I CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY - NEAL KIMBLE

Enthusiasts love to make lists and categorise. So making a distinction between blues and soul is important here, but to black record buyers in the US in the 60s these were simply different aspects of the same music, and artists like for example Little Milton and Z Z Hill could move from one genre to the other quite freely. Neal (or at first Bobby) Kimble, who was born on 18 March 1934, walked a similar line on the West Coast, making several fine records in the 60s and early 70s.
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”

I Hate a Man Like You - Lizzie Miles acc. by Jelly Roll Morton

Lizzie Miles was the stage name taken by Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (March 31, 1895 – March 17, 1963), an African American blues singer
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in a dark skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although Miles did not like to be referred to as a 'blues singer', since she sang a wide repertory of music.

In the mid 1920s she spent time performing in Paris before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s. Not before she recorded "My Man O' War", described by one music journalist as "a composition stuffed with rococo suggestiveness". In the 1940s she returned to New Orleans, where Joe Mares encouraged her to sing again—which she did, but always from in front of, or beside the stage, since she said she had vowed in a prayer not to go on stage again if she recovered from her illness. Miles was based in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, then again returned to New Orleans where she recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands and made regular radio broadcasts, often performing with Bob Scobey or George Lewis.

In 1958 Miles appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 she quit singing, except for gospel music. She died in New Orleans, from a heart attack, in March 1963.

Her half sister Edna Hicks was also a blues singer
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”

Alabama Train - Louisiana Red w/ Bill Dicey

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, BILL DICEY began playing harmonica at age 8 when his father handed down his first Hohner Band Harp. Harmonicas were scarce at that time, so Bill learned to play his one harp in five different keys. Learning from the street musicians, young Bill used his talent to attract customers for his shoe shine business. Early influences on his technique included saxmen David "Fathead" Newman and clifford Scott, and Blues harp greats Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson ( Rice Miller), and later on Little Walter. Associations with Sonny Boy and Buddy Moss helped him in developing a style uniquely his own. Bill teamed up with Buddy Moss in the late 60's for many sessions which included engagements at colleges and clubs throughout the South, when Buddy turned over the reins of command, Bill brought the "Atlanta Blues Band" to New York City.

Widely know and respected in the Blues world, Bill has performed with, opened for or recorded with a breathtaking array of talent including Sonny Boy Williamson, T-Bone Walker, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, John Hammond, Phoebe Snow, Otis Spann, Slim Harps, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Louisiana Red, Roosevelt Sykes, Arthur Crudup, Big Mama Thornton, Charles Walker, Howling Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, the Coasters, Elvis Presley and Victoria Spivey.

Bill died at his home in 1993 of Cancer.
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”

Put Your Shoe On The Other Foot - Clare Free

Clare Free is an artist who is redefining the blues for the modern world. Her roots lie in the blues but her influences go way beyond the genre making her one of the most exciting new artists writing and performing in the blues world today. A passionate, award nominated, songwriter and a fabulous guitar player, she plays both with a band and solo. Clare’s performances are fiery, exciting and heartfelt.
Clare is one of the freshest, fastest rising stars on the UK Blues circuit - but success didn’t come overnight. Clare served her time with bands including Misdemeanor (With Matt Schofield, Maurice McElroy and Constance Redgrave of Spikedriver fame) she guested with Larry Garner and joined Dana Gillespie on two trips, one to India and the other to be the opening act at the Mustique Blues Festival every night for three weeks. Later Clare joined 99lbs.

Then, having finally made the decision to go it alone, she released her debut solo album “Be Who You Are”. A self-penned mixture of Blues, Rock and Country it propelled her into the limelight, and the soon to be released “Dust and Bones” will keep her there. Meanwhile, all four tracks from her massively acclaimed 2010 EP “How It Is” made it into the Top Ten in the Blues Charts with international distributor CD Baby and saw one track nominated for both the British Blues Awards (Kevin Thorpe Award for the Best New UK Blues Song) and reach the final of the People’s Music Awards.

