DO YOU CALL THAT A BUDDY - CHRIS CAIN BAND

Chris Cain's jazz-tinged, blues soaked guitar and deep, warm vocals have the maturity and authenticity of bluesmen many years his senior. His expressive style is the result of a lifetime of study and the relentless pursuit of music mastery. His passion and intensity are a blend of his mother's Greek ancestry and his father's soulful black heritage.

Cain was raised on stories of his father's childhood upbringing on Memphis' Historic Beale Street and attended his first B.B King concert at the tender age of three. Blues music played continuously on the home stereo and family outings were often trips to concerts. Cain recalls, "I remember when I was a kid, my Dad would be mowing the lawn with the stereo blasting Muddy Waters. When I look back, that was pretty cool! There was always music playing at our house, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, all the greats."

Chris Cain and GuitarAt the age of eight, Cain taught himself to play guitar and began playing professionally before he was eighteen. Chris studied music at San Jose City College, and was soon teaching jazz improvisation on campus. Over the next twenty years, Cain would also master piano, bass guitar, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone. The combination of his blues upbringing and his jazz studies melded to form the searing guitar style that sets Chris Cain apart and has moved him to the top ranks of the blues music scene.

Cain's debut recording, Late Night City Blues (Blue Rock'it Records-1987) garnered four W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations, including Guitarist of the Year." Dan Forte of Guitar Player wrote, "An impressive debut album by a top notch guitarist." Cain's next two releases; "Cuttin Loose" (Blind Pig Records-1990) and "Can't Buy a Break" (Blind Pig Records-1992) collected a long list of awards and accolades. In August of 1995 Blind Pig released "Somewhere Along the Way" his 4th compilation of his unique brand of original music sophisticated blues, funk, jazz and gospel.

In 2003 Patrick Ford produced Chris's latest CD, "Hall Of Shame" (Blue Rock'it Records-2003). "...this is now the sixth Chris Cain solo release I have produced, not to mention his work with me on projects like the Ford Blues Bands' "In Memory Of Michael Bloomfield" CD, and I continue to be in awe of his incredible talent. As a guitarist/singer, Chris has been praised by mentors like Albert King and peers like Robben Ford."

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Future Blues - Patrick Dodd Trio

Seeing the Patrick Dodd Trio is like going on your first date with your soul mate. They stand out in a crowded room. You’re attracted at first listen by the solid rhythm – then by lyrics that are more than superficial conversation about the weather. You’re more interested in the songs as you find every sentence clever and hope the night never ends.

That’s exactly the experience hundreds of listeners have had from catching the band live on world famous Beale Street. Seasoned musicians Patrick Dodd, Harry Peel and Landon Moore are the breed of artists who take their craft seriously, but ensure the music lover will enjoy the trip just as much as the band.

Dodd, a favorite on Beale Street for years, took a break from music to focus on his young family. A decade passed and the music was calling him back. Blues legend Bobby “Blue” Bland called Dodd to deliver fate’s final affirmation: “Son, you got an old soul,” he told him. “You just got to let go and play from your heart. Don’t worry about finding someone to help you – play from your soul, and they will find you.”

Patrick started hitting the clubs to see live music again and a chance late night discussion with session player Harry Peel (Little Feat, Loretta Lynn, the Oak Ridge Boys, Greg Dulli) transformed into a musical collaboration that infused a new fervor into Patrick and his musical storytelling. Their jamming became serious when the pair added highly sought-after bassist and session musician Landon Moore.

Best described as classic rock with blues accents, The Patrick Dodd Trio combines soulful vocals, whispering lyrics and knee-bouncing bass and drum beats for perfectly timed full throttle progressions. The band is influenced by gifted players like Mississippi Fred McDowell and Derek Trucks, musicians who consider songwriting an art and never incidental to the music. Not only can the band please the international crowd on Beale Street, but they also satisfy hard-to-please Memphis locals.

The Trio’s debut release Future Blues is a contrast of simplicity and lushness as their blues center flourishes in the embellishments of southern-style rock and jam music. Recorded at Memphis’s Music+Arts Studio, the EP was produced by North Mississippi All-Star Cody Dickinson (Lucero, Hill Country Revue) with engineering by Kevin Houston (Buddy Guy, Irma Thomas, Amy LaVere).

