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Celebrating 23 Years of Blues 1989 - 2013 March 2013 Bluesletter Vol. XXV, Number III

Publisher Washington Blues Society Editor & Art Director Jesse Phillips ([email protected]) Secretary Rocky Nelson Calendar Maridel Fliss ([email protected]) Advertising Malcolm Kennedy ([email protected]) Printer Pacific Publishing Company In Memoriam: Ann Rabson 5 LiveWire: Don O’Dell 13 Calendar 20 2013 Membership Update 25 www.pacificpublishingcompany.com Letter from the President 7 March Blues Bash 14 Blues on the Radio Dial 21 Passing the Torch 26 Musings from Memphis 8 CD Reviews 16 Jam Guide 22 Rick Estrin & the Nightcats 28 Contributing Writers: Billy “The Pocket” Barner, Rick Bowen, Bob Horn, Malcolm Kennedy, IBC Contest and Application 10 Birmingham Buzzkill 18 Venue Guide 22 Welcome Back, Javina Magness 30 Donnie Moorehouse and Eric Steiner Tommy Castro & the Painkillers 13 Festival Preview: Coeur d’Alene Blues 19 Talent Guide 23 Contributing Photographers: The Blues Boss, Bob Horn, Bill O’Dell, Jerry Peterson, and Eric Steiner

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The Bluesletter welcomes stories and photos from WBS members! Features, columns and On the reviews are due by the 5th of each month in the following formats: plain text or Microsoft Word. Graphics must be in high-res 300 dpi .pdf, jpg, or .tiff formats. We encourage Cover: submissions. If a submitter intends to retain the rights to material (e.g., photos, videos, lyrics, Javina Magness by Eric textual matter) submitted for publication in the Bluesletter, or the WaBlues.org website, he Steiner or she must so state at the time of submission; otherwise, submitter’s rights to the material will be transferred to WBS, upon publication. We reserve the right to edit all content. The Washington Blues I also wanted to share a personal ever heard of the Bluesletter. Fellow BluesLovers, if Bluesletter is the official monthly publication of the Washington Blues Society. The WBS is Society President Eric experience that happened to me you’ve ever made it out to the Rec Room (and you not responsible for the views and opinions expressed in The Bluesletter by any individual. this month that reminded me why should) you know Mike and Jimmy by name for Steiner is a long-time blues society Letter from the Editor © WBS 2012 I love BluesLovers: My sweet man the BBQ Schacht for their wonderful smiles, they’re volunteer and represents affiliates on the Ah, Spring in the Pacific Northwest; we won’t and I purchased a house about a love of the blues and mostly, for their life-altering Blues Foundation Board of Directors in see a really warm day until July, but already year ago in the tiny little town of Bar-B-Que. The BBQ Schacht is right around the Memphis, Tennessee. This month’s cover Mission Statement the cherry tree in my front yard has delicate pink Des Moines. As I was heading home from a client corner from my house! Good food, good blues and photo of Blues Music Award winner Janiva The Washington Blues Society is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote, preserve, blossoms peeking out from the darkened branches. meeting last month I decided to try someplace my day was more than made! Magness is Eric’s first cover picture under and advance the culture and tradition of blues music as an art form. Annual membership is $25 for new for lunch that was on my new regular route. Jesse Phillips’ editorial direction, and his individuals, $35 for couples, and $40 for overseas memberships. The Washington Blues Society is a Just a quick note to highlight page 10 and 11 the Take the time to make it out to the Rec Room this story welcoming Janiva back to Seattle’s tax-exempt nonprofit organization and donations are tax-deductible. The Washington Blues Society International Blues Challenge Awards are being As I got out of my car the smell of smoking meat month from some amazing blues and incredible Jazz Alley last month is in this issue. is affiliated with The Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee. considered with a couple of amazing band battles nearly knocked me over and started my drooling. Bar-B-Que! Until next time, This year’s Blues Music Awards will be that really need to be on your calendar, whether I walked in the door and Louis Armstrong was held at the Cook Convention Center in Washington Blues Society you are performing or just there to support your blaring on the radio and two of the sweetest guys Jesse Phillips, Editor downtown Memphis on Thursday, May P.O. Box 70604 - Seattle, WA 98127 favorite band. stopped cooking to say “hi”. We got to chatting about Washington Blues Society Bluesletter 9th, and for more information on this the Blues - like you do - and I asked them if they’d annual awards celebration, please visit www.wablues.org www.blues.org 2 3 Obituary Courtesy of Records Alligator Co-Founder of Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women Ann Rabson (1945 – 2013) Ann Rabson

