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Charity Gig in Aid of Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance Service
Gig in aid of one of the counties most worthy Charities, on Friday June 20th three bands will be playing for No Fee at "The Runner", Door Charge will be £6.00 all proceeds to the Air Ambulance Organisation.
Bands on Stage:
9.00 - Phil Tanners Bluesdog
10.00 - Fade2Black
11.00 - New Tricks
There will be a Raffle on the night: anyone wishing to donate a prize contact Steve on 07908570438 or Barry on 07875924975.
Thank you
Steve & Barry
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Maryport Festival 2008
Friday eve, 25th July 2008
Chuck Berry
http://www.chuckberry.com/
Shemekia Copeland
http://www.shemekiacopeland.com/
Little Jenny and the Blue Beans
http://web.comhem.se/littlejenny/ljbbframeset2.htm
Saturday Afternoon 26th July
Earl Thomas
http://www.earlthomasmusic.com/
Jeff Lang and the Derrin Naeundorf Band
http://www.jefflang.com.au/ & http://www.derrin.info
Lisa Mills and Ian Jennings
http://www.lisamills.com/
Saturday Evening
Jimmie Vaughan (featuring Lou Ann Barton)
http://www.jimmievaughan.com/
Beth Rowley
http://www.bethrowley.com
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
http://www.joncleary.com
Sunday Afternoon 27th July
Ian Siegal Band
http://www.iansiegal.com
Chris Farlowe and the Norman Beaker Band
http://www.chrisfarlowe.co.uk/
Ian Parker Band
http://www.ianparkermusic.com/
Sunday Evening
Jools Holland's Rn'B Orchestra
(featuring Marc Almond, Ruby Turner and Lousie Mitchell)
http://www.joolsholland.com/
Sherman Robertson Band
http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/sherman_robertson.htm
More info and ticketing info: http://www.maryportblues.com
Enjoy it's the BEST!
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Lucie Diamond
Lucie Diamond will be playing at The Runner on Sunday April 6th
This is a rare opportunity to see one of the countries top Country singers with her band
Winner of 3 European Country Music Awards
“Female Vocalist of the Year” (beating Dolly, Faith Hill and Gretchen Wilson)
“European Country Artist of the Year”
“ECMR Future Star Award”
2 UK Country Radio Awards 2007
www.luciediamond.com
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Joe Bonamassa
In three short years Joe Bonamassa has gone from The Running Horse to The Rescue Rooms and this year Rock City.
This is surely the biggest impact on the Rock/Blues scene since the heady days of the Clapton, Beck, Page era,
I think this year Bonamassa will be headlining festivals all over Europe, now is your chance to see him in Nottingham, it may be the last chance.
Rock City
Thursday February 21st tickets £17.50
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The Running Horse
Gig Guide
For
February
Fri 22nd Tantrum £5.00
Fri 29th The Eddie Tatton Band £5.00
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Antonio Forcione
Antonio Forcione will be playing Live at The Running Horse on Tuesday Jannuary15th.
This is an audience with Antonio in an intimate environment not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now at The Runner also at Waltons Hotel and via message through Runner web site. This event is seated and tickets are limited and selling very very fast £20.00 per ticket.
Antonio is only in Nottingham for for one night only this is a rare chance to see the Master of The Acoustic up close and personel.
For enquiries please contact The Running Horse.
Link to Antonios web site http://www.antonioforcione .com
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Some good news on The Running Horse I have been asked to book bands at The Runner again, which I have agreed to do, so if any bands who have played for me at The Runner before fancy a return to the new re-vamped Runner please get in touch.
Barry
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PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
BENEFIT CONCERT TO SUPPORT PEOPLE OF JENIN
The Nottingham/Jenin FriendshipGroup is organising a benefit concert at The Britannia Boat Club on Trent Bridge, West Bridgford on Sunday 21st October at 7.30 pm. The concert, headlined by international Jazz and world music star Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble with special guest Nizar Issa. The group features musicians from Turkey and The UK as well as those from either side of the Israeli/Palestinian divide.