Get ready for your first date and a lifelong relationship with The Patrick Dodd Trio.
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Money (that's what I want) - The Beatles

"Money (That's What I Want)" is a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed nationally on Anna Records. The song was written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, and became the first hit record for Gordy's Motown enterprise. It went on to be covered by many artists including The Beatles, with covers by The Flying Lizards and The Kingsmen reaching high chart positions.

Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".

As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.

Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor among the Beatles, playing a central role in several of their films, and appearing in numerous other films, both during and after his career with the Beatles. After the Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and portrayed "Mr. Conductor" during the first season of the PBS children's television series Shining Time Station. Since 1989, Starr has toured with twelve variations of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
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Pony Blues - Alvin Youngblood Hart

Alvin Youngblood Hart (born March 2, 1963, Oakland, California, United States) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician.
Born in Oakland California, Hart had family connections with Carroll County, Mississippi, and spent time there in his childhood, hearing his relatives stories of Charlie Patton, "being around these people who were there when this music was going on". Thus influenced by the country blues, Hart is known as one of the world's foremost practitioners of that genre. Hart is also known as a faithful torchbearer for the 1960s and 1970s guitar rock of his youth, as well as Western Swing and vintage country. His music has been compared to a list of diverse artists ranging from Leadbelly, Spade Cooley to acoustic and electric guitar as well as banjo and sometimes the mandolin. Bluesman Taj Mahal once said about Hart that "The boy has got thunder in his hands." Hart himself said "I guess my big break came when I opened for Taj Mahal for four nights at Yoshi's.

In 1996 he made a powerful and individual album debut, Big Mama's Door, playing street, slide and standard guitars and banjo on a mixture of dug-up and new-grown blues.[2] In 2003, Hart's album Down in the Alley was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2005, Hart received a Grammy Award for his contribution to Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster.

Hart was featured in the 2003 Wim Wenders film, The Soul of a Man, which was featured in Martin Scorsese's film series, The Blues. Hart was also featured in the documentary, Last of the Mississippi Jukes.

Hart appeared in the film, The Great Debaters in 2007, playing a 1930s juke joint musician.
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PLEASE SEND MY BABY BACK - SUNNY BLAIR

Sunny Blair, blues harmonica player born as Sullivan Jackson in Little Rock , Arkansas died July 6, 1966.
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Feel Like Going Home - Big Dave McLean

Big Dave McLean is finally getting his recognition, at an age when the rest of us are getting around to contemplating retirement. Only in the last decade or so has there been significant inroads into recording this definitive Canadian bluesman.

A masterful guitarist and top notch harpist, McLean’s raw and gravelly vocals bespeak of a life lived to the fullest, and a career spent performing in and around those countless small towns that dot the Canadian prairies. When it comes to the blues, however, McLean’s heart firmly beats to the ghosts of the delta greats--especially the incomparable Muddy Waters, with whom he toured over two decades ago. Just how important the Mojo Man was to the development of Big Dave can be gleaned in an 11-minute tribute, aptly titled ‘Muddy Waters for President’. Actually written for the dean of Chicago bluesmen, Muddy died before getting around to recording it.

McLean’s stage performances also identify him as one of the top bluesmen in Canada and what he knows about the business came to him from blues legends John Hammond Jr. and Muddy Waters. He started out on harmonica in the early '60s and had his first guitar lesson from John Hammond at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1969. Hammond and Muddy Waters became Dave's lifelong musical heroes and friends. What did he learn from the masters? "Well you gotta be courteous," says McLean. "You know, Muddy Waters told me you can have the best guys in the world in your band, and if they gotta go, if they want to branch out and do their own thing, you’re not gonna stop them from doing what they’re destined to do. You might as well aid them along, help them out. And John (Hammond) was much the same, one of the most courteous gentlemen on this planet, you know, totally helpful, inspiring. You know both of them were just wonderful, wonderful men. I’m so pleased that I had the opportunity to even meet them."
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Drink Drink Drink - Abe McNeil

Abe McNeil - acoustic country blues guitar player with dazzling harmonica player Richard Driggs. Not a lot is known of Abe but he is featured on the George Mitchell Collection released by Fat Possum Records.
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Slide On Over - Charlie Keating Band - New Recording Release

