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Ian Willians has emailed in a selection of pictures from last weekend’s excellent Worthenbury Blues and Roots Festival. You can see the whole set at the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive. Scroll down to see Lionel’s official review. Here are a couple of pictures to whet the appetite.
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Mon 07 Jul: Carling Academy Liverpool
Joe Bonamassa
£16adv
Doors 7pm
plus Special Guests
Yes! I know that I have posted this before. But trust me, it is worth another watch.
Lowell Fulson - You Gonna Miss Me
There a few pictures from Sunday night’s Buddy Guy gig in Liverpool on Shertila’s Flickr site.
Buddy guy, Live in Liverpool, originally uploaded by shertila.
Dave Sawyer writes to let us all know that the Blues night this week on 03 July with Atlanta Roots and Johny Hewitt and Tommy Allen has sold out. The venue only has a capacity of 100 and all these tickets have gone.
If you were thinking about going it’s too late. Tough! - Dave didn’t say that. I did. 
I only shot one short video clip. Here’s Bill Sheffield live at the Worthenbury Roots and Blues Festival 2008.
I have just returned from an excellent day at Worthenbury Blues and Roots Festival 2008. Like usual I will save the proper review for Lionel and Grahame and the proper photos to Ian, however I will say what a terrific night was had by all. Although chilly in the evening, the weather held and we even had some lovely sunny intervals.
I enjoyed all the bands and it was great to see some familar faces from festivals and gigs gone by. It was also great to meet a whole load of new faces - all of whom I look forward to meeting again.
As well as some great blues some money was raised for charity by festival organiser Pete Evans who raised over £500 for Diabetes UK by shaving off a dodgy moustache that he has been sporting for 37 years. I took a couple of before and after pictures…..
Before Plassey Ale and razor
After Plassey Ale and razor.
Everyone thinks that it’s an improvement. Even my wife commented this morning “under that ‘tache he’s not a bad looking fellow for an old guy”
All my Flickr photos that I am not too ashamed of are uploaded to Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenpeace/
A great day! Thanks to the organisers, the acts, the volunteers and, last but not least, the great crowd. Let’s do it all again in 2009!
The mobile phone coverage is patchy here in the Welsh sun. Anyway, just in case this moblog gets through here are a few balding blues fans.
The beautiful and extremely talented songstress Janiva Magness makes a follow up appearance on The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. The concert, like usual, is available in lofi audio, hifi audio and windows media streaming and downloadable video.
You can grab this little treat by navigating to the Woodsongs archive site and looking for show 484.
http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp
I think that Janiva is a real talent and I am not the only one.
She has such a natural style and sweet vocals. This time Janiva is the first artist on the show, about 5 mins in. Enjoy.
I’m off to Wortehnbury today. I have my camera so will post a few piccies and maybe a YouTube when I return. In addition I also have my smartphone that I have set up to moblog, so I can post to bluesinthenorthwest.com live from the festival.
Modern technology is great but if I recall there is no mobile phone signal in Worthenbury.
Guitar Legends Show
The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
27 July 2008
Gary Murphy presents a night of the legends in Liverpool on 27 July 2008. The concept of the show is to show how the guitar has developed over the years, going from the early 1920s right through all the genres of guitar, including jazz, blues, country, country rock, pop up to the present day.
There will be 22 guitarists songs performed live using each of the signature songs of the legend. BBC Radio Merseyside’s Billy Butler will be narrating the lives and story of each guitarist.
www.myspace.com/garymurphyband
For a larger version of the poster, please click here.
“Hound Dog” with Buddy Guy
David Honeyboy Edwards 93 years old today. Still touring.
“Down by the Riverside”
Rocky Athas
at the Liverpool Marina
Thursday 17th July 2008 (doors at 8pm, show starts at 8.45pm)
Texan guitar-slinger Rocky Athas returns for his third visit to the Liverpool Marina. On this occasion, his masterful guitar playing will be complemented by his original band, Lightning, which in the late ’70s and early ’80s was one of the biggest draws in Texas nightclub history. Their music encompasses a broad range of blues music, including powerful blues rock.
Rocky grew up playing guitar with his pal Stevie Ray Vaughan. By the age of 23, he was honoured as one of the ten best guitarists in Texas by Buddy Magazine’s Texas Tornadoes. SRV received his induction two years later. They hold this honour with such noted guitarists as ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Johnny Winter and Jimmie Vaughan. In recent years, Rocky has recorded a number of highly acclaimed albums on the British-based Armadillo Music label, the latest being Lightning Strikes Twice with Lightning.
Liverpool Marina is situated at Coburg Wharf, Sefton Street, Liverpool L3 4BP.
Tickets for the concert (£10 each in advance and £11 on the door) are obtainable from John Welsh on 0151 428 2855 or by email: johnswlesh@hotmail.com.
Grahame found this treasure. Great song, great groove, fab guitar tone. The Paladins - “Kiddio”.
This song always reminds me of Mike Sanchez but hat’s not important - just enjoy The Paladins.
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