33rd Blues Music Awards Presented By The Blues Foundation

Acoustic Album
Conversations in Blue – David Maxwell & Otis Spann
Brand New Eyes – Doug MacLeod
Troubadour Live – Eric Bibb
Misery Loves Company – Mary Flower
Shake ‘Em on Down – Rory Block

Acoustic Artist
David Maxwell
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Guy Davis
Mary Flower
Rory Block

Album of the Year
Chicago Blues A Living History The (R)evolution Continues – Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, Carlos Johnson
Rock and a Hard Place – Eugene Hideaway Bridges
The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too – Johnny Sansone
Evening – Sugar Ray & the Bluetones
Medicine – Tab Benoit
Revelator – Tedeschi Trucks Band

B.B. King Entertainer
Candye Kane
Lil’ Ed
Ruthie Foster
Tab Benoit
Tommy Castro

Band
Bo-Keys
Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Tommy Castro Band
Trampled Under Foot

Best New Artist Debut
Choice Cuts – Big Pete
Bad Girl – Demetria Taylor
Runaway – Samantha Fish
Leave the Light On – Sena Ehrhardt
The Mighty Mojo Prophets – The Mighty Mojo Prophets

Contemporary Blues Album
Unconditional – Ana Popovic
Don’t Explain – Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa
The Skinny – Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons
The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too – Johnny Sansone
Medicine – Tab Benoit
Tommy Castro Presents The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue–Live! – Various Artists

Contemporary Blues Female Artist
Ana Popovic
Bettye LaVette
Candye Kane
Janiva Magness
Susan Tedeschi

Contemporary Blues Male Artist
Joe Louis Walker
Johnny Sansone
JP Soars
Tab Benoit
Tommy Castro

DVD
An Evening at Trasimeno Lake – Ana Popovic (ArtisteXclusive)
Live at Montreux 2010 – Gary Moore (Eagle Rock)
Live At Antone’s – Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
The Emporium to the Orpheum – Trampled Under Foot (Redwood)
All Jams on Deck - Various Artists (Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise & Mug-Shot Productions)
Play the Blues – Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton (Rhino)

Gibson Guitar Award
Derek Trucks
Duke Robillard
Kirk Fletcher
Lurrie Bell
Michael Burks

Historical Album
Bear Family – Texas Flyer 1974-76 (Freddie King)
Chess – Smokestack Lightning/The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960 (Howlin’ Wolf)
Delmark – Hoodoo Man Blues (Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy)
Electro-Fi – Teardrops Are Falling – Live in 1983 (George “Harmonica” Smith)
Virgin – The Essential Modern Records Collection (Etta James)

Instrumentalist-Bass
Biscuit Miller
Danielle Schnebelen
Larry Taylor
Michael “Mudcat” Ward
Patrick Rynn

Instrumentalist-Drums
Chris Layton
Jimi Bott
Kenny Smith
Robb Stupka
Stanton Moore
Tony Braunagel

Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Charlie Musselwhite
Kim Wilson
Lazy Lester
Rick Estrin
Sugar Ray Norcia

Instrumentalist-Horn
Al Basile
Doug James
Keith Crossan
Sax Gordon
Terry Hanck

Instrumentalist-Other
Ben Prestage, diddley bow
Lionel Young, violin
Otis Taylor, banjo
Rich Del Grosso, mandolin
Sonny Rhodes, lap steel guitar

Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)
Diunna Greenleaf
Maria Muldaur
Nora Jean
Ruthie Foster
Tracy Nelson

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
David Maxwell
Eden Brent
Jon Cleary
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
Marcia Ball
Victor Wainwright

Rock Blues Album
2120 South Michigan Avenue – George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Dust Bowl – Joe Bonamassa
Greyhound – Mike Zito
Shiver – Too Slim and the Taildraggers
Man in Motion – Warren Haynes

Song
“Appreciate What You Got” – Terry Hanck (Look Out! – Terry Hanck)
“Back to the Blues” – Hadden Sayers (Hard Dollar- Hadden Sayers)
“Memphis Still Got Soul” – Bob Trenchard & Johnny Rawls (Memphis Still Got Soul – Johnny Rawls)
“Thank You for Giving Me the Blues” – Grady Champion, Zac Harmon & Chris Troy (Dreamin’ – Grady Champion)
“The Lord is Waiting the Devil is Too” – Johnny Sansone (The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too – Johnny Sansone)
“The Older I Get the Better I Was” – Joe Shelton (The Older I Get the Better I Was – Big Joe Shelton)

