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FORSMAN TAYLOR ZOE WWW.BLUESCARAVAN.COM RUF 1228 ARTWORK: QUEENS-DESIGN.DE ARTWORK: BLUESCARAVAN.COM SALES & MARKETING USA: IRA LESLIE | [email protected] PUBLICITIY USA: JILL KETTLES | [email protected] RUFRECORDS.DE FEATURES DEPARTMENTS CONTENTS 6 TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND 5 RIFF & GROOVES JULY 2016 Perfect Harmony From The Editor-In-Chief by Brian M. Owens by Art Tipaldi 12 ROYAL SOUTHERN 26 DELTA JOURNEYS BROTHERHOOD 14 Years Of Cat Head Passing Of The Torch by Roger Stolle by Art Tipaldi 28 AROUND THE WORLD 16 THE NIGHTHAWKS The Last Waltzes 44 Years On The Road by Bob Margolin by Don Wilcock 30 BLUES MUSIC STORE 18 NICK MOSS BAND CD, DVD, and Box Sets Brothers In Blues by Blues Music Magazine by Matt MacDonald 38 REVIEWS 20 MORELAND & ARBUCKLE CDs and DVD Reviews Fire & Energy by M. E. Travaglini 62 BLUES ALIVE The 37th Blues Music Awards 22 DION Photo Gallery Bronx Soul by Don Wilcock 61 BLUES NEWS Stony Plain, Alligator, & Bear 24 CHRIS JAMES & PATRICK RYNN 64 MUSIC SAMPLER TEN Worthy Contributors 16 Songs To Download by Michael Kinsman by Various Artist COVER PHOTOGRAPHY © COURTESY OF TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND ART & POSTERS © JEFF WOODS - ZEN DRAGON GALLERY CONTENTS JULY 2016 ver hear a musician tell about the effect we the crowd have on 1-855-USBLUES the performance? Usually it centers on a transfer of energy from PUBLISHER: MojoWax Media Inc. Emusician to crowd and back to musician. And when it’s intense PRESIDENT & DESIGN: Jack Sullivan and palpable, it can carry the musician into never explored musical EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Art Tipaldi landscapes. It’s the same reason why musicians love all those “live-in-the- LEGAL: Eric Hatten studio” recordings. Energy in the moment. In those very intimate periods of time, the musician never holds CONTRIBUTING EDITORS up a cell phone to capture the moment. Because he or she knows that’s a Michael Cote / Thomas J. Cullen III /Bill Dahl feeling that cannot be digitalized. Hal Horowitz / Tom Hyslop /Larry Nager Whether you’re at a sporting event, a music festival, a tiny Brian M. Owens / Bill Wasserzieher / Don Wilcock blues bar, or any family gathering, everyone’s holding up a cell phone to ~~~ YouTube the moments. Watch the election primaries and all you see in COLUMNISTS front of each candidate is a flock of hand held, cell cameras. Sometimes Bob Margolin / Roger Stolle there are even artsy thinkers using their cameras to take videos of ~~~ cameras taking video. It’s all meant to upload and share with the world in CONTRIBUTING WRITERS the hopes of “going viral” or to relive the occasion at some later date. Vincent Abbate / Grant Britt / Michael Cala Mark Caron / Tom Clarke / Kay Cordtz Problem is, the moment is only the moment. The explosive Ted Drozdowski / Robert Feuer / Rev. Keith Gordon excitement of a touchdown catch, game-winning shot, walk-off win, last Stacy Jeffress / Chris Kerslake second goal, or hole-in-one cannot be re-felt on a tiny computer screen Michael Kinsman / Matt MacDonald / Karen Nugent in the comfort of your home. And sharing it with friends only loses the Tim Parsons / Phil Reser / Nick DeRiso overwhelming communal response to that split second. And it especially Pete Sardon / Richard Skelly/Eric Thom hurts when you have to explain what the feeling was like being there. Mark Thompson /M.E. Travaglini Same is true for those explosive flashes at a blues show. Bill Vitka / A.J. Wachtel Nothing compares to the shared experience of the moment when ~~~ Shemekia Copeland walks a club or festival sharing “Ghetto Child” with no CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS microphone. Remember seeing Rod Piazza walk a bar blasting his harp to Scott Allen / Robert Barclay / Les Gruseck “Southern Lady.” Or feeling the roar of an audience joining Ruthie Foster Aigars Lapsa / Pertti Nurmi / Rick Lewis on “Phenomenal Woman.” Or the shared tears when Otis Clay sang Joseph A. Rosen / Dusty Scott / Marilyn Stringer “When Hearts Grow Cold.” Jen Taylor / Susan Thorsen /Mike Shea / Laura Carbone / Dick Waterman Did you see Beth Hart at her 2014 Blues Music Award ~~~ performance? Those were magical moments of shared ecstasy that were SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION captured on the Blues Foundation’s DVD of the event. Great watching, but Web: www.bluesmusicmagazine.com it can never replace the collective joy that was heavenly during those 10 E-Mail: [email protected] exquisite minutes. ~~~ There are hundreds and hundreds of those shared incidents EDITORIAL QUERIES we’ve all been fortunate to behold. Like you, the reader, I have screamed E-Mail: [email protected] in joy with 50 to 10,000 fans at a note or lick in a blues club or enormous ~~~ festival. Through the years, I have wiped many tears as singers have laid BUSINESS AND CIRCULATION QUESTIONS bare the deepest reaches of their souls and connected with audiences. E-Mail: [email protected] I have seen last second, game winners and cheered and cried as ~~~ handicapped marathoners crossed the finish line in Boston. None of my MEDIA SUBMISSIONS Mail 2 copies to: Blues Music Magazine thousands of photos bring back the electricity of the original moment. P.O. Box 1446, Bradenton, FL 34206 Those photos do, however, come with what the poet William ~~~ Wordsworth referred to in his “Tintern Abbey” poem: “When the wild ADVERTISING ecstasies shall be matured into a sober pleasure.” A place where the Web: www.bluesmusicmagazine.com memory offers “healing thoughts” and soothes in its own way. 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If you need help concerning your subscription, e-mail [email protected] or write to the business address Blues Music Magazine, P.O.Box 1446, Bradenton, FL 34206. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Blues Music Magazine, P.O.Box 1446, Bradenton, FL 34206. Toll Free: 1-855-USBLUES Tedeschi by Brian M. Owens erek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE: How is the try to vary up the set list from night to night had burgeoning music careers tour going? especially if you’re in the same place. We Dbefore they met. These days, as see a lot of familiar faces from one night husband and wife and the principals Derek Trucks: Good man. We just did to the next. We try to make every show, behind The Tedeschi Trucks Band, they’re a handful of runs where we were doing hopefully, quite a bit different. charting new musical territory that melds multiple nights in theaters. We did There’s a lot to choose from. blues, R&B, soul, and funk while creating the Chicago Theater for a few nights There’s all the records we’ve done an alluring blues-based pheromone that’s and the Keswick outside of Philly, the with this band, then we dig a little in to hard to resist. Their latest album, Let Warner in D.C., and then three nights at Susan’s back catalog, and the same Me Get By, finds the couple surrounded the Ryman. It was fun. We hadn’t done with my group. We did that Mad Dogs by ten of the most powerhouse young that many multi-night stands in different & Englishmen thing early in the year, musicians of our time.