The event will be introduced by Nottingham South MP Alan Simpson and will also feature classical Indian music by musicians from the Nottingham Asian community
The event is organised to raise awareness of the plight of the people living in the West Bank and Gaza and to provide aid for health and education projects. One of the Primary aims of the organisation is to make links between the ordinary people of Jenin and Nottingham
Tickets and further information can be obtained by phoning 07968 273208 or emailing dave_groom@hotmail.com
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LUCIE MAKES HISTORY WITH TRIPLE NUMBER ONE AT SAME TIME
Lucie Diamond’s latest single “I Wanna Be Rich” has hit the top spot in all 3 Hotdisc charts at the same time - a record for a British female country artist.
Radio airplay across Europe and Australia has been so heavy, the single tops the main Hotdisc Top 40 chart, the Independent Artist’ chart and the British Top 10 - just a month since release.
Respected broadcaster and journalist Stuart Cameron, said: “It's very rare for a British song to be judged good enough to become the most popular song of the moment by DJs and media people from Europe and Australia, but this week it's been achieved again. It’s the first time in the history of the Hotdisc chart for a British girl to do it. Stand up Lucie Diamond whose single "I Wanna Be Rich", the title cut from her debut album, has gone to number one to finally overtake Katie Armiger's "17 In Abilene" which enjoyed a six week run. It's Lucie's third week at number one in the British Top 10.”
Lucie’s single has sat at number 1 in the British chart for 3 weeks, and at number 2 in both the other charts for the last 2 weeks. In the latest charts, on Thursday 4th October, the track claimed the coveted top spot in all 3 charts, while Lucie is currently in South Africa and Mozambique where she is being filmed for various TV documentaries as Ambassador for the Mineseeker Foundation and The Sole of Africa humanitarian organisations.
She said: “I am thrilled to hear I am number one in all 3 charts and the DJs are choosing to play my song more than any of the other great records out there right now. I am very grateful and thank every single DJ who has played this single and my previous 5 singles. Also big thanks to the writers Joie Scott and Scarlet Keys for a great song.”
Lucie’s debut single in January 2005 went to number 5 in the European CMA chart, and she reached number 2 with her follow-up. Then 2 consecutive number ones and another top 10 with her previous single, which got to number 7. This latest track should hit the ECMA chart sometime in late November, and it’s history-making success in the Hotdisc charts is considered a fairly good barometer of how it will do in the ECMA chart.
“Congratulations Lucie - from all at Kudos Music UK and Big Feat Records.”
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Blues harmonica player Gary Primich dies
AUSTIN (AP) - Austin-based Harmonica player Gary Primich has died at age 49.
Primich's ex-wife Tina Rosenzwieg tells the Austin American-Statesman that the blues musician died Sunday.
Primich's Web site also announced his death.
The cause of death has not been released.
Primich moved to Austin in the mid-1980s after growing up in Gary, Indiana.
His Web site touted his experience learning from blues players in Chicago in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He made two albums with the Mannish Boys, but was most successful as a solo artist.
He recorded eight albums for labels including Antone's, Black Top, Amazing and Flying Fish.
Fellow Austin musician Ted Roddy says Primich "established himself all over the world as 1 of the most technically proficient harmonica players."
On the Net: http://www.garyprimich.com/
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Clarence ‘Tex’ Walker
R&B singer who led the Original Drifters and the Coasters
Clarence “Tex” Walker was a rhythm and blues singer who played a part in the complicated history of two of the greatest black American vocal groups, the Drifters and the Coasters.
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he began singing as a child in his local gospel choir and formed his first group with his older brother. After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in the mid1960s, he joined the Original Drifters, led by Bill Pinkney, who had been a founder member in the early 1950s. After the original lineup had been fired and replaced with an entirely new quintet by manager George Tread-well, Pinkney fought a long legal battle to keep the name. By the time Walker joined as lead vocalist, the group’s classic hits such as Money Honey, Up On the Roof and On Broadway were long behind them, but the Original Drifters - who were only one of the touring groups using the name - remained a popular live attraction.
