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Photo Moments with the 21st Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here's respected touring and recording guitarist, singer, songwriter Alastair Greene posing with his BFG magazine following his July performance at Bluesdays Tuesdays at Palisades Tahoe.
The Blues-rocker's recent release, Alive In The New World, was produced by Tab Benoit for Benoit's Whiskey Bayou Records. The live album features the power trio of Greene, Corey Duplechin on bass, and multi-instrumentalist Benoit on drums. A multi-charting Top 10 Billboard artist, Greene is not only a firecracker on stage and in the studio, but a really cool, down-to-earth human as well.
Bluesdays is co-sponsored by the Reno Blues Society.
Photo © David Rocco
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Johnny Rawls :: WALKING HEART ATTACK
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 Catfood Records announces a September 1 release date for Walking Heart Attack, the new CD from Blues Music Award-winning singer Johnny Rawls. Produced by Johnny Rawls, Walking Heart Attack was recorded at the Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and mixed by Grammy-winner Jim Gaines at Bessie Blue Studio in Stantonville, Tennessee. On the new disc, Johnny Rawls (all vocals and guitar on tracks 7 and 8) is backed by his long-standing recording unit, The Rays: Johnny McGhee – guitar; Bob Trenchard – bass; Richy Puga – drums; Dan Ferguson – keyboards; Andy Roman – sax solos; Mike Middleton – trumpet; Nick Flood – baritone/tenor/alto sax; Frank Otero – trombone; with Jon Olazabal – percussion; and backing vocals by Janelle Thompson and Shakara Weston.
The ten tracks on Walking Heart Attack include a number of original songs either written by Johnny Rawls, record label head Bob Trenchard, or co-written by the two, as well as another song, “Heal Me,” penned by Catfood Records labelmate Derrick Procell.
Johnny Rawls is a soul blues legend. With a career spanning more than 50 years, he’s done it all. He’s an internationally recognized recording artist, music producer, and songwriter who tours extensively throughout North America and overseas. Three of Johnny’s albums on Catfood Records have made the DownBeat Magazine Critics’ Choice Best of the Year List. Waiting For The Train and Tiger In A Cage both stayed at #1 on Roots Music Report Soul Blues chart for several weeks.
The Blues Music Awards, Blues Blast Awards, Living Blues Awards, and the W. C. Handy Awards have all acknowledged Johnny with multiple awards and nominations, including Soul Blues Album of the Year and Soul Blues Artist of the Year. Johnny is honored to be mentioned on two markers along the Mississippi Blues Trail – one in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, marking the Hi-Hat Club, and another in Rocklin, Maine marking the migration of blues from Mississippi to Maine.
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Welcome to an all-night Blues party tucked in the woods
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 (RENTIESVILLE, OK) – The 33rd annual Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival is geared up! Beginning Friday Sept 1 and continuing through Sept 3, there will be 50 acts on 3 stages over 3 days in historic  Rentiesville, Oklahoma.
The festival is tucked in the woods on a 5-acre old family farm located 2 miles north of 1-40 up US 69. Gates will open at 4pm and the music starts at 6pm. The 2 outdoor stages go until midnight or 1am. The indoor stage in the Juke Joint club also starts at 6 pm, but continues until 5am.
There will be regional showcases of not only Oklahoma bands, but acts from states around the country. Artists appearing over the weekend include Watermelon Slim, Andrew Jr. Boy Jones, Selby Minner, Ronnie Pyle, Hydramatics, Akeem Kemp and many, many more.
There’s also a Kid’s Village and a Harmonica Workshop, and much more. Stages are the D.C. Minner Club Stage, the Back Porch Stage and the Main Stage.
The festival is all ages but must be 21+ in the indoor club.
The Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival is a celebration of the late, heralded, Oklahoma bluesman, D.C. Minner.
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Tidewater Blues Festival features living legend Mojo Collins
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 (CHESAPEAKE, VA) - The Tidewater Blues Festival is back this Saturday Sept 2 and will be held at Big Ugly Brewing (845 S. Battlefield Blvd.) in Chesapeake, Virginia from 12 noon-5:30pm. Admission is free but donations are gladly accepted.
