It’s a little tricky for me to write a piece about a guitar company not being a guitar player myself but, I know what sounds good and man-o-man, these do! The best I can do is to give you a little company history, maybe tell you a few things I’ve heard from players I [...]
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Devon Allman’s Honeytribe at Iridium in NYC
What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I have some more photos from Iridium Jazz Club. They have been booking some kick ass rock/blues bands lately and I am loving life! My photos today are of Devon Allman’s Honeytribe from back in Nov. 2011. Joining Devon on stage were George Potsos on bass and [...]
Spectator Shoes – Timeless Music
Music is timeless. Some 13 years after it was recorded, Spectator Shoes by Robert “Nighthawk” Tooms and The Wampus Cats is hitting a groove and getting noticed.
Heritage Blues Orchestra’s And Still I Rise, CD Review
Bill Sims Jr., Chaney Sims & Junior Mack (New York, NY) One should not be misled by the fact that AND STILL I RISE is Heritage Blues Orchestra’s debut album. It is not a shabbily produced work from a group of novice talent. The musicians that make up this exceptional band have résumés a mile [...]
Darren Jay& the Delta Souls CD Review
(Memphis, Tennessee) It is with a great deal of pleasure that I suggest to you a new release by my friends, Darren Jay and Laura Cupit. Their new CD is being released on the cusp of Darren’s return to Navy duty overseas. Despite this delay, the band is ready and prepared to forge ahead, setting [...]
North Mississippi Allstars at Iridium in New York
North Mississippi Allstars http://www.nmallstars.com/ What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I have some photos of The North Mississippi Allstars from a show at Iridium Jazz Club in New York back in June of 2011. The band consists of Luther Dickinson on guitar, Cody Dickinson on drums and Chris Chew on bass but Chris [...]
Celebrate Good Times! Los Angeles Blues Society – Monthly Blues Jams
Sunday, February 26th 2012 was Gene Carlson’s 60th birthday party. Who the heck is Gene Carlson you ask? Well, let me tell you. Gene is a good friend who does way more than his fair share to preserve, promote and propel the Blues and Blues artists all over Southern California. Gene’s role as treasurer for [...]
Rocco DeLuca – Drugs ‘N Hymns CD Review
Rocco DeLuca was born in Southern California and is based in Los Angeles but he plays and sings like a man from the 1930’s Mississippi Delta. For the last few years he was leading a loose assemblage of a band called Rocco Deluca & The Burden, a band championed by Kiefer Sutherland and signed to [...]
Howlin’ Wolf’s Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960, CD Review
Howlin’ Wolf Box Set (New York, NY) When it comes to “the blues,” few names are more recognizable and few artists are as revered as the great Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett. By all accounts a hulk of a man (standing at 6’6” and close to 300lbs), Wolf’s catalogue is as impressive as his stature was [...]
KEITH RICHARDS: LIFE
It was 1975, and the political climate was such that the Rolling Stones were considered to be the root cause of many of the evils that were present in the USA – sex, drugs and rock and roll- the triathlon of youth-destroying American culture and leading young men and women down garden paths of nonconformity [...]
Oz Noy’s Twisted Blues Band in New York
Oz Noy’s Twisted Blues Band tears it up at Iridium What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! In early January 2012 Oz Noy brought his Twisted Blues Band to Iridium Jazz Club for a few nights of blazing music. Joining Oz for these great shows were Reese Wynans on the Hammond, Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton on drums [...]
Free Blues Concert for Organ Donor Awareness – Yorba Linda, California
What: Blues Concert for Organ Donor Awareness Where: 4902 Main St. Yorba Linda, CA 92886 When: Saturday March 17, 2012 4-11pm Los Angeles Blues Society Presents “Give Life with The Blues” A Concert for Organ Donor Awareness (Yorba Linda, CA): Once Kelly Zirbes, founder of the hepatitis C awareness charity HepCAware.org, heard that hepatitis C [...]
The Doors’ L.A. Woman (40th Anniversary Edition), CD Review
A Doors Classic Turns 40 (New York, NY) L.A. WOMAN, The Doors’ final album with their original charismatic front-man, recently turned 40 years-old and to commemorate the milestone, the good people at Rhino Records have released a 2CD “anniversary edition” that features a sonically pleasing remaster of the original recording, handsome gatefold packaging, informative liner [...]
Grammy in Hand Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns speaks at AMRO Music
(Memphis, Tennessee) It was a rare and unique pleasure to hear the great Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns at the Amro music upstairs auditorium. In a setting where so many notes have been played, with two beautiful grand pianos in the background, Wayne regaled the crowd with recounts of STAX, touring the world, and [...]
Mike Bloomfield Tribute at Iridium in NYC
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 [...]