In the 1980s Walker left to become lead singer with the Coasters, who had been the main rival to the Drifters in the 1950s, when they enjoyed hits such as Yakety Yakand Charlie Brown. Like the Drifters, there were several lineups claiming the rights to the legacy of the original Coasters, each of them able to draw healthy audiences.
After touring for several years with a version of the group led by Randy Jones, in 1990 he joined Big Joe Turner’s band, singing on two albums with the group, Big Joe Turner’s Mem-phis Blues Caravanand French Connection, and appearing with them as the support act to B. B. King at the Royal Albert Hall. During the visit Walker fell in love with Britain and settled in Oxfordshire. He formed his own band, the Walker Street Blues Band, with whom he recorded the album Blues in Black and performed regularly on the British blues circuit.
While on a return visit to America in 2004 he suffered heart problems. He was not able to return to Britain until 2007 and had recently resumed playing live again when he suffered a heart attack.
Clarence also sang at The Running Horse & The Gladstone Nottingham
Clarence “Tex” Walker, singer, was born on January 24, 1946. He died on August 8, 2007, aged 61
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Guitarist Hubert Sumlin named 'Sonny' recipient
Blues guitar great Hubert Sumlin has been named as the recipient of the 2007 Sonny Payne Award for Blues Excellence presented by the Delta Cultural Center.
The Sonny Payne Award for Blues Excellence - called the "Sonny" - is presented annually during the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival each October. The award recognizes an individual or individuals that have strongly influenced the blues music of the Arkansas Delta. The honor is named for "Sunshine" Sonny Payne, the longtime host of the Peabody Award-winning "King Biscuit Time" program broadcast each weekday from the DCC Visitors Center on radio station KFFA-AM.
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Ian Siegal Band New Cd Launch
The band will be launching the new album-"Swagger" at the Britannia Boat Club, Nottingham on August 10th. Be there!
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The 1st Nottingham River & Blues Festival
Due to a very poor response and the main sponser withdrawing their support we have decided to cancel the event
For information Ring 07875924975
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CHICAGO BLUES HARMONICA LEGEND
CAREY BELL 1936-2007
Carey Bell Harrington was born in Macon, Mississippi on November 14, 1936. A fan of Louis Jordan, Bell originally wanted a saxophone, but economic realities forced his grandfather to buy him a harmonica instead. He taught himself to play by the time he was eight, and began playing professionally with his godfather, pianist Lovie Lee, when he was 13. In 1956, Lee convinced Carey that Chicago was the place to be for aspiring bluesmen, and on September 12, 1956 they arrived. Almost immediately, Bell went to see Little Walter perform at the Club Zanzibar at 14th and Ashland. The two became friends and Walter delighted in showing the youngster some of his tricks. Carey went on to meet and learn from Sonny Boy Williamson II, but it was Big Walter Horton who really inspired him and became his mentor.
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Maryport Blues Festival Line-up
Friday Evening
Friday 27th July 7.00 p.m. -12.00 p.m
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Gary Moore (UK)
Eric Bibb (USA)
Blues n’Trouble (UK)
South Quay (UK)
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday 28th July 2.00 p.m. -6.00 p.m.
Harper (AUS)
Out of the Blue (UK)
Family Style (ITALY)
Saturday Evening
Saturday 28th July 7.00 p.m. -12.00 p.m
Van Morrison (UK)
James Hunter (UK),
Sharrie Williams and the Wiseguys (USA)
Sunday
Sunday 29th July 7.00 p.m. -12.00 p.m.
C.J. Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band (US),
Never the Bride (UK)
The Holmes Brothers (US)
Mike Harrison Band (UK)
Tickets are on sale from Monday April 16th and are available from:
1. The Carnegie Theatre, Finkle Street, Workington, Cumbria CA14 2BD Tel: 01900 602122
(Credit Card Facilities Available).
2. NEW for 2007 Buy tickets online from Ticketline
3. Maryport Festivals Ltd, Project Office, Maritime Museum, 1 Shipping Brow, Maryport, CA15 6AB Tel: 01900 817200 - No credit card facilities.
