DEEP BLUES FESTiVAL 2009 LiNE-UP
Seventy-Six bands enough for y'all?For tickets go HERE.CLiCK iMAGE TO ENLARGE:
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HiRAM AND HUDDiE
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Artist:HiRAM AND HUDDiE
HiRAM and HUDDiE now available at Amazon!artwork by jon langford Hold on to your rattlesnakes everybody, looks like we're in for a twister! We live in a world of music where the undercurrent can move the whole stream. Thank God for that! Elvis, Johnny, Roy, Bob Dylan… These guys were unconventional and brought an uprising. They changed things. They rattled the.
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Jerry Lee Lewis plays Gospel Guitar
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Track:I'll Follow Him
I'll Follow Him from The Jerry Lee Lewis Show (1971)thx to m'boy Jeff Hunter for this!
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ERiC BLiNG: What's Nu?
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Artist:Eric Bling
photo by Guillaume R. Eric Bling hails from Bordeax, France. I first heard his music on the Not The Same Old Blues Crap sampler and I loved what I heard. His music has that depth, mystery, and sexyness that I'm always on the hunt for. Eric Bling's vision of the blues combines the past and future and brings it into the present where it lives and breathes on as blues just as vital as it's ori...
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INTERViEW WiTH HONKEYFiNGER
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Artist:Honkeyfinger
Last.fm/presents Honkeyfinger - Running on EmptyTHX RyanAdams! Click HERE and HERE and HERE for more HONKEYFiNGER
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HELL'S KiTCHEN
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Watch as Switzerland's Hell's Kitchen proceeds to kick your alt-blues lovin' ass:I wrote the following about Hell's Kitchen a couple years back:HELLS KiTCHENHell's Kitchen crawled out of the dank forests and steamin' stankass swamps of Geneva Switzerland aka the Land of Dirty snowy fkdup blues. Sure as the twist in the devil's tail you'd never hardly know it. Their 2005 release Doctor's Oven C...
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Tommy Ellison and The Singing Stars
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Artist:Tommy Ellison and The Singing Stars
Tommy Ellison and The Singing Stars
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Mr. Charlie Rich
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Charlie Rich aka The Silver Fox (1932-1995)"I really don't like happy music. I don't think it says anything." - Charlie Rich"Charlie Rich had the intuitive instinct to feel, see and hear pain, disappointment, happiness and joy and somehow transmute it into music. I don’t know anyone who has ever written or sung in a way that depicted more of the humanity of man, with gre.
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Mr. DEViN MiLLER
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Artist:DEViN MiLLER
Mr. Miller played Deep Blues Festival 08. This is what I wrote about him thenand i'm stickin' to it. Hell of a guy. Check him out:DEViN MiLLERDevin Miller ain’t nothing but trouble. He's a hellraisin’, honkytonkin’, ‘stone lovin’, guitar slangin’, singin’ songwritin’ babyfaced grandson of a pig farmer. Twenty-five percent equal parts Jerry Lee, Keith, R.L., Hank, Elvis, Carl, Johnn
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An Audio/Visual Love Letter Called M FOR MiSSiSSiPPi
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"I'm backed by the river and i'm fronted by the grave." -Red Paden, owner of Red's Lounge , Clarksdale
ALICE MAE BURNSIDE, WIFE OF R.L. HAS PASSED
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Artist:R.L Burnside
Juke Joint Soul blog reports that:Alice Mae Burnside - April 26, 1932 - November 16, 2008. Beloved wife of the late R.L. Burnside passed away Sunday. She was a loving mother to 12 children and grandmother to a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Tchulahoma Church on Hwy 4 inByhalia with a graveside service at Free Spring Cemetery in Los...
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THE JUKE JOINT
photo from Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint by Gregg CookeEssential Reading:Juke Joint by Birney ImesWhat is a juke joint anyway?I'll tell ya what it isn't. It is not a place in Oregon or Calgary or Denver or Massachusetts. The late Junior Kimbrough had arguably the most famous juke in the world at one point. Hell, iggy stopped by. So did some 'stones. U2. And me and my wife. You drive down a two...
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Music Maker Relief Fund Gift Giving Guide
A note from your friend Jeff Konkel at Broke and Hungry Records:Greetings, friends. I'm doing a little volunteering on behalf of the Music Maker Relief Foundation. As many of you know, Music Maker is a true force for good in the blues world. The nonprofit organization provides much needed financial support to traditional blues artists throughout much of the southern United States. Their subsidi...
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AGNOSTiC MOUNTAiN GOSPEL CHOiR
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You ever see film of cotton harvests in the old days during the change from man handled mules to the machines who replaced them? Full of clank and clatter, hollerin' and dust. That film was too old, too scratchy, too shaky for a soundtrack but somehow this odd and raw, grimy four piece from Calgary, Alberta, Canada has managed to roll an international harvester combine around the last coupl...
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MR. CEDELL DAVIS
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Artist:Mr. Cedell Davis
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Track:Fattin' Frogs for Snakes
Mr. Cedell Davis Bio stolen from Fat Possum Records Cedell Davis was born Ellis Davis on June 9, 1927, in Helena, then a booming river town on the Arkansas bank of the Mississippi. He grew up there and in the upper Mississippi Delta around eight miles south of Tunica, on the E.M. Hood plantation, where his brother lived. Together with one of his childhood friends, Isaiah Ross (fut...
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BROTHER CLAUDE ELY
Brother Claude Ely 1922-1978 From his website bio:"Brother Claude Ely recorded some of the most powerful and emotional Gospel songs ever made. Known sometimes as the Gospel Ranger, Ely spent nearly thirty years as a minister in the Appalachian heartland of eastern Kentucky, east Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and eventually to a migrant community i...
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HAVE MERCY ON ME
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Meantooth Grin VS Junior KimbroughTHX JiM!
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COMO NOW: The Voices of Panola Co. Mississippi. Recorded Live at Mount Mariah Church July 22nd 2006
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From the folks who brought you Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings ...Deep in the heart of Mississippi lies Como, a small rural town where children and grown folks alike have been living and breathing gospel music for as long as they can remember. In July of 2006, Daptone Records placed a small ad in a local paper inviting local singers to come down to Mount Mariah Church to record their songs. Th...
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