The Nighthawks Are Having a "Damn Good Time" on Label Debut for Severn Records, Out May 15

THE NIGHTHAWKS ARE HAVING A

DAMN GOOD TIME ON DEBUT CD FOR SEVERN RECORDS, COMING MAY 15

SEMINAL WASHINGTON, DC-BASED AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC BAND WILL TOUR ENDLESSLY IN SUPPORT OF NEW RELEASE

ANNAPOLIS, MD – Severn Records announces a May 15 release date for Damn Good Time, the label debut from seminal American roots music band, The Nighthawks, distributed in the U.S. by City Hall Records. Damn Good Time is the follow-up to The Nighthawks’ Last Train to Bluesville, which garnered the band its first-ever Blues Music Award from the Blues Foundation as Acoustic Blues Album of the Year in May 2011.

The Nighthawks are: Mark Wenner - vocals, harmonica; Johnny Castle - vocals, bass; Paul Bell -guitar; and Mark Stutso - drums, vocals. The new CD was recorded at the Severn Studios in Annapolis and produced by The Nighthawks and David Earl.

“This is a totally cool moment to be into my 41st year as a Nighthawk, the last of the originals, as we release our first album with the band as it is today, the band I have been working toward since early 1972,” says Mark Wenner. “Paul Bell and Johnny Castle are deep into a decade with the band. Mark Stutso, after two years of hard road and 500 shows, at last appears on his first album as a Nighthawk. Singing lead on five tunes and involved in the creation of four, he and Johnny are a magnificent groove machine. And the harmonies! I dreamed of them, too, when I began dreaming of a band like this.”

Going into their fifth decade, The Nighthawks are blessed to have three strong lead singers, and they take advantage of the unique qualities of the trio of Wenner, Stutso and Castle. The wide array of originals and covers demonstrates The Nighthawks’ great strength as a true American roots music band. They roar through a repertoire of everything from blues and soul to rock and rhythm and blues on Damn Good Time. Bassist Johnny Castle contributes the romping “Bring Your Sister,” and also sings on a version of Jimmy McCracklin’s “Georgia Slop.” The band also taps into the songbooks of good friends and kindred spirits Billy Price and Norman Nardini, and serves up spirited takes on classics from Elvis (“Too Much”), Nat King Cole (“Send for Me”) and Wilbert Harrison (“Let’s Work Together’), as well as a raucous “Smack Dab in the Middle.”

In addition to their stellar catalogue of acclaimed albums released since 1974, The Nighthawks have long enjoyed wonderful touring and recording relationships with some of the best and brightest names in roots and blues music. On their 1978 release, Jacks and Kings, they backed up such blues all-stars as Pinetop Perkins, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, Calvin Jones and Bob Margolin, and backed up John Hammond on his Hot Tracks album. The Nighthawks have toured with John Hammond, as well as John Lee Hooker, Hubert Sumlin, Elvin Bishop, Tracy Nelson and Eddie Hinton, and have played with such national treasures as Muddy Waters and Carl Perkins. Over the years, several other star artists have become de facto members of the band at various times, including Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes and Bob Margolin.

The Nighthawks continue to be one of the hardest-working bands on the road and have an extensive national and European tour set up to promote Damn Good Time, including showcase club dates and festival shows. The band is booked by Blue Mountain Artists (www.bmatours.com).

To download a hi-res color photo of The Nighthawks, click on this link: The Nighthawks Photo

Photo credit: Sam Holden. For more information, visit www.thenighthawks.com and www.severnrecords.com

THE NIGHTHAWKS ITINERARY

4/27 Luna Live Lake Charles, LA

4/28 Hotel Sorella Houston, TX

4/29 Sunset Station San Antonio, TX

4/30 Antone’s Austin, TX

5/1 Mid-City Lanes New Orleans, LA

5/3 The Bloodhound Auburn, AL

5/4 Blind Willie’s Atlanta, GA

5/6 Beale Street Music Festival Memphis, TN

5/11 The Hamilton Washington, DC

6/8 Fridays on the Square Harrisonburg, VA

6/15 South Park South Park, PA

6/17 Crossborder Blues, Brews & Que Wilson, NY

6/22 Blue South Restaurant Roanoke, VA

6/23 Abingdon Blues Festival Abingdon, VA

6/28 Songbird Café & Music Hall Beulah, CO

6/29 Louisville Street Faire Louisville, CO

6/30 Smokin’ Moe’s Winter Park, CO

7/1 Blues from the Top Winter Park, CO

7/3 Lee Richardson Zoo Garden City, KS

7/5 21^st Saloon Omaha, NE

7/6 Zoo Bar Lincoln, NE

7/7 Knuckleheads Saloon Kansas City, MO

7/13 Evenings on Main Luray, VA

8/18 Rollin’ on the River Keokuk, IA

9/19-10/7 Europe

10/27-11/3 Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise

Additional dates forthcoming ….

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A Tribute To Little Walter - Charlie McCoy

There are numerous super-session musicians in Nashville, but very few with the longevity of Charlie McCoy. In addition to being a fixture in Nashville studios for 48 years, he also has his own recording career going full tilt. (He has recorded 35 solo albums.) He served as the music director for eighteen years for the syndicated television series, “Hee Haw”.

Charlie McCoy began working sessions in the early 60s, one of the first being “Candy Man” by Roy Orbison. “Forty nine dollars”, says Charlie. That’s how much I was paid for that session back in 1961. “It got Roy another hit and me a career. For a twenty year old to make $49 for three hours work back then, it was a dream.

Shortly after the release of “Candy Man”, Charlie became one of the in-demand session players in Nashville. His session credits are literally a who’s who of country music. For a fifteen year stretch, he did more than 400 sessions a year. A grand total would number more than 12,000. (and he’s still going) In the last twenty years, he has been touring more with many appearances in Europe and Japan.

In addition to country sessions, Charlie was a mainstay on Elvis Presley recordings both in Nashville and Los Angeles. When Bob Dylan recorded “Highway 61”, “Blond On Blond”, “John Wesley Harding”, and “Nashville Skyline”, Charlie was there, playing on these land-mark recordings. He was also heard on Simon and Garfunkle’s “The Boxer” in addition to many hits from genres other than country music.

Charlie McCoy began recording for Monument Records in the late 60s and recorded 14 albums for the label, beginning with “The World Of Charlie McCoy”. He won the Grammy in 1972 for his album, “The Real McCoy”. He won CMA’s “Instrumentalist Of The Year” two times and the Academy Of Country Music’s “Specialty Instrument Award” seven times. He is a member of the “International Musician’s Hall Of Fame” and the “West Virginia Music Hall Of Fame”.