In the last year Clare has had tracks played on BBC Radio 2, BBC Three Counties, BBC Oxford, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Norfolk and a host of online radio stations. She has been featured in Guitar and Bass Magazine, PlayMusic Magazine, Gear Magazine, Blues in Britain, Blues Matters and, over in the USA Blue Monday Monthly and Guitar International Magazine. She has also won the WRC Award “Best Acoustic Performance of 2011.”
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”

When You Leave, Don't Take Nothing - Demetria Taylor

I wasn't aware of this great talent when I received her "Bad Girl" cd and I was an immediate fan! I saw this new video and wanted to share it with you. Demetria is a talent not to be missed!
Demetria Taylor is the seventh child out of eight from the family of late Blues Legend Eddie Taylor Sr. Demetria, 38, is helping keep the legacy of her father (along with other Blues Greats) alive. Born in Chicago in 1973, Demetria was born into a Blues family. Not only was her father a Blues Artist, but her mother, Vera Taylor was also a Blues Artist. Demetria can recall distant memories when many Chicago Blues Legends would visit their house. Some of those artists were: Floyd Jones, Carey Bell, Sunnyland Slim, Johnny Littlejohn, Sam Lay, Willie Kent, Taildragger, Eddie Shaw, Johnny B Moore and Magic Slim. Growing up in a Blues Home, she could be found listening to some of her biggest influences such as: Etta James, Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, and, most importantly, ”The Queen of the Blues” Koko Taylor (No Relation to the Eddie Taylor Family).
" Demetria is the youngest Taylor offspring and latest to break out as a blues star on her own, following her father, (long time guitarist with the great Jimmy Reed); mother, vocalist Vera Taylor; great uncle, Chicago soul/blues icon Jimmy Burns; Brenda and Edna Taylor (sisters/vocalists), Larry Taylor (brother/drummer /vocalist), Milton Taylor(Drummer) and brother, the guitarist Eddie Taylor, Jr"

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”

A look at the twisted mind of Bman

I must confess, this is one of my favorite musical videos of my youth. I absolutely loved this... and actually still do today!

My younger brother just emailed this video to me to jog my memory and I feel the need to share it.

Enjoy!!

Bman
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”

RORY GALLAGHER INTERNATIONAL TRIBUTE FESTIVAL 2012

Time: May 31, 2012 at 6pm to June 3, 2012 at 11:45pm
Location: BALLYSHANNON
City/Town: BALLYSHANNON
Website or Map: http://www.goingtomyhometown.…

Event Description

ROLLING STONES - MICK TAYLOR & HIS BAND / HORSLIPS / DR. FEELGOOD / BRIAN "ROBBO" ROBERTSON (ex. Thin Lizzy) with EAMONN McCORMACK BAND / PAT McMANUS BAND / SINNERBOY / JOHNNY GALLAGHER & BOXTIE / MOONCHILD / SHINKICKER / LARRY MILLER BAND / LAUNDROMAT / DAVE McHUGH BAND .... the list goes on - RORY GALLAGHER INTERNATIONAL TRIBUTE FESTIVAL 2012 - Full Programme of nightly Big Top Concerts,
all-day ...... Street Gigs, Pub Gigs, Theatre, & Exhibitions

EARLY BIRD TICKETS for the 3 Nightly Big Top Concert Gigs at just €50 for all 3 Concerts (all nightly weekend concerts) are now on sale through Ticketmaster (Limited amount on sale, these tickets at this reduced price are available for a short time only)

Purchase your Early Bird Ticket Now to avoid disappointment - HERE
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/180048619206629A?artistid=5040670&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60

Nobody Knows My Troubles - Lovie Lee with Carey Bell

Lovie Lee (March 17, 1909 – May 23, 1997) was an American electric blues pianist and singer. He is best known for his work accompanying Muddy Waters, although he did record a solo album in 1992. He was the 'adoptive stepfather' of fellow bluesman, Carey Bell, and thus 'grandfather' to Lurrie Bell.
He was born Edward Lee Watson in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Lee grew up in Meridian, Mississippi, and was self taught on the piano, utilising his skills in various churches, and playing at rodeos and vaudeville. He had already acquired his nickname, 'Lovie', from a doting aunt. He found part time employment playing with the Swinging Cats in the early 1950s. The outfit included Carey Bell, who Lee took under his 'fatherly' protection, and they jointly relocated to Chicago, Illinois in September 1956. Lee worked during the day in a woodworking factory, and for many years played in the evening in numerous Chicago blues nightclubs, including Porter's Lounge. He was well known around Chicago for his blues piano playing. Lee later worked as an upholsterer, but kept together his backing band, known as the Sensationals.

After he retired from full-time day work, Lee joined Muddy Waters band in 1979, replacing Pinetop Perkins on the piano stool. He was recommended to Muddy Waters by George "Mojo" Buford, after Lee had worked with Buford in North Dakota. Lee stayed in situ until Muddy's death in 1983, and then returned to playing in Chicago clubs.