Soul Blues Album
Got to Get Back! – Bo-Keys
Show You a Good Time – Bobby Rush
Rock and a Hard Place – Eugene Hideaway Bridges
Dreamin’ – Grady Champion
Memphis Still Got Soul – Johnny Rawls

Soul Blues Female Artist
Alexis P. Suter
Denise LaSalle
Jackie Johnson
Sharrie Williams
Sista Monica Parker

Soul Blues Male Artist
Bobby Rush
Curtis Salgado
Eugene Hideaway Bridges
Johnny Rawls
Otis Clay

Traditional Blues Album
Chicago Blues A Living History The (R)evolution Continues – Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, Carlos Johnson
Trying To Hold On – Diunna Greenleaf
You Better Listen – Lazy Lester
Evening – Sugar Ray & the Bluetones
Victim of the Blues – Tracy Nelson

Traditional Blues Male Artist
Charlie Musselwhite
John Primer
Lazy Lester
Mac Arnold
Magic Slim

Boogie Woogie Dance - Skunk River Medicine Show (Tampa Red)

Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician.

Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string slide style. His songwriting and his silky, polished "bottleneck" technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records. His best known recordings include the "classic compositions 'Anna Lou Blues', 'Black Angel Blues', 'Crying Won't Help You', 'It Hurts Me Too', and 'Love Her with a Feeling'"
He was born Hudson Woodbridge in Smithville, Georgia, United States. His parents died when he was a child, and he moved to Tampa, Florida, where he was raised by his aunt and grandmother and adopted their surname, Whittaker. He emulated his older brother, Eddie, who played guitar, and he was especially inspired by an old street musician called Piccolo Pete, who first taught him to play blues licks on a guitar.

In the 1920s, having already perfected his slide technique, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and began his career as a musician, adopting the name 'Tampa Red' from his childhood home and light colored skin. His big break was being hired to accompany Ma Rainey and he began recording in 1928 with "It's Tight Like That", in a bawdy and humorous style that became known as "hokum". Early recordings were mostly collaborations with Thomas A. Dorsey, known at the time as Georgia Tom. Tampa Red and Georgia Tom recorded almost 90 sides, sometimes as "The Hokum Boys" or, with Frankie Jaxon, as "Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band".

In 1928, Tampa Red became the first black musician to play a National steel-bodied resonator guitar, the loudest and showiest guitar available before amplification, acquiring one in the first year they were available. This allowed him to develop his trademark bottleneck style, playing single string runs, not block chords, which was a precursor to later blues and rock guitar soloing. The National guitar he used was a gold-plated tricone, which was found in Illinois in the 1990s by music-shop owner and guitarist Randy Clemens and later sold to the "Experience Music Project" in Seattle. Tampa Red was known as "The Man With The Gold Guitar", and, into the 1930s, he was billed as "The Guitar Wizard".

His partnership with Dorsey ended in 1932, but he remained much in demand as a session musician, working with John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo, and many others. In 1934 he signed for Victor Records, remaining on their artist roster until 1953. He formed the Chicago Five, a group of session musicians who created what became known as the Bluebird sound, a precursor of the small group style of later jump blues and rock and roll bands.[4] He was a close friend and associate of Big Bill Broonzy and Big Maceo Merriweather. He enjoyed commercial success and reasonable prosperity, and his home became a centre for the blues community, informally providing rehearsal space, bookings, and lodgings for the flow of musicians who arrived in Chicago from the Mississippi Delta as the commercial potential of blues music grew and agricultural employment in the south diminished.

By the 1940s he was playing electric guitar. In 1942 "Let Me Play With Your Poodle" was a # 4 hit on Billboard's new "Harlem Hit Parade", forerunner of the R&B chart, and his 1949 recording "When Things Go Wrong with You (It Hurts Me Too)", another R&B hit, was covered by Elmore James. He was 'rediscovered' in the late 1950s, like many other surviving early recorded blues artists such as Son House and Skip James, as part of the blues revival. His final recordings were in 1960.

He became an alcoholic after his wife's death in 1953. He died destitute in Chicago, aged 77.