In addition to making his own recordings, Charlie was a member of a legendary recording band, “Area Code 615”. The band featured many of the top session players in Nashville.
While Charlie predominately known as a harmonica player, his musical prowess encompasses other instruments including guitar, bass, mallet percussion, (vibes, marimba, bells, Etc.), keyboards, and various wind instruments.

Charlie has toured in Europe and Japan regularly since 1989 and has released albums in France, Denmark, Germany and the Czech Republic.
In addition to “Hee Haw”, Charlie served a music director for other television shows including “The Colgate Country Showdown” and “The Arthritus Telethon”. He was in the house band for the TNN show “Music City Tonight” with Crook and Chase.

Charlie was given the “Musician” award from the Reunion Of Professional Entertainers” in 1994, elected to the German-American Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1998, The Hall Of Fame of the North American Country Music Association International in 2000, the International Musicians’ Hall Of Fame and the Old Time Country Music Hall of fame in 2007, and the West Virginia Music Hall Of fame in 2008.

On Feb. 4, 2009, it was announced that Charlie would be inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame along with Roy Clark and Barbara Mandrell.

If you need a harp on your record, Charlie is “Still Harpin’”
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Dark Road Blues - Willie Lofton

Very little is known about the Mississippi blues artist Willie Lofton. He had four recording sessions in Chicago in 1934-1935. He cut six songs for Decca Records as Poor Boy Lofton. His last two recordings were for Bluebird, one of them "Beer Garden Blues" was the only song where he was backed by a group with Black Bob on piano and unknown musicians playing stand-up bass and kazoo. The other side of the record "Dark Road Blues" was based on an earlier Tommy Johnson number "Big Road Blues". It would be Lofton's final recordings. It is believed that he died in Jackson, c. 1962.
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Spoonful - Ten Years After

As you all know I love Alvin Lee and in my defense I don't think I have done a video of him in a while. Hope you enjoy it.
Alvin Lee (born Graham Barnes, 19 December 1944, Nottingham, England) is an English rock guitarist and singer. He began playing guitar at the age of 13, and with Leo Lyons formed the core of the band Ten Years After in 1960. Influenced by his parents' collection of jazz and blues records, it was the advent of rock and roll that sparked his interest, and guitarists such as Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore provided his inspiration.
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Blues With a Feeling - Danny Vincent

Danny Vincent, composer, guitarist and Argentinian producer is undoubtedly one of the most important exponents of the Blues in Brazil. After 3 discs cut in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Danny reached Brazil in 1990.
He established the Albatross Blues Band and formed his current band in 1994, and from that time, he has been touching any Brazilian territory, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia, more than 1200 presentations.
The fusion between the Blues Americano and the Latin Rock has been giving an unmistakable color to his shows, which cost him be considered today the only loyal guitarist of the legate Santana in the Latin America.
In 1996 cut for the Paradoxx his CD “ Blues at Close-up Creaks ” when Leaf of Sao Paulo, Newspaper of the Afternoon, Guitar Player and Backstage was complimented on the media. In 1997 he makes Culture a special one for the TV near Nuno Mindelis. He has been touching the most important festivals of Blues Internacionais already done in Brazil (“ Nescafé and Blues ” versions 95 and 96 the ancient Palace), sharing stage with artists of the calibre of Ronnie Earl, Robeen Ford and Robert Cray. Applied by the most influential gaitista of Blues of Brazil, Flavio Guimarães (Blues Etílicos) to produce and in order that 2 carved ° CD (On The Loose), he finished also cutting 3 ° of the same (Navegaita), where he was an arranger and co-author of 5 musicians.
In 1999 there opens the show of B.B.King in Road Funchal and the 1 ° Natu Nobilis Blues Festival ).
Open the last Bourbon Street Blues Fest on the night of Mark Hummel and then accompany the same thing in the show and it does to tour with him for Brazil.
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Sufferin' Soul - Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young (September 23, 1927 – March 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues guitarist. Born Joseph Young in Shreveport, Louisiana, he died in Chicago, Illinois. Though born in Louisiana, Young was raised in Milwaukee. He first began playing in the early 1950s by singing in Milwaukee nightclubs. By the mid 1950s, Young had recorded his first song for Jiffy Records in Louisiana.

Before Young became known for his contributions to blues, he was training to become a boxer.

Young was one of the busiest sidemen in Chicago from the late 1950s. He was in Otis Rush's band for several years in the 1960s, and played on Magic Sam's albums, West Side Soul and Black Magic. He recorded his own solo album, Blues with a Touch of Soul, for Delmark Records in 1971. Young also worked alongside Willie Dixon, Billy Boy Arnold and Jimmy Rogers. Young's song, "Turning Point", appeared in the Michael Mann feature film, Thief (1981).

Young died in March 1999 at the age of 71, from a complication of spinal surgery which he hoped would restore his ability to play the guitar.
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Hoochie Coochie Man - Ronnie Jones & The Nite Life

Ronnie Jones is one of the most original and versatile singers on the european musical scene, today. Discovered by Alexis Korner in the ‘60s, of Blues Incorporated (with Cyril Davis, Johnny Parker, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker). After his military service, Ronnie united himself with Mick Eves and John Mclaughlin to form the Nightimers, and subsequently formed the BlueJays with Roger Dean. After the breakup of the group Ronnie entered the QSet Band (with Chester Simon and Tony O' Malley, known for his productions with KOKOMO). In the ‘70’s he moved to Italy where he reached the success with the song "Rock Your Baby" and subsequently as an actor of theater, sharing success (with Renato Zero, Teo Teocoli and Loredana Bertè) of the same cast in the musical “Hair”. With the same cast of Hair , he sang in the theatrical show Orfeo9 of Tito Schipa jr. Toward the end of the ‘70’s Ronnie found again work as a DJ for the radio Italian RAI, Radio Milano International 101, Radio 105, 101, RTL and 105 Classic and immediately in television on Canale 5 with the transmission Pop Corn (with Augusto Martelli) and with Maurizio Costanzo (DJ showman in Buona Domenica). In the 80’s he recorded 4 albums with Jurgen Korduletsch,on Lollipop Records of which, one with Claudja Barry, t which entered in the european charts. In Canada he reached the first place in the charts of plays with the single "Soulsister". The albums were: "Looking for action", "Me and myself", "Fox on the run" and "Games"which included "Video Games", theme from the TV program, Pop Corn. In the 90’s he returned to the live music scene with the band Blues After Dark, then later with the Seven40 (with whom he recorded the album "The Man") and finally with the Soul Syndicate with whom he still plays with. As a composer he is author more of 200 songs or more. The best known are "Bambino io bambina tu" for Zucchero Fornaciari and "Let's all dance" for Band of Jocks and of course Video Games, theme song TV for Popcorn. Ronnie is still active, and in continuous evolution.
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PAUL THORN TURNS TO TOP SONGWRITERS ON NEW CD TITLED WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN’ ON?

