Suze Lanier-Bramlett, L.A. Music Awards 'Best Female Vocalist' Nominee@The Joint

    

Special Live Concert Performance By Multi-Talented Entertainer

Suze-Lanier Bramlett And Her "Swamp Cabaret" Band  

At The Joint In West L.A. Tomorrow Night - Saturday, June 23 

  

   
   (West Los Angeles, Calif.) - Astute music and film fans know that Suze Lanier-Bramlett is a multi-talented entertainer that has enjoyed ongoing success not only in major motion pictures as a leading lady, but also in the SoCal music scene fronting her own band and recently releasing a critically-acclaimed album, Swamp Cabaret (Magnolia Gold Records).
    Lanier-Bramlett's musical skills take front and center this Saturday night, June 23 as she performs with her aptly-named "Swamp Cabaret" band at newly-remodeled and revitalized L.A. venue The Joint, 8771 W. Pico Blvd. in West Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Info/reservations: (310) 275-2619. Also on the bill:  Singer-actress Cherish Lee; Elsie May Larson-Kunkel; and Starvation Camp. 

   Lanier-Bramlett - the widow of rock icon Delaney Bramlett- has enjoyed a long and successful career in film, television, and music, ranging from the starring role in cult classic film "The Hills Have Eyes" to her recurring role in the hit TV show, "Welcome Back Kotter."                   
    Musically, she is currently in the studio recording "Angel In The Night," co-written with late husband Delaney the night John Lennon was murdered. The song is being released this Spring. . 
   Film-wise, Lanier-Bramlett is set to reprise her role in "The Hills Have Eyes" in the film "Cut," slated for release this October. "Cut" also features Lanier-Bramlett and her band in a scene performing at Hollywood's M Bar.  
   Suze was recently honored with a "Best Female Vocalist" nomination for the 2012 (22nd Annual) Los Angeles Music Awards, taking place November 15 at The Key Club in West Hollywood. 
   
         http://www.suzelanierbramlett.com         http://www.magnoliagoldrecords.com

MIKE FARRIS - KICKSTARTER 2012 UPDATE

We are all very humbled and grateful to those who have been able to donate to the project via Kickstarter so far and wanted to share this video message with a sneak peak of a song many of you probably haven't heard yet. We still need quite a bit more help to be able to get this record out to the world properly and hope you can share this page far and wide.   In Spirit, Mike   To view our Kickstarter project click the link below : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/601965304/mike-farris-to-complete-and-release-new-album

If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

FreeNote Records artist: Willie McBlind - Live Long Day - New Release review

I've been listening to the newest release, Live Long Day by Willie McBlind and I have to say it's not like anything else that I have heard in years. Fronted by the worlds leading harmonic guitarist, Jon Carter, and vocalist, Babe Borden and rounded out with Mat Fieldes on bass and Lorne Watson on drums. This cd pays tribute to the train in a journey. I don't need to tell you that when the liner notes starts to describe the instruments as 64 tone Just intonation and 12 tone Ultra Plus that you're about to hear something where the artists take the instrumentation fairly seriously. The cd is made up of 9 original tracks and one Robert Johnson track (Love In Vain). It is going to be difficult for me to describe in great detail what I am hearing so my best shot is to just give you impressions that I get as I listen. As stated earlier the instrumentation is a large part of the composition and there are powerful infusions of vocal input that remind me of everything from the early Jeffererson Airplane and It's a Beautiful Day to the Manhattan Transfer, composed in a blues scene as arranged by Robert Fripp. I don't know if you're getting my drift but this is very unconventional. Sittin' In The Train Station is a very uptempo track with multiple vocal harmonies as well as a dance rhythm and slide guitar. I really dig the rhythm (or should I say rhythms)that is used on Slow Moving Train. One Thing has some very unconventional slide guitar sounds that are quite interesting woven into the fabric of the song. Boogie Train give Catler a chance to experiment and demonstrate all of the different tones that he can squeeze from his unconventional guitar. The Train That Never Came is the most conventional track on the cd and is most likely to see airplay in shortened form (the track is over 12 minutes long). If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