Skunk River Medicine Show plays vintage acoustic blues in the styles of some of the great pioneers of pre-World War II country blues and ragtime. This earthy music was born in the Deep South when the War Between the States was still a fresh memory and electricity and paved roads were a novelty. Country blues overflowed out of the plantations, prison farms, levee camps, barrelhouses, camp-town revivals and juke joints, like so much pent-up hot lava erupting from under the ground through a thousand volcanoes. Thanks to the roving talent scouts and early recording companies that captured the primal music in shellac and vinyl, new generations continue to discover for the first time the powerful blues of Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Tommy Johnson, Blind Blake, Henry “Ragtime Texas” Thomas, Reverend Gary Davis and others. These pioneers poured into music their hopes, joys, loves, losses, passions, frustrations—and their tales of ramblin’ ways and broken hearts, worn-out lovers, and kind-hearted, double-crossing women.
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Op 27 en 28 mei 2012 staat het gratis toegankelijke Ribs & Blues Festival weer op de agenda. 2 dagen met de beste live muziek en de lekkerste ribs van het land. Binnenkort presenteren wij de eerste namen! Traditioneel vindt op de zaterdagavond voorafgaand aan het Ribs & Blues Festival een pre-party plaats; tot aan 2011 onder de naam Pinkster Party Raalte, m.i.v. 2012 gaat deze opwarmavond verder als Rockin' Ribs !  
We kunnen hiervoor alvast de eerste naam bekend maken; op zaterdag 26 mei zullen de Britse rocksterren van STATUS QUO naar Raalte komen voor een optreden op de Domineeskamp! Klik hierboven op Rockin' Ribs voor meer info!  
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More Frampton Comes Alive 35th Anniversary Tour dates

More Frampton Comes Alive 35th Anniversary Tour dates now have presale and VIP tickets available! Presales for Westbury NY, Bakersfield CA, Redding CA and Tacoma WA being Wednesday, November 9.

Purchase presale tickets and VIP packages at http://peterframpton.artistarena.com.
2/16/12 - Westbury Theatre - Westbury, NY
3/12/12 - Fox Theatre - Bakersfield, CA
3/20/12 - Cascade Theatre - Redding, CA
3/23/12 - Pantages Theater - Tacoma, WA

Platinum VIP Packages are $500-550 each and include:
- 2 Premium Reserved Seat Tickets
- A Framed Frampton Comes Alive Platinum Album Plaque with your name on it.
- 2 Limited Edition Signed "Frampton Comes Alive! 35" Posters
- 2 Commemorative Pick Tins
- 2 Commemorative VIP Laminates

Gold VIP Packages are $150-200 each and include:
- 1 Premium Reserved Seat
- 1 Embroidered Frampton Comes Alive! 35 Military Hat
- 1 Limited Edition Signed "Frampton Comes Alive 35" Poster
- 1 Commemorative Pick Tin
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Eyesight To The Blind - Mike Tash and the Bad Influence Band

Bad Influence, the premier Washington, DC band, has been playing their brand of blues-infused, high energy music since the humble beginnings in 1988.

Ever-growing crowds turn out for the band's scorching hot and sinfully addicting blues-infused fare, charged with a masterful blend of sensuously rough edges wrapped in soulful smoothness, riveting rock currents and potent shots of swing and American roots. All this is signed, sealed and delivered in a suggestive, in-your-face finesse captivating even the most stoic of mind, body and spirit.

The award-winning Bad Influence features Bob Mallardi on bass and vocals; Hohner endorsed artist Roger Edsall on harp and vocals; Epiphone endorsed artist Michael "Jr" Tash on guitar and vocals; and Sonor endorsed David Thaler on the drums.
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Le Blues Du Dentiste - Paul Personne and Ticky Holgado

Paul Personne (born 27 December 1949, Argenteuil, France) is a French blues singer and guitarist
Paul Personne (de son vrai nom René-Paul Roux) est un guitariste et chanteur français de blues et de rock né à Argenteuil le 27 décembre 1949.
Paul grandit donc en région parisienne, et suit l’influence mélomane de son père qui joue de temps en temps de l’harmonica. Mais c’est surtout en écoutant la radio que Paul Personne va se forger sa propre culture musicale, qui englobe aussi bien Piaf que Johnny Hallyday ou encore Eddy Mitchell. Paul commence l’apprentissage de la musique en faisant de la batterie et de la guitare, et évolue dans plusieurs groupes à l’adolescence.

