Michael Limnios Blues Network's Blog – September 2011 Archive (13)

Blues Project @ BLUES club

To BLUES PROJECT είναι μια προσπάθεια του Νίκου Καρέλλου και όλων των συγκροτημάτων και μουσικών  που συνεργάστηκαν μαζί του τα 30 χρόνια που υπάρχει το BLUES club (αρχικά στην Βατοπεδίου και αργότερα στην οδό Πανόρμου, στους Αμπελόκηπους) ώστε να παρουσιαστεί η δουλειά τους  στο γνωστό πια στέκι …

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 28, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

Doug Bell of Bellevue Cadillac talks about Jack Nicholson, Keith Richards & the Greek music !

Bellevue Cadillac is celebrating its 20th year playing various stages around the world.

China, Russia, Greece, Japan, Puerto Rico, Bahamas and Ireland. You've heard Bellevue's music in major motion pictures like "Shallow Hal", "Me, Myself and Irene" and "Delta Rising" and the tv shows: The Sopranos, Las Vegas, Crossing Jordan, Brotherhood, Ed, Sex and the City, Touched by an Angel, Brimstone, and Good &…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 27, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Bellevue Cadillac: Live in Athens

Bellevue Cadillac is back with a new cd 'Once in a Blue Moon'

The first blue moon in 31 years and on that night at the Half Note Jazz Club in Athens Greece, Bellevue Cadillac nails it!! Beginning with solos wailing on the intro 2 Suit Strut, moving from american jazz genres from New Orleans, to Kansas…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 23, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

An Interview with Chicago Blues Guitarist Rene Trossman: From Czech with Love

Blues From Chicago With Prague Flavor

Rene Trossman is a guitar player with a long history in Blues Music. Since turning pro in 1985 Rene has just about done it all. The fantastic Chicago club scene, where he was a regular at both South Side and West Side clubs, playing with the likes of Buddy Scott, Byther Smith,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 21, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

Bluesman Willie "Big Eyes" Smith dies at age 75

Grammy-winning blues musician Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at age 75, according to a statement on his website.



Smith's death comes less than six months after the passing at age 97 of blues master Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 17, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

International Songwriting Competition 2011

Tom Waits, John Mayall, James Cotton, Jeff Beck, McCoy Tyner, Bruce Iglauer, Trombone Shorty, And Mose Allison Join Music Industry Executives To Select 2011 ISC Winner

The prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has assembled a distinguished panel of judges for its 2011 competition. With the most high-profile judging panel of any music competition in the world, ISC offers songwriters and artists the unprecedented…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 15, 2011 at 1:24pm — No Comments

2011 British Blues Awards: WINNERS

The winners of Awards in the 2011 British Blues Awards were announced on Sunday 11th September 2011 at the the Newark Blues Festival. Winners and runners up are below.  Sincere congratulations to all from Blues In The South. Similar thanks and congratulations go to the Nottingham Blues Society who organise and manage the whole thing.…



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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 12, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Jerry Ragovoy, Writer of Soulful Ballads, Dies at 80

Jerry Ragovoy, who wrote or collaborated on some of the most soulful ballads of the 1960s, including the Rolling Stones hit "Time Is on My Side" and the Janis Joplin signatures "Piece of My Heart", "Cry Baby" and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)", died on July 13 in Manhattan. He was 80.

Jerry…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 12, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Les Paul Honored in Gravesite Monument Dedication Ceremony

Late music icon Les Paul is to be honored with a new monument at the site of his final resting place in Wisconsin.

According to PRWeb, Paul’s family and friends will gather at Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin at 10:30am on Saturday, September 10, 2011 to unveil the new memorial – a 500 square foot granite monument which will feature the star’s biography etched into it’s…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 11, 2011 at 2:06am — No Comments

Jimi Hendrix Day Announced In San Francisco

Sept. 13 has been officially declared "Jimi Hendrix Winterland Day” in San Francisco, CA,  in honor of six concerts Hendrix performed at S.F.’s historic (and now gone) Winterland Ballroom in October 1968

The Hendrix Day decree was made by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. Hendrix’s half-sister (Experience Hendrix CEO) Janie Hendrix, will be at San Francisco’s Amoeba Records on Sept. 13 to…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 9, 2011 at 9:46pm — No Comments

Gibson Factory Raided By FBI

 

On 8/24/11 the feds raided Gibson and seized 2-3 MILLION dollars of Indian Rosewood and Ebony, plus some guitars and computer files.

There is a lot of confusion about this whole thing because the DOJ hasn’t really charged Gibson with anything. They haven’t even directly told anybody what they did to justify a SWAT team raiding they’re workplace and shutting down Gibson’s Nashville and Memphis offices. A similar incident happened…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 9, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

'The Blues Brothers' heading back to TV

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's widow Judy are getting the band back together. According to Variety, Belushi and former 'SNL' writer Anne Beats have written a 'Blues Brothers' TV pilot and are shopping it around to the networks.



In the script, iconic bluesmen Jake and Elwood Blues are just out of jail, and Elwood, who was raised in an orphanage, is on a mission to find his birth-parents. Aykroyd is attached to the pilot as the voice of the boys' parole officer.…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 6, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The hardest working man in blues rock Joe Bonamassa is about to start new album

A few years back, few had heard of nu-blues Les Paul maestro Joe Bonamassa. Yet, he is already planning album #13.

In 2011, Bonamassa has already released a solo studio album, "Dust Bowl", a new Black Country Communion album and a collaboration with Beth Hart. He’s also been touring pretty solidly.

Bonamassa has now posted on his website that he is currently…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on September 2, 2011 at 2:08pm — No Comments

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