Rattlebrained

Received this email the other day:

Dear Deep Blues Fan:

Maybe you’ve already heard, and if not, we think you ought to: the Deep Blues Festival is being revived this year with the blessings of the event’s founder Chris Johnson.

Deep Blues Festival 2011 will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, at the historic Beachland Ballroom on Saturday, July 16, featuring dirty roots music bands from across the country.
The bands, many of whom you already known, will play continuously on two stages from 5 p.m. until closing… etc… etc…

…so I’m passing it on and adding my two cents here…

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Crazy enough to drive 2 hours down to Geneva to see Eric Bibb (alone) tonight!

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I finally got a few pictures of Blaise and me jamming with Bonny B last month.

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Saturday afternoon, Dave and I once again headed south west towards France and the Devil’s Bridge Inn. It seemed that it would be just him and me since the other “official” members of the band couldn’t make it, so I had been psyching myself up for a guitar-washboard duo. However a phone call on the way there informed us that Denis would be playing after all and that possibly an old saxophone playing friend of his and Dave’s would be coming too.

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Last week I learned that the concert we have agreed to do mid June, warm up the room for a gospel choir, will be in a hall that can seat 1000 people. I am terrified. All the more since there is some fuzziness as to who will be able to play; for instance one member of the band is getting a tooth pulled two days before…

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When we passed into France yesterday, the customs officer looked into the car and could see that it was filled with bizarre stuff like cymbals, drums and guitars. Anything to declare? Dave says: “No, not at all, we’re going to play a concert at the bistrot in Crouzet-Migette this evening”.
“You know where Crouzet-Migette is?” he asked…

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You know the feeling, you look forever for something that is right in front of you…
Yet much worse is finding something great that you never though of looking for. Right, hit your head on the wall…
But it could be worse, it always can, trust me, you may have never ever found it.
What??
Honey, Where Have You Been So Long? A great pre-war blues blog stumbled on by mistake good karma! Don’t waste your time here…, get on over there!

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