Howlin' for ya baby

It's Halloween on Friday although some of you may have been celebrating since last weekend (okay, maybe your entire life, but that's different). Most everyone loves an excuse to throw a wang, dang, doodle-themed gig and some of us can hardly wait to don a disguise, usually an alter-ego. My mom made me dress up as a carrot one year! A hand-me-down carrot no less! For cryin' outloud, what was she thinking? I mean, we may not have had money for a costume that year but I would have rather donned a large paper bag and went as a sack lunch!

 

I bet we can all recall some crazy get-ups and times over the years. Spooky, mysterious and fun music has also been a part of Halloween festivities. It's a time to conjure up magic potions ... maybe mojos and goofer dust... "I believe my good gal has found my black cat bone. I can leave Sunday morning. Monday morning I'm sitting back at home." (Blind Lemon Jefferson "Broke and Hungry Blues"). "I ain't superstitious, but a black cat just crossed my path." (I Ain't Superstitious" Willie Dixon). Was Willie still thinking about that poor cat when he wrote, "I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too. I got a John The Conqueror, I'm gonna mess with you." (I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"). Whatever you do this Halloween, I hope it's fun and full of the good kind of howlin' at midnight!

 

Upcoming Birthdays of note: Oct 30 Bob Koester (1932 Delmark's Founder); Oct 31 Julia Lee (1902), Ethel Waters (1896); Nov 1 Sippie Wallace (1898); Don Robey (Duke/Peacock Records 1903); Nov 2 Mark Wenner (1948); Nov 3 Mable John (1930); Sonny Rhodes (1940); Nov 4 Delbert McClinton (1940); Nov 5 Ike Turner (1931), Studebaker John Grimaldi (1952); Nov 6 Rory Block (1949); Nov 8 Bonnie Bramlett (1944); Bonnie Raitt (1949), Eddie “Vann” Shaw Jr. (1955); Nov 9 Linda Hopkins (1925), Susan Tedeschi (1970)

 

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2015 BFG Magazine Early Bird Special

 

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Multi-award winning singer, songwriter, guitarist, Ruthie Foster, here with her drummer Samantha Banks, enjoy their BFG aboard the Oct Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Ruthie is celebrating her latest release, Promise of a Brand New Day.

 

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The phenomenon of exceedingly young blues guitarists has reached its logical conclusion. The Generation Blues Experience was co-founded by dedicated 12-year old singer and guitar virtuoso Ray Goren in 2012 in South Central L.A. together with veteran blues septuagenarian, Sammy Lee, and octogenarian, Jamie Powell. A true product of his “generation,” Goren learned from YouTube videos of the legends and was playing blues guitar in gigs before the age of 10. But together with Powell and Lee the band busted age and musical barriers, resulting in a landmark recording of blues power.

Private Angel’s seven originals and one cover...

27th Annual Battle of the Blues Harps Nov 26

Rip Cat Records presents the 27th annual Battle of the Blues Harps, Wednesday November 26th (Thanksgiving Eve) 6pm-11pm on the Queen Mary (1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach CA). Acts so far include The Kim Wilson Band, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, Lil’ A and the All-Nighters, Winner of the Road to the Battle of the Blues Harps. More to come!

Tickets are $25 general, $50 Loge seating and $60 VIP seating. Order by phone: (800) 987-4920. Orders by mail: Rip Cat Records, 9322 Candlewood Dr., Huntington Beach CA 92646

Click here to find Queen Mary room reservation discounts.

 

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LEGENDARY RHYTHM & BLUES CRUISE 313 Lawrence Ave., Kansas City, MO

 

'Virtue & Vice' By Hornbuckle Wins Mile High Blues Society's 'Best Self-Produced Blues CD'

Virtue & Vice, the critically-acclaimed album by Denver-based group Hornbuckle, has won "Best Self-Produced CD" as voted on by the Mile High Blues Society in Denver, CO. The CD will now qualify for the International competition judged by the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN. Hornbuckle, known as "Denver's First Family of the Blues," is fronted by guitarist-vocalist Michael Hornbuckle and brother, Brian Hornbuckle (bass-vocals).

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Blues Foundation head Sieleman to step down in 2015

MEMPHIS, TN - (by Bob Mehr) Blues Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Sieleman is leaving the Memphis-based organization.

The news was announced Tuesday afternoon [Oct 28] in a news release. Sieleman, who has been at the top of the influential blues music organization since 2003, plans to step down in September of 2015. He will leave as the longest-serving executive in the foundation’s four-decade history.

 

Sieleman helped usher in a new period of growth, visibility and profitability for the foundation during his tenure. Over the past decade, Sieleman has dramatically expanded the annual International Blues Challenge and Blues Music Awards, strengthened relations with various member chapters and societies throughout the U.S. and abroad, and has overseen the development of a permanent Blues Music Hall of Fame, which is slated to open downtown in May. Read story here

 

Nov 1-2 Radio Show: GRADY CHAMPION

Harmonica master Grady Champion is the youngest of 28 children, born in the country, raised in the country, and now returned to his native Mississippi. Grady grew up on hip-hop but fell in love with the blues. And his latest album is coming out on the refurbished classic blues label, Malaco. It is called Bootleg Whiskey.

 

Old school blues with new school Grady Champion. Next time, in the Bluesmobile.

 

 

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Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Jeff Beck and Beth Hart - "Sweet Home Chicago" (2012)

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