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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The Blues Are Alive!
Even with The Grammy’s cutting down the size of their Blues awards…The International Blues Challenge proves The Blues Are Alive and BIGGER than ever!
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 [...]
Bluesin’ on the high seas…holding a ship and its contents hostage…. the adventure was priceless!
The bags were finally packed. The winter weather was cold and snowy. The plane tickets were in hand. Destination: Blues Cruise extraordinaire a.k.a. Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise. The messages were numerous. The cruisers build the excitement for weeks in advance to keep everyone in the “loop” of what is about to unfold. The blues [...]
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 [...]
Maui Wowie – The Sugar Mill Revisited: The BLUES Live in LA.
It’s been almost two years since I first told you about the Monday night jam at the Maui Sugar Mill in Tarzana, CA. and it is with great pleasure that I tell you all as we start a new year, it’s still going strong without signs of slowing down. Cadillac Zack, President of the Southern [...]
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 [...]
The Black Coffee Blues Band Continues an NYC New Year’s Tradition
Popa Chubby & Crew in Brooklyn (New York, NY) 2012 has arrived and those New York blues fans that woke up on Sunday morning (January 1st), perhaps a little worse for the wear and fortunately “in the know” got treated to a wonderful New Year’s Day tradition, Black Coffee Blues Band live at Pete’s Ale [...]
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 [...]
