BIMONTHLY NEWS OF THE SCENE • VOL. 23, NO. 4 • AUG. - SEPT. 2017 • [email protected] 2013 KBA WINNER BLUES SOCIETY OF THE YEAR THE BLUES ART FORM OR JUST ENTERTAINMENT? by JACK HADLEY

I recently attended a blues show in at a venue called Globe Hall. The Peterson Brothers from Bastrop, Texas, played a Sunday afternoon show. This band is a phenomenal combination of blues, soul and funk. And they burned the house down. There might have been 30 people in the house. I also went to a Kenny Wayne Shepherd concert a few months ago at Hudson Gardens, a larger outdoor venue in Little- ton. mixed with straight-ahead tradi- tional blues. It looked like a packed house to me. I didn’t realize that drummer Chris Layton has been with Kenny for a number of years. It was a great concert. The Peterson Brothers show was a CBS- sponsored event and the Kenny Wayne Shepherd show was not.

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IN THIS ISSUE 1 THE BLUES/ART OR ENTERTAINMENT? 17-22 CD REVIEWS THE PETERSON BROTHERS PHOTO © STEPHEN RATELIFF 3 shoutin’ the blues 23 MOJO & BUSINESS KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD (PROMO SHOT) 5 REV. ROBERT WILKINS 24 BLUES ACTS 6 PRESSING OUT DIAMONDS 25 BLUES RADIO 9 GREELEY BLUES JAM 27 MEMBERSHIP 13-15 GREELEY BLUES JAM PHOTOS 2 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER SHOUTIN’ THE BLUES BY TARRY UNDERWOOD

Here we are in August already! I can’t believe how fast the sum- mer months go by every year. I’m really looking forward to The Colorado Blues Society some of my favorite festivals this month. It starts on Saturday, August 5th with the Car- was formed to create a greater awareness and wider appreciation bon Valley Music Festival in Dacono. This is not a blues festival but CBS members My of the American indigenous art form, the BLUES. Blue Sky and Kerry Pastine and The Crime Scene are performing. On August 12th we’ll P.O. Box 386, Windsor, CO 80550 be at the Blues and Brews on Old South Pearl Street. This is Denver’s only Blues festival. It gets a little crowded, but always a good time. The line-up is strong with headliner John Nemeth, Kirkland Daniels Project, Dragondeer, Whiskerman and Ricky Earl Band Fea- turing Cherise. I’ve never seen Dragondeer or Whiskerman so I’m really looking forward Affiliated with The Blues Foundation www.blues.org to this one. Stop by the booth and say hello. You can renew your membership there, if OFFICERS you need to. Tarry Underwood - President Chick Cavallero - Vice-President, The Trinidaddio Blues Festival is August 25 - 26th this year. On Friday night, there Weekly Update Editor will be a party in the streets of downtown Trinidad with the Colorado Blues Society IBC Scott Fitzke - Vice-President Kyle Deibler - Treasurer band winner, Mojomma, starting it off with a couple of other bands to follow. Saturday Joe Menke - Secretary will find the festival at Central Park. This year’s line-up is very strong with Jaquie Gibson, DIRECTORS Patti Cavallero, Wolf, Sandee Nye, The Pleasure Pilots, Albuquerque Blues Connection (ABC), The Alexis P Suter Band, Peggy Jamison, Fordham Murdy, Kerry Morrison (Education Chair) Tad Robinson and Alex Schultz, Nathan and The Zydeco Cha Chas, and Daryl Reicheneder

The Real Deal Blues Band and the headliner, The Fabulous Thunderbirds featuring Kim WEB MASTER David Brandt Wilson. Love Trinidaddio! If you have never gone, treat yourself. It is right up there with HOLLER Greeley Blues Jam and Blues from the Top as the best in Colorado festivals. Published for Feb-March, April-May, June-July, Aug-Sept, Oct-Nov, and September offers the Taste of Colorado, although the line-up has not been an- Dec-Jan nounced. And in between these great events, support your local musicians and the EDITOR & CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jack Hadley venues hosting them. Keep the blues alive! CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Jack Hadley, Tarry Underwood, Lane Wilkins, Hawkeye Herman, Peter “Blewzzman” Lauro, Dan Willging, Herb Wise, Stephen Rateliff