PAUL THORN TURNS TO TOP SONGWRITERS
ON NEW CD TITLED WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN’ ON?

Album, out May 8, features songs by Lindsey Buckingham,
Buddy & Julie Miller, Elvin Bishop, Rick Danko, Allen Toussaint,
Ray Wylie Hubbard, Eli “Paperboy” Reed and others

TUPELO, Miss. — For his forthcoming album Paul Thorn, who is certainly no slouch as a songwriter himself, turned to some of his favorite songwriters. The new release, titled What the Hell Is Goin’ On? and due out on Perpetual Obscurity/Thirty Tigers on May 8, boasts writers both well-known and less well-known: Lindsey Buckingham, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Allen Toussaint, Buddy & Julie Miller, Elvin Bishop, Rick Danko of the Band, Paul Rodgers and the rest of the band Free, Donnie Fritts and Billy Lawson, Wild Bill Emerson, Foy Vance, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and the trio of Big Al Anderson, Shawn Camp and Pat McLaughlin.

Thorn has developed a deep set of musical influences. But these influences didn’t come about until he was fully grown and out of the house. His father was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was only one kind of music heard in the Thorn home: gospel.

“Gospel music was everything in our household,” he says, “My sisters played piano, my dad played guitar and my mom played accordion. I started off playing the drums — on a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket with a wooden spoon — and later picked up the guitar. Being from Tupelo, I went to the same music school that Elvis Presley attended. By that, I mean that our family visited the white Pentecostal churches and the black Pentecostal churches, and the music at both was awesome. The white folks sang in a country & Western style and the black folks had a more rhythm & blues approach.”

Paul would not have likely chanced upon a song recorded by The Band, Free or Buckingham-Nicks while growing up. “You see, we were not allowed to buy or listen to secular music, although I kept two records in my closet that I would sneak and listen to when my parents were gone,” he explains, citing the smuggled titles: Huey Lewis & the News’ Picture This and Elton John’s Greatest Hits. “The religious authorities of that time told us that if you play a rock ’n’ roll record backwards there were hidden satanic instructions for all of Lucifer’s followers. I tried it and the only words I could make out sounded like ‘eat your laundry on Tuesday.’ I started listening to and absorbing worldly music after I left home at the age of 18.”

At 18, Thorn had a lot of catching up to do, and immersed himself in the worlds of rock ’n’ roll, R&B, blues and country. What the Hell Is Going On? is a microcosm of his journey.

Among the album’s 12 tracks, Elvin Bishop sits in on guitar on the title track he wrote, while Delbert McClinton lends vocals to Wild Bill Emerson’s “Bull Mountain Bridge.” Thorn captures the Texas swamp feel of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s “Snake Farm” and makes Southern rock anthems of Buckingham-Nicks’ “Don’t Let Me Down Again” and Free’s “Walk in My Shadow.” He redefines The Band’s “Small Town Talk,” penned by Rick Danko, while paying homage to a venerable R&B songwriter, Allen Toussaint (“Wrong Number”) and a young American soul/blues acolyte, Eli “Paperboy” Reed (“Take My Love With You”).

“I started realizing that there are a lot of great tunes that I love by other writers out there,” he says, explaining how an album of covers came to be. “This project is basically me and my band putting our own spin on some of them. After so many albums of self-penned songs, I wanted to take a break from myself, do something different, and just have fun.”

Thorn continues to tour while he sets up the new album, headlining some dates and co-billed with Ruthie Foster on others. He’s also signed on to perform some significant festivals: July 1 at FitzGerald’s American Music Festival just outside Chicago; July 3 at Milwaukee’s lakefront SummerFest, and October 5 at Helena, Ark.’s historic King Biscuit Blues Festival.

Track Listing:
“Don't Let Me Down Again” (Lindsey Buckingham)
“Snake Farm” (Ray Wylie Hubbard)
“Shelter Me Lord” (Buddy & Julie Miller)
“Shed A Little Light” (Foy Vance)
“What The Hell Is Goin' On” featuring Elvin Bishop on guitar (Elvin Bishop)
"Small Town Talk" (Rick Danko)
“Walk In My Shadow” (Paul Rodgers/Andy Fraser)
“Wrong Number” (Allen Toussaint)
“Bull Mountain Bridge” featuring Delbert McClinton (Wild Bill & Martha Jo Emerson)
“Jukin'” (Big Al Anderson/Shawn Camp/Pat McLaughlin)
“She's Got A Crush On Me” (Donnie Fritts/Billy Lawson)
“Take My Love With You” (Eli “Paperboy” Reed)

Soul Salvation Tour featuring Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster
Wed., March 28 KANSAS CITY, MO Knuckleheads
Thurs., March 29 ST. LOUIS, MO Old Rock House
Fri., March 30 BLOOMINGTON, IL The Castle Theatre
Sat., March 31 SCHAUMBURG, IL Prairie Center for the Arts
Mon.-Tues., April 2-3 MINNEAPOLIS, MN Dakota

Paul Thorn tour
Thurs., April 12 GREEN BAY, WI Riverside Ballroom
Fri, April 13 IOWA, IA The Mill
Sat., April 14 GALESBURG, IL Fat Fish
Tues., April 17 THE WOODLANDS, TX Solo radio show taping, Dosey Doe
Sun., April 29 CHARLESTON, WV Solo radio show taping, Mountain Stage

Soul Salvation Tour featuring Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster
Wed., May 2 LAFAYETTE, LA Acadiana Center for the Arts
Thurs., May 3 NEW ORLEANS, LA House of Blues
Fri., May 4 BATON ROUGE, LA Manship Theatre
Sat., May 5 MERIDIAN, MS MSU Riley Center for the Performing Arts

Paul Thorn tour
Thurs., May 10 JACKSON, MS Duling Hall
Fri., May 11 BIRMINGHAM, AL WorkPlay Theatre
Sat., May 12 ATLANTA, GA Variety Playhouse
Sun., May 13 NASHVILLE, TN 3rd and Lindsley
Wed., May 16 AUSTIN, TX One World theatre
Fri., May 18 DALLAS, TX Kessler Theater
Fri., May 25 TAMPA, FL Solo acoustic at Skipper’s Smokehouse
Sat., May 26 TAMPA, FL Full band at Skipper’s Smokehouse
Fri., June 1 TUPELO, MS Tupelo Elvis Festival
Sat., June 2 MEMPHIS, TN New Daisy Theatre
Fri., June 29 LOUISVILLE, KY Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium
Sun., July 1 BERWYN (CHICAGO), IL FitzGerald’s American Music Festival
Tues., July 3 MILWAUKEE, WI SummerFest
Fri., July 13 STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO Strings Music Festival
Sat., July 21 MOSCOW, ID Rendezvous in the Park
Fri., Aug. 3 SANTA CRUZ, CA Rio Theatre
Sat.-Sun., Aug. 4-5 NICASIO, CA Rancho Nicasio
Sat.-Sun., Sept. 8-9 REMUS, MI Wheatland Music Festival
Fri., Oct. 5 HELENA, AR King Biscuit Blues Festival