Just got a copy of Slide On Over, the new release from The Charlie Keating Band and it's quite a sliding ride. The band is rounded out by Lenny Turnquist on bass,  and Tim Sweeny on drums. This is a great track and a a great opener. The recording opens with Elmo's Boogie and Keating wastes absolutely no time showing his chops. An instrumental built around the slide guitar which sounds to be tuned in an open tuning ... probably E. Next up is Boogie Woogie which is another barn burner and definitely has a Hawaiian tonal sound in the chords. You Don't Have To Cry is is a traditional 12 bar slow blues but along with the standard changes Keating uses double stops constantly and it is really a cool sound. Roy Buchanan got a lot of his special riffs from playing steel and although Keating sounds absolutely nothing like Buchanan he has a lot of steel components to his blues playing. Shake Your Money Maker is up next and it again had a lot of use of dual tone playing. The track really moves and you will move. This band is particularly tight. Every Day I Have The Blues takes a Latin beat and it sounds extremely fresh. Keating has his own style of playing and I really like it. Who Do You Love takes another turn altogether with ...funk! Yes...funk! Goodbye Baby grabs right at Elmore James playing and the full open tuning slide. I rarely hear anyone playing full tone slide like this...maybe not since Rod Price. This cd is a lot of fun for people who enjoy slide playing as much as I do and slide blues to boot. Please Come Home is a boogie along the lines of Boogie Chillen' with the monotonic track with vocal and guitar to add all of the highlights. Very cool. Come Back stays in that Texas boogie groove throughout the track setting you up for whats next to come... a real nice slow blues called Dog Biscuit, a full helping of open sliding guitar blues. Do you get the idea that maybe Charlie plays slide... and maybe I like it? He does and I do! Eric's boogie takes the tempo back up to Hound Dog Taylor tempo and kicks the doors off. This cd is going straight from my computer to my car! Last up is the title track, Slide On Over, which takes an acoustic look at the slide. On this track the guitar and vocal are equally balanced and a cool little acoustic blues.
This recording is over the top if you like slide guitar... and you can quote me on that!

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One Way Love Affair - Danny White

It’s often said about our musical cult heroes that they ‘could’a been a contender’. In the case of Danny White, he unequivocally should have been one. White’s torrid tenor was always a big draw in his New Orleans hometown, but he spent most of his career recording for a small, local label that always had to lease its material to majors when the chance of chart success came by. His signature song, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, is on a par with Aaron Neville’s Tell It Like It Is or Barbara George’s I Know but, unlike those time-honoured New Orleans classics, it never achieved the level of national success that it so deserved. However, anyone lucky enough to have seen Danny White live in the early 60s will tell you that he was among the best Louisianan performers and rates as highly as any of New Orleans more revered artists.

Danny’s career spanned virtually the whole of the 1960s, but his recorded legacy is quite meagre. His total tally of masters amounts to only six more than are presented on NATURAL SOUL BROTHER – Kent’s new collection of Danny’s complete Frisco/ABC, Atlas and SSS International recordings. Happily quality outstrips quantity. Not only was Danny White a great singer, he made all his recordings (including those tracks that we were not able to clear for inclusion) at excellent facilities - Cosimo Matassa’s in New Orleans, Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios in Memphis or the former movie theatre on McLemore Avenue, Memphis that housed Stax Records and its studios.

Almost all of Danny’s repertoire was written by eminent tunesmiths such as Isaac Hayes, David Porter, Steve Cropper, Earl King and Sax Kari. On record he was backed by the finest musicians that New Orleans and Memphis had to offer, including what became the Hi Rhythm section and the MGs. But even with all this, not one of White’s 45 got within a sniff of the Billboard R&B chart – although Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye probably would have done, had its release not coincided with the suspension of the chart in that august publication.

We don’t let a little thing like a lack of chart action stand in the way of bringing great music to the masses. Thus we present the original mono singles mixes of almost all of Danny White’s great 45s together in one compilation, for connoisseurs of top drawer 60s soul. (It should be noted that it was our original intention to use the same tapes that had been used to master the original Frisco and ABC 45s, but Hurricane Katrina made that an impossibility. A pallet of tapes retrieved from the estate of Earl King, by former Ace colleague John Broven, was among the casulaties. However, rather than pull a project that was already some way down the line, we have gone ahead and made transfers of mint 45s.)