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4 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER I love the music of the Rev. Robert Wilkins, (b. 1/16/96, Hernando, MS - d. 5/26/87, Memphis, TN). I especially enjoy his songs “Prodigal Son” and Rev. “No Way To Get Along.” I have performed those two tunes for well over 30 years. (The song ‘Prodigal Son’ is based on a parable Jesus tells in the New Testament book of Luke, chapter 15, v.11-32, The Lost Son or Prodi- Robert gal Son. Check it out in your New Testament Bible. It won’t take but a few minutes to read.) I became a friend of Rev. Wilkins granddaughter, Lane Wilkins, who Wilkins lives in Memphis, a number of years ago. She heard me perform the song ‘ BY HAWKEYE HERMAN Prodigal Son’ at a club in Memphis. After my performance she introduced herself and we became good friends. We talked a great deal about her grandfather ... and you will be happy to know that the Wilkins family received a “righteous settlement” ($$$) from for their having placed the song, ‘Prodigal Son’, on the Stone’s Beggar’s Banquet ...and for having wrongfully taken credit (Jagger/Richards) for writing the song. Rev. Wilkins played blues music in his early recording days ... but later became a“sanctified singer/preacher” and would only perform gospel/sacred music. Lane told me about how, years ago (in the early 1950s) her Reverend grandpa would load up the car with family members on Saturdays, put .50 cents worth of gas in the car, and drive out to the small towns outside of Memphis in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, to perform gospel music and “witness” on the streets for passersby, hoping to get donations enough to get enough gas to make it back to Memphis that night. They would usually bring PHOTO © HERB WISE only hard-boiled eggs and lemonade to eat on such all-day musical gospel missions. Lane told me that other members of her family played music with her granddaddy in these street gospel sessions, and that she was given a tambourine at the age of three, in order to join in on the music making. She also stated to me that that was the best way and most common way (in Black culture) to get a child involved in music in the church, and otherwise ... by starting them out on the tambourine, so that from the beginning they know where the beat is ... and after that, maybe they can apply that sense of tempo to learning another instrument. About a year after meeting Lane Wilkins in Memphis, I had an assignment to write about the ‘meaning of the blues’ for a blues music magazine ... I wrote to Lane and asked her if she could share any thoughts she might have on the subject ... or any thoughts her grandpa may have shared with her about blues music and its origins and ‘meaning.” Below you will find the message she sent back to me ... it is beautiful, and I have quoted it a number of times in articles I have written on blues history and origins ... I have titled her letter, “PRESSING OUT DIAMONDS.” I hope you enjoy the letter as much as the music of her grandpa.

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5 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER PRESSING OUTBY LANE WILKINS DIAMONDS Dear Hawkeye, My grandfather, Robert Timothy Wilkins, Sr., was not a Delta bluesman, so his music had a hill sound to that is so popular around Oxford, Mississippi. Towards the end of his life, my grandfather talked about his music and what it meant to him. Once he said, “Baby - God gave each Negro a compensation, something like a payment for slavery. This gift from God is a soulful thing and deals with what the Negro got inside himself. You see, after so many years of pressing down hard on the colored man, a person (the one being pressed upon) gets something like a diamond. Now that diamond is hard, but it is still the most highly dollared paid for stone in the world. Every Negro got one of them diamonds on the inside. The only problem is that they just don’t know that much about mining. The blues is what happened when Negroes starting ‘mining’ for their special gift from God. And the blues takes on different shapes for different Negro’s. Some of them sing the blues, others play the blues, some paints the blues, and still others dance the blues right off of their feet like ol’ Bojangles. You know you I’m talking bout. Find your diamond and you will find your blues.” I then asked him about white people and the blues. He laughed and said, “See that’s another thing folks don’t understand. Sometimes them white boys who done been to my house, the blues just leaps right out of their eyes. I can see the mean daddies with their drinking and woman chasing. I can see the fat back, biscuits, and sorghum syrup. I see their hard times. They got the blues cause somebody, usually their kin folks done pressed down on them and made a diamond. But some of them, I listen to their music and playing, and I know they ain’t been pressed on a day in their lives. Ain’t got nothing but some grit inside. Don’t know nothing about no suffering.”

Yours Truly, Lane Wilkins

p.s. I hope this helps. I am a worker of the words and not the magician with the steel six strings that you are and my grandfather was. Tell me, just between you and I, have you ever been pressed on so hard until a diamond popped right out of your heart?