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Back To The Road - Sista Jean & C.B.- New Release Review

I've been listening to the new Sista Jean & C.B. release entitled Back To The Root. This is a easy going bluesy recording with 10 original tracks by Carlyle Barriteau (C.B) on guitars and percussion and "Sista" Jean McClain on vocals. Backing the band is Troy Dexter who adds some dobro as well as Keys and David Vidal who plays harmonica and pedal steel. Don't Want What U Got is a terrific song. It's one that will stick to your ribs. Jean's vocals are clear and strong and the guitar is clean and well articulated. Love Is Callin is another stand out track with a duet between Jean and the acoustic guitar with a clean dobro solo. Free My Heart is another track with a beautiful melody. Jean amd C.B. demonstrate that you really don't need an entourage to make great music. U Best Know is an uptempo track with harmonica and pedal steel featured along with Jeans vocals. It will get your head bobbin in time. Perfect Day For A Rescue is a jazzy number and i think it will appeal to most listeners. You Can Dance completes the set and Jean leads the way ... this could break loose into a horn dynamo. The duo keeps the song contained but there are some tasty solo guitar riffs. Sista Jean and C.B. have put out a light, airy blues oriented cd that should appeal to a broad audience.

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All Jams On Deck
A film by Robert Mugge

For many, the highlights of every Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise are the scheduled “pro jams” presented late each night on the aft Pool Deck. On the October 2010 Blues Cruise from San Diego to the Mexican Riviera, music filmmaker Robert Mugge and his crew documented those late-night jams, as well as others taking place throughout the weeklong cruise. The result is a 96-minute music documentary titled ALL JAMS ON DECK which captures exciting and unpredictable performances by such major blues artists as Tommy Castro, Elvin Bishop, Marcia Ball, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Kim Wilson, Lee Oskar, Commander Cody, Coco Montoya, Lowrider Band, Larry McCray, Rick Estrin, Jimmy Thackery, Sista Monica Parker, John Nemeth, Steve Berlin, Vasti Jackson, Leon Blue, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, Eden Brent, Mike Schermer, Kelley Hunt, and many more. Also included are discussions of the history, techniques and etiquette of blues jamming featuring the artists themselves, as well as SiriusXM Radio’s Bluesville Program Director Bill Wax and blues and jazz historian and producer Bob Porter. The twice-yearly Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise was founded in 2001 by Roger Naber, a blues music industry visionary and charter cruise pioneer whose first Blues Cruise sailed in 1992. Robert Mugge, who has been dubbed “king of the American music documentary” by Paul Malcolm (LA Weekly), and his partner Diana Zelman previously collaborated with Naber on the 2007 film DEEP SEA BLUES. Enjoy this unique opportunity to see multiple band leaders performing together with their tremendous talents and exuberance!

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Gary Primich Family Announces "Just a Little More .. with Omar Dykes" CD Release on April 17 Tribute to Late Harmonica Master

THE GARY PRIMICH FAMILY ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF ALBUM SALUTE TO THE LATE BLUES SINGER/HARMONICA MASTER,

JUST A LITTLE MORE … WITH OMAR DYKES, COMING APRIL 17 ON OLD PAL RECORDS

AUSTIN CD RELEASE EVENTS INCLUDE WATERLOO RECORDS IN-STORE, “POCKET FULL OF SOUL” FILM DOC SCREENING AND FREE TRIBUTE SHOW AT CONTINENTAL CLUB

AUSTIN, TX – The family of the late blues singer/harmonica player Gary Primich has announced the April 17 release of a very special CD tribute, Just a Little More … with Omar Dykes, on Old Pal Records, with distribution through CD Baby. To celebrate the release of the new CD, a number of special events are planned in Austin, including an in-store performance by many of Gary’s musical friends at Waterloo Records on Friday, April 20, at 5PM; a screening of the harmonica film documentary, “Pocket Full of Soul” (which includes Primich), on Saturday, April 21, at 4PM at the Wyndham Garden Hotel (located at !-35 and Woodward); and a FREE live tribute show at the Continental Club on Sunday, April 22, from 2-6PM.

The Waterloo in-store performance will feature Omar Kent Dykes on vocals and guitar, Wes Starr on drums, Randy Glines on bass (who used to be Gary's bassist) and Ted Roddy on harp. The “Pocket Full of Soul” film screening on April 21 will benefit the SIMS Foundation, which provides mental health and addiction recovery services to Austin-area musicians and their families. In addition to Gary Primich, the documentary includes such other stellar harmonica players as James Cotton, Delbert McClinton, Kim Wilson, Jerry Portnoy, Charlie Musselwhite, Rod Piazza and a host of others. To watch the trailer for the film, go to www.pocketfullofsoulmovie.com. For the free tribute show at the Continental Club on April 22, artists scheduled to play include Omar Kent Dykes, Mark Hummel, Sarah Brown, Mike Morgan, Juke Logan, Mike Buck, Wes Starr, Ted Roddy, Mark Rubin, Nick Connolly, Barry “Frosty” Smith, Lee McBee and many others.

Just a Little More … with Omar Dykes features 24 cuts of prime Gary Primich recordings that range from 1994 to 2006, the year before Primich passed away, and represent such CD titles as Travelin’ Mood, Mr. Freeze, Doghouse Music and Ridin’ the Darkhorse, as well as several previously unreleased tracks. Also included are several songs that first appeared on such Omar & the Howlers albums as Muddy Springs Road, Swingland and World Wide Open and highlight Gary Primich’s unique talents as a harmonica player.

The musicians on the CD represent a veritable “who’s who” of Austin’s finest, including Gary Clark, Jr., Derek O’Brien, Sarah Brown, Wes Starr, Mark Korpi, Dave Biller, Jay Moehler, Nick Connolly, George Rains, Mark Rubin and Billy Horton. A number of the players were regular members of Gary Primich’s band through the years, either on record or on tour.

As the album’s title indicates, the CD showcases the special musical relationship Gary Primich had with Omar Kent Dykes, who sings and plays guitar on many of the tracks. One of the special previously unreleased cuts is “Down in Mississippi,” which features just Dykes on vocals and guitar and Primich on harp.