Here’s more than a score of vibrant 60s soul cuts, ranging from the dancefloor attack of perennial 6Ts favourites Keep My Woman Home and Miss Fine, Miss Fine to the sublime southern balladry of Can’t Do Nothing Without You and Moondreams. For lovers of true soul brothers, it’s hard to imagine anything more “Natural”’
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Lord, Look Down On Me - Bessie Griffin

Bessie Griffin (July 6, 1922 – April 10, 1989) was an African American gospel singer.

Born Arlette B. Broil in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was steeped in church music as a child. She sang for a while with the Southern Harps, had her own radio show in New Orleans, and later appeared in night clubs, on Broadway and in 1962 on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Griffin performed briefly with "Queen of Gospel" Albertina Walker and The Caravans in 1953-1954 but spent most of her career as a solo artist. While often compared to Mahalia Jackson, Griffin had a lighter contralto that allowed her to achieve more vocal pyrotechnics — holding a note for long periods of time, continuing a song for as long as twenty minutes and ranging through three octaves.
Griffin began her known recording career with the Gospel Consolators, an a cappella group in New Orleans, in the late 1940s. They issued several 78 rpm shellac records with her billed as lead vocalist.

After moving to Chicago in 1951, she worked briefly with The Caravans, a gospel group led by Albertina Walker, making a session with them for States in 1954. She left the group later that year, recording as a soloist for Al Benson's Parrot label. After moving to Los Angeles she was signed in 1956 by Art Rupe of Specialty Records. After collaboration with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, she recorded an album on the Decca label with an orchestra: "It Takes a Lot of Love"; she made "Portraits in Bronze" on Liberty; and joined the lucrative night club circuit singing and recording gospel albums in night clubs in the 1960s. She recorded a solo album for Savoy which was unremarkable except as a great example of her voice, and an album with the Gospel Pearls entitled "Gospel Soul" on Sunset, a subsidiary of Liberty. The Nashboro label released an album recorded live in concert in stereo and Griffin continued to tour and record as her health allowed, up to her death. There is an album on the Spirit Feel label which samples her four-decade long recording career.

In 1974 she appeared in the 20th Century Fox thriller, Together Brothers, which was filmed in Galveston, Texas. She played a female preacher, "Reverend Brown", who conducts a funeral service for a murdered policeman. The only witness to the crime is a little boy who is stalked and his "brothers" pull together and help apprehend the killer. The soundtrack for the movie was scored by Barry White.

On her death in 1989, Bessie Griffin was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Playlist-links for July 5 2012 'Rock-it Science'

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Playlist Songs----SONG---ARTIST----ALBUM-------



America The Beautiful-The Times They Are A-Changing, Spirit, Spirit of 76
Start: 20:01:00 End: 20:07:00 Duration : 6:00
Blue Wire, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Manzarini
Start: 20:08:00 End: 20:14:00 Duration : 6:00
Just For You, Backstreet Crawler, Second Street
Start: 20:14:00 End: 20:20:00 Duration : 6:00
Crying Won't Bring You Back, Peter Green, Little Dreamer
Start: 20:25:00 End: 20:30:00 Duration : 5:00
On S'En Sort, Paul Personne, Patchork Elektrique
Start: 20:30:00 End: 20:36:00 Duration : 6:00
Crack The Window Baby, Tony Joe White, One Hot July
Start: 20:36:00 End: 20:40:00 Duration : 4:00
Not Guilty, Breakers, Milan
Start: 20:44:00 End: 20:49:00 Duration : 5:00
Double Lover, Savoy Brown, the Collection
Start: 20:49:00 End: 20:55:00 Duration : 6:00
Boogie Real Low, Joel DaSilva and The Midnight Howl, Joel DaSilva and The Midnight Howl
Start: 20:55:00 End: 20:59:00 Duration : 4:00
Calling Card, Rory Gallagher, Calling Card
Start: 21:01:00 End: 21:06:00 Duration : 5:00
Louisiana Woman, Rab McCullough, Belfast Blues
Start: 21:07:00 End: 21:11:00 Duration : 4:00
Hoochie Coochie Man, Eric Bell, Lonely Nights In London
Start: 21:11:00 End: 21:19:00 Duration : 8:00
Mannish Boy, Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones, Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981
Start: 21:24:00 End: 21:34:00 Duration : 10:00
Leather Jacket, Mick Taylor, Mick Taylor
Start: 21:34:00 End: 21:37:00 Duration : 3:00
Gimme Shelter, Merry Clayton, Gimme Shelter
Start: 21:37:00 End: 21:41:00 Duration : 4:00
It Takes A Lot To Laugh.., Martha Velez, Fiends And Angels
Start: 21:44:00 End: 21:47:00 Duration : 3:00
Leaving Town Blues, PG's Fleetwood Mac, The Original Fleetwood Mac
Start: 21:47:00 End: 21:50:00 Duration : 3:00
Coming Home, John Dummer Blues Band, John Dummer's Famous Music Band
Start: 21:50:00 End: 21:54:00 Duration : 4:00
Real Real Gone, Oscar Benton Blues Band, Feel So Good
Start: 21:54:00 End: 21:59:00 Duration : 5:00
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Every Day I Have The Blues - Jimmy D Lane