Lee made some private recordings in both 1984 and 1989, and this work plus later contemporary tracks, were released as the album Good Candy (1992). His recording utilised musicians such as Eddie Taylor, Odie Payne, plus both Carey and Lurrie Bell.

Lee died in Chicago in May 1997
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”

Lil Red Riding Hood - 7Horse

Blues-Rock-Cosmic Country-infused-Duo with edge, passion, and soul – Son House/Keith Richards/Black Keys meets a next door neighbor of the Ramones high on Led Zeppelin.
7Horse is what happens when you dump accelerant on the smoldering embers of creativity.

The fresh avenue for rock veterans Joie Calio and Phil Leavitt, 7Horse’s music burns where cosmic country meets dirty blues, where primal urges unfold into bawdy nights, and where two friends — and longtime bandmates — discover radically new sides of each other. All that, and maybe a bucketful of booze and a few bottles of pills, are embodied on the duo’s debut album “Let the 7Horse Run.”

“This is all about riff and groove,” Leavitt says of the duo’s quest to tap into the roots of rock ’n’ roll’s rich past. “It’s about laying something down that’s so good you want to hear it forever.”

The journey began innocently enough, with Calio standing among throngs of fans at a major music festival getting the itch to rock out. “I kept thinking, ‘I could be up there tearing this place apart. I want to still be doing that,’” he says. “I called Phil and that started the conversation.”

Calio and Leavitt were stuck in a seemingly interminable holding pattern with their longstanding project dada, the trio responsible for the hits “Dizz Knee Land” and “All I Am” but whose efforts to make a sixth studio album had stalled. Both had been involved in other projects, Calio having released three solo records and Leavitt having been part of Butterfly Jones and Blue Man Group.
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”

Só Tomando Uma - Paulo Meyer & The Burning Bush

Paulo Meyer é um cantor e gaitista brasileiro, nasceu no dia 27 de outubro de 1955 em São Paulo, SP
Paulo Meyer é um dos pioneiros do Blues no Brasil. Começou sua carreira acompanhando na gaita o guitarrista Nuno Mindelis, participou de gravações com nomes como Sérgio Dias Baptista e Alexandre Fontanetti, trabalhou como intérprete e acompanhante dos artistas estrangeiros na edição paulista do Festival de Jazz de Montreux e no Rio-Monterey Jazz Festival, ambos em 1980, e em todas as edições do festival de blues Nescafé Blues, na década de 1990.

Conheceu de perto bluesmen lendários como Champion Jack Dupree, B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins e Eric Burdon. Nos anos 90, liderou a inovadora banda de blues Expresso 2222, que influenciou toda uma geração de bluesmen paulistanos. Tocou por mais de dezesseis anos blues e rock em pleno carnaval na cidade de Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, onde suas apresentações no Café Paraty são consideradas uma das atrações turísticas da cidade.

Em 2009 participou da décima edição do Festival de Blues & Jazz de Guaramiranga, Ceará. Paulo Meyer fez o show de abertura para o gaitista Toots Thielemans.

Participou em 2009 e 2010 do Paraty Bourbon Festival, em Paraty, Rio de Janeiro.

E nessa temporada de 2011 em campos do jordão o guitarrista Gabriel Sales ,da banda Vento Verde, deu uma canja junto a banda em um restaurante muito famoso da cidade
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”

Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the electric guitar. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him at #47 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Walker was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Chuck Berry named Walker and Louis Jordan as his main influences. B.B. King cites hearing Walker's "Stormy Monday" record as his inspiration for getting an electric guitar. Walker was admired by Jimi Hendrix who imitated Walker's trick of playing the guitar with his teeth. "Stormy Monday" was a favorite live number for The Allman Brothers Band.
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”

No Naggin' No Draggin' - Arthur Gunter

Arthur Gunter (May 23, 1926 – March 16, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and musician. He was best known for his song "Baby Let's Play House", which was later a hit single for Elvis Presley.
Gunter was born in Nashville, Tennessee, a musician from an early age; as a child, he was in a gospel group with his brothers and cousins called the Gunter Brothers Quartet. In the early 1950s he played in various blues groups around Nashville, and began recording for Excello Records in 1954.

