The Peterson Brothers Fall Tour & Critical Acclaim!

(Austin, Texas) The Peterson Brothers' first recording is receiving critical acclaim and radio airplay across the country and beyond. They'll be touring this fall playing the noted King Biscuit Blues Festival and venues in Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and their home state, Texas. Keep up with their music! Join the family at: PetersonBrothersBand.com, Twitter: @PetersonBros, Facebook.com/petersonbrothersband.      Blue Point Records released the first recording of talented, young musicians Glenn and Alex Peterson, The Peterson Brothers (BPTCD 1502). The eleven tracks display the brothers’ diverse influences, some first forays into their own compositions and some solid adaptations of traditional and contemporary works. The brothers recorded with  Grammy Award and Blues Music Award winning producer Michael Freeman to achieve a sound which is both original and respectful of the blues. (www.bluepointrecords) Here what's being said about the CD and their live performances. “Teen Blues Brothers Make a Big Sound…Emerging blues teen titans The Peterson Brothers have released their first, self-titled album on Blue Point Records.”  – No Treble “Creative new arrangements and impressive, energetic performances … Glenn Jr. is a very talented guitarist.  His solos are diverse and creative, and he never overplays… Vocally, he has a smooth, confident delivery and though he’s very good now, he will also get better with time.  Alex is a rock solid rhythm man on bass … Based on this superlative release, the future of the blues couldn’t be in better hands.” – Graham Clarke, Blues Bytes “The debut album from the Bastrop teen duo delivers on the promise they’ve shown on the local club circuit...Guitarist Glenn Peterson Jr. and his younger brother Alex Peterson on bass prove their blues mettle… But the bulk of the record introduced their own instantly appealing material, from the playful groove of “Hey Baby” to soulful shuffle and swing versions of “I Gotta Go” to the fiery instrumental “Feelin’ Like Home.” – Peter Blackstock, Austin360.com "Peterson Brothers embody the spirit of funky blues. Up by the front of the stage the vibe was cool and sweet as Glenn and Alex Peterson easily segued from wicked, funky break beats to slow blues jams rich with nuance and silky tones." – Deborah Sengupta-Stith, Austin360.com “original arrangements and a fresh, bristling energy that seems to be a harbinger of what excitement the Peterson Brothers bring to their live shows and future recordings.” – Jim Hynes, Elmore “rocking the blues with funky soul” – Mike Greenblatt, classicalite.com ALT ROOT TOP TEN SONGS OF THE WEEK - #03 If You Love Me Like You Say - (from the album The Peterson Brothers on Blue Point Records) – The Alternate Root Magazine "...the crop of younger black blues musicians who can take the tradition and transform it with their own identity is relatively slim...emerging up-and-comers include...the Peterson Brothers of Austin.” – Mark Guarino, The Washington Post "Bastrop blues siblings got their mojo workin’....” – Jim Caligiuri, The Austin Chronicle “Blues badasses!" – The Austin Chronicle      Across the country The Peterson Brothers is being heard on the radio. Last week they were #5 on Airplay Direct's Blues / Jazz / R&B; chart. A huge thanks