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Photo Moments with the 20th Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here's singer, guitarist, songwriter Jackie Venson who is being called "an Austin legend in the making!" Along with her guitar prowess, and unique and poignant vocal and lyrical delivery, Jackie also is adept at keyboards.
Even though she has been at it for a decade, Jackie is still a bit of a rising star on many levels, especially since the pandemic lifted, thanks to her passion and persistance to grow and express herself. Her star is only getting bigger and we were pleased to discover her on the Oct Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Jackie's not afraid to speak her mind via her blues-alt rock music which Guitar World calls, "a sonic smorgasbord."
Photo: Kaati Gaffney
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Various Artists :: BLUE LAS VEGAS, VOLUME ONE
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 Blue Las Vegas, Volume One is a collection of the very best Blues music made in Sin City and is now available from CD Baby and Amazon. The Las Vegas Blues Society (LVBS) offered their prestigious name, their expertise, and their inspiration to the project.
The LVBS partnered with Dan Harrell, a lifelong Blues supporter and LVBS award recipient, to make this recording that features the stars of the Las Vegas Blues scene. “This album’s primary purpose is to highlight local Las Vegas Blues heroes and to put a spotlight on the Las Vegas Blues scene for those around the country and the world to know and hear, says Harrell who is executive producer and project manager. "In addition, it will document a moment in time for Las Vegas Blues and permanently honor and memorialize beloved performers of the genre who are based here.”
The jam-packed album has 10 acts, 20 songs, and nearly 80 minutes of music, featuring well-known performers like Leon Blue, Billy Ray Charles, Junior Brantley, Al Ek, and Jimmy Carpenter, as well as less nationally known but extremely gifted players and singers.
LVBS president Jimmy Carpenter, the multiple award-winning singer, composer, and sax player, offered his extensive recording knowledge as creative consultant. Assistant producer LVBS board member Stella Ponce, served as liaison to the LVBS and provided help and guidance in a variety of important ways.
Blue Las Vegas, Volume One may just be some of the best Blues you’ve heard lately – from some of the best players and singers in the world, not just Las Vegas.
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World-class music on the slopes of Panama’s Volcan Baru Mar 17-19
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 (BOQUETE, PANAMA) – The 15th Annual Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival is back for 2023 and will be held Mar 17-19 at the historic Hotel Panamonte just outside the Baru Volcano National Park.
The lineup consists of Mr Sipp, Albert Castiglia, JP Soars, and a host of others, plus jam sessions and open mics as well. The main stage of the festival will be in the beautiful tropical garden of the Panamonte Hotel in Boquete. Shows will run from 11am until 11pm each day.
In addition there will be daily open Mic sessions taking place in various local restaurants from 9am until 11am, as well as nightly jam sessions running from 8:30pm until 11pm.
Check overall event schedule here.
Rain or shine so bring sun and rain protection like sunscreen, hat, rain jacket and/or a small umbrella.
The Boquete Jazz&Blues Festival is an official national cultural event in Panama supported by the Panamanian Tourist Authority and the mayor of Boquete.
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Esther Phillips, Josh White, John Primer & more to Be Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame
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 (MEMPHIS, TN) - R&B and blues singer Esther Phillips is among the 2023 inductees into The Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame (HOF).
Phillips had two top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 for “Release Me” (1962, when she was known as “Little Esther” Phillips) and a remake of Dinah Washington’s “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” (1975).
Josh White, who went from being a Piedmont blues artist to an important voice in the folk music world of the 1940s, was also inducted. This year’s other Blues Hall of Fame honorees also include four Chicago bluesmen, Carey Bell, John Primer, Snooky Pryor and Fenton Robinson, and the Mississippi juke joint king, Junior Kimbrough.
Of the seven artists being inducted this year, four (Bell, Phillips, Primer and Robinson) had been nominated for Grammy awards. Phillips was a four-time nominee for best R&B vocal performance, female. Of the seven artists, only Primer is still living. He is 78.
David Evans, who won the HOF award for "Individuals," is a two-time Grammy winner for best album notes. He won for Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented By William Ferris and Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues – The Worlds of Charley Patton.
One of the five recordings being honored has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. That’s Son House’s 1930 recording “My Black Mama,” which was voted into the Grammy HOF in 2013.