In November 1954, Gunter recorded "Baby Let's Play House" for Excello (2047), which became a local hit. It became nationally known later that year when Elvis Presley recorded a version for Sun Records. "Elvis got that number and made it famous. But I didn't get a chance to shake his hand," Gunter would later say. His first royalty check, received that same year, was for $6500.

Gunter continued to record for Excello until 1961. His regular band broke up in 1966 and he moved to Pontiac, Michigan, performing only occasionally thereafter.

He died of pneumonia in 1976 at his home in Port Huron, Michigan
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”

Frosty - Albert Collins and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer (and occasional harmonica player) whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across the US, Europe, Japan and Australia. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor Blade".
Born in Leona, Texas, Collins was a distant relative of Lightnin' Hopkins and grew up learning about music and playing guitar. His family moved to Houston, Texas when he was seven. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he absorbed the blues sounds and styles from Texas, Mississippi and Chicago. His style would soon envelop these sounds. He regularly named John Lee Hooker and organist Jimmy McGriff, along with Hopkins, Guitar Slim and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown as major influences on his playing.
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 — September 10, 2005) was an American musician from Louisiana and Texas. He is best known for his work as a blues musician, but embraced other styles of music, having "spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues, country, jazz, Cajun music and R&B styles"

He was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1982 for his album, Alright Again! He is regarded as one of the most influential exponents of blues fiddle and has had enormous influence in American fiddle circles.

Brown's two biggest musical influences were Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker.
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”

Stony Plain Records artist: Eric Bibb - Deeper In The Well - New Recording Review

Stony Plain Records releases Eric Bibb's label debut cd, Deeper In The Well, with a huge splash. Bibb is joined on this recording by multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, Creole fiddler Cedric Watson, drummer Danny Devillier and Harmonica player Grant Dermody.Special guests on the cd include Michael Jerome Brown, Jerry Douglas and Christine Balfa. Seven of the 13 tracks included on the release are Bibb originals. Bayou Belle is a quiet delta musical chant with Bibb's warm vocals complimented by Dermody's harp and his own guitar and swamp percussion of many types. Could Be You, Could Be Me is a great relaxed acoustic blues ... just perfect for laying in the hammock and laxin'. Dig A Little Deeper In The Well is an uptempo tune along the lines of Taj Mahal's I'm Going Fishing. This is a really enjoyable track with great supporting instrumentals and vocals. Money In Your Pocket actually starts to approach a roots (alt country) type song with snare drum taking precedence over earlier light handed rhythm. Boll Weevil is a traditional song and continues in the vein of earlier tracks staying on the light haunting sounds of the swamp folk blues. Sinner Man, another traditional song has a lot of the sounds present in older "plantation" tunes with beautiful background vocals and as throughout the entire recording, perfectly executed harp, fiddle and supplemental instrumentation. In My Time is a great straight up blues tune with terrific dobro tones by the unmistakable Jerry Douglas. Music is a happy go lucky tune almost approaching bluegrass. Movin' Up is an uplifting tune tune which would be the "airplay tune' on the cd to my ear. No Further is a quiet almost solemn tune with a solid rhythm played on dobro and vocals with warm harmonica interludes by Dermody. Every Wind In The River is an old Taj Mahal tune. I always liked this tune and Bibb takes a lighter touch on the song with banjo and mandolin. He has such a warm smooth voice is just flows nicely. Sittin' In A Motel Room is an introspective song with Bibb primarily playing his guitar and singing his thoughts. Its a nicely written and performed track. The Times They Are A Changin' of course by Bob Dylan is done beautifully by Bibb. Gone are Dylan's raspy voiced efforts and harmonica in the wind compliments (no disparaging comments toward to Bob intended) but Bibb transforms what was written as a beautiful concept into a beautiful anthem.

This is a really nice recording and if you like quiet calming blues with a swampy country twist... you should love this. Bibb is excellent!
Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my wall or post great blues photos or events! Share your favorite postings and get more exposure for your favorite band! - ”LIKE”

Louisiana Red Memorial Tribute planned in Memphis for day after the BMAs! - Bob Corritore