Jimmy D. Lane (born July 4, 1965, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist.
Lane was born to the Chess blues musician Jimmy Rogers and his wife Dorothy. In his childhood, he got to know many older bluesmen who worked with his father, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Mabon, Little Walter and Albert King. Lane would say years later, "I feel blessed and fortunate to have known all those cats and I do not take it for granted."In 1998, Lane played for the then President Bill Clinton. Lane moved to Canada in 2007 and began, the now completed, double album project with his wife Beverly Butler'Lane.

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Lucky Lucy.- Emanuel Young w/ Howard Glazer & the EL 34s

Howard Glazer is a Detroit native, moving only for a few years to nearby Chicago where he honed his blues skills before returning home.
Howard Glazer and the EL 34s latest CD Wired For Sound is finally here!! This release is issued by the Detroit based label Lazy Brothers Records, and distributed world wide by Blue Skunk Music.

Aside from the core band of Bob Godwin and Steve Kohn, there is a full horn section consiting of Ralph Koziarski, Dave Kocbus and Mike Dziekan and background vocals my Maggie McCabe and Stephanie Johnson. Featured special guests include Delta Bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Poet/activist/radio host John Sinclair, and Detroit Blues Legends Emanuel Yound and Lady T !! It's been a long wait, but Wired For Sound is sure to leave you feeling fully charged!!
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Hunter Wolfe Update

We have been blessed to have played a number of well known, large venues. The Jefferson Theater and the National are among the list. On the 4th we performed to 10,000 strong for Independance Day. It was very exciting and we had a blast.
We have been receiving reviews of our album "The Go" from around the world. Countries like Belgium and Canada are in the mix.
Three of the tracks off our album made it into the Indie Charts and have been holding steady at #7 for over a month now. Two of those tracks are more of our heavy blues songs and we are excited about this because it means we are bringing the blues to people that wouldn't necessarily be listening to it otherwise.

Last month we were the most requested band on Smokestack Lightnin' out of Florida. In second was the Firm (Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers), third, the Black Keys and seventh, the White Stripes. We are very blessed and very excited!
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Rip Cat Records artist: Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Luke's Dream - New Release Review

I'm just getting the opportunity to listen Luke's Dream, the new Johnny Mastro and Mama's Boys' cd on Rip Cat Records. This cd is gritty and grimy...just the way I like it. Luke's Stomp, a stripped down track with harp, tambourine, resonator and vocal sets a good pace to open the recording. Thunder Roll picks up the challenge and with a solid drum beat and droning bottom, drives the blues rhythm under a raw and raucous track. I really like the tone of the guitar on this track and the bottom of the track is just solid. Knee High is another great track with primitive rhythms and raw slide work. Mastro is a cool vocalist and knows just how to get the harp pushing the envelope. A jagged track with overdriven vocals and heavy hitting guitar chords. Cool guitar riffs are played almost under the track allowing a lot of breathing space for the natural boogie. Junker Blues takes a more straightforward 8 bar approach. This track again with great slide playing rips a hole in it! Mr. JJ's Man is an uptempo Harp jam with light guitar and vocals along for the ride. Hurt finds the grinding guitar man back wringing the breath out of his guitar. Using unusual phrasing the band builds a lot of tension and Mastro's vocals and harp are a good addition to this rough hewn battle axe. Tonight We Ride lays down familiar Chicago style sounds with the harp and vocal taking the lead and distorted guitar driving the track. Francine is another butt kicker that takes you to Hound Dog Taylor land. Great drive, great distorted guitar. great slide and gritty vocals. I mean, what else do you really want? Step back and let the boys play! My Rocket leads of with a screaming harp and cool slide. It has a very simple vocal structure ... almost early Steve Miller like... but they do boogie. The recording finishes up with Temperature, which takes a lot of different concepts and rolls them into a very raw and effective blues track. I've heard a number of tracks that have components of this song, but I've never heard anything quite like this. Listeners who are embracing the new primitive blues should absolutely love this recording. This is one of the most sonically pleasing and real primitive blues sounding cd's I've heard in a very long time! This cd was released on July 3rd. Find a copy while you can!

