Scenes from the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival The King Biscuit Blues Festival was first held in 1986 and has been a must destination for blues fans since that time. During some of this time, the festival name was changed to the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival. This blues fan finally had the opportunity to [...]
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Arkansas Blues Heritage Festival 2010 – Day 2
The King Biscuit Continues DAY TWO MUSIC – FRIDAY Day two brought us more fine music at the Arkansas Blues Heritage Festival, and we had the opportunity to see Hubert Sumlin & The Willie “Big Eyes” Smith Band, Michael Burks, Marcia Ball and Dr. John on the main stage, while the Lockwood Stackhouse Stage gave [...]
Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival 2010 – Day 3
Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival DAY THREE – SATURDAY Day three of the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival brought out more big guns and more rising stars. Much of the day at The King Biscuit was spent at the Lockwood Stackhouse stage to witness sets from Lonnie Shields, the Wampus Cats and Don McMinn [...]
Tallan Latz: A Young Man and His Guitar
Being the youngest musician to play on stage with Les Paul is one of the highlights for Tallan Latz in his young career as a musician and given Tallan just turned 11 there are many more memories to come. Another is displayed in his photos as he plays his new PRS 513 guitar he [...]
The Zakk Knight Tale: Story of a 16 Yr Old Blues Sensation
For Zakk Knight this ain’t no fairytale, he’s determined to make this reality not a tall tale! Rewind to 2006 when Zakk first began playing guitar seriously after hearing Stevie Ray Vaughan and consuming every detail of his music and life. Then Zakk continued his discovery into blues as he studied other greats like Freddie [...]
Interview of Steve Cropper by Monica Yasher
You can just hear John Belushi going “Steve Cropper” on that “Blues Brothers” CD. Can’t you? Steve Cropper has been known to be a great performer. And, he shares with us his love of performing and the fans calling out his name. He also shares his passion for making a great song in the studio, and the [...]
Brandon Santini Cuts a New Live CD
(Memphis, Tennessee) This week we travel downtown to old Beale Street where my friends, Brandon Santini, Elliot Sowell, Derek Bonn, and Tom “Slim ” Lewis are cutting a new live CD during 3 days of this week. They are cutting down at Mr. Handy’s Blues Hall which is the site of the first performance I [...]
Interview of Curtis Salgado, 2010 BMA Soul Blues Male Artist by Monica Yasher
Curtis Salgado walked away from the 2010 Blues Music Awards with Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year last week. And, in the year 2011, he is nominated once again! In the following interview, Curtis discussed his writing of “Clean Getaway”, and what the meaning of the song was intended to be and what [...]
Laura Chavez Interview
Interview with Laura Chavez A few weeks ago I interviewed Bob Margolin for this site, and he mentioned Laura Chavez as being one of the top young guitarists. Having the respect I DO have for Bob and his musicianship, I went straight to google the name of Laura Chavez. This search led me to [...]
Interview with Gina Sicilia by Monica Yasher
Exposed to music early on by her music-loving family, Gina began singing at the age of 3 and wrote her first song at the tender age of 12. After spending her teenage years polishing her vocal and songwriting skills, Gina began singing in clubs around the Philadelphia area, and has since branched out worldwide. In [...]