Multi-award-winning headliner Mojo Collins is a living legend who has been performing for nearly 60 years. Mojo performs from 4-5:30pm. The Funky BluesKings will perform at 3pm; 2020 Tidewater Music Awards "Top Blues Band of the Year” Bluzhammer perform at 2pm; and the Matthew Taylor Trio performs at 1pm.
The festival kicks off at noon with the 4th annual Blues Boy Willie Memorial Harp Workshop hosted by harmonica virtuoso Clifton Williams.
Blackwater BBQ Food Truck with be onsite with lip-smackin’ Q.
Thanks to Natchyo' Grandma's Blues Network.
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Blues & Roots Happenings in Clarksdale and beyond starting this weekend
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 Discover some happening Roots and Blues events shared by Blues promoter and historian Roger Stolle, an authority on Delta blues and tourism. Stolle is owner and proprietor of Cat Head, Mississippi's blues store in Clarksdale.
Coming to Clarksdale, Mississippi:
• Sat 9/2:
Red's Old-Timers Blues Fest
• Fri-Sat 9/22-9/23: Mighty Roots
Music Fest
• Sat 9/30: Bad Apple Blues Fest
• Sun 10/8: Clarksdale's Super Blues Sunday (incl. Cat Head Mini Blues Fest)
• Thurs-Sun 10/12-10/15: 4 Deep Blues Fest & MS Delta Tennessee Williams Fest
• Thurs-Sat 10/26-10/28: Hambone Festival & Cruzn The Crossroads
Also nearby:
• Sat 9/16: MS Delta Blues & Heritage Festival (Greenville, MS)
• Sat 9/23: Sam Chatmon Festival (Hollandale, MS)
• Weds-Sat 10/4-10/7: King Biscuit Blues Festival & Symposium (Helena, AR)
Shop Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art Mon-Sat 11am-5pm and Sun 11am-3pm at 252 Delta Avenue, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Plus, there's special festival weekend hours! If you've never been to Cat Head, add that to your bucket list.
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14th Annual Niagara Falls Blues Festival just footsteps from the Falls Sept 15-16
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(NIAGARA FALLS, NY) - The 14th annual Niagara Falls Blues Festival will take place on Friday, September 15 and Saturday, September 16 on Old Falls Street in downtown Niagara Falls, New York. Enjoy live music from regional and national musicians, along with local food and drink vendors, at this free festival. The stage is just 1,000 feet from the actual brink of Niagara Falls.
The lineup:
• Fri, Sept 15: 5pm Cleveland's Backstreet Blues Band
7pm Spencer MacKenzie - 9pm Joe Louis Walker
• Sat, Sept 16: 1pm Tommy Z - 3pm Studebaker John & The Hawks
5pm Mike Morgan and The Crawl - 7pm Lurrie Bell - 9pm Shemekia Copeland
In 2009, the Niagara Festival & Entertainment Group was formed by Toby as a non-profit organization to operate the Niagara Falls Blues Festival. The Niagara Falls Blues Festival has grown into one of the Northeast's premier Blues Festivals, thanks to all the volunteers, sponsors and Blues-loving audiences.
Please no coolers or pets.
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It’s festival time and more in the heart of the Rocky Mountains Sept 15-17
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 (TELLURIDE, CO) - The 29th Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is coming Sept 15-17 featuring three stages, five late night venues, over thirty artists and much more. Telluride Blues & Brews takes place in the world-famous mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The historic mining town is situated 8,750 feet above sea level.
The lineup boosts a dynamic mix of blues, funk, indie, rock, jam band, gospel and soul including Bonnie Raitt, The Roots, The Revivalists, The Word (featuring Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson, Robert Randolph, John Medeski & Rayfield 'Ray Ray' Holloman), The Robert Cray Band, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and many more.
Curated by the Music Maker Foundation, the Music Maker Drink House at the Blues Stage will give you a glimpse into authentic blues culture. The Festival also features kids activities, free morning yoga sessions, local and regional food and craft vendors, and more.
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• Kootenay Blues Society presents band Sept 8-9
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 (VANCOUVER, CANADA) - Kootenay Blues Society (KBS) is presenting The Arsen Shomakhov Band from Vancouver, B.C. at the Balfour Beach Inn (#8406 Busk Road) in Balfour, B.C. on Friday, Sept 8 and Saturday, Sept 9 at Finley’s Bar & Grille (705 Vernon St.) in Nelson, B.C. during the Nelson Road Kings Queen City Cruise.