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I mention this difference because I as- sumed that CBS members were more serious about their music, a little more enlightened than the general public. I bet most performers see music as an art form and a way of life. They HAVE to do it. Maybe the blues au- dience doesn’t share that view (CBS members are an integral part of that audience). You have the freedom to take it or leave it. God know there are a million reasons to not go out the door and spend your hard-earned money on a show. The blues has never been main- stream entertainment. Those who don’t know anything about the blues often have much to say about it: anyone can play “that music”, it’s primitive and (even worse) old- fashioned and boring. And the num- HARMONICA LEGEND CAREY BELL ber one comment I’ve heard is that PERFORMING AT THE LONG BEACH BLUES FESTIVAL, 2003 there is no guitar “hero” to get peo- ple fired up. And these are serious comments. Really? What the blues needs is support. If you, me and everyone else who claims to be a fan doesn’t get out of the house more often and listen and dance to the music it will cease to exist. It will be- “...Experience the music come a museum piece. If you get that itch, go ahead and scratch it. If you believe the blues is wherever it exists...” art and entertainment you should sup- port it. Experience the music wherever it exists. At a friend’s house, a small club or a brewery. Don’t wait for a Big Festival to make your appearance. Netflix will be around for a while. The blues might not be if no one is listening. q

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8 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER All this, of course, was free to the music lover. GREELEY Any alcohol was on you, unless you coerced a friend into buying you one. BLUES JAM In the four o’ clock hour, I found Greeley’s Ben Pu Downtown Greeley & Islan Grove Arena playing solo on a lime green box guitar in an 8th Street By Dan Willging hair salon and boutique. Below the Moxi Theater in the ‘well,’ as locals call it (Batter Up Cakes and Ar- mando Studio), AJ Fullerton delved into some North For the past five years, I’ve either hosted Greeley Mississippi trance blues. Blues Jam promoters Al Bricker or Chris ‘The Music While Wirtz flailed his tattooed arms around Man’ Haug on KGNU’s Blues Legacy a week before the and pounded out boogie-woogie rhythms, he sang Greeley Blues Jam (GBJ) was to occur on the second about deeply personal things like the male-aging pro- weekend of June. While we promoted and played mu- cess and automobile-driving grandmas. The Rolling sic from that year’s line-up, inevitably the discussion Stones’ “Get Off My Cloud” was parodied as ‘Hey you would venture into the mammoth Friday night events little bastards, get off my lawn.’ occurring in downtown Wirtz confessed he was a se- Greeley on the eve of nior citizen himself and apolo- the GBJ. This year Chris gized for offending anyone. But if was my guest. Since he’s he did, he quipped, ‘it was well the mastermind booking worth the trip.’ fiend of over 20 acts play- Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal ing in various venues, built up its soul-ish ballads to my curiosity was piqued. epic, grandiose proportions. Of- I literally couldn’t take tentimes at a song’s apex, he it anymore and had to would throw his arms up to the find out for myself what heavens and sing with thunder- the fuss was about. This ous emotion. In between verses year’s Friday night mar- and choruses, Soul Colossal quee acts were the irrev- deep dived into entrancing jams erent Rev. Billy C. Wirtz with guitar and keys that occa- and Lincoln NE’s Josh sionally were psychedelic. Hoyer & Soul Colossal, A few yards from Hoyer’s plus another 20-some of stage were the Fahrenheit the Front Range’s finest 360 fire spinners who amazed blues purveyors. the crowds with twirling baton fire tricks. FRIDAY JUNE 9 There was still tons more to It definitely was worth see but since my wife Julie was the hype. Down- recovering from foot surgery, town was crawling REV. BILLY C. WIRTZ experiencing music would have with anxious, impa- Photo © TARRY UNDERWOOD to take a backseat until the tient music lovers way next day. before Wirtz would plink his first note on keyboard and bellow out ‘C’mon, let’s get excited continued on pg. 10 here! Y’all act like you’re at a Mennonite Wedding.’

9 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER Following Kuch at the west side of the stadium GREELEY was Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene who blew the doors wide open into full tilt party mode. Pastine was BLUES JAM nothing less than spectacular as a front-woman per- Downtown Greeley & Islan Grove Arena former and the band, propelled by Lance Romance’s By Dan Willging thumping upright bass, was a high-octane dragster peeling rubber down the strip. Guitarist Pauly Six lit continued from pg. 8 many a string-torching solo. Greeley’s The Burroughs delighted the crowd SATURDAY JUNE 10 with its soulish performance powered by beloved Simply put, the GBJ gives the passionate music frontman Johnny Burroughs and a four-piece horn lover a staggering value for the money with two section. Burroughs dazzled viewers with Michael main stages alternating between 11 national and local Jackson-inspired footwork. acts. Count another handful from the educationally- With a sound somewhat similar to The Bur- minded Blues 101 roughs, The Mov- Stage and it totals ers and Shakers 17 performances. looked sharper Because Island in its black and Grove Arena is a white attire. If bowl-shaped rodeo frontman Andy grounds stadium, Webber was not it has sufficient dynamic enough, space for multiple special guest stages and com- Erica Brown fortable crowd helped catapult movement. The Movers and With perform- Shakers’ per- ers like Samantha formance over Fish and Walter the top. Web- Trout, GBJ was ber and Brown an angler’s para- shared the stage dise but for non- KERRY PASTINE & THE CRIME SCENE Photo © TARRY UNDERWOOD well, allowing anglers, there was each plenty of still plenty to get hooked on. room. As usual, Webber danced all over the place Since her four song debut EP, guitarist Grace while Brown added a revivalist presence with her Kuch has continued to rise in the blues world. The emotive vocals. Fort Collins prodigy, now 13 years old, has no prob- Personally, Guy Forsyth was a pleasant surprise. lem in playing with musicians several times her age. Accompanied by the jagged tremolos of lead guitar- At the 2016 GBJ, she held her own with North Missis- ist Nevada Newman, Forsyth’s approach to blues is a sippi All Stars’ Luther Dickinson and even delivered bludgeoning one and sometimes quite quirky as evi- an applause-worthy solo. This year with her veteran denced by a few of his album covers like Steak, Nee- squadron, she exuded more maturity and growth in dle Gun and Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana. her vocals while playing confidently with an under- stated presence. She sang “Blues is My Business” and proceeded to do just that. continued on pg. 11