C’est avec le groupe L’Origine que Paul va enregistrer son premier titre sur le label Pathé Marconi. Mais L’Origine n’arrivera pas à percer et Paul doit se trouver un boulot (agro)alimentaire pour vivre. La musique fait sa réapparition dans l’existence de Paul lorsque ce dernier fait la connaissance du Liquid Theater, une troupe de théâtre avec qui il fonde le collectif La Folle Entreprise. Mais ce nouveau groupe ne réussira pas non plus à enregistrer plus d’un titre. Par conséquent, Paul doit une fois de plus renoncer à ses projets artistiques et le musicien part vivre à Toulouse avec femme et enfant. Mais la guitare lui fait les yeux doux constamment, et Paul finit par craquer : il crée un autre groupe, Bracos Band, avec qui il écume les salles de concert ainsi que les festivals. Et comme de bien entendu, la nouvelle formation enregistre un titre en 1977 pour se séparer ensuite.
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Rip Cat Records Announces Signing Of Seminal SoCal Acts The Blasters, K.K.Martin

        

Rip Cat Records Announces Signing Of Seminal SoCal Acts The Blasters, K.K.Martin

     Rip Cat Records announces the signing of two iconic Southern California-based music artists, The Blasters and K.K. Martin.       

     The Blasters formed in Downey, California back in 1979 and, along with X, Black Flag, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others, have been an integral part of the SoCal underground/indie-rock scene since their formation. Led by brothers Phil and Dave Alvin, the group originally signed to much-loved indie label Slash Records in 1981 and were known as much for their grueling touring schedule as their unique country-punk sound. Among the noted musicians that have performed as members of the Blasters through the years: the dynamic saxophone duo of Steve Berlin and Lee Allen; bassist John Bazz; the late Hollywood Fats (a/k/a Michael Mann) and X's Billy Zoom, Greg "Smoky" Hormel, James Intveld, and current guitarist, Keith Wyatt; and drummers Billy Bateman, David Carrol and current member, Jerry Angel. The Blasters were featured in the popular 1984 film Streets Of Fire and placed two songs in the sound track, "One Bad Stud" and "Blue Shadows." The Blasters are currently in the studio recording a new album for Rip Cat.
     K.K. Martin was a founding member, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter for 80's-era band A La Carte. The group gained considerable renown as one of the most in-demand groups on the then-vibrant Sunset Strip music scene. Exposed in the womb to the music of Jimmie Rodgers. Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, he began touring with his parents at age 10. K.K. was transplanted to California in 1969 and cut his teeth on the local L.A. rock scene at age 16, landing a brief stint with the Albert Collins backup band. Martin has performed with a Who's-Who in the music business including Eric Burdon, Booker T, Rick Derringer, Johnny Winters, Blondie, and currently, Lester Chambers of famed R&B/Soul group The Chambers Brothers. K.K. was a recipient of "Outstanding Blues Artist" at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards in 1999. In the last decade, Louisiana native Martin has reconnected with his Blues roots. He toured with Lester Chambers of the 60's Chambers Brothers fame, recording a project with Lester called "Blues for Sale." Martin has continued to play extensively throughout L.A. and Orange County as a solo act as well as with the band Roadside Revelers. His latest CD is "Naked Blues Vol. II," which will be re-released by Rip Cat.
     Orange County-based Rip Cat Records is one of the quickest-growing independent labels in Southern California, with a solid artist roster that includes guitarist Barry Levenson; The 44's, vocalist Lisa Cee; Johnny Mastro and Mamma's Boys; Whiteboy James & The Blues Express; John Marx; Little Barry G; The Mighty Mojo Prophets; and Gino Mateo.

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Big Bear Records new release: Taking Care of Busines - Tipitina - review

I've been listening to a new release, "Taking Care of Business" by Tipitina. Tipitina is a talented young band from the UK, featuring Debbie Jones on guitar and vocals and Justin Randal on piano. The band, throwing a nod to Professor Longhair indicating a strong attachment to the New Orleans sound.

The music is well articulated with strong vocals, and features piano quite a bit as one might expect from a New Orleans style band. There are 14 tracks on the recording, most of which are traditional songs associated with New Orleans and Mardi Gras. A favorite of mine is an Allen Toussaint song, Brickyard Blues which was popularized by the James Montgomery Band in the 70's. Another great song is You Know I'm No Good.

