February 2012 Blog Posts (57)

Blues/Rock journeyman Forrest McDonald talks about Roy Gaines, Jimmy Page, Muscle Shoals, Jimmy Reed & Duane

"Blues music gives me the opportunity to connect and convey my feelings on a pure emotional level."

Forrest McDonald: Human Condition…

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An Interview with the cult blues-rocker Big Shanty: Blues is expressing your inner feelings without fear of being judged.

"My best songs come to me in dreams and then when I wake up, I can’t write them down fast enough."

Big Shanty: The Blues of Dreams

Renegade blues-rocker Big Shanty’s sonic rain of acid…

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An Interview with the Texas bluesman Richard Cagle: We burn it down from the moment we get on stage and strike the first note.

"The Blues allows me to express my emotional being in short stories of the joys and pain of everyday life."

Richard Cagle: Voodoo Child…

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One of Canada's top harp blowers Dave "Hurricane" Hoerl talks about Bloomfield, Big Mama Thornton, Albert Collins, Pee Wee Crayton & the Twisters

"Blues is truth. It comes from deep down in your soul and it can’t be denied."

Dave Hoerl: The Hit of Hurricane Blues

Born and raised in San Francisco, David was originally tutored…

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An Interview with Welsh slide guitarist/singer Gwyn Ashton: The slide kinda imitates the human voice. It has a vocal quality.

"I’m a white guy from a bunch of places, I’ve never picked cotton or been a slave but I’ve been through enough shit to know what MY blues is." 

Gwyn Ashton: Living With The…

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An Interview with guitarist/singer/songwriter Patrick Sweany: I love the economy of language and subtlety of the Blues, Soul & Country

"I am not a Bluesman. I am not a Soul Man, I’m not a Country Boy, I’m Patrick Sweany."

Patrick Sweany: Southern Comfort…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on February 15, 2012 at 7:00pm — No Comments

White House to Host the Blues: B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Mick Jagger, Shemekia Copeland, Warren Haynes, Jeff Beck to Perform

Mick Jagger, Keb Mo, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and more, Celebrating Black History Month, Blues At The White House

As part of their “In Performance at the White House” series, the President and First Lady will invite music legends and contemporary major artists to the White House for a celebration of Blues music and in recognition of Black History…

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The swing/blues guitarist Chris "Big Papa" Thayer talks about Robert Cray, Johnny Winter, T-Birds, Rod Piazza and his band TCB

"The blues has given me a lot of experiences I wouldn’t have had otherwise."

Chris "Big Papa" Thayer: Cool Jump

BIG PAPA AND THE TCB was born in the back alleys and seedy after hours parties in juke joints. It's the…

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An Interview with British music photographer Noel Buckley: I guess looking at other peoples work and always I'm ready to take advice

"Deborah Bonham the sister of Led Zepplins John Bonham...As a encore she did the Zepplin classic Rock n Roll. She deceived the song with such passion, it bought a tear to ones eye. To me only rock n roll and blues can do this..."

Noel Buckley: RU Ready 2 Rock?…

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An Interview with guitarist Jim Armstrong of Them: The music retains its original honesty and hits you straight in the heart.

"The music business hasn’t changed much.  Manager’s still look for artists for a free ride."

Jim Armstrong: Blues straight from the heart

Armstrong's musical career started while he…

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Producer/manager Marty Angelo talks about The God, Hendrix, Raven, Grass Roots, George Harrison, music business, and the connection Disco - Rhythm & Blues

"I really always equated disco with rhythm and blues.  If it had a dance beat… it was called disco, during disco’s heyday. Before that… it was rhythm and blues through and through."

Marty Angelo: Once Life Matters

Marty Angelo worked in the entertainment…

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Acoustic blues slide guitarist/singer Catfish Keith talks about Jessie Mae Hemphill, Johnny Shines, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards & his own blues way

"I think acoustic blues just by it's uniquely personal nature, can be freer and more wide open."

Catfish Keith: …

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An Interview with legendary bassman and producer Leo Lyons of Ten Years After

"Everybody at some time feels sad, angry, happy, in love or lost and in despair. That's why the blues appeals."

Leo Lyons: Τen Υears Αhead Of Ηis Τime

Leo Lyons…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on February 12, 2012 at 10:00pm — No Comments

An Interview with legendary bass player Max Bennett: Play what you believe in at every opportunity

"The music business as I know it has changed in many ways in the last few years & not for the better."

Max Bennett: Bass Rhapsody…

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Whitney Houston, R&B Superstar, Dies at 48

She will always be with us...

R.I.P Whitney Houston

LOS ANGELES - Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown,…

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An Interview with the Belgian photographer Michel Verlinden: If the music’s good, the pictures are good

"If people sometimes tell me they can almost hear the music by looking at the photos, it’s the nicest of compliments."

Michel Verlinden: Emotions & Music Captured in the lens

Michael Verlinden is a Belgian…

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The British blues phenomenon, Oli Brown talks about John Fry, Ardent studios, Mike Vernon, John Mayall, Jimi Hendrix, and his experience in USA

"Blues motivated me to be someone and to aspire to be something different.It’s important to me as is other genres of music. Well music has affected everything about my life."

Oli Brown: Here I Am…

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An Interview with the British "gumbo groove" band of Lyndon Anderson: Imagine Little Walter meets The Meters and you get the feeling

"I hear the same emotions expressed in so many different styles of music but it’s the way those emotions are expressed in the blues that connects to me in the most direct fashion."

Lyndon Anderson Band masterfully mix up a musical hot sauce of blues influenced soulful funk rock that takes the listener on an auricular…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on February 10, 2012 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Blues organist Melvyn "Deacon" Jones talks about John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, B.B.King, Willie Dixon & Jimmy Smith

"Be remembered as the guy that made me smile"

Deacon Jones:

The Bluesman and the Legends…

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An Interview with novelist Ken Babbs of Merry Pranksters: Answers from a Muse, about Further, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Vietnam & Acid Tests

Ken Babbs: Vi Viendo El Sueno

"Pranksters definitely are a collective but it is a collective of the spirit and that American spirit has been passed on from the founding fathers through the literature of Melville, the transcendentalism of Emerson, the elusiveness of Whitman, the…

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