10 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER Though Chicago’s Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials GREELEY could be considered the old guard of the blues given its 40-plus year longevity and nine album discogra- BLUES JAM phy, the group shows no signs of slowing down. Just Downtown Greeley & Islan Grove Arena the opposite, in fact, even if Lil’ Ed doesn’t tippy-toe By Dan Willging across the stage bending his guitar strings anymore. He never lacked for facial expressions, often smiled continued from pg. 9 from side to side, sometimes looking as if he were about to cry but with tears He sang hard. of happiness. His slide was He played hard, practically screaming on scorching on har- “Raining in Paris” where he monica and burn- yanked the guitar neck to ing on a weather- the sky. A motoring instru- beaten Fender with mental followed with every- a resonator tone. one dancing madly. Though “Carried By Six” Lil’ Ed provided most of the (‘than be judged by full bore attack, second gui- twelve’) was par- tarist Michael Garrett also ticularly moving, a added considerable heat. motivational man- Erica Brown joined the band tra for troops fight- on a rendition of Gershwin’s ing overseas. “Summertime.” Southern Av- Accompanied by her enue was one of sextet that included sax, GBJ’s much an- trumpet and keys, guitarist ticipated acts, Samantha Fish was also one especially since of the most anticipated acts Israeli-born guitar- of the day. Fish’s set drew ist/songwriter Ori primarily from her splen- Naftaly lived here did Detroit Motown meets briefly a few years Memphis soul Chills & Fe- ago. He has since ver album that was a vast relocated to Mem- departure from her previous phis where his cur- incendiary guitar sound. “It’s rent band recently Your Voodoo Working” was released its debut a fine 9:21 jamming perfor- on the prestigious mance. No token girl blues Stax label. All in lil’ ed & the blues imperials Photo © TARRY UNDERWOOD rock here - Fish is the real all, Southern Av- deal and is here to stay as a enue matched the dominating artist. intensity of the afternoon’s rising temperatures. Undoubtedly the biggest problem with New Or- Savvy front-lady Tierinii Jackson wailed soulfully with leans’ Honey Island Swamp Band (HISB) is its lat- her gospel-influenced vocals as if she were in the est disc, the Americana-ish Demolition Day, doesn’t throes of a Pentecostal service. Back on the traps, her sister, Tikyra, never stopped smiling. continued on pg. 12

