Bman's Blues Report

John Wedemeyer, guitarist extraordinaire, played/recorded with many including Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, and was also Salgado's guitar player for one year. If anyone has a proper bio for john please help me out! If you support live Blues acts, up and coming Blues talents and want to learn more about Blues news and Fathers of the Blues, -  ”LIKE” ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorite band!

  ROCK-IT SCIENCE Nov 28 2013 with Greg Lewis   91.9 WNTI Hackettstown NJ Thursdays 8-10pm wnti.org     MP3 download links--- hr 1   http://www.sendspace.com/file/uxqi3h   hr 2   http://www.sendspace.com/file/8h3zvo     PLAYLIST SONGS - ------------------- SONG----------ARTIST--------------ALBUM------------     Way To My Heart, Nick Woodland, Something I Heard Live Start:   20:01:00   End:   20:06:00   Duration   : 5:00 Chicken Shack Opera, Stan Webb's Chicken Shack, Stan's Blues Start:   20:07:00   End:   20:19:00   Duration   : 12:00 Down At The House Of Blues, Johnny Rivers, Back At The Whisky Start:   20:22:00   End:   20:26:00   Duration   : 4:00 Ser El Arbol, Botafogo, Cambios Start:   20:26:00 ...

                                              SLIPPERY WHEN BLUE: THE PLANETARY BLUES BAND  IN CONCERT AT THE SLIPPERY NOODLE - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5   (INDIANAPOLIS, IN) -  The Planetary Blues Band bring their Midwest-influenced, tasty blues/rock/jam band sounds to The Slippery Noodle , 372 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Thursday, December 5. 9 p.m.- 1 a.m. $5. Info: (317) 631-6974 or https://www.facebook.com/events/1432995996916088/?previousaction=join&ref=22&source=1           The Indiana-based band has received stellar reviews the world over for their recent CD Release is entitled  Once Upon A Time In The South Loop (see media quotes section, below).   ...

Alex McKown was born in 1996 and he first picked up the guitar when he was 6 years of age. When he was 8 he asked if he could have an electric guitar for Christmas. Alex quickly progressed and spent many hours playing along to guitar legends such as Eric Clapton and BB King. When Alex was 11 he started to have lessons from Samuel C Lees at Tameside Music Academy. A passion for the blues was ignited ! Alex developed his performance skills by performing regularly at the blues/rock jam at The Whittles in Oldham. Alex then started to listen to the artists appearing at the major blues festivals in the UK and met Hamilton Loomis from Texas over the internet. Hamilton kindly agreed to let Alex sit in on his UK tour in 2009 and this helped to raise his profile. In 2009, Alex performed with his own band at The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival in Colne, Newark Blues Festival and Ramsbottom Blues Festival. In 2010 Alex opened the British Stage at Colne followed by further appearances f...

Welcome aboard to the world’s biggest 7 day blues party!   Yes friends, 7 days where you can’t tell the blues artists from the fans. Although everybody’s experience is different –and a blues cruise vacation is exactly what you make it– a good time is had by all… day after day! So I’m going to tell you about my experience on my 4 th LRBC a few weeks ago.    I try to get on board pretty early so I can learn the layout of the ship and how to get from concert venue to concert venue in the most efficient manner.   And by doing so you get to see and talk to some of the artists before any action really starts.   Right off the bat I ran into Cyril Neville who was as lost as my wife and I.   Later I saw Lucky Peterson on a lounge chair outside his stateroom while walking the Promenade Deck.   The first night they always have a BBQ on the pool deck at departure. This time it was Rick Estrin and the Nightcats hosting the BBQ. The best part being when Ki...

I just received the debut release, Can't Shed a Tear , from Jim Gustin and Truth Jones . Opening with I Gotta Sing , a blend between Don Nix style track and David Clayton Thomas vocals this is a pretty cool opener. There's a pretty rippin guitar solo on this track and also prominent key work. Title track, Can't Shed A Tear , is a soulful rocker with solid vocals and just enough guitar solo to give the track a bit of edge. No Faith In Forever is a slinky number with a cool bass line, find Gustin trading vocal leads with Jeri Goldenhar and boosted by nice sax work by Jim Scimonetti. If God Made Something Better is a light springy almost Steely Dan type track with heavier vocals. Beauty for Ashes has a bit of a southern blues rock sound, say Marshall Tucker/Grinderswitch but with a twist of Black Label Society. Possibly my favorite track on the release. Why, Why, Why is a straight up rock track with tight vocal harmonies and Keith Richards like rhythm riffs. Goldenhar ta...

Few artists have traveled so far, and so quickly, after releasing a self-released album, and Katie Bradley is increasingly regarded as one of the most impressive stories to emerge on The British Blues music scene. Blessed with a truly expressive, exceptional voice and dynamic blues-harp playing, Katie Bradley's music is a unique and contemporary take on the classic sounds of Blues, Gospel and Soul; all underpinned by a simply compelling and a dynamic range of heart felt songs of rare emotion. After releasing "She's Ready" independently in October 2012, an album which featured two original songs "I Hear The River" and "Be Careful With my baby", the reaction to the record has been amazing, with a nomination in The British Blues Awards 2013 for her song 'I Hear The River', and worldwide critical acclaim from the Blues world in International Blues Magazines with reviews and interviews that picked up on her notability. In June 2013 Katie rec...

Talking about blues players outside America it´s hard to leave out Sven Zetterberg, Sweden´s most versatile artist in this field. Being both an excellent singer, guitarist,songwriter and harmonica player extraordinary,he has become a house-hold name all over Scandinavia. Born in Skärblacka on the 28th of March in 1952, Sven took music seriously enough to perform in school at the age of seven.”I didn´t know any real english words and couldn´t actually play any instrument but my grand-mother had bought me an acoustic guitar that I fooled around with trying to mimic Elvis Presley. “The first black performer I heard was Little Richard and he almost drove me crazy with his wild,frantic singing. “In 1964 he first heard Mick Jagger play harmonica and later that year heard Sonny Boy Williamson(Rice Miller) and that got him started. “The Blues activated something in me and it still moves me”. “Harmonica was my main instrument to begin with. I didn´t start playing guitar seriously until I w...

ROCK-IT SCIENCE Nov 21 2013 with Greg Lewis   91.9 WNTI Hackettstown NJ Thursdays 8-10pm wnti.org   MP3 download links---   hr 1 http://www.sendspace.com/file/9vwxa1   hr 2 http://www.sendspace.com/file/dq0gsw   PLAYLIST SONGS - ------------------- SONG----------ARTIST--------------ALBUM------------     Nandha's Blues Slavery, Nandha Blues, Black Strawberry Mama Start:   20:01:00   End:   20:06:00   Duration   : 5:00 Powder Keg, Rainer Ptacek & Das Combo, Barefoot Rock Start:   20:07:00   End:   20:10:00   Duration   : 3:00 la Foire A La Brocante, Paul Personne, Demain... il f'ra Beau! Vol 1 Start:   20:10:00   End:   20:13:00   Duration   : 3:00 Fire On The Sun , Animals, Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted Start: ...