PRICES:
Main Stage Tickets
Friday £40 Saturday £50 Sunday £25 WEEKEND £95 (a weekend ticket represents a saving of £20)
The prices are inclusive of the booking fee, VAT and credit card charges. There is small postage fee from Ticketline and the festival office. The weekend main stage ticket includes a weekend trail ticket.
Trail wrist bands:
Per day £5
Weekend £12
New site for main marquee - For the last eight years the main stage marquee has been next to the marina in Maryport. This year, due to construction work on this site, the main stage has been moved to the Netherhall Rugby Club grounds.
Further details will be released on the website as they become available. http://www.maryportblues.com
For any enquiries or comments please e-mail info@maryportblues.com
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TModel Ford at The Social
He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. T-Model thinks he's seventy-five but isn't sure. He remembers the bad days with a certain amount of humour, one quote I like is, on being asked how many times he's been to jail answered "I don't know. How many, but it was every Saturday night there for awhile."
The Social Wednesday 25th April, Tickets £10.00
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The proposed Festival to be held at "The Brit" will be on August 3rd, 4th & 5th and will be called "The 1st Nottingham River & Blues Festival '07", some bands are already booked in, as soon as we complete the line up we will annonce the bands taking part.
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Keith Richards: "I snorted my father"
Richards, 63, whose fondness for drugs has been openly acknowledged for decades, was quoted by music magazine NME as saying his unusual experiment with paternally enhanced cocaine came after his father's death five years ago.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated, and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow," Richards said in the interview, which was posted on NME's Web site.
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Radio 2 revamp includes the Blues
As part of an attempt to revamp BBC Radio 2 next month Manfred Mann frontman Paul Jones' Thursday night blues show will move to 7pm on Wednesday.
The date is yet to be confirmed, but this is part of a big change for Radio 2 as they introduce BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq to the line-up. Lamacq will present an 11:30-12:30pm show to bring forward new music to the station.
Many other shows are moving and changing time, which will force Paul Jones' to the earlier slot.
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Skegness Part Two
This week I saw the line up for two of the north of Englands top Festivals, I think the names should be changed to The Great British RnB Festival Maryport Cumbria and Skegness Blues & Rock Festival (Part Two) Colne Lancashire
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Sounds of Britain Mint Stamp Set
Featuring representations of contemporary music influences by fashion photographer Paul Smith, the music genres are highly diverse, which is what makes the British music scene like no other in the world. These stamps guide you through the best of our music right now, with Bollywood and Bhangra (32p), lively African and Caribbean music(42p) the harmony of Celtic influences(50p), the soul of Blues and Jazz(72p) and the fire of Latin American Salsa(£1.19).
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Sam Lay Hospitalized
(Drummer with Paul Butterfield, Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, and Bob Dylan)
Sam was admitted into Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital on Friday, March 16, 2007, with symptoms resembling a stroke (one side of his face is without feeling, and he is having a hard time swallowing and speaking clearly). This information comes from Rob Stone and Chris James (to us via a few sources) as of yesterday afternoon. This information came to us additionally from Salli Squitieri & Gabriel Butterfield of The Paul Butterfield Fund and Society (again via the same sources):
"We just got off the phone with Sam Lay. He went into the hospital last night with the symptoms of a stroke, and is undergoing testing. He phoned us in a very concerned manner this morning from his hospital room, and he was being transferred to another room at the time he called. Several performances had to be canceled because of this emergency, and he is very disheartened with that. We just obtained permission from him to release this information. We thought everyone would like to know, and we are hoping that everyone will please send Get Well cards and Lots of Love to:
Mt Sinai Hospital Patient:
Sam Lay (RM 506)
1500 South California Blvd
Chicago, IL 60608
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Ian Siegal playing "The 100 Club" London
Ian Siegal is playing the London venue on thursday April 12th, the support is the top American artist Johnny Mastro & Mamas Boys. So if your looking for a good night out check out this Oxford Street venue.
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Portland bluesman Paul DeLay dies
Paul DeLay, a favorite of the Portland blues scene died suddenly Wednesday.