There will be an afternoon memorial tribute show honoring the late Louisiana Red on Friday, May 11th, 1pm to 4pm at the Hard Rock Cafe, 315 Beale Street Memphis, TN 38103, (901) 529-0007. Proceeds will go to the Blues Foundation's youth education branch, Generation Blues. The Tribute is hosted by Bob Margolin & Bob Corritore and includes appearances by Lazy Lester, Maria Muldaur, Diunna Greenleaf, John Primer, Randy Chortkoff, Big Pete, Billy Flynn, Willie J Campbell (bassist of the Mannish Boys), Michael Frank,Chris James & Patrick Rynn, Rich DelGrosso, Jostein Forsburg & Morten Omlid, Billy Gibson & JT Lauritsen, Marquise Knox, Matt Hill, Cleome Bova, Anson Funderburgh with Andy T and Nick Nixon, Phil Wiggins, David Maxwell, Lightnin' Malcolm and more. This will be a brisk-paced event with all front artists contributing just one song each. For more information on the Blues Music Awards, click here. To read the obit for Louisiana Red and the amazing story of his life, click here. To see a German article about the post-funeral show in Hannover, click here, and for more information on Generation Blues, click here.

Earliest photo of Louisiana Red?


While in Germany for Louisiana Red's funeral, Bob Corritore snapped a photo of a framed picture hanging on the wall of Red's Hannover apartment. It shows a youthful Louisiana Red in what is likely the earliest known photo of this blues legend. Dora (Red's wife) reports that it was taken in the 1940s. Chris James speculates that this might be an early 1950s artist promotional photo.

Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my wall or post great blues photos or events! Share your favorite postings and get more exposure for your favorite band! - ”LIKE”

Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore \"Longtime Friends In The Blues\"

