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Photo Moments with the 22nd Annual BFG Magazine!
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 Here's Bob Trenchard, Catfood Records owner and a 50+ years music business veteran at the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame Awards ceremony in Memphis, TN.
Bob was originally the bass player writer and producer of Kay Kay & The Rays and worked with Johnny Rawls. He launched Catfood Records in 2001.
Catfood Records and it's artists have garnered numerous acclaim, awards and nominations. Trenchard also has served on the Blues Foundation’s board of directors and is president of the Trenchard Foundation, which has awarded college scholarships to students in West Texas and New Mexico as well as partnered with the U of Nebraska Foundation scholarship program in honor of family members who have passed.
Photo: Michele Lundeen
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Buddy Shute and The Motivators :: A PART OF THE WHOLE
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 A Part Of The Whole opens with the southern groove of “I Tried,” one of ten original tunes that share that timeless quality drawn from Buddy’s adventures in Memphis and New Orleans and his journeys through the great state of Mississippi traveling between the two. All the tunes are blues-based with some New Orleans mojo and a touch of Zydeco and Tex-Mex mixed in, covering the spectrum from the soulful minor blues “A Whole Lot Like The Blues” to the up tempo swing of “Bear’s Place.”
The two cover tunes are musical treasures and include Professor Longhair’s “Her Mind Is Gone,” which Buddy learned from “Fess” having opened for him at Tipitinas, and the classic “One Meatball.”
Produced by Buddy Shute and Chris Moore. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Moore, East Hall Recording, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
"….Biscuitheads love the songs by Buddy Shute & the Motivators” - Thomas Shell Jacques-King Biscuit Time Radio
Watching a tugboat from the levee, dancing in a roadhouse, A Part Of The Whole takes you on a musical tour of the south with a new take on that feeling you get when listening to the old blues masters.
"I Tried"
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Firefighters Blues Festival July 20
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 (MISHAWAKA, IN) - The Firefighters Blues Festival is back for its 25th year this Saturday at Kamm Island Park in Mishawaka, Indiana. The festival will feature live music, food, drinks, and more! Gates open at noon.
Lineup:
• Local 362 All Stars - 1pm: Since 2010, musical members of the South Bend Fire Department have come together to create an all-firefighter band
• Howard and the White Boys - 3pm: The group's versatility and funk, R&B, and rock styles that have become their trademark.
• Stefan Hillesheim - 5pm: Born in Koblenz, Germany Stefan, is best known for his fingerstyle and slide guitar playing, soulful vocals and songwriting.
• Ivy Ford – 7pm: Singer, musician, entertainer, Ford is one of the leading "youngbloods" of blues and brings a refreshing yet classic face to the music.
• Albert Castiglia – 9pm: Exceptional guitar prowess, with searing vocals and captivating live performances, Castiglia (ca-steel-ya) is a multiple Blues Music Award (BMA) “Blues Rock Album of the Year” and “Blues Rock Artist of the Year” nominee and “Blues Rock Album of the Year” winner.
Kamm Island Park, Mishawaka, provides a perfect family-friendly venue for the Festival so bring a chair, sit back, and enjoy the music, the food and the excellent surroundings. No coolers please!
Ticket prices the day of the show are $15 per person.
Proceeds will go to the Hoosier Burn Camp and the Survive Alive House.
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Legendary Blues Rockers Canned Heat Finyl Vinyl Nominated
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 Finyl Vinyl (Ruf Records), Canned Heat's first new album in fifteen years, has received substantial praise from the press and achieved impressive positioning on rock and blues radio charts.
Final Vinyl has been nominated in the "Rock Blues" category for a 2024 Blues Blast Music Awards.
"The current quartet cook with the same juice that founders Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, Bob “The Bear” Hite and others imparted when they founded the group in Los Angeles almost 60 years ago. Rock steady and driving throughout, give a listen to “One Last Boogie,” “Blind Owl,” “Goin’ to Heaven,” “East/West Boogie,” “A Hot Ole Time,” “You’re the One,” “When You’re 69,” “Independence Day” and “There Goes That Train.” ~ Chicago Blues Guide
Fan Voting is open to the public on the Blues Blast website as of Monday, July 15. Anyone can vote one time only. Voting will end at midnight CST on Saturday, August 31, 2024.
