Bman's Blues Report

DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2015 KICKS OFF ITS SECOND YEAR IN CLARKSDALE, MS THIS OCTOBER! FOUR-DAY FEST TO FEATURE GREAT DEEP BLUES ACTS INCLUDING LEFT LANE CRUISER, SCOTT H. BIRAM, DALE BEAVERS, HENRY'S FUNERAL SHOE, ELEGANZA! AND MANY OTHERS!   ADDITIONAL BANDS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! Tickets are on sale to the general public for the Juke Joint Chapel venue at the Shack Up Inn.   $150 for the four day pass ( $40 individual days ). Other venues will have their own cover charge or tip jars. FOR MORE INFO ON THE DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2015: http://deepbluesfest.com https://www.facebook.com/deepbluesfest

MICKEY ROGERS WITH HIS SOUL BLUES BAND His mentor and guitar teacher was Hubert Sumlin. Mickey's first trip out of the country was with Howlin’ Wolf and Hubert Sumlin to the UK in 1964 where Mickey met the Rolling Stones. Mickey performed on stage with the Rolling Stones. Mickey is honored with a stone on the Musician Walk of Fame in Greenville, MS Mickey is honored with a Sonny Boy Nelson Award from the MACE organization which produces the oldest festival in Mississippi “The Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival.” Mickey played in the Tyrone Davis band for 16 years and with Bobby Rush for many years. Back in the day he toured internationally with the Temptations. He was Willie Foster’s band leader and traveled internationally many times with Foster. He is on numerous CD’s produced by Blues Legends from the early years. Mickey Rogers performs at festivals, clubs and private parties and social events. He performs with his band The Soul Blues Band.   If you support ...

Bobby Rush (born Emmit Ellis Jr., November 10, 1935, Homer, Louisiana) is an American blues and R&B musician, composer and singer. His style incorporates elements of soul blues, rap and funk. Born Emmit Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, Rush was the son of Ellis Sr. and Mattie Elllis. His father was a pastor whose guitar and harmonica playing provided early musical influences. As a young child he began experimenting with music using a sugar-cane syrup-bucket and a broom-wire diddley bow. Around 1946, he and the family moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas where his father took on the pastorate of a church. It was here that Rush would become friends with Elmore James, slide-player Boyd Gilmore (Elmore's cousin), and piano-player Moose John Walker; eventually forming a band to support his singing, as well as harp and guitar playing. Still a teen, Rush donned a fake mustache to play in local juke joints with the band fascinated by enthusiasm of the crowds. His family relocated to Chicago...

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James "Super Chikan" Johnson (born February 16, 1951, Darling, Mississippi) is an American blues musician, based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson. One commentator noted that Super Chikan, along with Big Jack Johnson, Booba Barnes, R. L. Burnside, and Paul "Wine" Jones were "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues soundSuper Chikan goes one step further to show that it's in the hands...as he plays a guitar made from a shotgun. Delta Bluesman, Super Chikan, plays one of his unique creations during the , 2011 Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale Mississippi (at Ground Zero Club). Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  Here

ROD PIAZZA "SOUL MONSTER" ARTHUR ADAMS "STOMP THE FLOOR" BOBBY JONES Featuring THE MANNISH BOYS "COMIN' BACK HARD" VARIOUS ARTISTS "LIVE AT GROUND ZERO VOL. 1" VARIOUS ARTISTS "LIVE AT GROUND ZERO VOL. 2" THE SOUL OF JOHN BLACK "BLACK JOHN...