	BE AMONG THE FIRST & GET YOUR CD TODAY BEFORE IT'S AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE! Retail: $17.99 New Discounted Price: $12.99 + s&h MUSICIANS Tail Dragger: Vocals Bob Corritore: Harmonica Henry Gray: Piano / Vocals on 2 / Comments on 9 & 10 Kirk Fletcher: Guitar Chris James: Guitar Patrick Rynn: Bass Brian Fahey: Drums EARLY REVIEWS "When these guys cut loose...it's like time travel." - News Review "This is real Chicago!...You like Chicago blues? This is the place!" - Bman's Blues Report MORE INFO CLICK HERE FOR - LINER NOTES CLICK HERE FOR - AUDIO CLIPS DELTA GROOVE ARTIST PAGE ARTIST WEBSITE - TAIL DRAGGER ARTIST WEBSITE - BOB CORRITORE TAIL DRAGGER & BOB CORRITORE "LONGTIME FRIENDS IN THE BLUES" "One of the great personalities of Chicago blues is the unstoppable Tail Dragger, whose charisma fills up any room he plays in." - Bob Corritore "One day this boy (Tail Dragger) will take my place." - Howlin' Wolf "…a damn good harmonica player (Bob Corritore) with a lively sense of history." – Downbeat Magazine "If Phoenix, Arizona, had a blues mafia, then Bob Corritore just might be its resident godfather." – Living Blues Magazine If you're looking for someone who evokes the passion and raw intensity of blues performed at its sweaty best - just like they did back in the '50s and '60s in the neighborhood bars and juke joints on Chicago's South and West Sides - than look no further than James Yancy Jones, aka the Tail Dragger. Originally from Altheimer, Arkansas, Tail Dragger relocated to Chicago in the '60s where he befriended the man responsible for bestowing him with his illustrious stage name, the legendary Howlin' Wolf. Tail Dragger earned his nickname for his reputation of often showing up late for gigs where he was afforded the opportunity to sit in and perform while Wolf was on break. Tail Dragger became a full-time solo artist in the early '70s and has remained ever-faithful to his early influences over the years claiming, "Lowdown blues is all I like…all I feel…and I sing what I feel." Bob Corritore has been a lifelong advocate of the blues who continues to play an active role in promoting the music by helping it flourish into the 21st century through his many endeavors. From band leader to club owner, to record producer and radio show host, his boundless enthusiasm for the blues never ceases to impress. In 2011, Corritore's remarkable album Harmonica Blues, which features such legendary performers as Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Pinetop Perkins, Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Lockwood Jr. and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, was honored with a Blues Music Award for Historical Album of the Year. In addition, Corritore was also presented with a Certificate of Special Recognition on September 1, 2011 by Arizona Governor Janice K. Brewer for his accomplishments as a national recording artist and for his contributions to blues music throughout the State of Arizona. On January 11, 1976, Tail Dragger and Bob Corritore first met at the 1815 Club on Chicago's West Side where they performed at a tribute to Howlin' Wolf, who had died the day before. This was the symbolic beginning of a lifetime friendship and musical collaboration which continues to this day. Now, veteran Chicago blues vocalist Tail Dragger combines forces with Arizona's very own blues ambassador and harmonica extraordinaire, Bob Corritore, to deliver a heartfelt album of pure, unadulterated, lowdown and dirty Chicago Blues. Joining the proceedings is an ensemble of first rate players including legendary pianist Henry Gray (who performed and recorded with Howlin' Wolf for twelve years beginning in 1956), guitarists Kirk Fletcher and Chris James, along with a rhythm section consisting of bassist Patrick Rynn and drummer Brian Fahey. Longtime Friends In The Blues is an album of raw, intense, emotional blues, performed ferociously and with no apologies. TOUR DATES TAIL DRAGGER & BOB CORRITORE 04/14/12: Helsinki, Finland - Appearing at Stompin' At The Savoy At The Savoy Festival with Tail Dragger and the Tomi Leino Band. BOB CORRITORE 03/17/12: Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room with Dave Riley/Bob Corritore Juke Joint Blues Band 03/30/12: Chicago, IL -Live television appearance on WGN with Mud Morganfield as a preview to the CD Release party. 03/31/12: Chicago, IL -Buddy Guy's Legends for Mud Morganfield CD Release party 04/07/12: Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room with Dave Riley/Bob Corritore Juke Joint Blues Band 04/14/12: Helsinki, Finland - Appearing at Stompin' At The Savoy At The Savoy Festival with Tail Dragger and the Tomi Leino Band. 04/21/12: El Mirage, AZ - Multi-Cultural Festival at New Gateway Park, 5:45 slot 04/27/12: Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room. Bob Margolin & Bob Corritore with the Rocket 88s 05/10/12: Memphis, Tennessee - Blues Music Awards (In attendence) 05/11/12: Memphis Tennessee, The Blues Foundation's Louisiana Red Memorial Show hosted by Bob Margolin & Bob Corritore. The event will happen from 1pm to 4pm. Hard Rock Cafe. Proceeds to Generation Blues 05/19/12: Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room, appearing with the Rocket 88s as a part of the annual Chico Chism Memorial Show 05/24/12: Glendale, AZ - Glendale Public Library Concert Series, with Dave Riley & Bob Corritore duo in the auditorium from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Free admission 05/25/12 & 05/26/12: Simi Valley, California - Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival, appearing with the Delta Groove Harp Blast. 06/08/12: Chicago, IL - Smoke Daddy. Guest Appearance on Billy Flynn's show 06/09/12: Chicago. IL - Chicago Blues Festival, Windy City Blues Society Street Stage, 1pm - Appearing with Bob Riedy Blues Band featuring Sam Lay. 06/09/12: Chicago. IL - Chicago Blues Festival, Front Porch Stage, 4:30pm - Appearing as part of a Hubert Sumlin Tribute with Eddie Shaw, Bob Margolin, Dave Specter, Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith, Bob Stroger, and Johnny Iguana. 06/09/12: Chicago. IL - Chicago Blues Festival, Petrillo Bandshell, 6:30 to 8pm Guest appearance on the Muddy Waters' Disciples set. 06/10/12: Chicago, IL - Smoke Daddy. Appearing as part of Morry Sochat & The Special 20s "Half Chicken Special Show" with special guests Bob Corritore & Billy Flynn. Closing out Chicago Bluesfest. 9:30pm show. 06/16/12: Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room. Appearing with The Fremonts 09/07/12: Virginia Beach, Virginia - Li'l Ronnie's Blues Harmonica Revue featuring Mitch Kashmar, Bob Corritore, Kurt Crandall with Li'l Ronnie & the Grand Dukes 09/15/12: Bisbee, AZ - Bisbee Blues Festival. Appearing with Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy in the headlining slot! WWW.DELTAGROOVEMUSIC.COM

Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my wall or post great blues photos or events! Share your favorite postings and get more exposure for your favorite band! - ”LIKE”

Late One Saturday Evening - Alec Seward

Alec Seward (March 16, 1902 - May 11, 1972) was an American Piedmont and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Some of his records were released under pseudonyms, such as Guitar Slim, Blues Servant Boy, King Blues and Georgia Slim. His best remembered recordings were "Creepin' Blues" and "Some People Say.
Seward, one of fourteen siblings, was born in Charles City County, Virginia.Similar to Gabriel Brown, Ralph Willis and Brownie McGhee, Seward relocated from the Southern United States to New York, in his case in 1924.