Aint'cha Got Me (Where You Want Me) - Buddy & Ella Johnson

Ella Johnson (June 22, 1919 – February 16, 2004) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues vocalist. Born Ella Mae Jackson in Darlington, South Carolina, United States, she joined her brother Buddy Johnson in New York as a teenager, where he was leading a popular band at the Savoy Ballroom. Her singing drew comparisons to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Johnson scored her first hit with "Please, Mr. Johnson" in 1940. Subsequent hits included "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?", "When My Man Comes Home" and "Hittin' On Me". Her popular 1945 recording of "Since I Fell for You", composed by her brother, led to its eventual establishment as a jazz standard. She continued to perform with Buddy Johnson into the 1960s. In February 2004, she died in of Alzheimer's disease in New York, at the age of 84. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

Slowdrag - Turner Foddrell

Part of a musical family, Turner Foddrell created a form of blues that incorporated earlier styles, including the mountain dance music that he grew up hearing. That family music tradition was very well represented, his father, Posey, being a musician along with all of his brothers and one of his sisters. His son Lynn frequently performs with him. He cut his teeth playing around his area in the Blue Ridge Mountain regions of the U.S. For a time, Turner and Lynn played as a trio with the elder Foddrell's brother Marvin. They recorded two albums with that unit. After the death of Marvin, Lynn and Turner continued playing together, releasing one album as a duo. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

Railroad Bill - Franklin "Guitar Frank" Hovington

Franklin "Frank" Hovington (January 9, 1919 – June 21, 1982), also known as Guitar Frank, was an American blues musician. He played the guitar and banjo, and was a singer in the Piedmont style, who lived in the vicinity of Frederica, Delaware. Hovington was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Later in life, on a tip from folklorist Peter B. Lowry, he was recorded by Dick Spottswood and Bruce Bastin, with an album released on Flyright Records in the UK (now available on CD), and, later, on Rounder Records in the US. Additionally, selections were recorded by Axel Küstner and Siggi Christmann for German release, most recently issued by Evidence Records in the US. He disliked travel and did not play away from his Delaware home, afraid that he would lose his welfare support payments, and so did not get the publicity from music festival appearances that his talent deserved. Franklin Hovington is also the Grand Father of Philadelphia Hip-Hop Legend and Icon Parry P who was also a Radio Personality on WPHI Philly 103.9 and WRNB 107.9. He also was a host on The 1 World Hip-Hop Championship on MTV2. Parry P's real name is Parris Ellis who is the son of Franklin Hovingtons Daughter Joyce Shirley Welsh. Franklin's Grand son is a Philadelphia Pioneer in Hip-Hop and was featured in a Emmy Award winning Documetary called The Story Of English ( Bill Cran BBC Londan). If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

STILL GOT THE BLUES - TIME BOMB Band

One of the bands that were once popular among young people and the communities of blues, rock 'n roll in Indonesia. Founded in 1993 on the initiative of Guitarist Danny Akung and Budi. The Band was declared dissolved in 2003 after releasing 2 albums "Take Me Away" and the Unreleased "album 1 Indie compilation Blues". Time Bomb Blues is King of rock n roll and blues, hapless transverse across a variety of cafe's with music-classic blues music. Until now the Arab Permanent Alcase icon shine amongst the Blues, particularly as their homebase of Bandung. After the break-up, the Arab Mind and Danny Akung make band named Time Bomb in accordance with Time Bomb Blues as their previous band. With assisted by Hendra Adrian "Bassist" as well as some other colleagues who happened to have a taste and vision echoed the same. With carrying a music genre, rock n roll Time Bomb continues rolling start from stage to stage, cafes, bars and other venues in Indonesia, so rightly do if Time Bomb is getting known and interest among the community who love these music genres with either from old age to the younger generation, even more distant Time Bomb with his Arab icon Bob and Danny Akung could be categorized as next legend after the era of glamour senior bands in the 70s in BandungRollies, Superkid, like, Freedom, Stacatto, etc. Not only proficient in stage performances. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

