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Playlist: Heather Maloney- Iron Bull, Them Damn Hamiltons- Black Mining Hills, River City Slim & the Zydeco Hogs- Good Love( Takes More Than a Minute), Dana Lauren- If I Were a Bell, Two Virgins- Down in the Flood, Shaka & the Soul Shakers- Mr. Levy’s Grave, Paul Gabriel Blues Band- What’s the Chance, Petey Hop & the Levee- Why Should I Complain,Studebaker John & the Hawks- Tumblin’ Down the Road, Paper Hill Casket Co.-Written Deal, Little Ugly- And We Said, John Fries & the Heat- My Dearest, Mojomatics- Soy Baby.

Feed Our Friends Contest:
This week’s winner in our Feed Our Friends Contest was Ed Jones. He won a $50 gift card to Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford simply by friending our Facebook Fan Page. Congratulations Ed!! Friend us on Facebook and you might be next.

Black-Eyed News:

Our First piece was about the Blues Foundation announcing the 2013 inductees for the Blues Hall of Fame to include performers, Behind-the-scenes personnel, albums, literature and songs. You can find the article here:

bluesbeatnews52 | February 16, 2013 at 7:33 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1uIon-d3

The second article was about the Grammy’s and their impact on music sales for the performers at the award show. You can find that here:

http://news.yahoo.com/record-sales-double-grammy-performers-young-old-220812813--finance.html

Prince playing three very expensive shows at the Montreaux Jazz Festival this July. Read about that here:

http://news.yahoo.com/prince-headline-montreux-jazz-three-pricey-concerts-175745711.html

Injuries to Lady Gaga force her to cancel the rest of her tour. If you want to read about it check it out here:

http://news.yahoo.com/lady-gaga-needs-hip-surgery-cancels-remainder-tour-033827529.html

Since it was Valentines Week Billboard released their list of the Greatest Love Songs. You can check out the list here:

http://news.yahoo.com/endless-love-leads-billboards-top-love-songs-210450764.html

Blues in the Area:

2/22 FRIDAY
Buddy Guy / Jonny Lang - The Klein Auditorium (8pm) - Bridgeport, CT
Eric Lindell - Chan's (8pm) - Woonsocket, RI
John Fries & the Heat w/Matt Zeiner - Black-eyed Sally's (9pm) - Hartford

2/23 SATURDAY
Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson - The Iron Horse (7pm) - Northampton, MA
Popa Chubby - Chan's (8 & 10pm) - Woonsocket, RI
Bad Rooster - The BlackStone Irish Pub - Southington, CT

2/24 SUNDAY
Easy Baby - The Brass Horse - Barkhamsted, CT

Black-Eyed Sally’s Weekly Rundown:
Wednesday Feb 20 Blues Open Mic hosted by John Fries
Thursday Feb 21 Little Ugly w/ Paper Hill Casket Co. $5 cover
FRiday Feb 22 John Fries & the Heat
Saturday Feb 23 Milo Z
Monday Feb 25 Monday night Jazz
Tuesday Feb 26 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.