The harmonica player and bandleader was diagnosed with late-stage leukemia earlier in the week and his condition deteriorated at the hospital, according to guitar player Peter Dammann.
Dammann played with DeLay since the late 1980s in the Paul Delay band and also organizes the Waterfront Blues Festival. The band played for two decades in the Northwest and around the world for national acts, and released a half-dozen records.
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Another Nottinghamshire Venue Closes
The King Of Diamonds, Langwith Rd, Langwith Junction has stopped putting groups on from last weekend
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Bright Star "P" Agency
Any Band, Any Genre, Any Occasion.
Contact : bspagency@hotmail.co.uk
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After the great news that Blues Matters were getting a KBA (Keeping the Blues Alive) Award from The Blues Foundation, this week it arrived through the post.
Congratulation to everyone involved, well done.
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One of the last Juke Joints in Mississippi
MERIGOLD, Mississippi. — Thursday is known as “family night” at Po’ Monkey’s juke joint here, but that doesn’t mean you should bring your kids to this patched-up sharecropper shack that has swayed with rhythms and blues for nearly 50 years.
Willie Seaberry, known in Merigold, Miss., as Po’ Monkey, is the longtime proprietor of his namesake juke joint, which attracts local fans of rhythm and blues music and tourists seeking the sounds of the Delta. “I love all music as long as it’s the blues,” Mr. Seaberry says.
The distinction here is with Monday, the only other night that Po’ Monkey né Willie Seaberry, 65 and a farmworker by day, opens his little club. On Mondays, the strippers make the two-hour drive from Memphis to work a raunchier crowd for tips.
Link to Full Article
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Ry Cooder at 60
Radio 2 profiles the great Blues and Roots guitarist as he enters his seventh decade.
Listen to the documentary
Link to Ry Cooder on BBC2
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Everyone seems to be talking about "Seasick Steve", who is playing at The Rescue Rooms on Wednesday April 18th tickets £10.00. Here is a short video, check him out,
some character!!
Link to "Seasick Steve"
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Found this great site while browsing this week
Link to www.deltablues.net
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Blues Shouter to split
Sadly the rumours going around about the band are true, drummer Carl and guitarist John will be leaving at the end of March.
Connie and Terry will be carrying on with new band members.
I would like to thank Carl & John for lots of great nights they and the rest of the band have given the people of Nottingham and wish them the best of luck what ever they do in the future.
Barry
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Digital Blues Awards 2006
Ian Siegal wins Top Award
Link to all winners
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Bo Diddley among those honored at governor's awards
JACKSON, Miss. - Bo Diddley may have received a Lifetime Achievement Award, but the musical artist says he "ain't through yet" with his career.
"I am still kicking, looking to start recording again and let the youngsters know that old folks just don't lay down and fade away," Diddley told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Thursday.
Link to full article
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Blues: Good for the soul
A resurgence of the blues fires up the faithful
The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday, February 7, 2007
It's supposed to be a dying genre.
Dallas Blues Festival
But in Dallas, blues music hasn't been this popular in years. In the span of a month, the area has hosted several blues festivals and concerts.
This weekend, the music plays on as several soul-blues artists from Malaco Records are being featured in a blues festival at the Dallas Convention Center, including the legendary Bobby "Blue" Bland, Marvin Sease, Sir Charles Jones, Roy C, Theodis Ealey and Mel Waiters.
Rafael Lopez / Special to DMN Just in time for Valentine's Day, concertgoers will hear firsthand what it's like to love, lose and love again.
"The blues is getting back out there," said Hal Harris, a bass player and leader of the Low Lifers show band. "This generation is changing. They want more than just hip-hop. They are beginning to discover the blues."
Saturday's show ends a stretch of blues-related events, including a festival at Poor David's Pub, the first blues festival at the University of Texas at Dallas and a remarkable appearance in Fort Worth by B.B. King.
"It's hopefully a sign that things are getting better," said Joanna Iz, editor and publisher of Southwest Blues Magazine. "For the past two years, things have been tough in the blues community."