“I was close to Gary. I loved him, too,” says Dykes in the album’s liner notes. He was always brilliant with me, and so talented! He was one of my favorite players. He always

made it seem like it was so easy. I remember Gary coming down from Indiana and showing up at my gigs in Austin. It was a little club … they’d clear the tables off this little second-level and we’d set up and go for it. I started seeing Gary out there and after a few gigs I got to talking with him and he said he played harp. I think we got him up and I went ‘MAN, you can PLAY harp.’ But you know, he was so humble about it. He never had to tell anyone he was good. He was just SO good, you know?”

British Blues sensation Oli Brown's UK tour starts April 11

www.thegigcartel.com & Rhino Agency presents
OLI BROWN
APRIL 2012 UK TOUR

"The hottest young pistol in British Blues"
– Mojo

24 HOUR BOX OFFICE: 0844 478 0898
BOOK ONLINE: www.eventim.co.uk www.thegigcartel.com

"One of the best and brightest guitar heroes performing
in the world today"
– Classic Rock

After winning ‘Best Band’ and ‘Best Album’ at the prestigious British Blues Awards 2011, 22 year old British guitar sensation Oli Brown will return to the UK in April 2012 for his biggest headline tour to date.

Tickets for Oli Brown’s solo tour, which kicks off at the Manchester Academy on Wednesday April 11th, will go on sale at 9am on Friday November 4th, mid-way through Oli’s UK stint as special guest to the legendary blues-man John Mayall. Tickets will be available from www.eventim.co.uk, www.thegigcartel.com, and the national booking hotline 0844 478 0898.

A special 48 hour ticket pre-sale will be made available through Eventim and Ents 24. From 9am on Wednesday November 2nd, fans can get their hands on a limited amount of tickets for each of the concerts by visiting www.ents24.com.

Since the release his 2010 album “Heads I Win Tails You Lose”, Oli has been almost constantly on the road with tours across Europe, America, Canada and New Zealand.

The album was produced by Mike Vernon (Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton), who came out of retirement especially to work with Oli, after hearing his debut album, “Open Road”.

Upon release, “Heads I Win Tails You Lose” garnered much critical acclaim, with Mojo and Classic Rock naming the album as their #4 and #3 Blues albums of 2010 respectfully.

Following the dates with John Mayall, Oli will be heading into the studio to work on an as-yet-untitled new album, set for an April 2012 release to coincide with the UK tour.

"A masterful show"
– The Times

"Oli brings a freshness and excitement to every performance...
He's at the forefront of the UK's new Blues movement"
– Planet Rock

www.thegigcartel.com & Rhino Agency presents
OLI BROWN
APRIL 2012 UK TOUR

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Manchester Academy
Wednesday 11th April
Doors - 7.30pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0161 832 1111
Online - www.manchesteracademy.net
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR

York The Duchess
Thursday 12th April
Doors -7.30pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0844 478 0898
Online - http://theduchessyork.co.uk
Stonebow House, York, YO1 7NP

Edinburgh The Caves
Friday 13th April
Doors - 7pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0844 478 0898
Online - www.thecavesedinburgh.com
8-12 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NS

Glasgow O₂ ABC 2
Saturday 14th April
Doors - 7pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box office - 0844 477 2000
Online - www.o2abcglasgow.co.uk
300 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JA

Aberdeen Lemon Tree
Sunday 15th April
Doors - 7.30pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box office - 01224 641122
Online - www.boxofficeaberdeen.com
5 West North Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT

Newcastle O₂ Academy 2
Tuesday 17th April
Doors - 7.30pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0844 477 2000
Online - www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk
Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 1SW

Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Wednesday 18th April
Doors - 7.30pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0845 413 4444
Online - www.rescuerooms.com
25 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 5LB

Birmingham O₂ Academy 2
Thursday 19th April
Doors - 7.30pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0844 477 2000
Online - www.o2academybirmingham.co.uk
16-18 Horsefair, Bristol Street, B1 1DB

Exeter Phoenix
Friday 20th April
Doors - 8pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 01392 667080
Online - www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Bradninch Place, Gandy St, EX4 3LS

Bristol The Tunnels
Saturday 21st April
Doors - 7pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0845 605 0255
Online - www.thetunnelsbristol.co.uk
32 Bristol & Exeter Mews, Bristol BS1 6QS

London Islington O₂ Academy
Sunday 22nd April
Doors - 7pm / Tickets - £12.50
Box Office - 0844 477 2000
Online - www.o2academyislington.co.uk
N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, London, N1 OPS

OLI BROWN - "HERE I AM" - OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY

So here he is. The great white hope of British blues. The young man blues sensation. The rock ‘n’ roll alchemist who fires a bullet-belt of influences into the mix. The heart-on-sleeve songwriter who bleeds onto the lyric sheet and solos like his soul is hard-wired to his fingers. The mover, shaker and rule-breaker, who drags the dusty conventions of the blues into the millennium by the hair.

But if you thought you knew the real Oli Brown, you don’t know the half of it. Please allow him to introduce himself. Three albums into his career, Here I Am finds Oli letting down the barriers, showing his cards, turning the spotlight on himself and defying you to turn off your stereo. “The new album is called Here I Am,” he explains, “because I’m saying, ‘this is me’. People know when something isn’t believable. I’m just trying to be honest.”

Here I Am is the sound of an artist on the crest of a wave. When Oli hit the studio in Nottingham after a triumphant 2011, he had the plaudits of fans, press, peers and heroes ringing in his ears, a truck-load of trophies and a huge weight of expectation. Most 22-year-olds would have felt pressure, but with his dream team around him – drummer/producer Wayne Proctor and bassist Scott Barnes – Oli rode the red light and chased down 12 classic songs to hand over to Magic Garden Mastering’s Brian Lacey (fresh from The Black Keys’ El Camino album).

It’s a tracklisting that runs the gauntlet, from Thinking About Her’s grooving ode to a seductress, past the desolate break-up blues of All We Had To Give, to the stinger missile Solid Ground that features Paul Jones on harmonica and signs off the album with a slam-dunk. “Ain’t tryin’ to be no Jimi or Stevie, I wanna be my goddamn self,” Oli roars on the title track, and even on covers of Donny Hathaway’s I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know and Nikka Costa’s Like A Feather, he has both hands on the wheel. Oli Brown has stepped it up. Again.

It’s a long climb from the schoolyards of Norwich to the top table of the British blues scene, and hard to believe that Oli Brown has scaled it in just four years. “I didn’t have any career ambitions until I started playing guitar in 2002,” he notes. “Blues was always in the background, but what really hit was the first Stevie Ray Vaughan album I bought. When I started playing, Hendrix was my first influence. He was a showman, too, setting his guitar alight. I’ve never done that!”

