Bman's Blues Report

I just received a copy of Pinoy Blues Jam ,  a recording made at Roadhouse Manila Bay featuring various regional blues bands. First up is Dr. Crowley , a blues rock band on the province of Cavite. Opening with rock n roll classic New Orleans DC brings it with full horn section getting the audience hot and ready. Ngiti has a more tropical feel but retaining a blues feel. Next up is Bleu Rascals featuring Paul Marmey Leobrera on lead guitar and vocal, Spencer Rymonte on bass and vocals and John Jason Garcia on drums and vocals. Opening with A Better Man , BR demonstrate their study of the blues with traditional blues riffs and phrasing. On a ripping version of Couldn't Stand The Weather they further demonstrate the power that they have harnessed. 69 Proof featuring Butch Montejo (lead vocal), Arwin Querubin (bass and vocals), Aldos "Bishop" Ramento (percussion and vocal), Stephen "The Ambassador" Lazam (lead guitar and vocal)and Carlo "Cigar" Man...

Jook Jam was founded by its leader Joric “Delta Slim” Maglanque as a showcase of acoustic blues and roots music that he and like-minded musician-friends love performing. Delta Slim has been playing blues since the early 1990s, either solo, in duets, or with a full band. Delta Slim and Jook Jam's strength is the traditional, classic country blues from the Delta, Jackson, Bentonia, and other regions of Mississippi, Texas, Piedmont, and Eastern seaboard ragtime. These include material from Charley Patton, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Johnny Shines, Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Henry Thomas, Tampa Red, Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, Mississippi Sheiks, Memphis Jug Band, Bessie Smith, etc. Delta Slim/Jook Jam also performs traditional black spirituals, gospel, and old-timey/early bluegrass songs from Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mae Smith, Brother Joe May, Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Bil...

FRIENDS OF ADAM IS Clayton Campania (guitar/vocals) Ernie Ecreala (bass) Justin Inocelda (drums) "My dad told me, 'Nobody wants to hear that music here,'" says Campania. "But I'm going to play what touches me." Play they do. From "Crossroads" and "Little Wing," the soul of Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers, to a blistering rearrangement of Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil," and their own originals, Friends of Adam speaks to a genre where Guitar Player is a musician and not a computer game Can three, young Filipino men play the blues? John Heckathorn, editor of "Honolulu Magazine" wrote: "When Campania picks up his guitar, he channels Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan." John Hart, confidant of the late guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan exclaimed "they are as for real as anything you will see on Sixth Street in Austin, Texas. The band has recently opened for Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer, AEROSMITH, a...

The Blue Rats are a Manila-based blues band that serves up a menu of straight-up electric blues, old-time R&B and blues-based music. Founded on the tradition of blues improvisation, the Rats mix up their sets, try not to play a song the same way twice and churn out unique versions of the songs they cover. The fact that some of the band's members rotate on any given night assures a fresh sound, provides a hint of danger and moves the musical goalposts up and down the field from one performance to another. The Rats were founded by in mid-1995 by three friends -- Butch Roxas, a classical guitar professor at the UST Conservatory of Music, Apa Ongpin, a business executive, and Andy Locsin, an architectural design consultant. The current core lineup in rotation consists of Melinda Torre (also of Baihana, vocals), Joey Puyat (Mother Earth and Kiss the Bride, guitar), Kedy Sanchez (Working Stiffs, vocals and guitar), Johnny Besa (The Breed, bass guitar) Vic Borgaily (KO Jones, drums), ...

Filipino blues band Snakecharmer playing the first Blues festival at the Hobbit House in Manila. Sorry. Thats all I have for now! Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! Share your favorite posting and get more exposure for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

Out of nowhere emerged Paul Marney Leobrera, at age 16 stepping onstage in early September 2010 for a single-song courtesy jam at Skarlet’s Jazz Kitchen, home base for Manila’s pre-eminent jazz sessionists. Jaws dropped over his musical maturity as a blues musician, and he was immediately asked to stay onstage for the rest of the night. And suddenly he began receiving invitations to “sit in” all over town. Within months, Paul put together his own band, the Bleu Rascals, with friends Spencer Rymonte on bass and Darwin Quinto on drums, both 18. All three are intensely devoted to the blues, ranging from the traditional Chicago style and on to Stevie Ray Vaughn and John Mayer. They quickly established themselves as the tightest and most convincing blues band in Manila, even at their young age. The band now is the busiest blues band in the Philippines, performing as many as four gigs in a single week. In early June 2011, they were selected as backup band for visiting American blues professi...

Brendan Power is a New Zealander who has developed a considerable reputation for his concert and recording work featuring the harmonica. Equally at ease on both the earthy Blues Harp as well as the sophisticated Chromatic Harmonica, he employs his own custom tunings to breathe fresh life into an often typecast instrument - especially in his original compositions, which feature on several of the instrumental CDs he has released to date. Since arriving to live in London in 1992, Brendan's innovative approach has earned him some notable achievements in a variety of musical fields. He has recorded with classical guitarist John Williams and flautist James Galway, and in the popular music world has played on tracks by Paul Young, Shirley Bassey, Mary Black, the French orchestral composer Paul Mauriat, Van Morrison, and Sting; he has also guested with Sting's band in several TV appearances. However, it is in the Irish/Celtic music scene that Brendan has become best known; he is of Ir...