Musicologists say the recent doses of blues should not obscure harsh realities about the music, which by most accounts remains an endangered sound.
Blues is still relegated to public or Southern soul radio stations. And while still relevant on the so-called chitlin circuit, even the most popular blues songs rarely climb the pop and R&B charts. That makes it hard for even well-known blues artists to make much money.
What's more, the music typically doesn't trickle down to younger audiences.
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Ike Turner honoured
February 12, 2007 11:00am
ROCK'n'roll pioneer Ike Turner, whose musical achievements were largely overshadowed by claims he abused his former wife Tina Turner, won his first Grammy Award since 1972 today.
The 75-year-old R&B veteran took home the traditional blues album award for Risin' with the Blues. He won his only other Grammy – shared with Tina Turner – in 1972 for their cover of Proud Mary.
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GUITAR & BASS magazine (March 07) have voted MATT SCHOFIELD in their TOP 10 BRITISH BLUES GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME.
In the company of such luminaries as Eric Clapton and Peter Green, he is also the youngest by far!!
They say “…some of the most intense, smoking solos since Howlin’ Wolf’s Hubert Sumlin first walked into Chess studios……add a switchblade-sharp approach to playing slow blues that very few achieve, and you realise why the guy’s just so damn hot.”
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The New Guitar Gods
Roll over, Eric Clapton, and tell Keith Richards the news...
The guitar has been the king of rock & roll instruments for more than half a century. What you are about to read are twenty reasons why the present and future of rock guitar are as exciting and explosive as its history. In attack, technique, lyrical ambition and experimental drive, these players are all descendants of the original heroes -- including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman and Jimmy Page -- who transformed the electric guitar in the Sixties and Seventies. As John Frusciante says, "For me, the genuine guitar heroes had a lot to say musically and put themselves out there. They tried to take the instrument to new places."
But Frusciante, Derek Trucks, John Mayer and the other guitarists in these pages are all heroes and gods in their own, often extreme, right. They are also proof that, long after Chuck Berry minted the fundamental twang and addicting joy of rock & roll guitar on his 1955 debut single, "Maybellene," there remains much to discover and study in the unlimited alchemy you get from wood, six strings, electricity and the highly personal poetry of touch and strum. The distinguishing mark of rock's greatest guitarists is, Mayer insists, "they're all stuck on what they're seeking, not where they are."
Link to full article
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Blues guitarist Jeff Healey recovering from lung cancer surgery
As Jeff says, I've had 40 good years, you get a bump every now and then. (CP) - Blues-rock singer Jeff Healey is recovering from surgery to remove cancerous tissue from both lungs.
Healey's publicist says the celebrated blind guitarist underwent a major operation Thursday and is recuperating in a Toronto hospital with family at his side. Richard Flohil says Healey was diagnosed with lung cancer in December but chose to keep the news private until now.
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Folk Musician, Motown Man, Soul Singer Die
Folk musician and painter Eric von Schmidt has died. Von Schmidt, an early influence on Bob Dylan, had been battling throat cancer and had a stroke last year.
His daughter said von Schmidt died in his sleep Saturday at a Connecticut convalescent home. He was 75.
Dylan wrote the notes for Van Schmidt's 1969 album "Who Knocked the Brains Out of the Sky," saying he could "sing the bird off the wire and the rubber off the tire."
Von Schmidt said he was inspired as a teenager by hearing bluesman Leadbelly on the radio. His first album, "The Folk Blues of Eric von Schmidt," was released in 1963. And one of his better known songs, "Joshua Gone Barbados," has been performed by several other artists.
He's also painted album covers for Joan Baez and other folk musicians.
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Motown
Motown's first bandleader, Joe Hunter, died at the age of 79.
He was Motown legend Berry Gordy Jr.'s first hire and went on win three Grammys with the Funk Brothers.
The group had played backup on many Motown recordings and Hunter's piano work was featured on such songs as Martha and the Vandellas' "Heat Wave" and Marvin Gaye's "Pride and Joy."
After the documentary film "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" was released in 2002, the Funk Brothers' soundtrack album won two Grammy awards. In 2004 Hunter and the group were awarded with a Grammy for lifetime achievement.