Seward befriended Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, and retained his Piedmont blues styling despite changes in musical trends. He met Louis Hayes (who later became a minister in northern New Jersey) and the duo performed variously named as the Blues Servant Boys, Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly, or The Back Porch Boys. During the 1940s and 1950s Seward played and recorded with Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, McGhee and Terry. Around 1947 Seward, Guthrie, and Terry, recorded several chain gang related songs including "Chain Gang Special", and some other older songs adapted to having chain gang themes. They were later released on the compilation album, Best of the War Years.

Under his own real name, Seward issued Creepin' Blues (1965, Bluesville) with harmonica accompaniment by Larry Johnson. Later in the decade Seward worked in concert and at folk-blues festivals.

Seward died at the age of 70, in New York of natural causes, in May 1972.

He is not to be confused with Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones, Guitar Slim, Jr., James "Guitar Slim" Stephenson nor Norman "Guitar Slim" Green.
Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my wall or post great blues photos or events! Share your favorite postings and get more exposure for your favorite band! - ”LIKE”

Slidin' - Ernest Lane & the Kings of Rhythm

Ernest Lane, one of Americas most long-legged blues musicians, having been active in the music scene in this country since 1948, well over 57 years! The following bio gives more insight into the man and how he shaped his sound, but some highlights of his career are as follows:

Member of the Ike Tina Turner Revue/band
Pianist for the Monkees
Pianist for the Goodtimers band

Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my wall or post great blues photos or events! Share your favorite postings and get more exposure for your favorite band! - ”LIKE”

80 Highway Blues - Son Bonds

Son Bonds (March 16, 1909 – August 31, 1947) was an American country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a working associate of both Sleepy John Estes and Hammie Nixon, and was similar in his guitar playing style. According to Allmusic journalist, Jim O'Neal, "the music to one of Bonds's songs, "Back and Side Blues" (1934), became a standard blues melody when Sonny Boy Williamson I from nearby Jackson, Tennessee, used it in his classic "Good Morning, School Girl"." The best known of Bonds's other works are "A Hard Pill To Swallow" and "Come Back Home."
Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Bonds was also billed on record as "Brownsville" Son Bonds, and Brother Son Bonds.

Sleepy John Estes earlier recorded work had used backing from Yank Rachell (mandolin) or Hammie Nixon (harmonica), but by the late 1930s he was accompanied in the recording studio by either Bonds or Charlie Pickett (guitar). Bonds also backed Estes at a couple of later recording sessions in 1941. In reverse, either Estes or Nixon played on every one of Bonds's own recordings. In the latter stages of his career, Bonds played kazoo as well as the guitar on several of his tracks.

According to Nixon's later accounts of the event, Bonds suffered an accidental death in August 1947. While sitting on his own front porch late one evening in Dyersburg, Tennessee, Bonds was shot to death by his short-sighted neighbor, who mistook Bonds for another man with whom his neighbor was having a protracted disagreement
Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my wall or post great blues photos or events! Share your favorite postings and get more exposure for your favorite band! - ”LIKE”

Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith

Clarence Smith, better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929) was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune, "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie," featured rhythmic "breaks" that were an essential ingredient of ragtime music.

He was a posthumous 1991 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Smith was born in Troy, Alabama and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his nickname as a child from his liking for climbing trees. In 1920 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as an entertainer before touring on the T. O. B. A. vaudeville circuit, performing as a singer and comedian as well as a pianist. For a time he worked as accompanist for blues singer Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie.

In the mid 1920s he was recommended by Cow Cow Davenport to J. Mayo Williams at Vocalion Records, and in 1928 he moved, with his wife and young son, to Chicago, Illinois to record. For a time he, Albert Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis lived in the same rooming house.

On 29 December 1928 he recorded his influential "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie," one of the first "boogie woogie" style recordings to make a hit, and which cemented the name for the style. Pine Top talks over the recording, telling how to dance to the number. He said he originated the number at a house-rent party in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was the first ever to direct "the girl with the red dress on" to "not move a peg" until told to "shake that thing" and "mess around".

Smith was scheduled to make another recording session for Vocalion in 1929, but died from a gunshot wound in a dance-hall fight in Chicago the day before the session. Sources differ as to whether he was the intended recipient of the bullet. "I saw Pinetop spit blood" was the famous headline in Down Beat magazine.

No photographs of Smith are known to exist.
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”