If you like new Orleans blues/jazz and you don't need the brass... this might be your deal. Sounds good to me!
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New Release: Tim Bastmeyer - Self Titled - Review

I just got the chance to review the new self titled release by Tim Bastmeyer. The release is quite interesting composed of 10 original tracks and one track, "Goin' Down, penned by Don Nix. The release features Juno award winning Julian Fauth on piano as well as James Thompson on bass, Cory Richardson on drums and of course Bastmeyer on Guitar and vocals.

Bastmeyer uses his vocal delivery style, somewhat like Lou Reed, delivering poetic stories as tasty guitar and piano interludes dust through the mix over top of well thought out rhythm.
Bastmeyer will head out on tour of Canada and several US markets in 2012 to support this new release.
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Dead Cat on the Line - Lucky Peterson

Lucky Peterson (born Judge Kenneth Peterson, December 13, 1964, Buffalo, New York) is an American musician who plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll. He plays guitar and keyboards. Music journalist Tony Russell, in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray has said, "he may be the only blues musician to have had national television exposure in short pants.
Peterson's father, bluesman James Peterson, owned a nightclub in Buffalo called The Governor's Inn. The club was a regular stop for fellow bluesmen such as Willie Dixon. Dixon saw a five-year-old Lucky Peterson performing at the club and, in Peterson's words, "Took me under his wing." Months later, Peterson performed on The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show and What's My Line?. Millions of people watched Peterson sing "1-2-3-4", a cover version of "Please, Please, Please" by James Brown. At the time, Peterson said "his father wrote it". Around this time he recorded his first album, Our Future: 5 Year Old Lucky Peterson for Today/Perception Records and appeared on the public television show Soul!.

As a teen, Peterson studied at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, where he played the French horn with the school symphony. Soon, he was playing backup guitar and keyboards for Etta James, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Little Milton.

The 1990s were a prolific period for Peterson. Two solo Bob Greenlee produced albums for the Chicago-based Alligator Records (1989's Lucky Strikes! and the following year's Triple Play) remain his finest recorded offerings. He then released four more for the record label, Verve Records (I'm Ready, Beyond Cool, Lifetime and Move). While with Verve, Peterson collaborated with Mavis Staples on a tribute to gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, called Spirituals & Gospel. Peterson played electric organ behind Staples' singing.

More albums from Peterson came after 2000. He recorded two for Blue Thumb Records (Lucky Peterson and Double Dealin'), and one for Disques Dreyfus entitled, Black Midnight Sun. In 2007, he released his latest album on JSP Records, titled Tete a Tete.
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Roogie Doogie - PREACHER SMITH & THE DEACONS

Leroy Cooper -- the great big guy playing sax with the Deacons August 31, 1928 - January 15, 2009 RIP Leroy's extensive career as a saxophone player started when he was a child, but eventually brought him into Ray Charles' band as baritone sax player. It wasn't long before Leroy Cooper was the bandleader for the band/orchestra that toured the world with Ray Charles. His studio work includes recording with Joe Cocker, Dr. John, Wayne Newton, Cher, and many other legendary performers. A childhood friend of David "Fathead" Newman's, Leroy also remains close to Ernest Vantrease, aka "The Deacon" and keyboard player for Ray Charles for 30 years. Vantrease is now the keyboard player for B.B. King. Leroy's musical talents bridged the gap between big band, blues, jazz, Latin and "society bands." Leroy Cooper has played in some of the most unlikely places as well as the most well-known venues in the world. From 1984-2004 Leroy played jazz, Ethnic, Latin and funk with a band called Rhythm Release. Paul Stenzler, bandleader said that "Leroy never wasted a note. He could play anything." Leroy continued to play jazz in the Orlando area at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Altamonte Springs on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, starting at 6 PM. He also played at various other jazz venues. He went back to his blues roots and played with Orlando's Smokin' Torpedoes who were the local winners of the International Blues Competition. They went on to Memphis for the next step and made Orlando proud. Leroy's last regular gig was with the Josh Miller Blues Revue. Based in Brevard County, Josh had the ability to recognize the legendary talent and changed up the band's sets to spotlight Leroy. He played his last performance on January 10 at Harry's Cigar & Brew in Oviedo, Florida.
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Brazz Attack (Treme Swiss Style)