A Maple Blues Awards nominee, guitarist, songwriter and singer Arsen Shomakhov is an electric blues performer truly dedicated to the style’s roots yet never hesitating to borrow means of expression from other genres.
Arsen will be performing with Michael Kalanj (organ), Roger Brant (bass) and Chip Hart (drums).
Tickets are $25 and available in advance at the venues and online.
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Seasick Steve "Summertime Boy"
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Just In Case... plus Holidays & Birthdays
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 • Labor Day (USA) Sept 4
• International Peace Day Sept 21
• Native American Day Sept 22
"Hard times ain't nothing that music won't help heal..."
Birthdays: Aug 31-Joanna Connor (1962), Van Morrison (1945); Sept 2-Billy Preston (1946-2006); Sept 3-Memphis Slim (1915-1988), Freddie King (1934-1976); Sept 4-Meade "Lux" Lewis (1905-1964); Sept 5-Sunnyland Slim (1907-1995); Sept 6-Jimmy Reed (1925-1976); Sept 7-Little Milton Campbell (1934-2005), Latimore (1939); Sept 8-Harmonica Fats (1927-2000), Guitar Shorty (1939-2022), Derrick "D'Mar" Martin; Sept 9-Otis Redding (1941-1967), Inez Foxx (1942); Sept 10-Roy Brown (1925-1981), Johnny Rawls (1952); Sept 11-Barbeque Bob (1902-1931), John “Juke” Logan (1946-2013)
Just in case:  Just in Case: "World Beard Day" is September 2nd. Beard trends over the years include looks like a lumberjack, biker, and classic, and lately the hipster look that's yep, a throwback to the lumberjack! LOL! Some historians say that a day to honor beards, which were seen as a status symbol, was celebrated by the Danish Vikings as far back as 800 A.D. Well, you know I'm going to dive in and aim to mention a few blues artists that sport beards or did in the past.
Off the top of my head of course I instantly think of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons. In my past searches I see American Blues Scene did an article on the 10 Best Beards in The Blues a few years back (great minds think alike or eventually catchup). Among those listed are Taj Mahal, Reverend Peyton of the Big Damn Blues Band, Jeff Jenson, and the late Sam Chatmon. Yep, let's go ahead and add Seasick Steve (pictured). These days Tab Benoit seems to be letting his beard flag really fly as opposed to the snug look of say, Sugaray Rayford's beard. Okay, the list is way longer then room here but I always hope to inspire you one way or the other... even if just for fun.
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Phoenixville Blues Festival
Sep-09-2023 Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
Peoria Blues & Heritage
Music Festival
Sep-01-2023 - Sep-02-2023 Peoria, Illinois, USA
Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn
Blues FestivalSep-01-2023 - Sep-03-2023 Rentiesville, Oklahoma, USA
Marquette Area Blues FestivalSep-01-2023 - Sep-03-2023 Marquette, Michigan, USA
Harvest Time Blues FestivalSep-01-2023 - Sep-04-2023 Monaghan, Ireland
Red's Old Timers Music FestivalSep-02-2023 Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
New River Blues FestivalSep-03-2023 Grassy Creek, North Carolina, USA
38th AnnualWRFG Labor Day Blues BarbecueSep-04-2023 Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Eastside Kings Festival
Sep-08-2023 - Sep-12-2023 Austin, Texas, USA
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Western New York
Blues Society Festival
Sep-09-2023
Hemlock, New York, USA
Phoenixville Blues Festival
Sep-09-2023
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
Niagara Falls Blues Festival
Sep-15-2023 - Sep-16-2023
Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Telluride Blues And Brews
Sep-15-2023 - Sep-17-2023
Telluride, Colorado USA
Stonebridge Wasaga
Beach Blues
Sep-15-2023 - Sep-17-2023
Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada
Mighty Roots Festival
Sep-22-2023 - Sep-23-2023
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Blues Blast Music Awards
Sep-22-2023 - Sep-23-2023
Peoria, Illinois, USA
Blues and Bones Festival
Sep-23-2023
Angel's Camp, California, USA
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