to the DJ's and radio stations for broadcasting The Peterson Brothers. At The Crossroads, Canada BBC Radio 2, Great Britain BLUES DELUXE Full-Time Blues Radio CKUT, Montreal, Canada KSAV, Internet Radio KSDS, San Diego, CA KXJZ, Sacramento, CA KKTO, Reno/Tahoe City, CA KUOP, Stockton/Modesto, CA KXSR, Eureka, CA KTDE, Gualala, CA KZFR, Chico, CA KAFM, Grand Junction, CO WXCI, Danbury, CT WMNF, Tampa, FL KTUH, Honolulu, HI WEFT Champaign, IL WJMU, Decatur, IL WKCC, Kankakee, IL WDPS, Dayton, OH ACKFM, Nantucket, MA KSPQ, West Plains, MO WMPG, Portland, ME KBGA, Missoula, MT WVKR, Poughkeepsie, NY WVBR, Ithaca, NY WHRW, Binghamton, NY WDVX, Knoxville, TN SunRadio, Austin, TX KUTX, Austin, TX KOOP, Austin, TX KTEP, El Paso, TX KNON, Dallas, TX KPFT, Houston, TX WNRN, Charlottesville, VA September 03  Half Step, Austin, TX 05  Hill Country Galleria, Bee Cave, TX 07  Continental Club, Austin, TX 09  Martin's Downtown, Roanoke, VA 10  Mondey House Concerts, Blacksburg, VA 11 Goochland Elementary School, Goochland, VA 11 The Camel, Richmond, VA 12 Blues At The Beach, VA Beach, VA 14 Continental Club, Austin, TX 17  Half Step, Austin, TX 19  Bootsy Collins Fndn, Cincinnati, OH 20  Sherwood TX Music Jamboree, McDade, TX 21  Continental Club, Austin, TX 26  Big Dam Blues Party, Little Rock, AR 28  Continental Club, Austin, TX October 01  Half Step, Austin, TX 02  Private, Cedar Door, Austin, TX 03  Moontower. Austin, TX 05  Continental Club, Austin, TX 08  Half Step, Austin, TX 10  King Biscuit Blues Fest, Helena, AR 12  Continental Club, Austin, TX 16  Sweetgrass, Little Rock, AR 17  Private, Fayetteville, AR 19  Continental Club, Austin, TX 22  The Blue Rooster, Sarasota, FL 23  The Palladium, St Petersburg, FL 24  Camping w/The Blues, Brooksville, FL 25  Earl’s Hideaway, Sebastian, FL 26  Continental Club, Austin, TX November 02  Continental Club, Austin, TX 04  Sun Radio, Guero's, Austin, TX 09  Continental Club, Austin, TX 12  Half Step, Austin, TX 14  Wang Dang Doodle, Midland, TX 16  Continental Club, Austin, TX 19  Half Step, Austin, TX 20  Shakespeares, Houston, TX 23  Continental Club, Austin, TX 26  Public UT Tailgate, Austin, TX 27  Gruene Hall, Gruene, TX 30  Continental Club, Austin, TX

HAMILTON LOOMIS -- September 2015 Schedule

Hamilton's got a great September planned -- OKC, MO & IA here we come.  See all the dates below! Hamilton is holding a 2-day "Beginner Harmonica Workshop" in Hagerstown MD on Sept 19 & 20! CLICK HERE for info! The full schedule is at www.hamiltonloomis.com/schedule.html 8/29/15 Fort Worth, TX River Run Roadhouse 9pm 9/2/15 Oklahoma City, OK Baker Street Pub 9pm 9/3/15 Joplin, MO Coda Concert House 7pm 9/4/15 Independence, MO Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival 9pm 9/5/15 Des Moines, IA Gas Lamp 6pm to 8:30pm TICKETS 9/6/15 Thurman, IA Funk & Blues Festival @ Sugar Clay Winery 6pm 9/12/15 Point Comfort, TX Private Event 9/13/15 Seabrook, TX Benefit for Mia Sharp @ Cabo 4pm (319-621-4851) 9/19/15 Hagerstown, MD Beginner Harmonica Workshop (part 1) TICKETS 9/20/15 Hagerstown, MD Beginner Harmonica Workshop (part 2) TICKETS 9/25/15 La Grange, TX The Bugle Boy 8pm TICKETS 9/26/15 Tomball, TX Main Street Crossing 8pm TICKETS 9/28/15 Houston, TX Texas Children's Hospital 9am   Please forward this email to any of your friends/family in these cities!!