With his chops primed, Oli soon went public, playing impromptu Norwich jam nights where “we didn’t even know what we were playing, but it taught me a lot”. The pivotal moment came at 15, when he was invited to the US as the guest of Blinddog Smokin’: a support slot that morphed into a mentoring scheme, with Oli sharing bills with Buddy Guy and Taj Mahal, and being schooled after-hours by his hosts. “Before that, I didn’t care what the music was, I just wanted to solo,” he admits. “But while I was out there, they taught me everything about the blues, about stagecraft, about walking tall and speaking to the audience.”

Oli would return to the US with Blinddog Smokin’ several times, while he also cites the wisdom imparted by legends including Robben Ford, John Mayall and Walter Trout. Fast-forward to 2008, though, and the student had become the master, and when Ruf Records label boss Thomas Ruf witnessed an explosive UK gig he signed Oli on the spot. Things moved fast. That same year, the precocious bandleader burst out of the blocks with Open Road: a dazzling opening shot that fused funky cuts like Psycho with heart-rending solo showcases like Missing You. “There aren’t many 12-bars on there,” Oli said in 2008. “I try to get across a few different styles, but I haven’t had any purists shout at me yet!”

So it began. With that first release, the press woke up to what live blues fanatics knew already, and promptly showered Oli with champagne, with Blues Matters! voting Open Road the #2 album of 2008, and Classic Rock declaring the singer had “the blues under his fingernails like few of his peers”. The flattery stepped up a gear when the Oli Brown Band became the only British act selected for 2008’s International Blues Convention in Memphis, and some measure of his exploding profile came when Oli was invited by John Fry of Ardent Studios to record a live session… which scored 1.3 million hits in under a month.

The buzz was building, and by 2010, it caught the ear of legendary British producer Mike Vernon, the veteran of such benchmarks as 1966’s Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton, who was lured out of semi-retirement to helm second album, Heads I Win Tails You Lose, and capture a light-footed tracklisting that mixed up scuttle-buttin’ grooves like Evil Soul and room-shakers like Real Good Time. On release in April 2010, it was clear this kid was more than alright, and the press duly threw star ratings like confetti, with Mojo dubbing Oli “the hottest young pistol in British blues”, Uncut praising “a British bluesman to rival Trucks and Bonamassa”, and Classic Rock voting Heads I Win #3 blues album of the year.

With the 2010 British Blues Awards toasting him as Best Male Vocalist and Best Young Artist, some musicians would have rested on their laurels and watched the royalties roll in. Not Oli Brown. He once said that “blues needs to be heard live”, and it’s true that while he tears it up in the studio, his natural habitat is the darkened stage and his favourite sound the roar of the crowd as he blasts songs skyward with his signature Vanquish guitar. In 2011, Oli toured the UK, Europe, New Zealand, Canada and America – even charming Uncle Sam with a high-profile breakfast TV appearance – and scored another haul of trophies at the British Blues Awards (Best Band and Best Album). The year concluded in schoolboy fantasy-style, playing 25 gigs with John Mayall. Somebody pinch him…

So where do you go when you’ve hit the top? The answer, for Oli Brown, is back on the road, as he supports the April release of Here I Am with a major UK headline tour. For this 22-year-old, blues isn’t just a job, an easy pay-cheque or a shot at cheap cejavascript:void(0)lebrity: it’s his passion, driving force and raison-d’être. “I picked the wrong genre of music to be a celebrity,” Oli laughs. “I just wanted to be a credible musician and get respect from people.” With Here I Am, it’s mission accomplished.

“The hottest young pistol in British Blues” - Mojo

“A British Bluesman to rival Trucks and Bonamassa” - Uncut

“Brown’s fretwork really stuns” - Classic Rock

“His singing voice is compelling” - Guitarist

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Cherokee Boogie - Moon Mullican

Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues. He was associated with the hillbilly boogie style which greatly influenced rockabilly; Jerry Lee Lewis cited him as a major influence on his own singing and piano playing.

Mullican once stated, "We gotta play music that'll make them goddamn beer bottles bounce on the table".
Moon was born to Oscar Luther Mullican (1876–1961) and his first wife, Virginia Jordan Mullican (1880–1915), near Corrigan, Polk County, Texas. They were a farming family of Scottish, Irish and Eastern European descent. Moon was a descendant of the Mullikins of Maryland. His Scots-Irish immigrant ancestor, James Mullikin, was born in Scotland, arriving in Maryland in 1630–1640 via Northern Ireland. His paternal grandfather was Pvt. Wilson G. Mullican, who fought with the 6th Mississippi Infantry, CSA, at the Battle of Shiloh. Moon's parents, stepmother and grandparents are all buried in Stryker Cemetery, Polk County, Texas.
By the 1930s, Mullican had earned the nickname "Moon", either short for "moonshine" or from his all-night performances (sources differ). His earliest influences were popular blues artists of the day such as Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Leroy Carr, together with country musicians including Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills. In 1936, he covered Cab Calloway's "Georgia Pine" and also sung his own compositions "Ain't You Kinda Sorry" and "Swing Baby Swing" for Leon Selph's Western swing band, The Blue Ridge Playboys. He also played and recorded with Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers, the Sunshine Boys, and Jimmie Davis. By the end of the 1930s, he had also become a popular vocalist with a warm, deep, vocal delivery
During the late 1940s, Mullican influenced many other country artists. He had defined a style of country balladeering not hinted at in his 1930s work. This style of music influenced Jim Reeves (a band member for a while), Hank Williams (who named Moon as a favorite artist), Hank Snow, Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, and especially Jerry Lee Lewis, who covered many of Mullican's songs. It was in the realm of hillbilly boogie, however, that Mullican had his greatest influence. Many of his songs, such as "Pipeliners Blues", "Hey! Mister Cotton-Picker" and "Cherokee Boogie" (his biggest hit, in 1951) directly foreshadowed the style adopted by Haley and later rock'n'rollers. Moon also influenced [Irish] country singer Patrick Wall, and also US band Cornell Hurd, who both did tribute CDs to mark Mullican's 100th birthday in 2009.
On New Year's Eve 1966, he suffered a heart attack in Beaumont, Texas, and died early in the morning on January 1, 1967. He and his wife, Eunice, who survived him (she died in 1973), had no children
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This Is The Blues - Robert Jr Lockwood

Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist,[2] who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime collaborator with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.
Robert Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, a hamlet west of Helena, Arkansas. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of 8. The famous bluesman Robert Johnson lived with Lockwood's mother for 10 years off and on after his parents' divorce. Lockwood learned from Johnson not only how to play guitar, but timing and stage presence as well. Because of his personal and professional association with the music of Robert Johnson, he became known as "Robert Junior" Lockwood, a nickname by which he was known among fellow musicians for the rest of his life, although he later frequently professed his dislike for this appellation.
In 1961, Lockwood moved with his wife to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio where he resided until his death. In the early 1960s, as "Bob Lockwood, Jr., and Combo," he had a regular gig at Loving's Grill, located at 8426 Hough Avenue. In the 1970s through the 1990s, he performed regularly with his band the "All Stars" at numerous local venues, including Pirate's Cove, The Euclid Tavern, and Peabody's. For the last few years of his career, Lockwood played at Cleveland's Fat Fish Blue (corner of Prospect and Ontario in downtown) every Wednesday night at 8 p.m.; the "All Stars" have continued to perform there after his death.