Nothing I Can Do About You - Steve Johnson

Steven Bryan Johnson, born January 12, 1956, started playing guitar in 1963 after his Uncle Mickey Johnson played his electric guitar for him. Played in rock blues bands in California until moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1982. There he met Albert Collins, Willie Dixon, Luther Allison, Duke Robillard, Johnny Winter, and lots of Chicago and Detroit area blues players. Moved to New York City in 1983 and formed The Tanks, a Blues Power Trio and recorded 3 albums all independently released in the U.S. Played with Paul Butterfield, Johnny Copeland, Paul Schaeffer, Albert Collins, Little Jimmy King, Jaco Pastorious, Fernando Saunders, Tony Smith, Little Mike, Hubert Sumlin, Popa Chubby, Big Ed Sullivan, Jon Paris, Bill Perry, Michael Hill and most New York Blues players. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

I Wonder Why - SHERMAN ROBERTSON

I was born in Beaux Bridge, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. In high school, my music teacher, Conrad Johnson, recruited me to play in his popular group, Connie's Combo. I quickly earned a reputation as a very good guitarist. While still a teenager, I was blessed to spend six weeks on the road as lead guitarist for the legendary Bobby "Blue" Bland. That experience gave me the confidence to form my own band, Sherman Robertson and the Crosstown Blues Band. We recorded two albums on the Lunar II label. During the 1970's, I was content playing weekends while raising a family and holding down a "regular" job until Clifton Chenier, "the King Of Zydeco," asked me to do some dates with his band. Those few dates turned into 5 years, as I toured Europe and U.S. with Chenier. I then joined Terrance Simien's hot, young zydeco band, playing with Rockin' Dopsie and Johnny Clyde Copeland. Another big opportunity came when Paul Simon asked me to record on what would become his blockbuster Graceland album. Soon after, I signed with acclaimed British producer Mike Vernon (Eric Clapton, Freddie King, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie) for Atlantic Records. My first solo recording, I'm The Man (Atlantic 1994), was nominated for a Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award). My second Atlantic release, Here And Now, brought me more critical recognition. But I was convinced I would have more promotional support and artistic freedom from an independent label. Producer Joe Harley and my manager, Catherine Bauer, assembled a first class back up band (including Little Feat charter members: keyboardist Bill Payne and drummer Richie Hayward) for a project on the AudioQuest label. The sessions at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, California, resulted in Going Back Home. Blues Revue said of the album: "Potent singing and sizzling guitar... Robertson is unstoppable." Guitar Man - Live (2005) was recorded at the Kwadendamme Blues Festival by Mark Nijssen. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

28 Shows/26 Days! Harpist Dennis Grueling, Guitarist Doug Deming CD Release Tour

                       <<<28 Shows In 26 Days!!!>>>

Harpist Dennis Gruenling Joins Guitarist Doug Deming (With  The Jewel Tones) On U.S. Tour Supporting Both Their New CDs

  
   Like World Champions LeBron James and Dwayne Wade of the NBA's Miami Heat, blues musicians Dennis Gruenling and Doug Deming are individually great talents who are even better when they come together as one of the most prolific duos on today's contemporary American Blues scene.
   Harpist Gruenling and guitarist Deming (the later who fronts longtime group, the Jewel Tones) have once again joined forces for an ambitious twenty-eight city tour in just twenty-six days, each in support of a new CD ("Rockin' All Day" by Dennis Gruenling; "What's It Gonna Take" by Doug Deming). Full itinerary is found below.
    
   

  Dennis Gruenling (l) and Doug Deming (r) have both released new albums and are touring together 

                                               About: Dennis Gruenling 

    After receiving his first harmonica as a gift from a family friend while in his teens, he had heard his first blues record and his life was never the same! Having been in New Orleans during 1992-'93, Dennis came back home to the Garden State of New Jersey and quickly gained a reputation as a young rising star on the local blues scene, working in a couple different local blues bands. In 1998 he started to form his own local "all-star" band, using members pulled from other regional bands. Since his self-titled debut with that band ("Dennis Gruenling & Jump Time!") in 1999, Gruenling has pulled in countless fans and numerous accolades from critics and musicians around the world for his swinging, highly original harmonica sound and style. Taking equal parts from the blues harmonica and swing saxophone traditions and styles, Dennis has pushed the boundaries further for blues harmonica, while in the meantime pioneering a whole new sound and direction for the instrument. http://www.dennisgruenling.com.    

