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FOOD: NOTHING FITS BETTER WITH BLUES MUSIC THAN A BIG MESS OF BBQ
(There are only a few stereotypes I can get behind, and wherever there be blues playin’, there should be some sweet BBQ going on in the background. So many festivals combine BBQ and blues music –...
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NEWS: BENJAMIN BOOKER TURNS THE BLUES WORLD UPSIDE DOWN ON A JAGGED EDGE
(Benjamin Booker is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Based in New Orleans, he cites The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson, and T. Rex as influences. His music was described by the Chicago...
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HEAD ON A SWIVEL with JP Sadek: TV WRITERS ARE NOT YOUR B*%CHES – THEY DON’T...
If you have HBO (or an internet connection), you’ve no doubt seen some of the best programming TV has ever had to offer. This isn’t a plug for HBO, because I don’t do sponsors, it’s just the goddamn...
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GREAT SHOW ALERT: The Cornbury Music Festival – UK
The Cornbury Music Festival is one-of-a-kind: a lovingly crafted, top notch, very English open air party, tailor-made for the whole family. Like the best of England, The Cornbury Music Festival is...
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SongoftheDay: SWEET LITTLE ANGEL by B.B. KING
SongoftheDay: SWEET LITTLE ANGEL by B.B. KING (Although he may not be one of the blues musicians that graces my turntable all that often, it’s important to pay the highest respect to this legend of...
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NEWS: BUDDY GUY KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE
(I have had the chance to see this legend a few times in my life, and he is a true gentleman for the ages. In a time, when even the highest level of pop music is seeing a significant decline in record...
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GREAT SHOW ALERT: Festival International du Blues de Tremblant
(Ya, these guys used to be ‘the enemy’, but now they hold the title as the real deal blues festival in these parts. The other imitator has less to do with blues that a 3-year-old white kid’s birthday...
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GREAT SHOW ALERT: TELLURIDE BLUES AND BREWS FESTIVAL
Mississippi hill country bluesman Leo “Bud” Welch had literally played for a lifetime, some 65 years, with little fanfare before dropping his first record. Then, on Jan. 7, 2014, just weeks before...
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THURSDAY NIGHT CUR COMIX: Mr. Martin…
I don’t know how high school works these days, but in the 1980s, when I was there, you could do a hefty amount of skipping class and drug smoking, and most teachers would pretend not to notice or just...
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YOU BEST NOT GET SICK ON TOUR: MUSICIANS VERSUS HEALTH INSURANCE
(I spoke with JD SPAGHETTI (EDDIE’S wife) last night about the “Shit Sandwich” they have been dealt this year, and it got me to thinking “do they have health insurance”? Man I hope so, but it got me...
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SongoftheDay: BIG MAMA’S DOOR by ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART
SongoftheDay: BIG MAMA’S DOOR by ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART (The first couple of time I met this guy I knew right away he was different. He had a huge vibe about him, but a calm about him as well that...
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Vertigo Records Album Review: S/T by HOUND DOG TAYLOR AND THE HOUSEROCKERS
SPONSORED BY VERTIGO RECORDS – 193 RIDEAU ST. OTTAWA, CANADA I get there are many folks who find joy and dancing happiness in blues music, but that’s not the blues I want. There are bars packed full...
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FEATURE: PHOTOGRAPHER LOU BOPP FRAMES THE BLUES WITH HIS LENS
Since 2008, photographer Lou Bopp has been capturing the now elderly men who constitute the Mississippi Delta Blues musicians of a previous era. With calloused hands, worn faces and twinkling eyes, the...
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SATURDAY MORNING COFFEE WITH CUR
I don’t know how high school works these days, but in the 1980s, when I was there, you could do a hefty amount of skipping class and drug smoking, and most teachers would pretend not to notice or just...
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SongoftheDay: VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE by SHERMAN ROBERTSON
SongoftheDay: VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE by SHERMAN ROBERTSON Sherman Robertson is an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer, who has been described as “one part zydeco, one part swamp blues,...
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REPLAY Podcast Episode XXIX: 83-YEAR-OLD MISSISSIPPI BLUESMAN LEO BUD WELCH
Leo “Bud” Welch Sr. was born in Sabougla, Mississippi in 1932. Bud picked up a guitar for the first time in 1945. Bud and a cousin would sneak and play the guitar while the actual owner of the guitar...
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Story of the Week: HISTORY OF THE JUKE JOINT
(Juke Joints of old seem a lot like what we Canadians call Taverns or Dive Bars today. Perhaps there isn’t the racial divide there was in the southern United States when juke joints were at their...
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Podcast Episode XXX: JOE EVIL of GRIMSKUNK
GrimSkunk is a rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with punk, rock, progressive and world music influences. Its style is self-described as “world punk” It is regarded as being part of the...
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SongoftheDay: MARTHA by GRIMSKUNK
SongoftheDay: MARTHA by GRIMSKUNK If there has ever been a band, perhaps outside of Southern Culture on the Skids, that has united Dan and I, it is Grim Skunk. All of the reasons that some folks may...
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NEWS: Rock star photographer to open Toronto exhibit featuring Zeppelin, Lennon
(We’ve all seen them. Some of Bob Gruen‘s photos are the most iconic shots in rock and roll. The stuff he did with ‘Zeppelin alone is incredible and so recognizable. He’s rubbed shoulders with...
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