Shah also spent time in Somerville, Texas, with his blues harmonica and guitar playing grandfather, Sam Dawson. Dawson had recorded for both Alan Lomax and Duke Records. His mother, a beautician, encouraged him to be a salesman for Jet magazine in the latter part of the 1950s. This allowed Shah access to Oakland's bars and clubs, where he heard musicians such as Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Juke Boy Bonner and Big Mama Thornton. Shah told Living Blues magazine that his grandfather's passion for the blues inspired him. "Well see I picked it up from him, he'd be out in the fields singin' all that (sings in a slow moan) 'Tell me how long, whoa, tell me how long it's been since you've been away fr...

The Pitbull of Blues Band is more than just a generic blues band. As a Florida based band of family and friends, "The Pitbull of Blues Band" enjoys sharing their own breed of Blues with others. Josh "The Pitbull of Blues" Rowand is the Guitar Slinger and Lead Vocalist. He is an accomplished slide guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter. Deny Rowand is the bass player and backup vocalist. He has been playing since the great Beatles Scare of 1964 and adds a solid Old School approach to their music. The guy that keeps the swing in the whole damn thing is Richie Corricelli. Richie brings a bit of attitude to the blues, whether it’s a shuffle, a swing or a very traditional "flat tire" groove. With over 15 years of playing together in various forms, "The Pitbull of Blues Band" is locked up tight as a trio. With both Richie and Deny holding down the bottom line in the rhythm department, this provides Josh a solid platform to lay down his...

Birthdate - March 13, 1953 Birthplace - Greenwood, Mississippi Current Residence - Indianola, Mississippi Billy Marquis has spent most of his life playing music, like his father before him, it's a part of his life. His music is genuine, it reflects his Delta heritage, and he plays it with gusto. Billy cut his teeth on the Blues in Indianola, Mississippi also home to BB King, lest you think this is insignificant it might be pointed out that Billy has been opening BB's own homecoming festival for 25 years. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

Just in terms of sheer quantity — number of instruments played, miles logged, artists backed up, shows and sessions performed, and songs composed — Jeff Turmes is remarkable. And then there’s the quality of what he does — the sound, the style, the personality that informs his music. All this is evidence in his latest release, Five Horses, Four Riders. There’s a lot of open space on this record, songs that inhabit a world of dream images, dread, weariness and desire. We hear guitars, banjos, low horns wheezing in some distance, cymbal crashes, half a string quartet. Lover’s pleas, laments, songs thrown like shadows. Jeff grew up in Southern California. Taught himself to play bass and took off from there. Curiosity and a restless mind compelled him to take up saxophone in his early twenties. Got picked up hitchhiking by a Volkswagen driver blasting A Love Supreme, and everything changed. Discovered eventually that jazz wasn’t his language. He was writing songs, playing bass and guitar, t...

featuring LA Jones - guitar and vocal Johnny Mastro - harp Dave Melton - guitar Slick Daddy - bass LA Jones has been tearing up the floorboards in roadhouses all over the world for the last three decades, touring constantly and playing over 200 gigs a year and thrilling Blues fans where ever he performs. L.A. Jones represents a new breed from the old school of the blues; crossing racial, spiritual and musical boundaries. Drawing from his past experience playing and recording with many of the great Blues stars like pianist Pinetop Perkins , guitarists Otis Rush, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Johnson and saxophonist Joe Houston he has pioneered a style that is all his own, blending the ever popular jump swing of the great Texas and West Coast traditions. At the same time he has not forgotten to remain deeply and firmly rooted in the 1950's Chicago Blues traditions. LA Jones is an entertainer FIRST AND FOREMOST in the business of show-biz. Over the years L. A. Jones has honed these entertainme...

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