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Sugar Brown - Poor Lazarus - New release review

I just received the newest release, Poor Lazarus from Sugar Brown and I quite like it! Opening with rocker Walkin' With Frankie, a Frankie Lee Sims track, it has a certain crude construction quality that I find particularly cool. Sugar Brown leads on guitar and vocal, joined by Joolyah Narveson on rhythm guitar and sax, and Art Maky on drums. Meet Me In The Country is a great delta style blues track with an authentic guitar riff throughout. Growing to a loud jangle this track keeps it's backwoods sound and primitive sound. Very nice! Boogie track, What A Comrade Left Behind has a Hound Dog Taylor feel with just a minor pinch of C&W styling. Love the loose guitar soloing by Brown. Tom Waits track, Get Behind The Mule has a RL Burnside rockin blues sound with real intensity, joined on this track by Pat Phillips on drums and Tyler Stoddart on maracas. Brown has a cool voice and gets a cool guitar groove going. On RL Burnside's Goin' Down South Narveson switches over to upright bass and Art Maky plays drums following Brown in a chant like blues track. Poor Lazarus is a real cool remake of a traditional track about the shooting of a black man at the hands of a vengeful sheriff, with a heavy Doors like blues feel and descending bass work from Narveson. Bharath Rajakumar joins on chromatic harp. Very cool track! Instrumental, Blue Lights Hooker is possibly my favorite track on the release with a traditional Chicago styling...nice and slow. Rajakumar lays it down heavy on chromatic harp and with predominantly only a bass line played under the melody and joined by Phillips on vibes. Tokyo Nagaremono is an unusual track in that it is a theme song from a Japanese film , Tokyo Drifter. This track doesn't have a blues construction but it is in fact a very cool eerie ballad. Train Sixty-Four feels like a Morganfield track with a deep delta root. Written in fact by Brown, it features raw vocals by Brown, a simple guitar track and is supplemented by Rajakumar on harp, Narveson on upright, Maky on drums and Phillips on percussion. With a Johnny Otis/R&B/Bo Diddley fusion, Brown takes a Lewis Carroll poem, The Mad Gardener's Song: Part 1 and makes it into a contagious rocker. Cool! Burn It Down visits the Jimmy Reed blues book with a great driving blues rhythm, solid vocals and screaming harp. Very nice! The Mad Gardener's Song: Part 2 gets an eastern twist but still over a basic stripped down blues rocker grinds out a real cool track. With a twist on Willie Dixon, Brown comes up with Not Your Backdoor Man. Staying with that Mississippi Hill style, Brown gets a solid groove and certainly understands how to deliver the vocals. His raw, fat, jangly guitar work rides nicely on top of a solid bed of rhythm by Narveson, Maky, Phillips. Wrapping the release is Willie Dixon's Weak Brain and Narrow Mind but with a very solitude interpretation. This track is a real surprise on the release, very understated but powerful. This is a real strong release that packs a punch!

   

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King Biscuit Blues Festival "Call and Response, The Blues Symposium" rocks Helena, Arkansas!