"With a glorious musical history that traverses more than half a century of Blues and Rock, the All-Stars American collective Canned Heat delivers the eighteenth studio album of their career called Finyl Vinyl, a record that translates beautifully and accurately the sound of a band whose energy, passion and love for music leaves a sempiternal legacy in the present and future of Rock and Blues."
~ Bluebird Reviews
Checkout "One Last Boogie" on YouTube.
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Wisconsin’s longest running blues fest coming to Fern Island
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WAUSAU, WI - Tickets are still available for Wisconsin’s longest running blues fest located on Fern Island, 500 River Drive, in Wausau, Wisconsin. The Big Bull Falls Blues Festival is coming Aug. 16-17 at this one-of-a-kind venue. Shuttles will make stops at seven Wausau locations the festival to transport people to Fern Island.
Artists appearing include Blood Brothers (Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia), Mark Hummel, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Ivy Ford, and Tommy Bentz. Tickets for the event can be purchased by visiting here.
Festival tickets are $60 and are good for both days. VIP tickets are $160 and includes t-shirt, VIP Lanyard, access to the VIP area and dinner both days of the festival!
No carry-in food allowed, coolers with ice only will be allowed, no tents/awnings or pets allowed. Large bags and backpacks subject to inspection.
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Reissues of bygone blues are coming out like wildfire
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 Liberation Hall continues its '60s-'70s projects with two previously unissued concert discs from long-gone heroes of the blues revival: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee's Live from the Ash Grove and Lightnin' Hopkins' Live from the Ash Grove … Plus! – both with excellent audio and bonus tracks to supplement the rather short live shows.
Born Saunders Terrell, Terry (1911-86) lost his vision in two childhood accidents, so he listened all the more closely to bird calls and other sounds of nature in his native North Carolina, which influenced his whooping vocals and harmonica work with Tennessee-born Piedmont guitarist Walter Brown McGhee (1915-96).
Texas blues guitarist Sam “Lightnin'” Hopkins (1912-82) in contrast was low key and conversational with his audience here. He was a link on the chain between Blind Lemon Jefferson (with whom he'd traveled) and Bob Dylan. Between songs, the introductions and reminiscences give us glimpses of his personality.
A superbly remastered 71-minute show, Bessie Jones, John Davis & the Georgia Seas Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young's The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways) brought exciting, down-home gospel and blues to a New York audience in 1965.
Grammy-winning music historian Elijah Wald's heavily researched Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs & Hidden Histories (Hachette) uses New Orleans pianist Morton (1890-1941) as a jumping-off point as he digs into the lusty music that's often sanitized before we hear it. Musicians weren't always willing to share their raunchy material with producers or field researchers of a different gender or race. On a lighter side, we learn words' local connotations: “In the high-class houses of prostitution that lined Basin Street in New Orleans, the top pianists were known as 'professors.'” The book's earthiness is among its strengths.
Excerpts from Bruce Sylvester/Goldminemag.com
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In 2020 we ran this cool YouTube video in the E-Guide that The Blues Foundation had created to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. I ran across it today and thought to share these great memories of past and present blues friends again! Click the image below for the video and reminisce through the Foundation's journey.
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• Huntington Blues Society Appalachian Blues Festival
• Baton Rouge Blues Society Summertime Blues Benefit
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 (HUNTINGTON, WV) - The Huntington Blues Society (HBS) and The Fly In Cafe present the Appalachian Blues Festival July 19-20 featuring two days of camping and music at the scenic Robert Newlon Airpark, 6799 Kyle Ln, Huntington, West Virginia.
Headlining is the award-winning Teeny Tucker!
Tickets can be found at the HBS website.
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(BATON ROUGE, LA) - Head over to the Texas Club, 454 N Donmoor Ave., in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this Sunday, July 21, for the 2024 Summertime Blues Benefit presented by the Baton Rouge Blues Society.
