Michael Bloomfield Tribute Show Iridium Jazz Club, NYC What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I am featuring some photos of a very special tribute show that was held at Iridium Jazz Club from January 13-16, 2012. Hosted by respected bluesman Joe Louis Walker, the show was a tribute to the great guitarist Michael [...]
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2012 IBC Highlights
(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 [...]
Dana Fuchs at Highline Ballroom in NYC
Dana Fuchs and her band rock the Highline Ballroom http://danafuchs.com/ What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I am featuring some photos of Dana Fuchs, a singer that has gathered herself quite a following since arriving in New York some years back at the age of 19. When I went to the Highline Ballroom [...]
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 [...]
Keb’ Mo, Grammy Nominated Artist
Keb Mo at the BB King Blues Club in New York http://www.kebmo.com/site/ Keb’ Mo is one of five artists nominated for the Blues Album of the year. These photos are from his show at the BB King Blues Club in New York on Sept. 20, 2011. All I can tell you is that Keb blew me [...]
Through The Years With Grammy Nominee, The Black Keys
The Akron, Ohio rock band, The Black Keys consisting of the Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have been nominated in 2012 for Best Pop Duo/group Performance for “Dearest” from “Rave On Buddy Holly”. This follows 2011 in which the band was awarded Grammy’s fro Best Rock Performance for Duo with Vocal(“Tighten Up”) , Best Alternative Music Album [...]
2012 Grammy Nominee Marcia Ball at BB King’s in New York
Marcia Ball and her band at the BB King Blues Club http://www.rosebudus.com/ball/ What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! For this post I am revisiting some photos I took of 2011 Living Blues Award winner Marcia Ball. The photos are from her April 2011 show in New York. Marcia is also a 2012 Blues Music Award [...]
2011 Grammy Winner Buddy Guy at BB King’s in New York
Buddy Guy at the BB King Blues Club in NYC http://www.buddyguy.net/ What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have some photos of the legendary Buddy Guy from his Nov. 2011 show at the BB King Blues Club in New York. That was my first time seeing Buddy and he surely [...]
Hosea Hargrove
Meeting Up with Hosea Hargrove Hosea Hargrove is a country man with a heart of golden blues. He grew up in Crafts Prairie, Texas, raised by his uncle, both cotton pickers until he reached the age of 19 and then ventured on his own with his music. Hosea began playing guitar at the age of [...]
Tad Robinson at The Triad in New York
Tad Robinson at The Triad in NYC What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have some photos of Severn Records recording artist Tad Robinson from his show at The Triad on Sept. 7, 2011. I had not heard of Tad before the show but I did get to catch a [...]
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 [...]