King Biscuit Blues Festival presents 5th annual "Call and Response, The Blues Symposium" in historic Helena, Arkansas     Call and Response Blues Symposium Looks into The Origins of Delta Blues at The King Biscuit Blues Festival   (Helena, Arkansas) — What is about the Delta that gave rise to America’s music, the blues? Artists, journalists and presenters will discuss the special magic that defines the King Biscuit Blues Festival and inspires the world’s music at the Fifth Annual Call and Response Blues Symposium, a featured event of the 30th annual King Biscuit Blues Festival.  “Memphis is blues, but this is it,” says singer/songwriter Reba Russell about The Biscuit, America’s foremost showcase of authentic blues at the Call and Response Blues Symposium that begins at noon on Saturday, October 10 at the Malco Theater on Cherry St. “This is the freaking deal. It’s like are you kidding me? I totally think there is something that rises up from that river and that dirt there. I think that the ancestry, the ghost, everything remains there.”    Joining Reba in the first of two hour-long sessions is Jackson, Mississippi native and Blind Pig recording artist Zac Harmon who is on a mission “to bring the moniker of the blues back to Mississippi because I think that Mississippi has gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to the spoils of the blues.” Rounding out the first hour are Bubba Sullivan, one of the founders and Godfather of King Biscuit from its inception; Matt Marshall, editor of American blues Scene, the most popular blues website in the world; and moderated by King Biscuit’s own veteran blues journalist Don Wilcock.    Roger Stolle, filmmaker, columnist, oft quoted authority on Delta blues and owner of Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art in historic Clarksdale, Mississippi, hosts part two of the symposium at 1:15 p.m. with four of the most colorful southern juke joint owners: Red Paden of Red’s Lounge in Clarksdale, Willie “Po’ Monkey” Seaberry whose juke is in Merigold, Mississippi; Henry “Gip” Gipson of Gip’s Place in Bessemer, Alabama; and Teddy Johnson of Teddy’s Juke Joint in Zachary, Louisiana.   The fifth annual Call and Response, The Blues Symposium is free to the public thanks to the support of our wonderful sponsor: Economy Drugs.   Part One 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.   Bubba Sullivan Bubba Sullivan likes to tell people that Robert Lockwood, Jr. carried more history to his grave than any man that ever was. Truth be known? Bubba’s in the same category except he’s still with us. The historian for the Sonny Boy Blues Society, he’s been involved in booking and hosting the King Biscuit Blues Festival since the first one in 1986 when he helped secure an evangelist’s trailer as the first stage for $25. He’s proprietor of Bubba’s Blues Corner, the official record store of the festival that was jump started with the encouragement of ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons.   Zac Harmon Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, guitarist/organist,/singer/songwriter Zac Harmon was a childhood friend of Sam Myers who embarrassed him as a teenager by stopping him mid-song to tell him the Jimi Hendrix cover he was doing wasn’t blues. Zac has written songs for Evelyn “Champagne King, Freddie Jackson and the O’Jays. As an in-demand L.A. session musician, he was booked out three and four years in advance. His just released fifth album Right Man * Right Now on Blind Pig Records features four songs written or co-written by John Hahn, Shemekia Copeland’s manager/songwriter, and  Zac does a killer scratch vocal cover of John Lee Hooker’s “I’m Bad Like Jesse James.” The CD mixes old school and new school blues with guest artists Bobby Rush, Lucky Peterson and Anson Funderburgh.   Reba Russell Reba Russell calls herself “a stepchild of the blues. I don’t really run in the mainstream circle.” ” On “Blues Is Mine,” she sings, “I’m not privileged/I’m not rich/But I’m one hell of a bitch.” A perennial favorite at the Biscuit, she expresses her love for the festival in “Heaven Came to Helena.” In 1992 when Rufus Thomas heard her cover band that had been voted the best in Memphis, he told her, “You got it! Use it! Do it!” She fired the band and never looked back. She’s done background vocals for John Nemeth, Tracy Nelson, Huey Lewis & The News, Jimmy Thackery, Jerry Lee Lewis and U2 on “When Love Comes to Town”  for Rattle & Hum at Sun Studios. Reba has won three Premiere Vocalist Awards from the Memphis chapter of the National Recording Arts and Sciences. She has eight independent CDs with originals and covers by artists like Willie Dixon, Memphis Minnie, Tracy Nelson, and Walter Trout. Her eighth CD 8 was recorded in four different studios and mixed at Ardent Studios in Memphis for BEB Productions standing for Blue-eyed Bitches Production.   