11 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER GREELEY BLUES JAM Downtown Greeley & Islan Grove Arena By Dan Willging continued from pg. 11 match the intensity of its live shows. HISB rocked it hard with the twin of Chris Mulé and Aar- on Wilkinson, that is, whenever he strapped on the electric. Wilkinson also alternated between mando- lin and harmonica and sang. At one point, Saman- tha Fish’s horn players, trumpeter Mark Levron and saxophonist Travis Blotsky, also from New Orleans, joined HISB onstage for a funky, strutting number. Blotsky knocked it out of the park with his solo while the arrangement built up to a thunderous climax of searing guitars, organ and horns. Totally killer, for the uninitiated, it was all absolutely unexpected. By now the sun was setting, nightfall was quick- ly approaching and scads of people were seen ex- iting the confines. The Island Grove Arena was still quite full, however, substantially more than what I remember for any past GBJ. Normally, I’m not im- pressed with over-the-top, blitzkrieg assaulting gui- tarists but Trout won me over for life, even after his first song ended with an insane barrage of wild, loud WALTER TROUT notes. In between numbers, he talked about how wait- Photo © TARRY UNDERWOOD ing for his liver transplant led to writing a new batch After the last song “Going Down Down,” Trout of songs that resulted in 2015’s aptly named Battle remarked how you have eight life-saving organs and Scars. He talked about how writing was therapeutic how over 120,000 people are presently waiting for the during his lengthy hospital stay and how he almost right organ donor to come along. Since over 2,000 gave up the will to live, the subject of “Please Take people die each month from not getting a transplant Me Home.” He talked about laying there with tons of in time, Trout asked those who weren’t organ donors hoses going in and out of his body and how elated he to consider becoming one. He then went on to say felt when the day he was informed a liver transplant how many parts of the body are useful. Badly burned was imminent. It was extremely moving performance victims can use human skin, for example. Afterwards, for him, his band and all of us out in there in the promoter Al Bricker came onstage to add that with- pitch black dark. out his cornea transplants, he could be blind by now. And it wasn’t all Trout just shredding on guitar And probably not doing this, either. q either. Keyboardist Sam Avila crashed the keys on or- gan. Avila’s son Danny Avila, the group’s new bassist, played a terrific jazzy bass solo.

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16 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER performances are commendable, which “...flamboyant REVIEWS most listeners wouldn’t discern a prob- lem anyway. Nixon does his job emot- ing, sounding distraught on “Juanita” Alabama Mike Andy T Band Featuring and regretful on the peppy “I Feel So Alabama Mike Bad.” There’s also an air of levity on (Michael A. DOUBLE STRIKE the mambo-rocking “Drunk or Sober” where the protagonist proclaims his love American Showplace Music Benjamin) of the regardless of the state of sobriety his woman is in. Compared to the Bay Area. With his emerging trend of power trios, this record, in many unbridled, natural power ways, is a generational throwback. Talamantez’ and screaming high band features a sizable ar- senal of piano, Hammond B3, drums, string and elec- tenor voice, he adds a tric basses, saxophones and trumpet. Talamantez’s guitar thrilling presence ...” playing is often the center- piece of the arrangements with eloquent, clean tones and an occasional buzzy edge. If there’s any doubt about the band’s virtuos- ity, check out “Mudslide,” a cool instrumental led by a whooshing B3 with every- one getting an opportunity Over the course of six years and three to solo. acclaimed , The Andy T-Nick The prospects look promising for Nixon Band held their corner of the this latest incarnation of the Andy T blues world just fine, touring domestical- Band. In the meantime, keep Nixon in ly and internationally while garnering your thoughts and prayers. three Blues Music and four Blues Blast awards. Its upward trajectory would - DAN WILLGING have continued except, unfortunately, for Nick Nixon’s retirement in 2016 due to declining health. As luck would have it, Nixon’s re- placement turned out to be the flam- boyant Alabama Mike (Michael A. Benjamin) of the Bay Area. With his unbridled, natural power and scream- ing high tenor voice, he adds a thrilling presence to the band. He sings on six tracks with his best performances being the rollicking revival-ish “Dream About You” and the shuffling “I Want You Bad.” Talamantez also asked Nixon to sing on these sessions, which, admitted- ly, became tougher than imagined due to the veteran’s declining health. Other than the flat “Sweet Thing,” Nixon’s

17 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER But what’s most impressive is his REVIEWS songwriting prowess. Sixteen of the sev- enteen tunes are originals with the lone cover being Ramsey Lewis’ 1965 Gram- my Winning “The “In” Crowd.” Whether LONESOME HIGHWAY it’s the barreling, Chuck Berry-ish rocker “Good Navigator,” the soul funk “I Feel ‘Um,” the Americana-ish “Small Town” or every shade of blues imaginable, every track dif- fers from its predecessor. Many of these songs’ early beginnings were consulted with longtime friend/men- tor Jimmy Dawkins, whom Flynn started playing with as a teenager. It’s quite a palette of diverse styles only to be augmented by Flynn’s crack outfit that includes bril- liant pianist/organist Roo- sevelt Purifoy. There’s even a bluesy Christmas song (“Christmas Blues”) but this is one gift that will delight its recipient any time during the year.

Jimmy Dawkins, , Mississippi - DAN WILLGING Heat, , Willie Smith, Little Smokey Smothers, Little Arthur Duncan, James Wheeler, and Eddie C. Campbell, it’s hard to imagine who guitarist Billy Flynn hasn’t played “... it’s hard to and/or recorded with among the Windy City’s blues scene. And Flynn’s tentacles extend way beyond that with such more imagine who nationally known names such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, guitarist Billy Flynn Kim Wilson, The Cash Box Kings, Bryan Lee, Charlie Musselwhite, hasn’t played and/or and the list goes on. But dropping names really isn’t what Flynn is about, nor is his Delmark recorded with among label debut. He’s not the killer shredder guitarist but is more of a master of tones the Windy City’s (especially fuzz and crunch) with vary- ing techniques and styles. His consum- blues scene ...” mate musicianship extends beyond the six-string, such as holding his own on harmonica when he could have easily summoned a marquee talent from Chi- cago’s harmonica elite.

