Bman's Blues Report

ROCK-IT SCIENCE Feb 28 2013 with Greg Lewis   91.9 WNTI Hackettstown NJ Thursdays 8-10pm wnti.org     hr 1  http://www.sendspace.com/file/bcx3r1   hr 2  http://www.sendspace.com/file/74e818       PLAYLIST SONGS - ------------------- SONG----------ARTIST--------------ALBUM------------       I Don't Need No Doctor, Ray Charles, Hallelujah I Love Her So Start:   20:01:00   End:   20:03:00   Duration   : 2:00 Roadrunner, Humble Pie, Extended Versions Start:   20:03:00   End:   20:15:00   Duration   : 12:00 Homesick, Devon Allman, Turquoise Start:   20:16:00   End:   20:20:00   Duration   : 4:00 Del Sur, Vargas Blues Band, Latin Chill Blues Start:   20:24:00   End:   20:30:00   Duration   : ...

Born Walter Charles Nelson Jr., 26 July 1932, New Orleans, Louisiana Died 28 February 1962, New York City, New York Guitarist Walter Nelson was born into a musical family. His father, Louis Nelson, was also a guitarist and had played with Louis Armstrong. Nelson Sr. taught music to both Smiley Lewis and Professor Longhair. Walter's younger brother, Lawrence Nelson (1936-1963), called himself Prince La La, who made a couple of classic R&B recordings in the early 1960s, before his untimely death from a drug overdose. Melvin and David Lastie were Walter's cousins. His sister, Dorothy Nelson, was married to singer Jessie Hill. They all grew up in a poverty-stricken area. Mac Rebennack : "They're all from the housing projects in the Ninth Ward which is the ultimate in ghettoes in New Orleans - bad conditions, gang wars, just a totally bad and violent situation. They've had very, very rough lives." (Quoted by John Broven, p. 93.) "Papoose", as Walter...

Carey Bell-voc/harmonica Louisiana Red-git Jimmy Rodgers-git Lovie Lee-piano Queen Sylvia Embry-bass Charles"Honey Boy"Otis-drums For a period of time in the ‘70s and ‘80s, it appeared that Queen Sylvia Embry was going to emerge as one of Chicago’s leading blues women. After she emerged from her role as bass player for Lefty Dizz and the Shock treatment in the late 1970s, she began fronting her own small band in South Side clubs and making guest appearances on the North Side circuit. Everywhere she went, her big smile, warm stage presence, rich gospel-rooted voice and solid bass playing won her new fans. There were (and are) only a few professional-quality instrumentalists among the city’s blues women, and only one other playing bass. “I played piano when I first started out as a kid,” Sylvia recalled, “and I got away from it because my grandmother was very strict. She demanded I play gospel, and I wanted to play a little boogie-woogie. I was crazy about Chuck Berry and Lloy...

Bobby Foster’s first records were cut under the direction of Ike Turner when he was based in St Louis in the late 50s for Bill and eponymous Stevens label. Although Turner’s time with them is perhaps most famous for his “Icky Renrut” disguise he produced product on several other artist of whom I’d say Bobby Foster was the most talented singer. In my view his high tenor voice and thrilling falsetto were hear to best effect on the slow doo-wop ballad “Angel Of Love” although the rock n roll freaks go for the rockabilly styled “Star Of Love” for Turner’s unmistakeable wild “Slash and burn” guitar solo. I would place Foster’s superb - and rare - Rahall 45 as his next release after the Stevens sessions. “True Love” is a strong upbeat number on which he sounds like Ted Taylor thanks to his concentration on his falsetto range, but the flip is the one to go for. ListenSoothe Me Baby has nothing to do with The Sims Twins but is a classically formed deep soul number, complete with a screaming ...