His Cleveland period also saw the release of some of his most noteworthy studio recordings as a band leader, first with a pair of albums playing solo and with his band of the time on the Trix Records label, and then with Johnny Shines for two LPs on the Rounder label. The latter showed both men determinedly playing the music they were interested in, rather than the familiar requests of the blues audience - an attitude Lockwood maintained. Although he seldom performed without his band, he also recorded a solo album of his own material, along with a few Robert Johnson standards, under the title Plays Robert and Robert. Lockwood has dealt briskly, sometimes brusquely, with the Johnson legend. It's typical that when he gave one of his infrequent album recitals of Johnson songs, for Plays Robert and Robert (1983), he puckishly chose to use a 12-string guitar.

In 2004, Lockwood appeared at Eric Clapton's first Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, Texas. A live recording with three other blues musicians in Dallas in October 2004 – Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas – was awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album. or Henry Townsend and Robert Lockwood Jr. It was the first Grammy win for the musicians. His last known recording session was carried out at Ante Up Audio studios in Cleveland; where he performed on the album The Way Things Go, with long time collaborator Cleveland Fats for Honeybee Entertainment.

Lockwood died at the age of 91 in Cleveland, having earlier suffered a cerebral aneurysm and a stroke. He is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland
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Suicide Blues - Frankie Ervin

Frankie Ervin - lead singer of YOU CHEATED by the SHIELDS. Frankie was living in a hospice suffering from mental dementia. Charles Wright who sang with the Shields on tour and by Grady Chapman of the Robins indicated this. In 1989 Frankie popped up on the scene in Los Angeles after a hiatus of many years. At a club show featuring Charles Wright and his 103rd Street band Brenton Wood, Frankie and other singers were present and after the show.
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Devils Hand - Johnny Copeland

Johnny Copeland (March 27, 1937 – July 3, 1997) was an American Texas blues guitarist and singer.
Born in Haynesville, Louisiana, United States, while Copeland was becoming interested in music, he also pursued boxing, mostly as an avocation, and it is from his days as a boxer that he got his nickname "Clyde." Also as a teenager influenced by T-Bone Walker he formed the 'Dukes of Rhythm' in Houston, Texas, and made his recording debut in 1956, signing with Duke Records the following year. In his early years he played with such acts as Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Mama Thornton and Freddie King. Although his early records met with little commercial success, he became a popular touring act over the next two decades.

His early recording career embraced blues, soul and rock and roll. He cut singles for Mercury, All Boy and Golden Eagle, amongst others. His first single was "Rock 'n' Roll Lily", and he later cut regional successes such as "Please Let Me Know" and "Down On Bending Knees." For the most part, his singles featured Copeland as a vocalist more than a guitar player.

Driven by disco to rethink his future, he moved to New York in 1979,[4] and played extensively in the eastern cities. In 1981, he was signed by Rounder Records, releasing albums including Copeland Special (1981) and Bringing It All Back Home (1985), and touring widely. Copeland appeared at the 1983 Long Beach Blues Festival, and the 1988 San Francisco Blues Festival. He won a Grammy in 1987 for best traditional blues album for the album Showdown!, recorded with Robert Cray and Albert Collins.

Copeland also played at the 1985 Montreaux Jazz Festival, as a guest with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, with Vaughan and Copeland most famously performing the Bob Geddins song, "Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town)" together on Vaughan's Blues At Sunrise album.

His later years were dogged by ill health due to a congential heart defect. He died, aged 60, in Harlem, New York, from complications during heart surgery for a heart transplanted six months earlier. Copeland was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.

His daughter, Shemekia Copeland, established a successful career as a singer. He was also survived by his wife, son and two daughters.

When The Sun Goes Down - Leroy Carr

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.
Carr was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Although his recording career was cut short by an early death, Carr left behind a large body of work. He had a long-time partnership with guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. His light bluesy piano combined with Blackwell's melodic jazz guitar to attract a sophisticated black audience. Carr's vocal style moved blues singing toward an urban sophistication, influencing such singers as T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ray Charles among others.

Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing used some of Carr's songs and Basie's band shows the influence of Carr's piano style.

His music has been covered by notable artists such as Robert Johnson, Ray Charles, Big Bill Broonzy, Moon Mullican, Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Donegan and Memphis Slim.

Carr died of nephritis shortly after his thirtieth birthday.
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Two Sides of Eddie Lang - BLIND WILLIE DUNN

Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as the Father of Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt
Lang was born Salvatore Massaro, the son of an Italian-American instrument maker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At first, he took violin lessons for 11 years. In school he became friends with Joe Venuti, with whom he would work for much of his career. He was playing professionally by about 1918, playing violin, banjo, and guitar. He worked with various bands in the USA's north-east, worked in London (late 1924 to early 1925), then settled in New York City.

Lang was the first important jazz guitarist. He was effectively able to integrate the guitar into 1920s jazz recordings. He played with the bands of Joe Venuti, Adrian Rollini, Roger Wolfe Kahn and Jean Goldkette in addition to doing a large amount of freelance radio and recording work.

On February 4, 1927, Lang featured in the recording of "Singin' the Blues" by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. Lang traded guitar licks while Beiderbecke soloed on cornet, in a landmark jazz recording of the 1920s.

In 1929, he joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and can be seen and heard in the movie The King of Jazz. In 1930, Lang played guitar on the original recording of the jazz and pop standard "Georgia On My Mind", recorded with Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra. Joe Venuti and Bix Beiderbecke also played on this recording.

When Bing Crosby left Whiteman, Lang went with Crosby as his accompanist, and can be seen with him in the 1932 movie Big Broadcast. Lang also played under the pseudonym Blind Willie Dunn on a number of blues records with Lonnie Johnson.