18 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER to Ohio; made a living working odd emotional and soulful than what I’m REVIEWS jobs; raised a family; and eventually hearing right here as well, but I so retired from a thirty-nine year career do hope I’m wrong. Real deal blues working for a municipality. With his at it’s best. Bobby G with Curtis Grant Jr. dues having now been paid, the time “Love, Love, Love” is a smoker & The Midnight Rockers was right for him to introduce the that leans more towards a soul rock STILL STANDING world to Bobby G - the bluesman he vibe. Led by a dramatic and con- Third Street Cigar Records was really destined to be. stant group handclap, the rhythm “Still Standing” Fea- is very hard driven, the guitar leads tures Bobby G on Vocals; are quite assertive and the growling, Curtis Grant Jr. on drums; gravelly voiced vocals are intense. Larry Gold on guitar; Different yet excellent. Johnny “HiFi” Newmark When Bobby G tells you he on bass, and Johnny ‘woke up this morning with “The Rawls on keyboards and Worst Feeling” he ever had’, he does guitar. With Johnny Raw- it with such conviction that you’ll be ls - the perennial nominee thinking he really did - and that’s and often winner of many exactly how a song should be sung. soul blues awards - hav- Additionally, Curtis and “HiFi” - on ing written or co-written the drums and bass - are doing one all of the disc’s ten tracks, heck of a job with the rhythm while you’d be correct in as- Larry, once again, is like ‘gold’ on suming that this one’s the lead guitar. loaded with soulful blues. This one’s a real feel good Although not written song. Whereas it once felt so good by him, it sounds like the for Bobby G to escape Mississippi title track - “Still Stand- it now “Feels So Good” for him to ing” - was written for and about return. Once again you can just Going with the “It’s never too late” Bobby G. It’s the sincerity he puts hear the excitement in his voice theory, Bobby G finally decided it forth singing about much of his life’s as he sings of being back home in was time to release his debut CD - at happenings - some good, some bad, Greenville, hanging with some old the age of 73. In many cases, that’s some he’s proud of, some he’s not - friends and checking out some old the age where long time veterans of and the matter of fact way in which stomping grounds. the genre finally get their long over he states that in spite of it all, he’s Other tracks on “Still Standing” due recognition anyway, however “Still standing and wouldn’t change include: “Ball And Chain”, “Little Bit- that was not Bobby’s reasoning. a thing” that kind of gives the song ty Woman”, “Movin’ On” “I Almost Being born into a poor family on an autobiographic feel. Musically it’s Love You” and “Party Man”. a plantation in Mississippi, like ev- got a bit of a nostalgic groove, kind Besides this being Bobby’s debut eryone else, Bobby G seemed des- of reminiscent of a soul/disco fusion. disc, it’s also the debut disc for the tined to be a cotton picker - which he Surely one for the dancers. record company - Third Street Cigar started doing at the age of seven. If On a ballad titled “Good As Records, founded by John Henry - a there could ever be an upside to that, Gold”, it’s Larry Golds’ guitar intro blues enthusiast, promoter and club it may have been that in the area that had me knowing I was in for owner. John has assured me that in where this all took place, he was for- some serious, slow and low down addition to hearing a lot more from tunate enough to become exposed to blues.....and that’s just the way I like Bobby G, there will be many more the blues by the likes of B.B. King, it. With the rhythm locked into one recordings on his label from many Mississippi Slim, and Bobby Blue of those tight, slow grooves that this more blues artists, as well. Now Bland. That said, more than cotton type of song calls for, Larry and Bob- that’s what I call good news. was planted in those fields. By the by are all over it. It’s only the second To learn more about Bobby G time he was fifteen, he knew that one track in and I’m making the early call and Third Street Cigar Records just day he’d harvest those blues seeds that I could very well be listening to go to the label’s website at www. sown in inside his soul. some of the disc’s best blues guitar thirdstreetcigar.com. Fast forward some fifty years or work right here. Vocally, I honestly so, during which Bobby G: escaped don’t think Bobby can get any more - PETER “BLEWZZMAN” LAURO 19 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER Although this one is actually With Kerrie having such a REVIEWS about the frisky mood Kerrie is in, uniquely passionate voice, it seems it’s also apparent that the rest of the she has me drawn towards loving all band was “Ready To Play” on it as the slow, bluesy ballads and “These Kerrie Lepai well. Had I been writing about anoth- Dreams” are just that. All my life I’ve ORGANIC BLUES er genre, right about now the word been a sucker for this type of song Galexc Records hoedown would come into play, but sung by this type of a singer. Ker- since this is the blues I’ll rie, you’re a welcome addition to just call it a barrelhouse my favorite ladies of song list. You smoker. Definitely one for keep singing ‘em like this and I’ll the dancers. keep listening. Bartender, pour Earlier I mentioned how great I her a double, Kerrie’s thought Kerrie and Andrew would got a real bad case of sound as an acoustic duo and now the “Whiskey Drinking I’m finding out. Psychic? No! Lucky? Blues”. Let me just cut Indeed! As it turned out, the disc right to the chase, this is closes with one titled “Gambling the disc’s best track. It’s Woman”. As expected, the pair are slow, straight up, in your flawless. The tone of her voice and face, down and dirty, the tone of his guitar were a heav- real deal blues - simple enly match. I could listen to a whole as that. Christol, Jamil lot more of this.....another hint. and Julie are in an intoxi- Other tracks on “Organic Blues” cating rhythm groove; include: “I Am The One”, “Eyes On Andrew’s stretching and You”, “I’m Busted”, “Mr. Bill Collec- bending of those guitar tor” and “Boogie Down Baby”. “Organic Blues” Is Kerrie Lepai’s strings sound as good as I’ve ever You can also say hello to Kerrie debut release. It consists of eleven heard; and Kerrie, with an impres- by searching her name on Facebook original songs that were written by sive range and tone varying style, but for bookings, interviews, CD re- her and/or her husband Andrew is pretty much putting on a “Blues quests, etc. you can also shoot an JR. Boy Jones. The musicians joining Singing 101” lesson. This one rates email to abjentertainment@yahoo. Kerrie, on the vocals, include: An- my ultimate “this is song of the year com. Once again, when you do drew JR. Boy Jones on guitar: Chris- material” compliment. so, please tell her the Blewzzman tole Jones on bass; Jamil Byrom on Now that you know about the sent you. drums; with Julie Bonk and Shawn disc’s best track, let me tell you about Phares on piano & organ. it’s most beautifully done one - “The - PETER “BLEWZZMAN” LAURO The disc opens with a track titled Memory Is Fading”. With the band “Bad Luck”. Musically, it’s got a funky laying down a calm rhythm behind groove; vocally it’s quite sassy; and them, this melancholic ballad is all as the title may indicate, lyrically, it’s about Mr. & Mrs. Jones. Andrew’s all about the blues. Seems like this subtle, soothing and skillful guitar poor gal’s paying some serious dues work perfectly complimented Ker- right here. With Andrews’s quick rie’s soulful, heartfelt and emotional and precise pickin’, rapid rhythm led vocals. I’d love to hear this one as an by powerful organ solos from Shawn acoustic duet.....hint, hint, hint. and an “I’ll kick these blues’ ass” at- titude by Kerrie on the vocals, this one made a great first impression.

