Playlist:
Jim Carpenter & the Hoolios- One Night Stan, Popa Chubby- Somebody Let The Devil Out, Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts- Real Prince Charming, Max Creek-You’re The Only One, Columbia Fields- Lines in the Sand, Sparkplug- Hot Dog, Forward Motion- I’ll Understand, Addison Station- Feel It, Frank Viele & the Manhattan Project- Try, River City Slim & the Zydeco Hogs- I Just Want To Dance, Elison Jackson- Man From Lowell, Girls, Guns & Glory- Inverted Valentine, Mojomatics- Soy Baby,
Feed Our Friends Contest:
This week’s winner in our Feed Our Friends Contest was Ann Marie C. Raymond. She won a $50 gift card to Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford simply by friending our Facebook Fan Page. Congratulations Ann Marie!!
Black-Eyed News:
Our first piece was about the International Blues Challenge which is taking place in Memphis Tenn. Ct has competitors in the Youth Showcase (Bobby Paltauf) the Solo/Duo Competition (Steve Balkun) the Band Competition( Rich Badowski Blues Band) and Best Self Produced Album (Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts with Call My Name). Keep an eye on what going on in Memphis on any of the participants Facebook pages or at the Blues Foundation’s website.
https://blues.org/#ref=index
The next news item was about the new documentary Sound City about the famed recording studio in Van Nuys Ca. that was directed by Dave Grohl formerly of Nirvana (currently Foo Fighters). The documentary has a one night showing this Thursday night at Hartford’s Real Art Ways at 7 & 9:30pm. Read about it here:
http//www.rollingstone/movies/travers-5-sundance-films-that-bode-well-for-2013-20130124
The last piece was about a guitar exhibit that is going on at the Springfield Science Museum. It started on January 18,2013 and runs through April 24, 2013 at it you can see:
The “Rock Ock”, world’s only playable 8-necked guitar
The World’s Largest Playable Guitar (43 feet long!)
The Science of Guitars and Their Sound including:
The mechanics and physics of building and playing guitars
How pick-ups and amplifiers transmit signals on electric guitars
Strobe-light displays of vibrations on guitar strings
Design your own guitar station
Here is the link:
http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/the_museums/science/
Blues in the Area:
2/1 FRIDAY
JOHN MAYALL - INFINITY MUSIC HALL (8PM) - NORFOLK, CT
JOE MOSS - CHAN'S (8PM) - WOONSOCKET, RI
GUY DAVIS - LYRIC HALL ANTIQUES & CONSERVATION - NEW HAVEN, CT
RHETT TYLER & EARLY WARNING - BLACK-EYED SALLY'S (9PM) - HARTFORD
JEFF PITCHELL W/JAMES MONTGOMERY - THE KNICKERBOCKER CAFE (8PM) - WESTERLY, RI
2/2 SATURDAY
GUY DAVIS - LYRIC HALL ANTIQUES & CONSERVATION - NEW HAVEN, CT
CHRISTINE OHLMAN & REBEL MONTEZ - THE PALACE THEATRE (8PM) - STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT
MIKE LAW & THE PLAYBOYS - THEODORES' (9PM) - SPRINGFIELD, MA
Alexis P. Suter Band - Black-Eyed Sally’s (9pm) _ Hartford
Black-Eyed Sally’s Weekly Rundown:
Wednesday Jan 30 Blues Open Mic hosted by Tim MacDonald
Thursday Jan 31 Girls, Guns & Glory W/Elison Jackson
Friday Feb 1 Rhett Tyler & Early Warning
Saturday Feb 2 Alexis P. Suter Band
Monday Feb 4 Monday Night Jazz
Tuesday Feb 5 Mike Palin’s Other Orchestra
I hope to see you out and about his weekend but if not please continue to support live music Wherever you are.