(Memphis, Tennessee) With each succeeding year, the IBC improves in both scope sheer size and also quality. Above photo from Hammond Workshop, Joe Boogie, featured guest Tullie Brae, and Helge “Nick” Nickel of Bluesfest Eutin, Germany. This year’s big Blues week was highlighted by some cool new stuff: Bigger and better… Hammond Organ Workshop This [...]
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Tedeshi Trucks Wins Best Blues Album!
Other Blues Winners: Booker T. Jones, Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Rebirth Brass Band, Levon Helm, and Hear Me Howlin’
Tedeschi Trucks Band 2012 Grammy Nominees
Tedeschi Trucks 2012 Grammy Nominees After a wet cold morning, The Rock Strong 4 Life Benefit on Saturday turned out to be a perfect evening at Popa John’s Stadium. The sun came out just in time to warm up the 1000 plus audience and The Tedeschi Trucks Bandtook over from there to deliver a performance that may have [...]
Quinn Sullivan- 12 year old Bluesman
Quinn Sullivan at the BB King Blues Club in New York City What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! Happy New Year! Hope your entry into the new year was a smooth and enjoyable one. 2011 was a heck of a year but I look forward to all sorts of good things in 2012. In January [...]
Here Comes the Second Annual IBC Hammond Organ Workshop!
(Memphis, Tennessee) As January rolls around again, we turn our sights on the upcoming International Blues Challenge which will take place in Memphis starting on the last day of this month. Last year, with the help of our friend, Joe Whitmer, of the Blues Foundation, we produced the first Hammond Organ Workshop, an event designed [...]
Photos 2011- A Look Back
Rory Block at the BB King Blues Club Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! I hope you are all having a great holiday season. When this post goes up there will be just a few days left to 2011. A lot of things happened in 2011, some good, some not so good. The Blues world [...]
Tallahatchie Flats Offers Real Delta Experience
(Memphis, Tennessee0 After a quick trip to Greenwood, Mississippi, to play a little Blues show with Danny Lancaster we explored the wonder of life in the middle of a cotton field…Tallahatchie Flats. like the Shack Up Inn at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, these good folks have made the once drafty and uncomfortable shacks quite cozy [...]
George Thorogood at BB King’s in NYC
http://www.georgethorogood.com/ Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! I know it was yesterday but Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I, for one, have a lot to be thankful for. For my post this week I have some photos of an artist that needs no introduction, the mighty George Thorogood. The photos are from a Sept. [...]
Keb Mo at BB King’s in New York
Keb Mo at the BB King Blues Club in New York http://www.kebmo.com/site/ Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! The holiday season is fast approaching. Make sure you pickup plenty of Blues CDs to stuff in those stockings come Christmas. For my post this week I have some photos of an artist that I had heard [...]
Nicole Hart & The Hart Attack Band
Nicole Hart belts one out at The Triad in New York http://www.nicolehart.com/ OK my fellow Blues lovers, welcome back! For my post this week I have some photos of the very entertaining Nicole Hart and The Hart Attack Band from their show at The Triad on September 14, 2011. I got a brief glimpse of [...]
Arcola Records Releases Son House 1968 Seattle Concert & Interview
Arcola Records releases Son House 1968 Seattle Concert and interview! The tiny Arcola Records label is known for releasing wonderful glimpses of great traditional blues and jazz artists, mostly recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. The latest offering presents a 2 CD Son House issue featuring Son’s 1968 Seattle concert finding the artist in top [...]
Debbie Davies at The Triad in NYC
Debbie Davies and her band rockin’ The Triad http://www.debbiedavies.com/ Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have some photos of one of the finest Blues guitarists out there, Debbie Davies. The photos are from her show at The Triad in New York City, a venue that has been having some [...]
Honeyboy Edwards: A Tribute to an Enduring Soul
“There’s always room on the neck, there’s room on the neck to learn more.” That’s what Honeyboy would say. Honoring his strong belief in education, the friends, fans and family of Honeyboy Edwards will gather together at Buddy Guy’s Legends on Oct. 19th to celebrate his life and, what Morgan Freeman called, his “quintessential American [...]
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones in NYC
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones http://www.sugarrayandthebluetones.com/ Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have some photos of a man that needs no introduction to most of you, Sugar Ray Norcia. The photos are from a show Ray and The Bluetones played at The Triad in New York City on Sept. [...]
Mason Ruffner in New York
Mason Ruffner rocks New York City back in the day http://www.masonruffner.com/ Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have a blast from the past, an artist I don’t hear much about these days…Mason Ruffner. These photos are from a 1987 show and maybe a 1988 show at what was once [...]