 

"Dennis Gruenling has become the new harp player's harp player...one of the most critically acclaimed of his generation" - JUKE JOINT SOUL

"Dennis Gruenling is a leading light among a new generation of harp players...stands poised to claim a spot in the pantheon of blues harmonica greats." - BLUES REVUE

  

                                              About: Doug Deming

  "We have no gimmicks," says leader Doug Deming. "We play pure traditional music from the heart, with an image that conveys a deep respect for the genre." As a result, Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones have been become regulars on the national blues and jazz touring circuit as well as an 'in demand' backing band for a 'who's-who' of today's top American roots music performers, including Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Louisiana Red, Chicago Pete, vocalist Alberta Adams, Black Top's Johnnie Dyer, W.C. Handy Award winner Johnny 'Yard Dog' Jones and the legendary Lazy Lester. Detroit guitarist and Handy multi-award nominee Johnnie Bassett describes the band as "great talent...that people outside the area will come to know."
Doug Deming has been the driving force behind the Jewel Tones (formerly known as the Blue Suit Band) since it's beginning in 1991. As a guitarist and vocalist, he acknowledges a musical debt everyone from T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters to Nat Cole and Count Basie. Says Detroit blues writer George Seedorff: "Doug is equally at home playing straight ahead on the solid body guitar or swinging on the big jazz box." The group's recordings achieve originality while staying deep in the genre.  http://www.reverbnation.com/dougdemingthejeweltones. 

"Doug Deming's 'Falling Through The Cracks' features solid performances on a program that encompasses a variety of blues styles."  - BLUES FESTIVAL E-GUIDE  

"You can sit and listen to the Blues or you can get up and start dancing to it. Doug Deming and The Jewel Tones' 'Falling Through the Cracks' will certainly get you doing the latter, with one of the finest mixes of 50's Style Rockabilly, Classic Jump/Boogie, Shuffle, and Swing I have recently heard."                      - BLUES UNDERGROUND 

  

   Watch a live performance of Doug Deming's "Momma Didn't Raise No Fool" by Dennis Gruenling and Doug Deming here:  
 Dennis Gruenling/Doug Deming  - "2012 CD Release Tour"  - Live Shows Itinerary

   June 20  (Wed.)                   Freddie Rebels                                Naples, FL
   June 21 (Thur.)                     Gatorz                                               Port Charlotte, FL
   June 22 (Fri.)                        Mattison's City Grille                       Sarasota, FL
   June 23 (Sat.)                      The Back Room                               Delray Beach, FL
   June 24 (Sun.)                      Earl's Hideaway 2pm                      Sebastian, FL
   June 25  (Mon.)                    Papa Mojo's                                     Durham, NC
   June 26  (Tues.)                   Reeve's Theatre                               Elkin, NC
   June 27 (Wed.)                    Capital Ale House                            Richmond, VA
   June 28 (Thur.)                     Roxy & Duke's*                                 Dunellen, NJ
   June 29 (Fri.)                        Black Eyed Sally's                           Hartford, CT
   June 30 (Sat.)                       Private Party                                    Middletown, NY
   July 1 (Sun.)                          Asbury Park Jazzfest                      Asbury Park, NY
   July1 (Sun.)                           Towne Crier*                                    Pawling, NY
   July 2 (Mon)                           Mystic River Park                           Mystic, CT
   July 3 (Tues.)                         Triad Theatre                                   New York, NY
   July 4 (Wed.)                          House Party                                   New Jersey
   July 5 (Thur.)                           House Party                                   Barrytown, NY
   July 6 (Fri.)                             The Turning Point                           Piermont, NY
   July 7 (Sat.)                            Harmonica Seminar                      Teaneck, NJ
   July 7 (Sat.)                            The Twisted Tail                              Philadelphia, PA
   July 8 (Sun.)                            Skeeter's BBQ                               Shamokin Dam, PA
   July 9 (Mon.)                           Blues Society Event                       Cleveland, OH
   July 10 (Tues.)                        Woodlands Tavern                         Columbus, OH
   July 11 (Wed.)                        Court Street Grill                             Pomeroy, OH
   July 12 (Thur.)                         Thunderbird Cafe                           Pittsburgh, PA
   July 13 (Fri.)                            Paradise Island                              Buffalo, NY
   July14 (Sat.)                           NY State Blues Festival                 Syracuse, NY  