Little Walter: The Complete Chess Masters is 2023’s "Classic Blues Recording Album." Hip-O’s five-CD, 126-track compilation was released in 2009.
Entering the Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Literature" is The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville 1899-1926. The book, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff, chronicles the minstrel and ragtime traditions in vaudeville theatre that was major public venue for blues in its early years.
Findout details about the HOF Awards Ceremony held in Memphis May 10.
Compiled from article by Paul Grein/Billboard
(Photo of Esther Phillps - Michael Ochs Archives/GI)
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Mississippi is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Locals tell the story
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 With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the guitar with such genius that legend has it his talent was a gift from the devil in exchange for the musician's soul. That deal was done, according to lore, at "the crossroads" in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
That exact crossroads, of U.S. Highways 61 and 49, is about an hour's drive south of Memphis in the huge, pancake-flat Mississippi Delta. It's the largely rural region in the northwest corner of the state that runs along the Mississippi River.
Walk down John Lee Hooker Lane in Clarksdale and visitors can admire the markers honoring the famous musicians who got their start here — from Johnson to Muddy Waters to Howlin' Wolf.
Now new local artists like Christone "Kingfish" Ingram are carrying on the tradition. And you can catch live music just about any night of the week at authentic juke joints such as Red's and the Ground Zero Blues Club.
Clarksdale has gone all in on blues tourism as a way of helping this long-struggling region's economy. And it's proven to be a business driver. In Coahoma County, home to Clarksdale, tourists spent more than $68 million in 2019, according to a state tourism report.
"Even though they're coming here for the blues, people are spending money everywhere," says Tameal Edwards, Ground Zero's booking manager.
The Mississippi Delta is world famous as the home of the blues. But less publicized is the fact that the region is also integral to America's civil rights story. Now some are hoping to tell both stories in a fuller way.
…Continue this insightful story by Kirk Siegler/Debbie Elliott/National NPR
Photo by Kirk Siegler/NPR
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Which Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise Hits Your Groove?
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Greater West Texas Blues Society Open Jam Mar 23
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 (MIDLAND, TX) - "Bring Your Own Blues Open Blues Jam" happens Mar 23 at The Destination 1705 W. Industrial Ave., in Midland, Texas.
The FREE community blues jam is hosted by the Greater West Texas Blues Society.
Bring your instrument or voice. Sound, stage and backline provided.
Doors open at 6PM. Jam 7PM-10:30PM.
Family and pet friendly.
Full bar service provided and food by Shawnie's Shack.
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • March is "Women's History Month"
• International Ideas Month
• National Music in Schools Month
• Mar 17 St. Patrick's Day
"May your glass always be full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
Birthdays upcoming of note:
Mar 16 James "Yank" Rachell (1910-1997); Mar 17 Nat "King" Cole (1917-1965); Mar 18 Wilson Pickett (1941-2006), Big Daddy Kinsey (1927-2001); Mar 19 Clarence "Frogman" Henry (1937), Jackie "Moms" Mabley (1894-1975); Mar 20 Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), Frank Edwards (1909-2002), Marcia Ball (1949), Sam Lay (1935-2022), Eddie Shaw (1937-2018), Jimmie Vaughan (1951); Mar 21 William Clarke (1951-1996), Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (1902-1988), Otis Spann (1930-1970), Gaye Adegbalola (1944); Mar 22-Weldon "Juke Boy" Bonner (1932-1978), Leo "Bud" Welch (1932-2017); Mar 23-Stick McGhee (1918), Chaka Khan (1953), Iverson "Louisiana Red" Minter (1932-2012); Mar 24 Frank "Scrap Iron" Robinson Jr. (1951-2020)
 Just in Case: Mar 19 is "National Poultry Day." Well, of course I automaticaly started thinking of blues songs or lyrics that refer to "poultry." The one lyric that first crossed my mind was an Etta James mashup with her growling, "mama cooked a chicken, she thought it was a duck, put it on the table with its legs cocked up."
Now those similar lyrics and/or parts of it, have been used and modified in dozens of songs under different song titles, but the full-on original, according my research anyway, is a song called "The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas" originally recorded in St. Louis by pianist James "Stump" Johnson in the late 1920s. In 1939, Tommy McClennan used some of the lyrics in his song "Bottle It Up and Go," later recorded by John Lee Hooker. Among others, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion quoted the first three lines of the wild song "Chicken Dog," on their album Now I Got Worry, sung by Rufus Thomas. Whoa!
