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Popa Chubby BB Kings NYC Jan 4 2010 :

Popa Chubby BB Kings NYC Jan 4 2010

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Updated: Jan 07, 2010 11:51am PST

Johnny Winter BB Kings NYC Jan 4 2009 :

Johnny Winter BB Kings NYC Jan 4 2009

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Updated: Jan 05, 2010 1:37pm PST

Blues At The Lake (Tahoe) : The Mannish Boys were first up.  Assembled from the cream of the crop of today’s blues veterans and young bloods, the flexible and rotating cast of vigorous musicians and entertainers keep things interesting and fresh.
Elvin Bishop was next. Growing up in the 1940s on a farm in Iowa with a loving but non musical family, Elvin seldom heard music as a kid. "This was before TV," Elvin says. When rock and roll started up in the mid-'50s, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Little Richard showed up on white radio.
Mavis Staples followed Elvin Bishop. Mavis Staples began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a weekly radio show.
Then came Jimmy Johnson. His first solo material appeared on Alligator Records and Delmark Records in 1978-79, when he was fifty years old. His career continued to pick up until December 2, 1988, when his touring van crashed in Indiana, killing his keyboardist St. James Bryant and bassist Larry Exum. Johnson was injured and took an extended hiatus from music, but returned to record for Verve Records in 1994. In 2002 he cut a record with his brother Syl.
Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater was next. A Chicago legend, Clearwater is an intense, flamboyant blues-rocking showman. He’s equally comfortable playing the deepest, most heartfelt blues or rocking, good-time party music. DownBeat said, “Left-hander Eddy Clearwater is a forceful six-stringer...He lays down some gritty West Side shuffles and belly-grinding slow blues that highlight his raw chops, soulful vocals, and earthy, humorous lyrics.”
Over the course of his career, guitarist/vocalist Lonnie Brooks has come a long way. From his early days backing zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier to his years as a hit-producing Gulf Coast rock and rolling R&B singer to his emergence in Chicago as an innovative blues man in his own right, Lonnie shaped a signature sound and style.

Blues At The Lake (Tahoe)

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The Mannish Boys were first up. Assembled from the cream of the crop ...

Updated: Jan 05, 2010 8:06am PST

Tommy Castro : PART 1:
Tommy Castro playing in Sacramento in June 2005 (1 - 6)
PART 2:
Tommy Castro in Reno in June 2008 (7 - 24)
PART 3:
Tommy Castro's Blues Review at Harrahs Lake Tahoe October, 2009 (25 - 110)
At the core of THE LEGENDARY RHYTHM & BLUES REVUE is renowned guitar slinger and vocalist TOMMY CASTRO and his band. Castro was named B.B. King Blues Entertainer of the Year in the 2008 Blues Music Awards, and his album Painkiller won Contemporary Blues Album of the Year!
VIsit the Tommy Castro Bands sites: http://www.tommycastro.com/   http://www.myspace.com/tommycastroband

Tommy Castro

Nick McCabe (FrontRowPhoto)

PART 1: Tommy Castro playing in Sacramento in June 2005 (1 - 6) PART ...

Updated: Jan 04, 2010 8:16pm PST

Dr John Highline Ballroom NYC Dec 29 2009 :

Dr John Highline Ballroom NYC Dec 29 ...

ArnieG

Updated: Dec 30, 2009 3:26pm PST

Bertha Southpaw Brooklyn Dec 17 2009 :

Bertha Southpaw Brooklyn Dec 17 2009

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Updated: Dec 18, 2009 6:14am PST

Savoy Brown Boulton Theater Dec 12 2009 :

Savoy Brown Boulton Theater Dec 12 2009

ArnieG

Updated: Dec 14, 2009 10:41am PST

Derek Trucks Band 8-17-09 : These were shot in Hunt Valley md 8-17-09. It was the Hot August Blues Festival, and it was hot!!! 5000+ in attendance. Good music, Good Beer!! I love when I can shoot an event like this.

Derek Trucks Band 8-17-09

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These were shot in Hunt Valley md 8-17-09. It was the Hot August Blues ...

Updated: Dec 09, 2009 2:18pm PST

Welcome to Jville (Johnsonville). Where I live... : Thanks for the invitation to your Blues Festival community - a little about me (a blues lover) - and the place I live in (my actual community) - inanga.

I live in Jville (Johnsonville), Aotearoa (New Zealand) and I derive a lot of inspiration from my immediate surroundings. Johnsonville, as suburbanly interesting as it is, can be found on the attached Google map. Just zoom in, go to New Zealand (where there are a lot of flags), zoom in again close to Wellington, and just to the north-west is Jville. If you came in by something like 'Jeff Jville' you may wish to view more of my art - CLICK ' > inanga >' at top left of this page.

Have you ever heard the band Dave Warner and From the Suburbs, a Western Australian band, sing 'I'm just a suburban boy, And I know what it's like to be rejected every night...' Jville's a bit like that...

Enjoy Jville NZ - I continue to do so.

inanga

Welcome to Jville (Johnsonville). Whe...

inanga

Thanks for the invitation to your Blues Festival community - a little ...

Updated: Dec 09, 2009 10:51am PST

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