Blues

Homemade Jamz' Blues Band Ottawa Bluesfest 2009

3 August 2010

Their guitars are wild, they groove and it's not that often that I really enjoy an electric guitar blues solo. Hope you do to!

The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band (and also: http://www.myspace.com/homemadejamzbluesband)

A Very Windy Evening Of Blues

16 July 2010

It’s been a while since we’ve all played together so it was nice to have what was supposed to be a relaxed informal outdoor lake side café gig to get things going again at the King Du Lac. And it was pretty much that if you remove “relaxed” from the list since there was a storm wind blowing Wednesday evening that threatened gobs of rain which didn’t come – fortunately – but which did make it very hard to set up the sound an actually hear what we were playing. Before you knew it the music was blown away over the waters never to return leaving me, for one, struggling to hear the little that was left. I’ve probably gotten too used to playing in a cellar in which my little drum set is far to loud too; fireworks! Outdoors it’s like a cheap little firecracker, pthiip…, did you hear something? Not sure, can you turn up the guitar?

And then the wind would change and I’d only here the bass or the harmonica, just bizarre… and not the best to all be together now…

I (heart shaped guitar) The Blues

14 July 2010

Don’t forget to join us (The Crawfish Blues Band) tonight down at Neuchâtel’s lakeside for a wild evening of old and new blues tunes! Hopefully we’ll get a few decent recordings of a song or two to replace the dusty and poorly recorded one we have on our band website. As far as promotion’s is concerned this band has a lot to learn… but anyway… what can you expect of a bunch of old geezers. Which got me thinking of just how male/macho the whole blues scene is….

CRUDE GREED

10 July 2010

Just a happy reminder, least we forget, that crude oil continues to “leak” into the Gulf of Mexico at a speed that in fact, it’s pretty hard for the human mind to grasp. Think about the whys of this disaster when you use your car to go to the corner store…

The David Wilcox Music Video Channel
Dot Earth's Continuing Coverage Of The Oil Spill

Cedell Davis - Bull Dog

2 July 2010

Another album picked up 16 -17 years ago in the sales bin was Cedell Davis’ “Feel Like Doing Something wrong”…

Le Bar King au bord du lac

1 July 2010

In the summer, the Bar King set up an ice cream stand on the lac side in downtown Neuchâtel and invite groups of all different musical horizons to play. For the whole program check out the Le Bar King au bord du lac website.

And for those folks interested in the Blues, please take not that the Crawfish Blues Band concert has been moved to July 14th 2010.

Poor Boy Blues

30 June 2010

A little blues to get back into the rhythm of things!

The Mike Garner Trio features Dave Robinson, acoustic bass guitar and Warren Houston, percussion.
Mike Garner's website

Steve Tibbetts - Villanova Junction

20 June 2010

I’ve been a fan of Steve Tibbetts since I randomly chose his album “Northern Song” in the 1/2 price on these unsellable LP’s bin in I don’t know which San Francisco record shop sometime in the mid eighties. I now own all his records which is probably somewhat due to the fact that he doesn’t make that many. In fact I had completely forgotten that I had signed up to receive news since the surprised notification that came this morning about his new record, Natural Causes, was the first I’ve ever received; it being his first album in 8 years!…

Swamp Train - Rollin' & Tumblin' - Little Red Rooster

27 May 2010

Well, here it is: Swamp Train as seen last Saturday night @ the Blues Club Fribourg! Sorry the sound isn’t any better but it’s what you get with today’s automatic level technology…

Rick Franklin & Mike Baytop / Eastern Market #1 . 22 July 07