Bman's Blues Report

In the early 70’s, DuMont played slide guitar with the Detroit Blues Band and appeared at local Blues festivals backing Mr. Bo Collins, Eddie Burns, and Bo Bo Jenkins. He eventually formed the Living Room Blues Band and worked the circuit around Detroit and Chicago which included opening up with Chicago Pete and the Detroiters for Bo Didley and Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones at Harpo’s Concert Theater. These performances were broadcast live on WDET’s Wayne State’s Blues After Hours radio program by the Famous Coachman. In the late 70’s and early 80’s, DuMont appeared with the late Rob Tyner of the MC5 at the Soup Kitchen Saloon in Detroit and produced local Blues festivals to benefit Vietnam Veterans at Cass Corridor’s Miami Bar. Among others, he’s also backed James Cotton and accompanied, on acoustic guitar, the producer of the Ann Arbor Blues ‘n Jazz Festival John Sinclair at Weeds Club in Chicago. In 1981, DuMont bought Albert King’s original 1959 Flying V, Lucy, f...