20 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER “It’s Me Again” features ten With a nice percussion groove REVIEWS tracks that were all penned by An- going on in the background, An- drew. Joining him, on guitar, lead drew JR. Boy Jones shines on this and background vocals, are: Chris- one. “Midnight” is a bit of a jazzy Andrew Jr. Boy Jones tole Jones on bass; Jamil Byrom instrumental that’s all about the gui- IT’S ME AGAIN on drums and Julie Bonk on piano tar and the masterful way in which it Galexc Records & organ. should be and is being played. For With many of the students of the instrument, this should tracks being just the way be mandatory listening. I like them - straight up This one’s titled “I Need Time” traditional blues - I’m and on it, Andrew has well over looking very forward to seven minutes to showcase his ex- telling you about a few. traordinary vocal skills. With this Now a guy named heartfelt and emotionally soulful per- Rodney may be more formance, he’s easily at disc’s best famous for using the line vocally. Also outstanding here is Ju- “I Get No Respect” but lie’s exceptional ninety second, mid once you hear the cho- song organ highlight. rus line on this one, it will The disc closes with a rhythm be Andrew JR. Boy Jones fueled smoker. That said, Christole who will be responsible and Jamil are at disc’s best on the for you singing the catch bass and drums and Julie’s piano phrase over and over solo is telling us why she was a and over. It’s a perfect winner of The Sammons Center for blues song. Along with its the Arts Jazz Musician of the Year. grave lyrics, it features: Then there’s Jr. Boy - smokin’ on For those of you who know of Andrew poignantly powerful lead vocals; the guitar and sounding so soulful JR. Boy Jones as I do, this paragraph rhythmic harmony vocals; blistering and so sincere with his “Baby I’m isn’t necessary. On the other hand, blues guitar licks; compelling piano Sorry” apology. when the rest of you read some of leads; and rich rhythm. Other tracks on “It’s Me Again” this you just might think “Why the About forty-five seconds into this include: “Negative Talking”, “Just hell didn’t I know that?”At the ridicu- track I found myself wishing it was Playin’ The Blues”, “Mr. Domestic”, lously young age of sixteen, Andrew an instrumental. With Christole and “Blues Belly”, and “Lonely Times”. was in a band called The Thunder- Jamil laying down a silky smooth You can say hello to Andrew JR. birds and although they weren’t “The rhythm behind them, Andrew and Boy Jones by searching his name on Fabulous Thunderbirds” they were Julie were sounding absolutely Facebook but for bookings, inter- The Thunderbirds that did a fabulous magical together on the guitar and views, CD requests, etc. just shoot an job backing up one ofthe King’s of piano. Then, with all that still going email to abjentertainment@yahoo. the blues - “The Texas Cannonball” on, sounding something like one of com. When you do so, please tell himself - Mr. . Addition- my all time favorite vocalists - Bar- him the Blewzzman sent you. ally, JR. Boy spent some thirty years kin’ Bill Smith - Andrew starts belt- touring the globe playing with the ing out the blues, and what I had al- - PETER “BLEWZZMAN” LAURO likes of Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Patter- ready thought was a great track just son, Charles Musselwhite, Katie “The got greater. This one transcended Swamp Boogie Queen” Webster me from tapping on a keyboard in and countless others while recording my office to tapping on my knees in with many of them as well. Since be- a “Blues Joint”. Phenomenal track! ginning his solo career in 1996 “It’s Me Again” is his ninth release. Right about now I’m thinking a lot of “Hm- mmmmmms?” are being muttered.