Make It Real Records artist: Cameo Blues - 10,000 Hours - New Release Review

I just received a copy of the new Cameo Blues recording, 10,000 Hours. The band, made up of Ray Harrison on piano, John Bride on guitar, John Dickie on Vocal, Mike Sloski on drums and Tommy Griffiths on bass lay down some blues rock here for your listening pleasure. Dickie original track, Penguin Walk opens the recording with a driving boogie that gets you moving. 21st Century Rockit 88 is a rockin' blues giving piano man Harrison some space to do just that. A pretty cool track with underlying slide throughout. Gasoline is a smooth style with a cool guitar hook that should receive good airplay. Hold Your Love is a radio oriented ballad that could easily be the song of the cd. It's strongly written with smooth vocals and an equally smooth guitar solo. Talk Radio is a pretty interesting track with a different style of blues attack that I actually like pretty well. This track has a particularly cool guitar part on it with some nice pinch harmonics. In contrast to the first 7 original tracks, the last 4 tracks are all covers. The band does an admiral interpretation of Howlin' For My Darlin' and a nice stripped down version of Sittin' On Top Of The World. Jimmy McGriff's All About My Girl is a great jam to wrap to recording. Want something on the light side of the blues with some foamy rock... this may be it!  
If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”
 

Boo Hanks and Dom Flemon's collaborative album released!