This harmonica player has been in the Road since 1999. In 2000, he recorded the “Harmonica and Blues Project” CD, along with other harmonica players, produced by Sérgio Duarte and Alexandre Fontanelli. The late has already produced some of Rock and Roll, MPB and Blues big names, such as, “Golpe de Estado”, “Blues Jeans”, André Christovam among others. He has worked in the production team of Sérgio Duarte and Entidade Joe’s band as a road crew and production assistant, having had contact also with some big names of the national and international Blues scene, like Nazi & Os Irmãos do Blues, Flávio Guimarães, Mason Casey (New York), Johnny Roover(California), in the first Harmonica Players Meeting, held in Sesc Pompéia in 2001. Rick Estrin(California) in the second workshop held by Bends Harmonicas in Bar Soul live 2008. As musician, he was invited to participate in the Harmonica Festival and Blues Project in 2000 and 2001, where it was held a National Harmonica Players Meeting. ...

For over fifteen years this multi-talented native Detroiter has graced and dominated Michigan's most attended events. She has performed over two hundred shows a year with grace and stamina. Her voice is strong, commanding, melodic and smooth. She tells her stories with incredible delivery and leaves her audiences wanting more. She first gained attention in 1987 when she became back up singer for the Detroit soul band "Lamont Zodiac and The Love Signs". Shortly after, the lead singer left the band and the name changed to "The Chisel Brothers featuring Thornetta Davis". In 1996 Thornetta recorded her first solo album "Sunday Morning Music" on the Seattle based label "Sub Pop" which received a rave revue in the national Entertainment Weekly magazine. The song "Cry" from that album was featured on the HBO hit cable drama "The Sopranos". Thornetta has opened for legendary blues and R&B greats such as Ray Charles, G...

I just received the newly released (January 31, 2013)recording, Blues Enough , by The Hitman Blues Band . The recording opens with the title track, Blues Enough , a rockin' blues style track featuring Russell "Hitman" Alexander on guitar and vocal, Kevin Tymer on keys, Mike Porter on bass, Guy LaFountaine on drums, Michael Snyder on sax, Eric Altarac on trumpet and Al Alpert on trombone. Sam The Bluzman is a swinging big horn sound blues track with Alexander playing some cool riffs under the vocal track. Fishing Where The Fish Are has a Latin beat and clever lyrics. About midway through as is often the case with Latin style blues the band breaks into full swing and then back to Latin rhythm. Alexander lays down some nice heat on this track. Snyder warms up the bottom with his sax style. Backhand Drive opens with a hot guitar riff and Alexander continues throughout the track with some hot slide licks. Snyder steps up again and plays some hot riffs on sax and Alexander c...

Willie Bobo was the stage name of William Correa (February 28, 1934 – September 15, 1983), an American jazz percussionist. William Correa grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He made his name in Latin Jazz, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz, in the 1960s and '70s, with the timbales becoming his favoured instrument. He met Mongo Santamaría shortly after his arrival in New York and studied with him while acting as his translator, and later at the age of 19 joined Tito Puente for four years. The nickname Bobo is said to have been bestowed by the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams in the early 1950s. His first major exposure was when he joined George Shearing's band on the album The Shearing Spell. After leaving Shearing, Cal Tjader asked Bobo and Santamaria to become part of the Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet, who released several albums as the mambo craze reached fever pitch in the late '50s. Reuniting with his mentor Santamaria in 1960, the pair released the album Sabroso! fo...

Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28, 1943 – November 27, 1998) was an American soul singer and songwriter who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was "Love Makes a Woman" in 1968. As a songwriter, she is best known for co-writing "Have You Seen Her" with Eugene Record, lead singer of the Chi-Lites. She was born in Oakland, California, and moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois in 1948. She was encouraged to sing as a child; by the age of 11, she sang regularly as a soloist at the New Zion Baptist Church, and as a teenager started singing at nightclubs in Chicago. After graduating from Dunbar Vocational High School she worked as a secretary at St. Lawrence Records. Her first record was released on the subsidiary Special Agent label under the pseudonym Barbara Allen, and was produced by her cousin, producer and saxophonist Monk Higgins. She also worked as a backing singer at Chess Records on recordings by Etta James, Fontella Bass,...

Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April, 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidad-born British pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and other countries (including Australia) from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She was the first black person to have a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, and still the only female instrumentalist to do so Atwell was born in Tunapuna in Trinidad and Tobago. She and her parents lived in Jubilee Street. Her family owned a pharmacy, and she trained as a pharmacist, and was expected to join the family business. Winifred, however, had played the piano from a young age, and achieved considerable popularity locally. She used to play for American servicemen at the air force base (which is now the main airport). It was whilst playing at the Servicemen's Club at Piarco that someone bet her she could not play something in the boogie-woogie style that was popular back home in t...

Jo Jo Adams (often billed as Doctor Jo Jo ) was born in rural Alabama in 1918. His first notices in the field of music was for his efforts in the gospel music field in the late nineteen thirties. One of the gospel groups he was part of was known as the Big Four Gospel Jubilee Singers. By his late twenties Adams had gone over into secular music and began to make performance appearances in clubs on Chicago's south side. He soon adopted a Cab Calloway like persona affecting flashy tuxedo jackets with very long tails that he swung out from him while whirling about the stage delivering a song. He hooked up with the band led by Freddie Williams and soon got a chance to record with Williams own record label called Melody Lane . Adams first recording for Melody Lane was in 1946 with the two part "Jo Jo Blues" on # 11. That was followed by "Please Don't Give It Away" and "Corine" on Melody Lane # 12. Soon Melody Lane Records had morphed into the Hy-Tone la...

A szájharmonikán játszó proefesszionális és amatőr elóadók támogatása. Célunk egy jól működő szakmai - civil - közösség kialakítása. Különféle rendezvényeken veszünk részt, ezzel is ösztönözük a harmonikásokat az egymés közötti kapcsolatok ápolására. Alkalmanként a tagok különféle kedvezményekben részesülhetnek. A Szövetség időszakonként zenei válogatást (antológiát) jelentet meg a Magyarországon működő, és legérdekesebbnek tartott előadók hangfelvételeiből. A hangszer népszerűsítése.Szeretnénk eloszlatni azt a hiedelmet, miszerint a szájharmonika nem több egy olcsó játékszernél. Támogatjuk, hogy minnél többen játszanak a hangszeren. Fesztiválokon veszünk részt országszerte különféle rendezvényekkel, bemutatókkal. Fontosnak tartjuk a kezdő harmonikások elundálásában nyújtott segítséget. A magyarországi szájharmonikázás évszázados örökségének ápolása. Büszkék vagyunk elődeinkre. Célunk felkutatni és összegyűjteni minden olyan írott- és hanganyagot, amelyek a hazai szájharmonikázással ...

JOHN D’AMATO  - THE NEW GENERATION OF BLUES MEN  International booking: WWW.AMSTERDAMMUSICPROMOTORS.COM U.S.  Booking: JAYCTALENT@YAHOO.COM Tel: 615-394-1252  Born With The Blues John D’Amato was born with the blues. That’s right! John was born blue due to a congenital heart defect that reduced the amount of oxygen in his blood stream. He returned to his natural color and was released to from the hospital several days later. At that point in time there was no way to correct the defect and the doctors advised his parents that his life span would be limited. This led John down a different path than most children. A path of endless doctor visits, medical tests, lonely hospital stays and painful medical procedures. All of them necessary to determine if they could save John’s life. Fortunately through the Grace of God and a doctor at Yale University a surgical procedure was developed that saved John’s life. Building His Blues Style An excerpt from...

        www.stevestrongman.com   Steve Strongman adds a JUNO nomination for   Blues CD of the Year! Big night for Steve Strongman -  3 Maple Blues Awards   Guiatrist of the Year, Album of the Year & Songwriter of the Year!       STEVE STRONGMAN A NATURAL FACT   W INS RECORD OF THE YEAR! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZcD75ThcA Promotional video for Steve Strongman's new album, "A Natural Fact".       Steve STRONGMAN wins   Guitarist Of The Year    2nd year in a row at the Maple Blues Awards   !        New acoustic CD to be released in April 2012! ...