July 2014 Blog Posts (34)

Interview with Brazilian Netto Rockfeller - devoted to the Blues and its aspects, R&B, Swing and Rockabilly

"From the Blues I learn that life has to be simple, just like the Blues simple and trustful."

Netto Rockfeller: Blues Globalizado

Originally from Sao Paulo Brazil, Netto Rockfeller starts his career as a guitarist and singer in 1997,…

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New Orleans singer/entertainer/actress Sharon Martin talks about Billie Holiday, Crescent City and Greece

"My hopes are that a lot of the profanity and disrespect is taken out of the music. My fear is that the universal language of music never gets lost."

Sharon Martin: The Jewel of NOLA

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French harmonica player Rene Perrier talks about Muddy Waters' legendary blues band and local scene

"I learn humility, deep feeling, sincere friendship and generosity of blues people. Blues means to me music from soul, love explain and sharing instant with other musicians."

René Perrier: Tricolore Blues Chat…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 30, 2014 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Interview with Brazilian Filipe Gaeta - influences from Blues and local music has created a unique sound

"I'm afraid people call the blues only the musical aspect, forgetting all the other aspects of the culture of blues, bringing an increase in a the spectacularization or even a folklorization (in a pejorative sense) of the blues."

Filipe Gaeta: The Blues Goes…

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New England native Matthew Szlachetka talks about Blues & Soul, Chris Hillman and the music of past

"Blues and Soul will always have a good following because that music has always come from the heart. Both genres are inspired from pain and hardship which is something that everyone can relate to."

Matthew Szlachetka: All About The Song…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 28, 2014 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Interview with Brazilian harpist David Tanganelli, plays with his heart and soul, all the kinds of Black Music

"I worry about the future, the Children just are listening poor music all the time here without any culture and any contents are the same songs that are educating our future. It´s really sad."

David Tanganelli: When The Man Loves The Blues…

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Interview with rising musician Bad Brad - the blues came natural and it's been nothing but the blues ever since!

"The Blues has given me a way to not only express my creativity, but also an outlet in which I can put all of my emotion to serve the music to its fullest."

Bad Brad: Walkin' With The Blues…

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Interview with King B. King of The Tangiers Blues Band - current hits and reworking non-traditional blues

"The Blues come in all shapes and sizes, you know, you can have the blues when your woman leaves you and you can have them blues when your women won't leave you alone."

King B. King: All Music Is Blues Music!…

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Interview with Chilean harp player Gonzalo Araya -- considered by many to be the best in Chile

"I think because there is a strong connection with emotional things and there is a lot of people that just love that beat and they don’t have idea why, probably is because it’s related with the heart beat in a natural way."

Gonzalo Araya: Heart…

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Interview with Brazilian bluesman Otavio Rocha - has been playing guitar for 30 years with Blues Etilicos

"I really believe that it’s healthier for any musical form to keep going forward, the past is the past and we live right now in the present."

Otavio Rocha: Carioca Grooves The Blues…

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French drummer Pascal Delmas talks about Otis Grant, Duke Robillard, Eddie C. Campbell and local scene

"The Blues is simple; true and deals with real emotions like love, pain, loosing your house; losing your job things that people have to face everyday."

Pascal Delmas: Monsieur Blues Explosion…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 21, 2014 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Interview with singer/songwriter Julie Black -- a soulful sound that is genuine and emotionally uninhibited

"Jazz and Blues music speaks to the soul. These genres have a honesty in approach that honors real life, real people, real emotion."

Julie Black: Follow The Muse & Angel

Based in Florida,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 21, 2014 at 12:00am — No Comments

Interview with poet Dennis Formento -- a bright publisher, activist, and free-jazz/free-verse performer

"Music and art can confront and free us from the mind and spirit prison because they  get us out of the cerebral chatter of the frontal lobes and allow our feelings to change instantaneously."

Dennis Formento: Free Mind & Spirit …

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 20, 2014 at 10:57am — No Comments

Interview with Brazilian musician Jefferson Gançalves - the African roots enlarged his musical horizons

"The Blues is not just a music style but a way of living."

Jefferson Gançalves: Under The Baobab 

Jefferson Gançalves, native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began his musical career in the 1990's…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 18, 2014 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Rest In Paradise, Johnny Winter -- friends and collaborators remember moments from the late bluesman

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014)

Rest in Paradise…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 18, 2014 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Interview with The Raisin Cain' Band - hitting the British and Southern Blues Rock created a unique sound

"Southern rock was the inevitable spawn of blues. If blues was born out of the hardships of the sharecropper, then southern rock was born out of the poor white folk who lived right beside them."

The Raisin Cain' Band: Keep on Rockin'…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 18, 2014 at 11:30am — No Comments

Producer/writer/activist Rick Congress (of Random Chance Records) talks about the mission of Jazz & Blues

"I can’t imagine living without blues (and Jazz…real jazz is blues based too) in my head, and listening to recorded or live music. And for me it was a soundtrack to my political activities."

Rick Congress: Give Blues & Jazz A Chance…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 18, 2014 at 7:30am — No Comments

Interview with "world conscious" artist Steven Von Linne -- an international traveler of music and culture

"I might also add that the Blues is about improvising, and it is that basic fact that it allows for solutions to manifest, even if it is on a subliminal level."

Steven Von Linne: The Blues Ulysses…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 16, 2014 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Interview with Shrimp City Slim (aka Gary Erwin) - a veteran Charleston blues guru of Lowcountry brand

"You have to remember that the blues was created as a personal musical expression by a basically non-literate culture. It is the sound of the human heart, the song of the spirit. I think that today we need the blues more than ever."

Gary Erwin: Lowcountry…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 16, 2014 at 10:00am — No Comments

Interview with poet/playwright/recording artist Michael C Ford - a legendary voice on the LA poetry scene

"I believe the Blues relates to Poetry in a way that acknowledges structure: that is blues changes are inherent in 1-4-5 chord progressions and the lyric lines are in three structured phrases." 

Michael C Ford: Beatbop Words & Rhymes…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 14, 2014 at 9:00pm — No Comments

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