Sonny Boy King, an Alabama treasure Sonny Boy King is an Alabama Bluesman that has been with Music Maker for almost seven years. For over twenty-five years he played parties in Alabama, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, developing his skills. During that time he has become a one man band with drums, guitar, harmonica, and stomping his feet.    His love of music began when he was fourteen in 1944 Lyons County, Alabama. He started playing guitar at parties and he also worked at a sawmill as a water-boy. Since that time his guitar has supported him for most of his life. He performs wherever people gather at house parties, fish fries, and clubs. After partnering with Music Maker he's played venues including the Byron Bay Blues Festival in Australia, enabling thousands to hear his foot-stomping blues outside of his home community.  As a man that has fathered and raised 33 children, Sonny Boy King has this to say to the next generation: "As for my advice to kids today, they are worried too much about what kind of guitar they have. I tell them, as long as it got the strings on it, play it. The guitar does not play itself. You got to play it. But the most important thing is you have to treat people right, to get treated right." -- Mike  Boo Hanks signs a young fan's wristband, Roots and Leaves Show 6/15 by Cornelius Lewis   Diggin': Live with Captain and Cool I spent this past Friday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., sitting with blues legend Captain Luke as the first Roots and Leaves show took place, as Cool John Ferguson blew out his guitar amp, as John Dee Holeman crooned to a crowd of hundreds.               Thirty minutes in, Luke extinguished one of his cherry cigars and walked onstage for his set with Cool John. The opener, "Hotel Happiness," showcased Luke's smooth baritone voice and John's soft fingers on the electric. Together onstage, the two redefined coolness and stunned a crowd of all ages. This was the finale to my first week interning at Music Maker.               The featured song this week, Captain Luke and Cool John's live rendition of "Rainy Night in Georgia," (not to be confused with Snowy Night in Georgia, which we featured last week) gives new meaning to the word "silk."   Check it out, and if you're in the area, come see Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen and Essie Mae Brooks this Friday at 6:00 p.m. in Southern Village, Chapel Hill for our third Roots and Leaves show. -- Jeremy Jeremy is a summer intern with Music Maker from Hampshire College in Massachusetts.  He is helping us with our audio archive, audio-mixing as well as with general office tasks.  Boo Hanks Collborates with Dom Flemons on "Buffalo Junction" Boo Hanks grew up sharecropping in Vance County, N.C., where he learned to play guitar. Music Maker has helped Boo go from being heard only in his community to playing for thousands at shows and festivals across the country and around the world. Dom Flemons, who won a Grammy in 2011 with the Drops, was at Music Maker the day Hanks first arrived, and their friendship and collaborations grew from that first jam session over the next six years. Hanks' and Flemons' new album Buffalo Junction, named for Hanks' hometown in Virginia, features upbeat, country blues that crosses generational lines. The album highlights Hanks on the guitar and vocals, while Flemons plays a variety of traditional instruments such as the jug, harmonica, bones and also sings backup vocals. Dom Flemons said of the recording experience: "Boo Hanks is a treasure. His vocal and guitar phrases are something so unique and forgotten in the modern world of folk and blues.  He an absolutely engaging songster and it has been a pleasure to have played with him for several years and to be a part of this album which will hopefully present his music to a much wider audience." The Illinois Entertainer calls Buffalo Junction, "Fascinating, important, a singular musical experience, and required listening for blues, folk, and musical history fans alike featuring dazzling picking." Buffalo Junction is now available at musicmaker.org here - and you can see Boo and Dom live this summer! Tour dates are below, more info to come!  8/15 World Café in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8/16 Joe's Pub in New York City   8/17 Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia   8/19 The Hamilton in Washington, D.C. on August 19   Listen:  Captain Luke and Cool John -  Rainy Night in Georgia - Live Quick Links:     Website  Merch  Music

Upcoming Shows: Click here for more info on upcoming events  6/22 - Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen, Essie Mae Brooks -  Music Maker Roots and Leaves, Chapel Hill, N.C., 6-8pm  6/23 - Cool John Ferguson - Sertoma Theatre, Cary, NC, 6-8pm  6/27 - Beverly "Guitar" Watkins - Sweet Georgia Juke Joint  6/29 - Pura Fé Trio, Lakota John Locklear - Music Maker Roots and Leaves, Chapel Hill, N.C., 6-8pm  7/4 - Lakota John and Kin - Carrboro July 4th Celebration, Carrboro, NC, 12:30pm     7/6 - John Dee Holeman - The Eddy Pub, Saxapahaw, NC, 8pm  7/13 - Ironing Board Sam - The Depot, Hillsborough, NC, 8pm  7/14 - Pura Fé - Harrison Hot Springs Festival, Harrison Hot Springs, Canada, 3:40pm 7/14 - Ironing Board Sam - The Whiskey, Durham, NC, 9pm 7/15 - John Dee Holeman, Captain Luke, Big Ron, Ironing Board Sam - Jimmy Williams' "Music Maker" at Waverly Artist Group, Cary, NC, 5-8pm 7/20 - Pura Fé - Folk on the Rocks, Yellowknife, Canada 7/21 - Ironing Board Sam and Big Ron - Saxapahaw Farmer's Market Stage, Saxapahaw, NC, 6pm 7/27 - MM Blues Revue with Beverly Watkins, Albert White, Shelton Powe, Robert Lee Coleman, Nashid and Ardie - Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, NC, 7pm (doors)    Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. helps the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain  recognition and meet their day to day needs. We present these musical traditions to the world so American culture will flourish and be preserved for future generations.

