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Bring in the New Year with SEASICK STEVE on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, tonight on BBC2 at 10.50pm alongside Paul Weller, Zutons, Kooks, Lily Allen, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave etc. (Then please vote him best performer at www.bbc.co.uk/later!)
Steve’s new album Dog House Music is available at www.bronzerat.co.uk and all good record shops.
More info:- www.myspace.com/seasicksteve
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It looks like Grahame has been out in town this week and sends in the following report…..
I know that a lot of bluesinthenorthwest.com readers like Gary Moore – the Music Zone chain have a couple of his more recent releases at an absolute snip! “Back To The Blues” from 2000 is available for £1.97 and from 2004 “Power Of The Blues” is going for just 97p! The earlier one is by far the better with decent covers of “You Upset Me Baby”, “Stormy Monday” and Johnny Guitar Watson’s “Looking Back” (the Feelgoods used to nail this!). Obviously a while stocks last job, but the Chester store had a good lot!
Ray and Barbara have set up a great line of Blues for 2007 in two locations in Warrington.
19-Jan – Paul Lamb
23-Feb - The Stumble
02-Mar - Ian Siegal
10-Mar - Mike Sanchez at Alford Hall
23-Mar - Marcus Malone
13-Apr - Johnny Mastro & Mama’s boys
The three March gigs are specifically to celebrate 10 years of Warrington Blues Club.
Of all the shows I’m particuarly looking forward to Ian Siegal (after all he was my gig of the year for 2006) and Johnny Mastro, who to my ears sounds to be influenced by Lester Butler and the Red Devils more than any other band I have heard. The Mama’s Boys get a lot of airplay from Spinner on the Bandana Blues podcast so I have heard quite a few tunes already.
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not blues but I still think that the live performance of “Crazy” by Gnarl Barkley on TOTP earlier in the year was one of the highlights of the TV year. If you haven’t seen the clip before then I strongly advise you to check it out. I liked the electronic verion of the song pretty much but this military drums and soaring strings version is something special. What a great song and what a fabulous vocal performance.
Enjoy!
Jonny from The Stumble sends his New Year greetings to all readers of bluesinthenorthwest.com in the form of a YouTube clip. Jonny has picked a little peach of a tune from the 1960s. If this clip of Junior Walker and the Allstars does not get you dancing around your keyboard then you have a hole in your soul.
You may read more about Junior Walker both here and here.
As usual there is a fabulous line up of acts upcoming for Worthenbury in the first part of 2007.
Jan 19th – Nine Below Zero (unplugged) (or as we call them in Yorkshire Nahn Biloh Zehru)
Sat Feb 24th – Rag Mama Rag
Fri March 9th – Doug MacLeod
Fri March 30th – Sonny Black and George Pearson
Fri April 27th – Geoff Muldaur – UPDATE Sat 28th April
Please contact Pete Evans on 01948 770215 for further details.
The Harbourside Club in Liverpool have a great line up of gigs for the start of 2007.
10-Jan The Stumble
21-Feb John O’Leary Band
08-Mar Doug MacLeod
13-Mar Rocky Athas Band
11-Apr Honeyboy Hickling
15-May Little Toby Walker
28-Jun Geoff Achison
As well as the gigs at the Harbourside Club, the same team are promoting Kent DuChaine at Allerton Manor Golf Club on Thu 25 Jan.
Contact John Welsh for further details on 0151 428 2855.
Today’s YouTube video is not blues at all but is from one of the Jazz Masters – the fabulous Duke Ellington. Imagine being big enough to be able to carry a band of that size these days. That’s how important Ellington was. This is a great clip, showing his fabulous orchestra. I especially love the trombone solo – very expressive indeed.
My favourite Jazzer of all time is the legenday Earl Grey.
Christmas Day saw the launch of an all-new digital radio station called thejazz.
Available on DAB, on Sky and NTL’s radio channels and online at www.thejazz.com, the station will play a range of music across the jazz genre and plans to engage listeners in a debate throughout 2007 by asking listeners to discuss “What is jazz?”
Darren Henley, station manager of Classic FM and thejazz, says: “Just as Classic FM has taken classical music into the mainstream, so we want to make jazz a part of everyday life in the UK.”
The digital-only station, which went on air at 9am on Christmas Day, will operate as a sister service to GCap-owned Classic FM.
Like Classic, GCap hopes theJazz will develop as a brand across live concerts, CDs, books, podcasts, downloads, a website and TV programming.
According the www.thejazz.com website
theJazz will play a wide range of jazz genres such as bebop, swing, cool jazz, trad, blues and modern jazz.
Some of the artists featured on the station will include Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Weather Report, Branford Marsalis, Denys Baptiste, Jamie Cullum, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux to name but a few.
Our full playlist will follow in January 2007.
Only time will tell just how much of the programming will be blues. I will pass on more information as I receive it.
Man could this cat play. This is a fabulous clip of the late Jesse “Guitar” Taylor from Lubbock, TX. Tell you what – he’s also got a fabulous band with him – that night in the Cricketers in London must have been a blast. The groove on this song should be bottled and sold.
Thanks to Grahame for finding this – it’s a peach.
Image from virtuallubbock.com
You can see in advance the photos that will eventually be on Matt’s website.
Here is a photoshoot from Canada.
I agree with Chuck Nevitt entirely on this one. I had not heard of Red Archibald so was a little unmoved when I heard that he has passed away. However, after reading Chuck’s post below, I checked out the 10 min promo clip and really enjoyed the clips and the voiceover.
You can read Chuck’s post on Red Archibald on the link below.
the blues and then some: RIP Red Archibald
It’s great to see Freddie King’s daughter Wanda King keeping up the family Blues tradition. I recommend that you take a look at Don O’s great Dallas and Fort Worth Blues site. It’s at www.bluesdfw.com.
From BluesDFW you can get to Don’s Blues Scene Sampler Project and recently posted is a clip of the Wanda King Band in action live at a Dallas club called Pearl on 02 Dec this year. Very good it is too.
Flickr photo mm17 Originally uploaded by thebluesandthensome.
There are a lot of facts about the life and times of James Brown on today’s BluesPower site.
I don’t normally wear t-shirts, however I did find this one quite amusing. I wish that some of our UK bluesmen would take note.
Flickr photo ZZ Top show 2005 summer Québec Originally uploaded by bluesmama.
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