Not much info on these guys. Just thought it was really interesting to see a New Orleans type band in Switzerland!
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I'm Torn Down - Barrelhouse

Barrelhouse – the band with two lives
Beginnings
In 1973, when Barrelhouse first came together as “Barrelhouse Bailey’s Blues & Boogie Band,” the musicians already had years of experience under their belts. Barrelhouse Bailey himself was none other than Han van Dam. It was his stage name in the Oscar Benton Blues Band, where Jan Willem Sligting was known as Jay Walker. The LaPorte surname also stems from this period and isn’t the real last name of brothers Guus and John. The Oscar Benton Blues Band, along with Cuby & the Blizzards, was the premier blues group in the Netherlands in the late 60s and early 70s.
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A little clip of Vince LaBauve

COWBOY SOUL, America's Premier Cowboy Band, are the creators of a new style of music called Cowboy Soul. Fusing the storytelling of country music, the rhythms and harmonies of soul music, and the power of rock, Cowboy Soul is a high-energy sound that is crushing the barriers of country music. From the beginning, the band's goal has been to make music that moves people across ethnic and music lines, and to bring country music to a much wider audience.
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Chicago Area Hubert Sumlin Musical Tribute tonight at FitzGeralds - Bob Corritore

This evening, Tuesday, Dec 13th, Hubert Sumlin will be remembered with a musical tribute at FitzGerald's (http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/) 6615 W. Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, Illinois 60402, 7pm doors 8pm music, Donations will be accepted at door for the Blues Foundation HART Fund. Many musicians will honor Hubert this night. Bob Margolin and Bob Corritore will direct the proceedings with Little Frank, Bob Stroger, and Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith filling out the house band. Many artists are expected and so far confirmations include Eddie Shaw, Sam Lay, Tail Dragger, Mud Morganfield, Matt Hill, Jonn Del Toro Richardson, Richard Rosenblatt, Tom Holland, Jon Hiller, Billy Branch, Harlan Terson, Rich Kirch, Scott Dirks, Bob Riedy, Mark Wydra, Harry Garner, Nick Moss, Sam Burckhardt, Zora Young, Eddie C. Campbell, Mary Lane, Tim Betts, Dave Katzman, Big Head Todd and many others. Since Chicago is so rich with musicians who have had history with Hubert, you never know who will drop by.
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Here are two great legends...Hubert and Honeyboy.

Arizona State University presents a Bob Corritore documentary tomorrow

Daniel Liquori has headed a team of Arizona State University students who have created a documentary film on the subject of Bob Corritore. The film is titled The Journey of A Phoenix Bluesman, and.will be aired for the first time Wednesday, December 14th.at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism building at ASU's Phoenix campus. The address is 555 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004. The documentary starts 8:30pm at the First Amendment forum which is on the song floor of the building. The showing is open to the public and admission is free!
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Here's Bob and Dave Riley at Sage Court Blues Festival:

Got My Mojo Workin' - Bobby Too Tuff

81-year-old Bobby Too Tuff, dressed in his distinctive style
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The Soul of a Man - The Bill King Trio

Bill King is a photo-journalist, musician, broadcaster and the publisher of eJazzNews. With well over 500 interviews to his name. Bill King has shared company with the elite in the music world. Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Max Roach, comic icon Steve Allen, Oscar Peterson, Harry Connick Jr., Betty Carter, Artie Shaw, Pat Metheny, Dr. John, Shirley Horn, Rob McConnell, Moe Koffman.
Pianist-composer-publisher Bill King is a multi-talented individual whose recording and production credits include “Live! In Session’ by Liberty Silver; “Magnolia Nights, Moment’s Notice’ by Bill King and the Jazz Report All-Stars, “From The Heart’ a tribute to piano great Oscar Peterson, “East Side Symphony, The Night Passage Years’ and most recently Bill King’s Saturday Nite Fish Fry “Jump Shout Rock da House,” “Rhythm & Soul” and Dirt Road Blues, The Rockit 88 Band’s “Too Much Fun” and the King.Alleyne.Roth Trio’s “It Might As Well Be Spring.” Sophie Berkal-Sarbit’s ‘Gypsy In My Soul’ and Sophie Milman’s self titled debut which has topped 150,000 sales worldwide amongst several others. These projects highlight King’s versatility as a keyboardist, composer and arranger.
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