BEB 106 | Good Booty and BBQ - Black-Eyed N Blues

Frank Bang & the Secret Stash-18 Wheels of Hell, Eight To The Bar- Party In Providence, Blowing Smoke Rhythm & Blues Band-You Can Have My Husband But Please Don’t Mess With My Man, Howard & The White Boys- Booty & BBQ, Mystic Horns- My Old Man, Delta Generators- Canebrake, Brandt Taylor- This Kind Of Lonely, JP Soars- So Many Times,Victor Wainwright & the Wildroots-Our Last Goodbye, Damon Fowler- We’ve Got a Good Thing, Southern Hospitality- Sky Is What I Breathe, Jen Lowe- Hell, River City Slim & the Zydeco Hogs- Blues Du Tac Tac, Mojomatics- Soy Baby.

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Black-Eyed News:

The first story up this week is that the Clapton Crossroads show from a few months ago will be coming to a theater near you.On August 13th in theatres across the country there will be a special one night only event broadcasting highlights and backstage footage from this pasts Aprils CrossRoads Guitar Festival. Musicians featured in the cinema event include Allman Brothers Band, Blake Mills, Booker T., Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Gregg Allman, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Keith Richards, Keith Urban, Los Lobos, Robert Cray, Sonny Landreth, Vince Gill and Warren Haynes. It will be shown in nearly 500 select theatres around the country, and to see where and to buy tickets head to www.fathomevents.com.

We went to the theater event last year and it was awesome you almost feel like you’re there.

Blues Blast magazine has had 2 great interviews in the last 2 weeks. The first one was with frontman for the Fabulous Thunderbirds Kim Wilson. It talks about the T-Birds new record and how he has gone from being influenced by the greats to becoming influential on the careers of a new crop of performers and the first time that he met Muddy Waters. It is a great interview. I will leave the link in this week’s write up.

http://thebluesblast.com/Archive/BluesBlasts/2013/BluesBlast7_18_13.htm

The second interview is with the legendary James Cotton. Though a bout with throat cancer and the ensuing loss of a vocal cord back in the mid-90s has left Cotton unable to do much singing, the Grammy Award winner and Blues Hall of Famer has steadfastly refused to allow that malady stop him from blowing the harp with as much power and gusto as he ever has. “I was a harmonica player before I was a singer. I didn’t really become a singer until I started fronting a band,” he said. “So, that (his health) has kind of made me be able to concentrate on playing the harmonica again. It kind of put me back on track.”

Cotton’s health issues have also not put the brakes on his recording career, either. He just requires a little more help in the studio these days. And when you’ve got friends like Gregg Allman, Keb Mo, Warren Haynes, Delbert McClinton, Darrell Nulisch, Joe Bonamassa and Ruthie Foster to call on, well, you’ve got it made.

You should read the entire interview and pick up a copy of Cotton Mouth Man on Alligator records.

http://thebluesblast.com/Archive/BluesBlasts/2013/BluesBlast8_1_13.htm

Lastly; The self-proclaimed ‘Boss of the Blues,’ James Lewis Carter ‘T-Model’ Ford, passed away from respiratory failure July 16 in his Greenville, Mississippi home. Depending on which account you believe, T-Model was somewhere between 89-93 years old (editor’s note: He told Blues Blast in an interview from Feb. 14 of this year that he was 92 years old).

T-Model was the very embodiment of the blues and spent a couple of years on a chain gang for murder as a young man. He also claimed to have been married six times and fathered over 20 children. With his unique style of guitar playing – chopping off chords that were very reminiscent of a bell chiming – T-Model paired with R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough to help bring the Fat Possum Records label to national attention with four classic albums for the Oxford, Mississippi-based label. T-Model is survived by his wife Estella and grandson (and drummer) Stud.

http://thebluesblast.com/Archive/BluesBlasts/2013/BluesBlast8_1_13.htm

BLUES IN THE AREA:8/7 WEDNESDAY

CHRISTINE OHLMAN & REBEL MONTEZ - WESTERLY TOWN BEACH (6-8PM) - WESTERLY, RI

DAN STEVENS - THE OLD LYME INN (6 PM, WEATHER PERMITTING) - OLD LYME, CT

THE CHRIS D'AMATO BAND - THE HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY (NOON-1PM, 500 MAIN ST.) - HARTFORD

THE TRAVIS MOODY BAND - BLUES, BERRIES & JAM FARMERS MARKET ON THE GREEN (NOON-1:30PM) - NEW HAVEN, CT

BLUES JAM W/BRANDT TAYLOR - BLACK-EYED SALLY'S (8 PM) - HARTFORD

8/8 THURSDAY

TOMMY CASTRO - CHAN'S - WOONSOCKET, RI

ANA POPOVIC - STEARNS SQUARE (WORTHINGTON ST.) - SPRINGFIELD, MA

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY - BLACK-EYED SALLY'S (8 PM) - HARTFORD

ERIN HARPE & THE DELTA SWINGERS - THEODORES' - SPRINGFIELD, MA

DAN STEVENS - THE CONNECTICUT RIVER MUSEUM (5:30 PM) - ESSEX, CT

BRANDT TAYLOR - THE SPRING HOUSE - BLOCK ISLAND, RI

8/9 FRIDAY

TOMMY CASTRO - THE KNICKERBOCKER CAFE (8PM) - WESTERLY, RI

JOHNNY RAWLS - CHAN'S (8PM) - WOONSOCKET, RI

RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS - THE OUTER SPACE (8PM) - HAMDEN, CT

DAN STEVENS - THE CAPTAIN DANIEL PACKER INN - MYSTIC, CT

THE WALTER LEWIS BLUES TRIO - THE LAKEHOUSE (7PM) - SEYMOUR, CT

ERAN TROY DANNER (ACOUSTIC) - THEODORES' (9PM) - SPRINGFIELD, MA

BRANDT TAYLOR - THE CANOE CLUB (9PM) - MIDDLETOWN, CT

8/10 SATURDAY

STAFFORD SPRINGS BLUES FESTIVAL - HYDE PARK & THE PALACE THEATER - STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT

HYDE PARK LINEUP (STARTS AT NOON):

JAMES MONTGOMERY

EASY BABY

JUNIOR KRAUSS & THE SHAKES

JOHNNY CHARLES & 706 UNION BAND

JOSH SCUSSEL & THE RUDE BLUES BAND

13TH STEP

DAN STEVENS

Palace Theater lineup (starts 7:15 pm):
AJ JANSEN CHRISTINE

OHLMAN & REBEL MONTEZ

George Thorogood / Buddy Guy - MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods (8pm) - Mashantucket, CT
JOHNNY A. & JEFF PITCHELL - BRIDGE STREET LIVE (9PM) - COLLINSVILLE, CT

THE RICH BADOWSKI BLUES BAND - SAM THE CLAM'S - SOUTHINGTON, CT

RIVER CITY SLIM & THE ZYDECO HOGS - BLACK-EYED SALLY'S (9PM) - HARTFORD

KING CAKE - THE LEBANON FAIRGROUNDS (3PM) - LEBANON, CT

BRANDT TAYLOR - T.J. O'BRIEN'S (9PM) - STURBRIDGE, MA

8/11 SUNDAY

RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS - CHAN'S (8PM) - WOONSOCKET, RI

DAN STEVENS - BURKE'S TAVERN (5PM) - NIANTIC, CT

THE MIDDLETOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL - MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE (NOON-8PM) - MIDDLETOWN, CT

INCLUDING:

THE MIGHTY SOUL DRIVERS

THE MICHAEL CLEARY BAND

J-CHERRY & THE STRAWBERRIES