September 2017 Blog Posts (17)

Q&A with veteran musician and producer Michael Wedgwood, an unassuming gentleman with an impressive CV

"Rock and Blues have always helped to erase the lines between races and cultures, and it's often the known musicians who stand up and speak out for the victims of these problems. I think music in general has a very great positive impact, although sadly it doesn't seem to be nearly enough!"

Mike…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 28, 2017 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Q&A with the blues/rock guitarist Alastair Greene, has been a mainstay of the Southern California music scene for over 2 decades

"I would imagine the impact earlier on in the history of the Blues had a lot more implications. Now-a-days most of the time I’m in a room with Blues musicians and Blues fans and supporters there are people from all races and walks of life all getting along supporting this wonderful music."

Alastair…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 28, 2017 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Q&A with singer/harmonica master Kim Wilson, has gone back to the basics and old school Chicago blues

"The Blues culture that I know has made me a much more positive person. When I first got into this music and met these great masters, they exceeded any expectation I had of humanity. If I can be half the person that they were, everything will be all right."…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 28, 2017 at 12:00am — No Comments

Interview with famed L.A. keyboardist David Garfield - keeping the spirit of Old School R&B fresh and alive

"My hope is that people will start making more music with instruments and not machines and that good creative music will continue to be cherished & supported. My fear is that we will no longer own music and uses cd players etc and that everything will be controlled on a cloud type system."

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 23, 2017 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Interview with guitarist, singer and songwriter James Armstrong - was born to play the blues

"The blues has changed for the good and bad. A lot of the blues today is basically rock blues. The guitar playing is fast and a there is a lot of distortion; for me some of it does not have any feeling."

James Armstrong:…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 20, 2017 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Q&A with guitar slinger Jennifer Batten - playing everything from straight ahead rock, to metal, fusion, and funk.

"Music with a message is getting to young people. That’s powerful. It brings people together and creates a more powerful energy. Just to know you’re not alone in your beliefs and thoughts brings confidence and unity to a movement."

Jennifer Batten: Rock n'…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 19, 2017 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Q&A with talented musicians, Cassie Keenum & Rick Randlett - blues with a side of deep southern soul

"The blues allows us to express those deep and poignant feelings without saying a word. Sometimes you have to talk about the darkness before you can let in the light."

Cassie Keenum & Rick Randlett:

Fresh Old…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 17, 2017 at 11:10pm — No Comments

Q&A with Webster Ave (Tony Mercadante, David Webster and Andrew Caturano), a trio of industry veterans

"The blues are born from struggle, hardship, and pain as well as lust, joy, and freedom. They represent the basic building blocks of the human experience."

Webster Ave: Roots Spectrum

“Daylight” (2017) is…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 17, 2017 at 10:20pm — No Comments

Q&A with Norwegian blues guitarist/singer Eric Slim Zahl - 50s swingin´ rock´n roll, boogie and blues-a-billy

"Historically, the blues is the working man´s music, rebellious and true. Through blues lyrics, you often hear the writer’s pain and agony described. Still, for me the blues is also about friendship and erasing borders between people."

Eric Slim Zahl: Scandinavian Swing…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 13, 2017 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Q&A with Blues & Rock guitarist from Chicago, Joel DaSilva - soul and blues running through his veins

"It's (Blues) one of the last true American Art forms still going today."

Joel DaSilva: Everywhere Blues

Joel DaSilva has soul and blues running through his veins. Born in Rockford and raised in Chicago,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 9, 2017 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Q&A with Southern musician Lew Jetton - produces critically acclaimed Southern-Fried Chicago Blues sound

"Blues music has been one of the major factors in bringing the races together. The music brought black and white fans together and brought black and white musicians together. In the music there is common ground and love because the blues is about the basic feelings and emotions of everyone, no matter their race."…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 6, 2017 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Q&A with critic and author Howard Mandel - covers jazz, blues and other popular American and world musics

"Mark Twain was at the font of the American vernacular style the blues and jazz gave Impetus to, and we can put Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jack London, a few others there, too. Then read the fiction of Dasheill Hammett, Enest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Ishmael Reed, Chester Himes – "hear" the rhythms and snap of their language, the sounds of people meeting in the streets and taverns of modern cities –…

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Q&A with Greek musician Angelos Krallis (Chickn) - influenced by psychedelia, krautrock and European experimental musik

"Music is going to make us dance, music is going to make us think. Music is a language when other languages fail. Music is the language of the stars, the language of the universe."

Angelos Krallis: Jetztzeit Rock…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 5, 2017 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Geronimo Black talks about Geronimo Black II, Jimmy Carl Black, Ike Willis, Lowell George and Arthur Brown

"To give musician a right to earn a live able wage just like an attorney doctor or janitor! music is important take it away and you take away self-expression! In a world of clones, it works not so with humans!"

Geronimo Black: Rock n' Roll On Fire!…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 4, 2017 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Q&A with Deepak Ram, a versatile artist of traditional North Indian classical music, Jazz and other genres

"The more we know about music and other cultural forms, the more we get to understand the beauty there is in diversity by learning another culture, whether its music, language or art....we learn to appreciate understand and respect all …"

Deepak Ram: The Beauty…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 4, 2017 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Q&A with Boulevard Gospel Singers (A. Diaz & G. Grätzer) - one of the most important Argentinian groups

"The Blues, when taken seriously, can be a meaningful reminder of common values that most human beings share when they’re children. When you’re a kid, you do not think about the color or status of the kids you’re playing with. You’re just playing, sharing. Remembering those values is central in the construction of an egalitarian world."…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 4, 2017 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Q&A with Detroit’s Laura Rain and the Caesars transform funky soul and r&b into their own unique vision

"Music brings people together, crosses all barriers, even if they are just tapping their toes to the beat. If they listen to to words and emotion of many of my songs, it goes much deeper. We all have a voice."

Laura Rain & The Caesars:…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 1, 2017 at 12:00am — No Comments

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