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Hot Tuna in Colo. & Ariz. July 2012

(Austin, Texas) Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, rev up their audiences with groundbreaking music and insightful songs that keep them a moving musical force. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees from their legendary Jefferson Airplane days, Hot Tuna updates their repertoire always keeping a roisterous sound and a wry sense of humor. Adding dimension to the duo is mandolin virtuoso Barry Mitterhoff and, when electric, daring drummer Skoota Warner. Hot Tuna has just released a two-hour live performance DVD, Jorma’s 70^th Birthday Celebration with special guests and guitar players galore. (HotTuna.com) About Hot Tuna’s live performances the critics say:

“The symbiotic force of Kaukonen and Casady’s electrifying music led the band into a seminal rock jam. All told, the stunning performance cemented Hot Tuna’s continued presence as a fresh and innovative face of rock blues more than 50 years after the duo began playing together.” – Crawdaddy

“Kaukonen's highly inventive guitar work rocks tough and articulate, clean as a cat's whiskers. He still sings with that slightly strange, quintessentially laid-back voice, waxing wry with an existential bent. His melodies, even mean as a snake, have warmed over the years. Casady is Casady, one of the most unorthodox and profoundly gifted bassists ever known to rock music. They've always been a fascinating pair." – Twin Cities Daily Planet

Greats, Innovators, Initiators of Psychedelic Rock, Purveyors of the Blues, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady are all these and more, they are themselves masters of expression. Catch the excitement live as they tour this summer. If not check out their new DVD and follow their escapades on twitter: @HotTunaBand.

July 01 The Bull Run Concert Series, Shirley, MA Shows: 3 & 7pm

July 05 Westbrook Performing Arts Center, Also Darol Anger, Westbrook, ME

July 06 The Flying Monkey, Plymouth, NH

July 07 The Theater at Newburyport High School, Newburyport, MA

July 09 The Arts Center, Carrboro, NC

July 10 Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, TN

July 11 Diana Wortham Theatre @Pack Place, Asheville, NC

July 13 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA

July 14 Tampa Bay Perf. Arts Ctr, Tampa, FL

July 17 One World Theatre, Austin, TX

July 18 Kessler Theatre, Dallas, TX

July 20 Oriental Theatre, Denver, CO

July 21 Third Street Perf. Arts. Ctr, Carbondale, CO

July 22 Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO

July 25 Mesa Arts Ctr, Mesa, AZ

July 26 Orpheum Theatre, Flagstaff, AZ

July 27 Anthology, San Diego, CA

July 28 Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA

July 30/31 Sweetwater, Mill Valley, CA (SOLD OUT!)

Aug. 02 Tower Theatre, Bend, OR

Aug. 03 Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR

Aug. 04 Mount Baker R&B Festival, Bellingham, WA, Electric

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Happy Independence Day from Music Maker!