The musical lineup includes Lil Ray Neal Blues Band, The Chris LeBlanc Band, The Eddie Smith Band, Hanna PK and special guest artist Big Luther Kent and many more.
Free food will be provided such as jambalaya, white beans, chicken wings, and salad.
Event begins at 3pm and is 18 and up. Ticket $25, but tables for four can be reserved for $180.
Find more information and purchase tickets at the Texas Club website.
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Big Jack Johnson "Dust My Broom"
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Just In Case... plus upcoming Holidays & Birthdays
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"Hard times ain't nothing
that music won't help heal..."
JULY: July 20 National Moon Day...
to honor man's first moon landing
July 30 - International Friendship Day
Birthdays: July 18 Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins (1929–2000), Martha Reeves (1941), Lonnie Mack (1941-2016); July 19 Arley "Buster" Benton (1932-1996), Little Freddie King (1940); July 20 Carlos Santana (1947), Steve Freund (1952), Sleepy LaBeef (1935-2019), Danielle Nicole (1983); July 21 Floyd McDaniel (1915-1995); July 22- George Clinton (1940); July 23 Tony Joe White (1943); July 26 Popsy Dixon (1942-2015), Mick Jagger (1943); July 28 Roy Rogers (1950), Mike Bloomfield (1943-1981), Junior Kimbrough (1930-1998); July 30 Buddy Guy (1936), Big Jack Johnson (1940-2011), Otis Taylor (1948), Michael Burks (1957-2012); July 31 Roy Milton (1907-1983), Ahmet Ertegun (Atlantic Records founder 1923-2006)
Just in Case:  July 24th is "Tell an Old Joke Day." The very first joke book ever found was also from Greece. Titled “Philogelos,” or “Laughter-Lover.” Well, we all know laughter is the best medicine and we know there are blues funnies and of course countless blues songs with humorous, tongue-in-cheek lyrics (plus ones we can't always understand correctly), and funny innuendos.
Get your blues and laughter going on and share some with your friends.
What happens if you play blues music backwards?
Your lover returns to you, your dog comes back to life, and you get out of prison.
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Tony Mart Presents
Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk (Every Weds)
Jun-26-2024 - Sep-04-2024
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
W.C. Handy Music Festival
Jul-18-2024 - Jul-28-2024
Florence, Alabama USA
Red, White & Blues Festival
Jul-20-2024
Rockford, Illinois, USA
Prairie Dog Blues Festival
Jul-25-2024 - Jul-27-2024
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
Porretta Soul Festival
Jul-25-2024 - Jul-28-2024
Porretta Terme, Italy
Salmon Arm Roots
and Blues Festival
Jul-26-2024 - Jul-28-2024
Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
Bilbao Blues Festival
Jul-25-2024 - Jul-28-2024
Bilbao, Spain
Bigfoot Blues Brews BBQ Festival
Jul-27-2024 - Jul-28-2024
Brookings, Oregon, USA
Anson B Nixon Park
Roots and Blues Festival
Jul-27-2024
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA
Kalamazoo Blues Fest
Jul-27-2024
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Calgary International Blues Festival
Jul-29-2024 - Aug-04-2024
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Jus' Blues Music Awards & Conference
Jul-31-2024 - Aug-03-2024 Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
Mammoth BluesapaloozaAug-01-2024 - Aug-04-2024 Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Notodden Blues FestivalAug-01-2024 - Aug-04-2024 Notodden, Norway
In The Market for Blues -
Omaha's Blues FestAug-03-2024 Omaha, Nebraska, USA
TD Kitchener Blues FestivalAug-08-2024 - Aug-11-2024 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Nanaimo Blues FestivalAug-08-2024 - Aug-11-2024 Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Heritage Music Blues FestAug-09-2024 - Aug-11-2024 Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
Waukesha Blues FestAug-09-2024 - Aug-10-2024
Delafield, Wisconsin, USA
Sunflower River Blues Fest
Aug-09-2024 - Aug-11-2024
Clarksdale, Mississippi USA
31st Chenango Blues FestivalAug-15-2024 - Aug-17-2024 Norwich, New York, USA
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