If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

Skip´s Worried Blues - Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. Born in Bentonia, Mississippi, he died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He first learned to play guitar from another bluesman from the area, Henry Stuckey. His guitar playing is noted for its dark, minor sound, played in an open D-minor tuning with an intricate fingerpicking technique. James first recorded for Paramount Records in 1931, but these recordings sold poorly due to the Great Depression, and he drifted into obscurity. After a long absence from the public eye, James was "rediscovered" in 1964 by three blues enthusiasts, helping further the blues and folk music revival of the 1950s and early 60s. During this period, James appeared at several folk and blues festivals and gave live concerts around the country, also recording several albums for various record labels. His songs have influenced several generations of musicians, being adapted or covered by Kansas Joe McCoy, Robert Johnson, Cream, Deep Purple, Chris Thomas King, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Derek Trucks Band, Beck, Big Sugar, and Rory Block. He is hailed as "one of the seminal figures of the blues." If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

I Had A Talk With My Man - Mitty Collier

Mitty Lene Collier (born 21 June 1941) is an American church pastor, gospel singer and former rhythm and blues singer. She had a number of successful records in the 1960s, of which probably the best known is "I Had A Talk With My Man". Mitty Collier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh child of Rufus and Gertrude Collier, and attended Western-Olin High School, Alabama A & M College and Miles College where she majored in English. She began singing in church as a teenager, and toured with gospel groups, the Hayes Ensemble and the Lloyd Reese Singers, before starting to sing rhythm and blues in local clubs to help subsidise her college education. In 1959, while visiting Chicago, she entered DJ Al Benson's talent show at the Regal Theater, winning for six straight weeks and gaining her a slot on a bill with B. B. King and Etta James as a prize. This brought her to the attention of Ralph Bass of Chess Records, who offered her a recording contract. She recorded for the Chess label from 1961 to 1968, releasing 15 singles and one album, mostly produced by Billy Davis. Her first record was "Gotta Get Away From It All", which was not a hit. Her first real success came in 1963 with "I'm Your Part Time Love", an answer record to Little Johnny Taylor's "Part Time Love". It reached # 20 on the Billboard R&B chart, and was followed up with "I Had A Talk With My Man", a secularised version of James Cleveland's gospel song "I Had A Talk With God Last Night". The orchestrated ballad reached # 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 3 on the Cash Box R&B chart, and became her best known song, later being covered by Dusty Springfield and Shirley Brown among others. Her next record, "No Faith, No Love", was also a reworking of a James Cleveland song, and reached # 29 on the Billboard R&B chart and # 91 on the pop chart. She released an album, Shades Of A Genius, in 1965. Her last hit, in 1966, was "Sharing You" (# 10 on the R&B chart, # 97 pop). She left Chess in 1968 after recording a single, a new version of "Gotta Get Away From It All" recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals with producer Rick Hall. She then recorded five further singles and an album with William Bell's Peachtree label in Atlanta, Georgia. However, in 1971 she developed polyps on her vocal cords, losing her singing voice, and gave up her secular music career If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

New Cee Cee James Album, "Blood Red Blues," Already a Hit at AirPlay Direct Digital Download Service

NEW CEE CEE JAMES ALBUM,

BLOOD RED BLUES, ALREADY A HIT AT AIRPLAY DIRECT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD SERVICE

ALBUM IS CURRENTLY #1 ON AIRPLAY DIRECT’S GLOBAL CHART FOR ALL GENRES

ST. LOUIS, MO – Although it won’t be officially released until July 17, Blood Red Blues, the dynamic new album from St. Louis-based blues-rock singer Cee Cee James, is already a hit at AirPlay Direct, the digital service used by many radio stations to download their new CDs for airplay. To visit AirPlay Direct, click on this link: http://airplaydirect.com/.  

Blood Red Blues was uploaded to AirPlay Direct on June 8^th, and in that short amount of time, over 812 downloads to radio DJs have been achieved, indicating an enormous interest by radio stations for her new CD. In addition to Blood Red Blues, select cuts from her previous CDs are also offered for download. Only registered stations at AirPlay Direct can download the album, although others can stream tracks from the new CD at the site.