Ah, but then there's the standard blues tune "Chicken Shack," written and recorded first by Jimmy Smith in 1960. The Dominoes recorded a bluesy, swinging song called "Chicken Blues" in 1951..."If you don't like chicken then leave that hen alone." There's Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken;" Rufus Thomas' "Do The Funky Chicken;" Louis Jordon's "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens;" The Meters' funky, "Chicken Strut;" Amos Milburn's "Chicken Shack Boogie;" And Mississippi John Hurt's short little ditty, simply called "Chicken."
Yep, as usual, I'd could go on!!
(Top Photo: Carol Highsmith)
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20th Annual Blues Festival Guide Magazine
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 You can not only get a hard copy of the magazine via select festivals, blues societies or by ordering, but our 20th Anniversary digital edition of the Blues Festival Guide is available on our website! Click the image at left to read and enjoy all 84 pages. Turn on the speaker to hear Tulle Brae singing "Seven Bridges."
Blues legend Bobby Rush calls our magazine: "The roadmap to everything blues." Indeed, the articles offer something for everyone, all blues related, of course. This year’s engaging editorial from aficionados in the blues community includes articles from Victor Wainwright, Mitch Woods, Reverend Billy C. Wirtz and Roger Stolle among others.
Our cover by photographer Marilyn Stringer features the talented Tullie Brae and Calvin Johnson at the 2021 North Atlantic Blues Festival!
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River City Blues Festival
Mar-17-2023 – Mar-18-2023
Marietta, Ohio, USA
Boquete Jazz and Blues Festival
Mar-17-2023 – Mar-19-2023
Boquete, Panama
Loreto Blues Festival
Mar-18-2023
Loreto, Mexico
Blues on Reid
Mar-25-2023
Port St. Joe, Florida, Florida, USA
Woodystock Blues & Brews Fest
Mar-25-2023
Lake Havasu State Park, Arizona, USA
Springing The Blues
April-1-2023 - April-2-2023
Jackson Beach, Florida USA
2023 Byron Bay Bluesfest
April-6-2023 - April-10-2023
Byron Bay, Australia
Nidaros Blues
Apr-13-2023
Trodheim, Norway
Juke Joint Festival
& Related Events
Apr-13-2023 – Apr-16-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Tampa Bay Blues Festival
April-14-2023 - April-16, 2023
St. Petersburg, Florida USA
Temecula Blues Festival
April-15-2023
Temecula, Cailfornia, USA
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Buffalo Blues & Roots Festival
Apr-22-2023
Buffalo , New York, USA
Baton Rouge Blues Festival
April-22-2023 – April-23-2023
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Blues, Brews & Barbeque
May-06-2023
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Lincoln Blues, Rhythm
& Rock Festival
May-6-2023
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Gator by the Bay
May-11-2023 – May-14-2023
San Diego, California, USA
10th Annual Big Island
Jazz & Blues Festival
Jun-01-2023 – Jun-03-2023
Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA
Billtown Blues Festival
Jun-09-2023 – Jun-10-2023
Hughesville, Pennsylvania, USA
Central Virginia Blues Festival
Jun-10-2023
Afton, Virginia USA
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Why March is Women's History Month? Well, why not?!
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 What's cookin? Well, undoubtably a woman somewhere and not just in the kitchen! Yeah baby!
Go checkout the fabulous blues women in your community! I bet you'll find that there's much more than what meets the eye.
There's passion, sadness, life-experience, fire, revenge, humor. Sure, you can say that about many male artists... but we're not talking about them now are we! HA! Okay, just a little sass there, settle down.
But seriously, women bring a different angst as well as wry wit to the blues picture. You can't tell me that some of these women don't literally bring you to your knees. It's not always an easy road for a women in the biz either so there's also fortitude involved, too.
Celebrate the women of the world! And while you're at it, hug your mama, sister, daughter, gramma, aunt, wife, girlfriend, baby mama ...you get the picture!
Your grateful e-Editor aka "Queen of Steam,"
Michele Lundeen
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