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Guest post: Buddy Guy – A Blues Experience Like No Other
UK writer/blogger Breton Towler offers these thoughts on a recent performance from one of blues’ greatest at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Seven times a Grammy award winner and an inductee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Yet he … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddy Guy, Quinn Sullivan
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Book to Columbus for Booker T., Diunna Greenleaf, and Project Blues Review 2016
We’ve told you before about the Project Blues Review that takes place in Columbus, Ohio, each August to benefit individuals and families afflicted by cancer, and even had the chance to cover the event a few years back when John … Continue reading
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Tagged Anson Funderburgh, Booker T., Diunna Greenleaf, Jonn Del Toro Richardson, Project Blues, the Texas Horns, Tom Holland
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Video: Joe Bonamassa not just Pretending on this cover of Clapton hit
While we’re on the subject of tributes to blues greats, you may have heard that blues-rocker Joe Bonamassa has done a few of his own recently, following up last spring’s spectacular Muddy Waters/Howlin’ Wolf recording from Red Rocks with first … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert King, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Freddie King, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Bonamassa
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New to the Gallery: Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival in photos
If you missed our earlier recap of this year’s Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival and its numerous tributes to the recently departed B.B. King, you can read it here. Or, for a quick and dirty look at the weekend, check out … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Hart, Bobby Rush, Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, Gregg Allman, Jarekus Singleton, Jonny Lang, Mingo Fishtrap, Shemekia Copeland, Tommy Castro
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Buddy Guy, Gregg Allman, Charlie Musselwhite, others remember King of the Blues during Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival
As far as we can recollect from both our own attendance over the years and the listing of past performers on the event’s website, the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival never had the honor of having B.B. King play their stage … Continue reading
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Tagged B.B. King, Beth Hart, Bobby Rush, Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, Dean Rosenthal, Gregg Allman, Jarekus Singleton, Jonny Lang, Mark Stutso, Mark Wenner, Mingo Fishtrap, Quinn Sullivan, Shemekia Copeland, Tommy Castro
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Second annual Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival offers more blues than any one fan can hear
You know it’s probably a pretty blues-packed program when you’re only able to catch short segments of such talented acts as Albert Castiglia, Nikki Hill, Mac Arnold & Plate Full o’ Blues, Peter Karp and Sue Foley, and Dana Fuchs … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, Corey Harris, Dana Fuchs, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Jim Weider, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Long, Kelly Bell Band, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival, Mac Arnold and Plate Full o' Blues, Mark May Band, Nikki Hill, Peter Karp, Popa Chubby, Sue Foley, Tom Principato
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Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival 2015 in photos
We’re still compiling our written recap of this year’s Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival, but, in the meantime, you can now view the photos we captured during those two days in our BluesPowR Gallery, including dedicated albums for Joe Louis Walker, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, Corey Harris, Dana Fuchs, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Jim Weider, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Long, Kelly Bell Band, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival, Mac Arnold and Plate Full o' Blues, Mark May Band, Nikki Hill, Peter Karp, Popa Chubby, Sue Foley, Tom Principato
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Johnny Winter wins blues Grammy plus a few Lancaster Roots & Blues Fest pics
Aside from Johnny Winter‘s posthumous award for Best Blues Album for his Step Back – the late guitarslinger’s first Grammy win for his own music, despite three of the albums he produced for Muddy Waters having won Grammys a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddy Guy, Corey Harris, Grammy Awards, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Winter, Keb Mo, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival, Mac Arnold and Plate Full o' Blues, Popa Chubby
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Plenty of blues at the roots of second annual Lancaster music festival
If you’re looking for a modern-day example of the famous Willie Dixon adage “The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits” in action, then think of the Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival as the equivalent of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, Big Sam's Funky Nation, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Corey Harris, Dana Fuchs, Jason Ricci, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Long, Kelly Bell Band, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival, Mac Arnold and Plate Full o' Blues, Nikki Hill, Peter Karp, Popa Chubby, Sue Foley, Trudy Lynn Blues Review
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