As of June 20, here are the AirPlay Direct stats for Cee Cee’s new album:

OVERALL CHARTS

#1 on Global (all genres) for June with 812 downloads to DJ's

#1 on Blues for June 

#20 on Blues for ALL TIME with 1225

SINGLES CHART

#1 AND #2 Rock SINGLES for June 

#50 on TOP 50 SINGLES GLOBAL for June

#40 on TOP AMERICANA SINGLES FOR JUNE

Several tunes on the TOP BLUES SINGLES FOR JUNE

#1 and #2 on the TOP COUNTRY/ALT SINGLES FOR JUNE

Several tunes on the TOP ROCK SINGLES FOR JUNE

Blood Red Blues has also already hit the Worldwide Roots Charts at #29 on June 8th and rose to #26 on June 15^th, by virtue of the stations reporting to that chart that have already downloaded the new CD.

Produced by Grammy-winner Jim Gaines, Blood Red Blues is being released on her own imprint, FWG Records, with international distribution by Burnside Distribution. Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana, Royal Southern Brotherhood), who tracked the sessions at his Bessie Blue Studio in West Tennessee, perfectly captures all the exciting elements of Cee Cee’s vocal style on the new album, creating a sound that is both vulnerable and passionate, igniting the songs with a burning, sensual yearning that drives home the dozen all-original songs.

Blood Red Blues is the fourth album from Cee Cee James, whose powerfully soulful vocals have already created a lasting impression on audiences and critics alike all over the world. Backing Cee Cee on Blood Red Blues are Rob “Slideboy” Andrews on rhythm and slide guitar, Rocky Athas on lead guitar, Chris Leighton on drums, Dan Mohler on bass and Susan Jillian on keyboards, along with vocal backing from Stanley Crouse, Vicki Atkins, Danunielle “Pie” Hill and Kimberlie Helton.

After working with James, Jim Gaines called her “one of the greatest blues-rock singers out there today. She’s someone I call an ‘old soul.’ Cee Cee’s songs are wonderful stories of her life experiences, and backed by Rob’s strong Delta roots/blues slide and rhythm guitar playing, they make a great team. Her style reminds me of our classic early female blues and rock singers. She’s very passionate about giving a great performance.”

Cee Cee’s blistering vocals tell the truth of the powerful messages in her songs, born and bred from a lifetime of heartache and loss, but delivered with a message of hope, understanding and the healing power of love. The hallmark off her career has been her intense live performances, as anyone who’s seen her can attest. Blood Red Blues distills that energy and transmits it through the recording process into something that is valid and compelling.

Cee Cee James was originally based on the West Coast. Her first album, a pop/funk CD, garnered the Los Angeles Independent Artist of the Year Award; and a track off that album was honored as one of the top 10 in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, before she directed all her talent and energy to the blues. Her second CD, Low Down Where the Snakes Crawl,” was released in 2008 and gained worldwide distribution, as well as critical press and radio attention. By that time, she had re-located to the Pacific Northwest  and in 2009 she won the Klamath Falls, Oregon Blues Challenge & went on to compete in the 2010 IBC finals in Memphis, where esteemed writer/editor Don Wilcock called her” the most exciting and original act at this year’s IBC.” Her last CD, Seriously Raw – Live at Sunbanks,” drew more extensive radio airplay and rave reviews, also bringing Cee Cee the “Best Blues Songwriter Award” and a nomination for “Best Blues Vocalist” from the Washington Blues Society in 2010.

For more information, visit www.ceeceejames.com

If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

Come Here Mama - Little Willie Anderson

Some folks called Chicago harpist Little Willie Anderson "Little Walter Jr.," so faithfully did Anderson's style follow that of the legendary harp wizard. But Anderson was already quite familiar with the rudiments of the harmonica before he ever hit the Windy City, having heard Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, and Robert Jr. Lockwood around West Memphis. Anderson came to Chicago in 1939, eventually turning pro as a sideman with Johnny Young. Anderson served as Walter's valet, chauffeur, and pal during the latter's heyday, but his slavish imitations probably doomed any recording possibilities for Anderson -- until 1979, that is, when Blues On Blues label boss Bob Corritore escorted him into a Chicago studio and emerged with what amounts to Anderson's entire recorded legacy. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”