Lang died following a tonsillectomy in New York City in 1933 at the age of thirty. He had been urged by Crosby to have the tonsillectomy so that he might have speaking parts in Crosby's films. Lang's voice was chronically hoarse, and it was hoped that the operation would remedy this. It is unclear exactly what the cause of death was, but it is thought that uncontrolled bleeding played a role. Author James Sallis claims that he died when he developed an embolism while still under anesthetic and never regained consciousness
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You Better Believe It - Paul Gayten

Paul Gayten (January 29, 1920 – March 26, 1991) was an American R&B bandleader, pianist, songwriter, producer and record company executive.
Gayten was born in Kentwood, Louisiana, the nephew of blues pianist Little Brother Montgomery. In his teens he played piano in local bands while also setting up his own group, Paul Gayten's Sizzling Six, which featured future bebop saxophonist Teddy Edwards.

During the war, he led a band at the Army base in Biloxi, Mississippi. He then moved to New Orleans and, with a new trio, established a residency at the Club Robin Hood. In 1947 the trio recorded two of the first New Orleans hits of the R&B era, "True (You Don't Love Me)", and "Since I Fell for You", the latter featuring singer Annie Laurie. Both made the R&B top ten. Gayten also backed singer Chubby Newsom on her hit "Hip Shakin’ Mama".

In 1949 he expanded his combo into a nine-piece orchestra and moved to Regal Records. There, Gayten wrote the #1 R&B hit "For You My Love" for Larry Darnell, and recorded "I’ll Never Be Free" with Annie Laurie. His orchestra toured widely, for a period adding saxophonist Hank Mobley and singer Little Jimmy Scott, and appearing on double bills with both Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In 1952 he moved to Okeh Records.

In 1953 he decided to quit as a touring bandleader and joined Chess Records as a talent scout, producer, promotion man, songwriter and part-time musician and recording artist. He discovered Clarence "Frogman" Henry and produced his first hit, "Ain't Got No Home", in 1956, later going on to co-write and produce his biggest hit, "But I Do", in 1961. At Chess, Gayten produced Bobby Charles' "Later Alligator" and played piano on Chuck Berry’s "Carol". In 1956 he also had one of the biggest hits of his own career with "The Music Goes Round And Round", followed up by "Nervous Boogie".

In 1960 he moved to Los Angeles with his wife Odile to run the Chess operations there. In 1968 he set up his own label, Pzazz, which recorded Louis Jordan, among others. He continued to live in Los Angeles with Odile after retiring in the 1970s, and died there in 1991.
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Alien Blues - Honey Bee & the T-Bones

No run-of-the-mill grind, but a heady cocktail, where best psychedelic elements from 1960’s San Francisco meet Mississippi blues in a garage with serious intentions. The phat bass lines of Honey B. and the funky drumming of Jaska Lukkarinen builds a house, where T-Bone Ed’s fiery slide takes no prisoners. The cherry on the cake comes courtesy of Honey B’s singing. Think updated Memphis Minnie and you’re close. Blues is not for teenagers, it comes out of life experience. T-Bones have gigged a quarter century, often all over Europe, so they know the ropes. They have worked with harpist Gary Primich, guitar ace Mel Brown and the mighty UMO orchestra and currently back Finland’s answer to Dylan, Tuomari Nurmio (a.k.a. Judge Bone). In the course of ten albums their style has matured from rootsy blues through rocking R&B and psychedelic experimental rock to today’s kaleidoscopic garage blues that fills their upcoming, excellent Alien Blues album
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Kyoji Yamamoto playing slow blues with J.W. Wiliams and Chi-Town Hustler

Kyoji Yamamoto (山本 恭司 Yamamoto Kyōji, born March 23, 1956 in Matsue, Shimane, Japan) is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who is the leader of the hard rock/metal bands Bow Wow (known as Vow Wow for a period of time) and Wild Flag. He is known for his skillful guitar playing, and was the first hard rock guitarist to use the tapping technique.
After entering Yamaha Music School, Kyoji formed Bow Wow in 1975 and they released their debut album a year later . The following year they opened for Aerosmith and Kiss. In 1984, with the addition of two new members, the group renamed themselves Vow Wow and moved to England in 1987 before disbanding in 1990. Kyoji reformed Bow Wow with all new members in 1995, however original members Mitsuhiro Saito and Toshihiro Niimi rejoined him in 1998 to become a trio.

Kyoji began a solo career in 1980, and has appeared as a special guest performer for numerous musicians. In 1986 he was asked by producer Wilfried F. Rimensberger to participate in the supergroup Phenomena, playing on their second album

Perhaps the stereotypical Chicago bluesman, this big bellowing fellow (and bassist, too) is one of the city's busiest performers. A mainstay of the ..Buddy Guy/Junior Wells.. bands of the '70s (he was scheduled to participate in a Wells tribute at the 1999 Chicago Blues Festival), you can currently catch him with his band, the Chi-Town Hustlers. Says the Chicago Reader, though he "has always sounded to me as if he'd rather be playing funk than blues, ... he's a solid craftsman whose tendency to overplay is tempered by a solid rhythmic sense and an energetic attack."
Toured with ..Bo Diddley, James Cotton, Jimmy Walker, Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch, Margie Evans...
Recorded with ..Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Syl Johnson, Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch..
Founded the Chi-Town Hustlers in 1976
Also played with ..Jimmy Reed, Bobby Rush, Lonnie Brooks, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Big Mama Thorton
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Lil' Damsel Records artist Chelle Rose - Ghost of Browder Holler - New Release Review

I have been listening to the new recording, Ghost of Browder Holler, a new recording by Chelle Rose. I'm gonna tell you right up front. It's not blues. I've heard a lot of music in my lifetime and I hear a lot of classifications put onto music which causes them to be pigeon holed into some slot where they'll never be found so I won't try to describe exactly what it is. I'll tell you what it is to me.

It's honest. I don't hear any of the stereotypical sounds or vocal corrections or mandatory licks to make it what it something that it's not. Chelle has an interesting voice and she just puts it out there. She's more a country punk than a star search wanna be... and to me that's good.

This 12 track recording is due to be released on May 1. The recording opens with Browder Holler Boy, a song with a lot of rural sounds and the voice is more the voice of a poet. What do I mean by that... think Brody Dalle, Courtney Love or Bob Dylan ... and to me that is a positive. The music is simple, clear and relaxing. No pretense. I Need You has a bit of rock kicked onto it and this could actually be a song that hits the radio (every once in a while a good one makes it!) Leona Barnett is a tale told through song and very cool as well as sonically interesting. Alimony is another rocker with guitars and overdriven tube amps and everything. This song has a little bit of everything. If I Could is a simple love song. It is very well constructed and executed. Damsel has a real haunting quality to it. It's a pretty simple song but nicely done. Wild Violets Pretty is a very simple song accompanied by a mandolin. It is executed very delicately like a voice on canvas. This recording is outside of my prime listening zone but I feel that it well done and should find a strong audience. I'm keeping my copy.
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