Blues Blast Email Update |
June 6, 2007 |
Hey Blues fans,
This week brings one of the best Blues events of the year, The 2007 Chicago Blues Fest.
The biggest names in Chicago Blues can be seen for FREE this Thursday June 7 to Sunday Jun10 at Grant Park in Downtown Chicago. GET THERE IF YOU CAN!
Names like Bobby Rush, Phil Guy, Cephas and Wiggins, James Cotton, Zac Harmon, Chainsaw DuPont, John Primer, Magic Slim and the Tear Drops, Muddy Waters Junior, Koko Taylor, Jimmy Dawkins, Willie Clayton, Billy Branch, Barrelhouse Chuck, Carl Weathersby, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Big Time Sarah, Hubert Sumlin, Jody Williams, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Lil’ Howlin’ Wolf, Carlos Johnson, Fruteland Jackson and many more. Did I mention it's FREE?
The show runs from 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. with six stages of Blues each day. Don't miss this one!
Click Here to see a complete schedule
Blue Review of the week! Yeah We Got Blues!
Billy Jones
My Hometown
Black & Tan Records
www.blackandtan-shop.com
www.myspace.com/billyjonesbluez
10 songs; 45:28 minutes
Clearly, Billy Jones is an exciting singer, song writer, and guitarist deserving
more attention. This second album produced in the Netherlands on the Black & Tan
label is a great set of variety: original soul-blues, blues-rock, and funk that
honor traditions, but bring something new for today.
Born in 1953 in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Jones’ family owned and operated a
blues cafe often hosting Howlin’ Wolf and Bobby “Blue” Bland. Learning guitar as
a child, he was considered a prodigy, who developed a voice similar to Prince,
and became an understudy to artists such as
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to read more of this review
Best Blues Links of the Week
Home of lots and lots and lots of Blues information and history. If you are planning to visiting the Mississippi Delta this site has lots of links for places along the way.
Click the link to visit - http://www.deltablues.net
Click HERE to visit the IllinoisBlues.com Links Page
Blues Radio - Streaming Link of the Week
The Atlanta Blues Society internet radio station dedicated to providing you with the best of Traditional and Contemporary Blues as well as featuring music from the best Blues bands of Atlanta and other Blues Societies around the world. Available 24 x 7 as a Public Service by the Atlanta Blues Society.
Click Here to to go directly to the stream.
The Best of the BEST Blues Radio Streams is.....
Tune In! TURN IT UP LOUD!
To Hear GREAT GLT blues 24X7 Click HERE
Featured Blues Artist:
Visit South Side Cindy & The Slip Tones'
website
http://www.thesliptones.com
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Featured Blues Festivals
Chicago Blues Festival
2007 June 7-10, 2007
Grant Park in Downtown Chicago
Free Admission
11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.Six Stages of Blues Each day
Click see schedule - Thursday June 7 Friday June 8 Saturday June 9 Sunday June 10
Fest Website: http://www.chicagobluesfestival.us/
Jack Daniels & Beamish Irish Stout presents...
MARK HUMMEL'S BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT
Friday June 29th, 2007
Location:
Best Western Ashland House
201 Ashland Ave, Morton, IL
Blue Bella
Recording Artist's
Kilborn Alley Blues Band
Russell Miller & 6V6
2007 IH Mississippi Valley Blues
Festival
Friday June 29th
Damon Fowler
Group
Albert
Cummings
Chubby
Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
Robert
Randolph & the Family Band
Robert Belfour
Paul Oscher
Big
Bill Morganfield
Nappy Brown Bob Margolin
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
Mookie Brill
Saturday June 30th
Kelly Richey
Jason Ricci
and New Blood Big James & the
Chicago Playboys
The Jackie
Payne and Steve Edmonson Band Blues harp blowout featuring
Mark Hummel James Harman
Paul Oscher
Bad Luck
City featuring Matt Woods and Michael Swanger
Jimmy
“Duck” Holmes
Alberta Adams & RJ’s Rhythm Rockers with CeeCee Collins
Ari Brown Quartet
Watermelon
Slim
Trudy Lynn with
The Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings
Sunday July 1st
Dona Oxford
Tom
Principato
Ruby Wilson
Little
Charlie & the Nightcats
Drink Small “The Blues Doctor”
Dave
MacKenzie
Bruce Katz Henry Gray &
the Cats
Nothin' But The Blues Festival
July 20th and 21st, 2007
Bloomington, Illinois *
Directions
Friday
July 20th
6:00 pm Rooster Alley
7:00 pm Doña Oxford
8:15 pm John
Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band
9:30 pm Blues
Caravan 2007 "The Guitar Women"
**Sue Foley -
Debra Coleman
- Roxanne Potvin*"
Saturday
July 21st
Gates Open at NOON
1:30 pm TBA
2:45 pm Central Illinois Blues Challenge
Winner
4:45 pm TBA
6:00 pm Big Ray and Chicago's Most
Wanted
7:30 pm
Tab Benoit
9:00 pm
C.J. Chenier
JULY 28, 2007 - NOON TO MOON
Steve the Harp & the Blues Deacons
July 27th & 28th, 2007
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on St. Feriole Island
Friday, July 27, 2007
The Tom Hunter Band -
Shannon Curfman
-
Alvin Jett &
Phat noiZ -
Tab
Benoit
Plus Big Daddy Cade & The Blues
Masters
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Everett Smithson Band -
Kevin "B.F." Burt & the Instigators
-
Mark Sallings & the Famous Unknowns
Steve Arvey & The Saxtelles -
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
Anthony Gomes
Plus
Pete Cornelius
(from
Australia)
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