Roots and Leaves Series wraps up, thank you for all who came out! Our Roots and Leaves Concert Series in Chapel Hill has concluded, and, despite one performance canceled by a sudden thunderstorm, it was a wonderful month of shows! The program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Strowd Rose Foundation, with support from Market Street at Southern Village, Aloft Hotel of Chapel Hill and the Carolina Brewery Van, explored the music local to the Triangle. Over 1000 people were reached by Blues, String-Band, Gospel and Native music during the series. Despite the incredible 107 degree heat last week we still had a great show with Lakota John and Kin, the Pura Fé Trio and surprise guest Charlie Lowry of Dark Water Rising. We hope to continue the program next year, but for the next little while we're going to stay indoors in the A/C! Diggin': "Bring It On Down To My House Honey" One thing that I find interesting about traditional music is how sometimes different songs are the same tune with different lyrics. When I first heard Pink Anderson's version of "Bring It On Down To My House Honey," I recognized it as being similar to the chords and melody as Robert Johnson's recording of "They're Red Hot." It's also strikingly similar to "Come On In, Ain't Nobody Here But Me" by Mozelle Alderson, Georgia Tom Dorsey, and Big Bill Broonzy. So what about the song's origins? I called Pink and asked him what he knows, and he told me this: "I got it from my dad...not 100% sure where he got it from. I think it was a variation of a ragtime song. It's 1920 or 1930s era, more mainstream than juke joint. If you go back and listen to old ragtime music, you'll find the core of that chord progression in a lot of songs." He went on to say that a lot of musicians heard other musicians doing chord progressions and liked them, so they did their own variation in the chord progression, or if they didn't vary the chords then they varied lyrics. If anyone has any more info on this song's origins, please let us know! -- Ben Ben Davidson is a writer, editor, and fingerstyle guitarist from Durham, NC. He has been volunteering with Music Maker, lending his writing and editorial skills to our web content and newsletters. Happy 4th of July! All of us here at Music Maker hope you had a great 4th of July! This is a great time for us to remember and give thanks for everyone who has served or is serving to protect our country. Music Maker artist Eddie Tigner enlisted in the military as a young man, and that experience turned him into the musician he is today. During his service, his familiarity with all kinds of music got him a special service assignment booking bands for the club on the base at Aberdeen. He took up the piano, got to know a lot of musicians and began to develop his own musical style in the company of folks like Les Paul - young enlisted men who had time to play music during their off-time. We thank all our current and past service men and women for their sacrifices, and remember them this 4th of July! Cora Fluker by Axel Kustner Listen: Little Pink Anderson - Bring It On Down to My House Honey Quick Links: Website Merch Music

Upcoming Shows: Click here for more info on upcoming events 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”

Happy Independence Day from Music Maker!

Roots and Leaves Series wraps up, thank you for all who came out! Our Roots and Leaves Concert Series in Chapel Hill has concluded, and, despite one performance canceled by a sudden thunderstorm, it was a wonderful month of shows! The program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Strowd Rose Foundation, with support from Market Street at Southern Village, Aloft Hotel of Chapel Hill and the Carolina Brewery Van, explored the music local to the Triangle. Over 1000 people were reached by Blues, String-Band, Gospel and Native music during the series. Despite the incredible 107 degree heat last week we still had a great show with Lakota John and Kin, the Pura Fé Trio and surprise guest Charlie Lowry of Dark Water Rising. We hope to continue the program next year, but for the next little while we're going to stay indoors in the A/C! Diggin': "Bring It On Down To My House Honey" One thing that I find interesting about traditional music is how sometimes different songs are the same tune with different lyrics. When I first heard Pink Anderson's version of "Bring It On Down To My House Honey," I recognized it as being similar to the chords and melody as Robert Johnson's recording of "They're Red Hot." It's also strikingly similar to "Come On In, Ain't Nobody Here But Me" by Mozelle Alderson, Georgia Tom Dorsey, and Big Bill Broonzy. So what about the song's origins? I called Pink and asked him what he knows, and he told me this: "I got it from my dad...not 100% sure where he got it from. I think it was a variation of a ragtime song. It's 1920 or 1930s era, more mainstream than juke joint. If you go back and listen to old ragtime music, you'll find the core of that chord progression in a lot of songs." He went on to say that a lot of musicians heard other musicians doing chord progressions and liked them, so they did their own variation in the chord progression, or if they didn't vary the chords then they varied lyrics. If anyone has any more info on this song's origins, please let us know! -- Ben Ben Davidson is a writer, editor, and fingerstyle guitarist from Durham, NC. He has been volunteering with Music Maker, lending his writing and editorial skills to our web content and newsletters. Happy 4th of July! All of us here at Music Maker hope you had a great 4th of July! This is a great time for us to remember and give thanks for everyone who has served or is serving to protect our country. Music Maker artist Eddie Tigner enlisted in the military as a young man, and that experience turned him into the musician he is today. During his service, his familiarity with all kinds of music got him a special service assignment booking bands for the club on the base at Aberdeen. He took up the piano, got to know a lot of musicians and began to develop his own musical style in the company of folks like Les Paul - young enlisted men who had time to play music during their off-time. We thank all our current and past service men and women for their sacrifices, and remember them this 4th of July! Cora Fluker by Axel Kustner Listen: Little Pink Anderson - Bring It On Down to My House Honey Quick Links: Website Merch Music

Upcoming Shows: Click here for more info on upcoming events 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.