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Spinners'
Billy Henderson, a singer with the soul group the Spinners, has died.
He was 67. His wife said he died Friday at a Florida health care facility of complications from diabetes.
The Spinners' Top 20 hits included "I'll Be Around," "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love," "Then Came You" and "The Rubberband Man."
The group started in the Detroit area in 1954. It went on to be nominated for six Grammys; it became the second black musical group to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Review: 81-year-old ‘King of the Blues’ packs house five days after hospital stay
As blues legend B.B. King stepped on stage Thursday night at Horseshoe Casino & Hotel, it was unimaginable that just five days prior the 81-year-old was hospitalized with a fever.
The performance was King’s second show since being discharged Saturday from a hospital in Galveston, Texas. And local fans immediately showed their admiration to the “King of Blues.”
Few musicians earn a standing ovation simply by showing up. But considering King’s recent illness, Shreveport-Bossier City area residents rose to their feet before he picked the first note.
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Barry’s got the blues down by the river
Running Horse gone to the knackers yard
Who makes all these crazy bad decisions?
Use some common sense it isn’t hard.
Closing all the pubs is not the answer
Dancing in the street just isn’t cool
Take your partner down to the Britannia
Keep the music live don’t be a fool
People want to listen to good music
They travel far and wide to see a band.
Bars clubs farmers fields and by the seaside
Blues and bitter all across the land
Sue Hickling
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Very good point was raised by Sue Hickling in this e-mail to Burnley Blues Festival,
From: Sue Hickling
To: boxoffice@burnley.gov.uk
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: British blues
Hi there.
Just to point out that you have more international artists lined up for the 2007 festival than British artists so far.
Keep British blues alive, don't force them to seek festival bookings and live gigs abroad.
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Sue
Do you agree or disagree with Sue's e-mail?
Barry
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Bluesman BB King leaves hospital
Blues legend BB King has been discharged from hospital in Texas after a bout of flu, and his management says he is "back to his old self".
The 81-year-old had a fever after contracting flu and was admitted to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston on Friday.
He had to cancel two concerts
B.B. King Hospitalized in Texas
January 26, 2007
B.B. King was hospitalized for undisclosed reasons but was in good condition early Friday, a hospital official said.
The 81-year-old bluesman, who had been scheduled to perform at the Grand Opera House on Thursday night, was admitted to The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, said Paul McCarthy, a nurse administrator.
McCarthy said King was not in the intensive care unit and that he could be released later Friday or Saturday.
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100 Mile Clause Stinks
Unfortunatly Hamilton Loomis has had to cancel his gig at "The Britannia", he is playing at Burnley Blues Festival that weekend and in the contract it states that any acts booked to play the International Stage can not play any gigs within 100 mile radius of Burnley.
Which to my mind is not promoting Live Music!!!
After checking the mileage on the computer I found it was 116 miles, but the management say it is too close to the 100 mile limit.
(What a load of Dogs Lickables!!!)
Hi Barry
Re :Hamilton Loomis gig cancellation, why does his website still show he's playing at the Flowerpot the night before Burnley?
To me reckoning Derby's nearer to Burnley than Notiingham albeit only by a gnats.Look forward to your comments on Barry Blues.
Keep the blues alive in Nottingham, Cheers Andy
Thanks Andy,
The reason could be, a band that recently played "The Brit", and didn't pull many customers (never has as it happens), has told Hamiltons manager it wasn't a very good turn out and he seems to have been influenced by the band concerned, even though the same band did not pull many customers to The Flower Pot either, but perhaps he wasn't told this by the band concerned.
Barry
With your help the intention of this site is to promote Blues music in Nottinghamshire, all you have to do is notify me of a gig featuring a Blues Band or Artist and we will add it to the gig listings (middletonbarry@hotmail.com) or 07875924975,
For people wondering how they can get to The Britannia Boat Club below is a link to the bus's using Trent Bridge.
Bus Time Tables to Trent Bridge
Keeping Music Live!!!
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