Michael Limnios Blues Network's Blog – October 2011 Archive (20)

GREEK BLUES SCENE: Q & A with Nick Dounoussis

NICK DOUNOUSSIS & THE BACKBONE

Nick and the Backbone” is the band created by Nick Dounoussis, well known to blues audiences from his 25-years radical involvement  in the Greek Blues scenery.He is considered to be the best Blues guitar player…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 31, 2011 at 7:25am — No Comments

An Interview with Corky Siegel: Let Your Music Soar

CORKY SIEGEL

Elegant Blues

Mark Paul "Corky" Siegel has earned an international reputation as one of the world's great blues…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 30, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

GREEK BLUES SCENE: Q & A with Nikos Tsiamtsikas

NIKOS TSIAMTSIKAS & THE BLUES REPORT

Nikolas is an electric blues singer, guitarist, songwriter and... reporter. 

He has many different musical influences while growing up, including Muddy Waters, Magic Slim, John Lee Hooker, Booker T & MGs. In 2005 he released,… Continue

Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 28, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments

French Blues Guitarist Jean Pierre Duarte talks about Parisienne scene, Crete & Jody Williams

"Sometime I wish that blues lineage had more space and people could feel the difference."

Jean Pierre Duarte: Parisienne walkways…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 27, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments

An Interview with Australian Slide Guitarist Dave Hole: Love for Music & Passion for Blues

DAVE HOLE

The Guitar Man is Here to Stay

Dave Hole born in England, is an slide guitarist well known for his style of playing rock n' roll and blues. Hole…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 27, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

An Interview with Dana Gillespie: True To Myself

DANA GILLESPIE

Universal Blues Singer

"I believe the blues should be sung by an older person because it's about emotions and experience. I couldn't do justice to it when I was younger because my voice didn't have the edge it needed to convey…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 26, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

RIP Bob Brunning, Fleetwood Mac, Savoy Brown Bass Player

Another Man Done Gone...

A key figure in the history of the blues passed away on October 18, 2011. Bob Brunning, founder bassist with Fleetwood Mac and stalwart of Savoy Brown and his own DeLuxe Blues Band, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 68.…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 25, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Elias Zaikos of Blues Wire talks about Blues Gang, Sotiris Zisis, Champion Jack Dupree & his experience from European festivals

"We're all under the same sky, fighting hard...brothers."

Blues Wire: Greek Blues Brothers

According to everybody who has ever…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 24, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Greek Blues Scene: Q&A with Theodore Alexiou of Boogie Sinners - takes you back in time to roll

"Playing music and especially the blues, I have the feeling that, some things like honesty and expression, grown even better inside me. My personal opinion is that...you can't play the blues without been honest to yourself and to the others."
The Boogie Sinners: Time To…
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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 23, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Legendary music photographer Barry Feinstein has died

Barry Feinstein, whose iconic photographs of 1960s rockers included the cover of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" died Thursday after a long illness, his wife said. He was 80.



Feinstein snapped more than 500 album covers in his career, including Janis Joplin for "Pearl" a day before she died and George Harrison flanked by garden gnomes for his post-Beatles solo outing "All Things Must Pass".…



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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 21, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Ben Todd of Lonesome Shack, Talks About Seattle Blues Scene, Junior Kimbrough & His New Mexico's Shack

Blues Like a Good Old Wine

Lonesome Shack is a Blues and Boogie band from Seattle. Ben Todd plays guitar, sings and writes songs & Kristian Garrard plays miniature drumset. Ben has performed his style of blues for the past 8 years,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 21, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Welcome to Studio 25: The House of Local Blues, Jazz, Rock Scene

Στο κέντρο του Περιστερίου, στην Αθήνα, σ' έναν ειδικά διαμορφωμένο χώρο, δημιουργήθηκε το STAGE 25, θέλοντας να παρουσιάζει συγκροτήματα από την εγχώρια σκηνή του…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 19, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

An Interview with Greek Blues Guru Dimitris Epikouris: Blame It All on The Blues

Sitting in "The Garden” of Blues

Dimitris Epikouris is the author of the books “Blame It All on The Blues” & “Fifteen Raindrops In An Ocean of Blues Tales” and for more than two decades, has been quietly accumulating a collection of rare guitars.…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 16, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Richard Gere's guitars fetch $1m to charities, including a '58 Flying V that was once owned by Albert King.

Richard Gere sold more than 100 guitars and amplifiers at Christie's on Tuesday, Oct. 6 in New York, realizing a total of $936,438, the auction house said. Only four of the 106 instruments on offer failed to sell.

 

Gere, an active philanthropist for Tibet and HIV-AIDS education, revealed he sold the collection, comprised of 110 guitars and amps made by manufactures such as CF Martin, Gibson, Fender, Marshall, Vox and Gretsch, as a part of his…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 13, 2011 at 1:30am — No Comments

Harmonica Player George "Mojo" Buford has Passed

George Buford was born in Hernando, Mississippi, on November 10, 1929. When he moved to Memphis, he was inspired at age twelve to start playing the harmonica by performers such as B. B. King and Little Walter   As his harp playing progressed,  he set his sights on Chicago and moved there in 1954.  Soon  he started a group called The Savage Boys with Sam Burden and Dave Members.  The band attracted much attention from Muddy Waters, also a Mississippi native blues…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 12, 2011 at 2:00am — No Comments

Interview blues traveler Doug McLeod - lived the music, survived the life and carries forward a valuable tradition.

"The Blues is a way of life. It helped me overcome some troubles in my childhood and eventually helped me find a good way of looking at life."
Doug MacLeod: The Knight of Acoustic…
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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 11, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Blues in New Zealand - An Interview with Bluesman Mike Garner from New Zealand Blues Society

"ALL BLACKS" SINGS THE BLUES 

 

The history of Blues in New Zealand dates from the 1960s. The earliest blues influences on New Zealand musicians were indirect — not from the US but from white British blues musicians: first the R&B styles of The Animals and The Rolling Stones, and later the blues-tinged…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 6, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Motown guitarist Marv Tarplin dies

Marv Tarplin, the Motown guitarist and songwriter who shaped the sound of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and was a co-writer of "The Tracks of My Tears" and other hits, died on Friday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 70.

The cause of death has not been determined, a spokeswoman for the Miracles, Jeanne Sorensen, said.

Mr. Tarplin had a knack for coming up with catchy riffs and melodies. He was fooling around with a calypso song he had heard Harry Belafonte…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 6, 2011 at 1:33pm — No Comments

Tomas Tranströmer Beats Out Bob Dylan for Nobel Prize in Literature

Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature after late betting rush for Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan was first officially nominated for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, and again for the 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2011 ones.…



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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 6, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

An Interview with trombonist Joe "Defunkt" Bowie: "Blues sits deep in my body and soul"

"I have learned that I must keep a connection with the Earth and all living things, that my energy comes from the ground (earth) and this pulls the energy from the universe to me and opens up channels of creativity."

Joseph De…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on October 2, 2011 at 2:00am — No Comments

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