Matt Marshall Matt Marshall is the Steve Jobs of tomorrow’s music journalism and the editor of American Blue Scene Magazine, the popular and exciting quarterly subscription blues music magazine. The magazine’s digital side, with thousands of free articles, is the most popular blues music website in the world, and commands nearly half a million visitors a year. Matt and his staff channel the very heart of the blues community. It’s as much about connecting people who love the blues with each other and the musicians as it is about capturing the pulse of the blues community. Whether it’s an intimate discussion with blues icon Buddy Guy or being the first to break the story of Johnny Winter’s passing, Marshall understands the relationship between contemporary blues culture, the fan and the digital frontier. Don Wilcock co-moderator, Part One Award winning editor, writer, film maker and blues society founder Don Wilcock organized the Call and Response Symposium five years ago and is currently working on a coffee table book on The Biscuit with award winning photographer Bob Van Degna. He has interviewed more than 5000 artists in nearly a half century as a music journalist and was writing for Blues World in England before there was an American blues magazine.  He is a recipient of the Blues Foundation’s Keeping The Blues Alive in Print Journalism Award, writes for The American Blues Scene and is a weekly music columnist for two dailies in New York’s Capital Region. He is the author of the 1991 authorized biography of Buddy Guy Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues that set the stage for Guy’s multi-Grammy-winning career surge.   Part Two 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Red Paden Sixty-something Big Red has operated his quasi-legal Red’s Lounge in Clarksdale, Mississippi, for more than three decades, but he’s been in the juke-running business for most of his life. Through the years, bluesmen like Robert Belfour, “T-Model” Ford and “Big Jack” Johnson have graced Red’s carpet-remnant stage on weekends while locals, tourists and notables like Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Samuel L. Jackson and Steven Seagal listened, bathed in red light. Customers are treated to sayings like: “The game’s for life.” “I’m backed by the river, fronted by the grave.” And, “I kill for fun.” Red’s has been much celebrated — from the LA Times to We Juke Up in Here! Willie “Po’ Monkey” Seaberry In 1963, Mr. Seaberry opened his juke (which doubles as his home) in a cotton field near Merigold, Mississippi. Now in his mid-70s, he still drives a tractor on the land, and his weekly Thursday parties night have become legendary. As a deejay spins discs, a mix of regulars and tourists drink, dance and shoot pool. The host parades through the crowd in colorful zoot suits, often wearing humorous two-sided placards. Occasionally, a nearby university books live blues there on off-nights. Signs on the exterior tell visitors to pull up their pants among other helpful hints, making the juke a photographer favorite. It’s appeared in countless publications. Henry “Gip” Gipson Ninety-something Gip Gipson is a gravedigger, blues musician and juke runner. His Gip’s Place in Bessemer, Alabama, nearly defies description. "The place is almost frightening in the daytime," noted one long-time regular in a recent article. "At night, though, it's pure magic." The juke opened in 1952 in what is now a large, residential neighborhood. His Saturday night blues parties are the stuff of legend with everyone from Willie King to Bobby Rush performing. In recent years, area law enforcement has raided his establishment, and local politicians have attempted to shut it down. But Gip’s is still there (though now BYOB), and its owner is beloved by his fans. Teddy “Lloyd” Johnson Teddy’s Juke Joint in Zachary, Louisiana, opened for business 36 years ago, but not the building. The building — once a simple shotgun shack — was Teddy Johnson’s family home. In fact, he was born in it 69 years ago. Through the years he’s added on to the structure, so now the colorfully-decorated juke includes a long wooden bar, deejay booth, performance stage and soul food kitchen. Mr. Teddy’s wife Nancy handles the food while family members and friends help out behind the bar (which features a liquor license — a rarity in a juke joint!). In addition to food, drink and music, the smiling owner is known for his colorful outfits, often complete with cape. Roger Stolle Roger Stolle owns Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art store in Clarksdale, Mississippi — which just celebrated 13 years. He is a Blues Music Magazine columnist, Juke Joint Festival co-founder, Hidden History of Mississippi Blues author, former Sirius-XM Bluesville contributor, and co-producer of blues films like Hard Times, M for Mississippi and We Juke Up in Here. He is co-creator of the forthcoming Moonshine & Mojo Hands web series and a recipient of both Keeping The Blues Alive and Blues Music Awards. An authority on Delta blues and tourism, he has been quoted by The New York Times, The Economist and Travel+Leisure. His web site is www.cathead.biz. ####