21 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER Within seconds of the needle drop- REVIEWS ping on this one, it’s easy to see why Rogers was knocked out by the open- ing track “Watch Me.” A funky guitar Nina Massara riff kicks it off, a lip-peeling horn section WATCH ME follows and eventually Massara saunters CSP Records in with her alluring, testosterone-raising voice that’s a master at syncopation. Throughout these songs, Massara manages to dis- play a variety of emotions, sometimes coy, sometimes flirty. She states her inde- pendence one moment, then succumbs to unbridled pas- sion the next, as evidenced by the steamy McClinton- esque duet “Impossible to Resist” sung with Brooks. An unexpected blockbuster.

- DAN WILLGING

Texas-based CSP Records has historical- ly been entrenched in Louisiana swamp pop and still maintains a deep catalogue of that indigenous genre that’s rooted “...it’s easy to see why in New Orleans 50s R&B and Fats Domino. But when CSP Records’ stable Rogers was knocked out of artists either retired or fell off the scene, the label took a hiatus from by the opening track new releases. At least until the day Nina Massara sent her unreleased CD to CSP Records’ after seeing “Watch Me.” A funky a photograph of Rogers and her hero Delbert McClinton together. guitar riff kicks it off, a Rightfully impressed, Rogers pieced together her story, a young, attractive lip-peeling horn section Danish woman with a 50s throwback look and a great grasp of American blues and funk. Along with producer/ follows and eventually songwriter Morten Wittrock, the dean of the Danish blues scene, Massara Massara saunters in trekked to Austin, TX and recorded the core of these tracks with a few session with her alluring, sidemen, most notably ex-Band of Hea- thens’ guitarist Colin Brooks who essen- tially shaped these proceedings with his testosterone-raising swampy, jagged textures. Then it was back to Denmark where the horn parts voice...” were added.

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25 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2017 HOLLER WHAT IS BLUE STAR CONNECTION? The Blue Star Connection (BSC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing music into the lives of children and young adults who are fighting cancer and other life-challenging situations. We also work with musical therapists in various hospitals and clinics. We also host fundraisers and benefit concerts in many cities around the world.

THE BLUE STAR CONNECTION MISSION The Blue Star Connection mission is to provide access and ownership of musical instruments for children and young adults with cancer and other serious life challenges. To date we have reached hundreds of kids and have donated musical gear to over 25 Children’s Hospital Music Therapy programs, as well as several other community programs. Please help us continue this mission. bluestarconnection.org The Colorado Blues Society is a proud supporter of Blue Star Connection. Donate to Blue Star today!

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