Blues pianist/singer/songwriter/guitarist Ann Rabson died on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 in Fredericksburg, Virginia after a long battle with cancer. She was 67. Co-founder of the hugely successful trio Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women, Rabson was a legendary force on the keyboards as well as being a deeply soulful vocalist. She recorded eight albums with Saffire and one solo CD for Alligator Records, and released three solo albums for other labels. Her most recent was 2012’s Not Alone (VizzTone Records). Rabson’s prodigious talent, along with her take-no-guff attitude, struck a chord with music fans around the world. Considered one of th e finest barrelhouse blues pianists of her generation, Rabson -- an accomplished guitarist since she was a teen -- didn’t start playing piano until she was 35. DownBeat magazine said that “Rabson plays bluesy, honky-tonk piano with staggering authority.” Pianist/Singer/Songwriter

Alligator president Bruce Iglauer, Rabson’s long-time friend and producer, says Ann was a driving force in the blues world. “Our dear friend Ann Rabson was an extraordinary blues singer, pianist and guitarist and a delightful, smart and funny person. As a founding member of Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women, a solo recording artist and a live performer, she brought her talent, intelligence and intense love for the blues tradition to every piece of music she played and sang. Ann never gave her music or the rest of her life less than 100% of her commitment. She was a loyal friend, a dedicated champion of the blues, a loving partner to her husband George, and an unforgettable woman. We were blessed to have known her.” In Memoriam: Blues

Rabson was born in New York on April 12, 1945 and raised in Ohio. As a child she was touched by the blues. “Blues speaks to me directly. It wasn’t a choice, I was drawn to it naturally, sort of like a sheepdog with sheep,” she said. She received a guitar from her father when she was 17 and found role models in Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Minnie, one of the few early female blues guitarists. Ann quickly became an accomplished guitar player and first sang professionally while still in high school. By age 18 she was performing around the Midwest. In 1971, Ann moved with her daughter to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she performed full-time and gave music lessons on the side. During this time, Ann and her guitar student, Gaye Adegbalola, decided to perform together and the seeds of Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women were sown.

They pooled their money and recorded a demo tape, which they then forwarded to Alligator Records. Their 1990 self- titled debut became one of the label’s best-selling releases. With the addition of Andra Faye McIntosh in 1992, the trio continued to win over audiences around the world with their wholly original and captivating albums and joyous live performances. Their recordings for Alligator are among the best-selling in the label’s catalog. Ann released her first solo album, Music Makin’ Mama, in 1997. When Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women disbanded after 25 years in 2009, Rabson recorded three solo albums and continued to perform solo and with friends, including guitarist Bob Margolin. She appeared on recordings for numerous artists, including Cephas & Wiggins, Pinetop Perkins, EG Kight and Ani DiFranco.

Ann is survived by her husband George Newman, daughter Liz Rabson Schnore and granddaughter Georgia Rabson 4 Schnore. Information on funeral arrangements will be forthcoming. For more information, please visit www.alligator.com. 5 Hi Blues Fans! This year’s International Blues the Nashville Blues Society’s annual showcase returned to B.B. King’s. Keb’ Mo’ played a Washington Blues Society Challenge was a lot of fun. Well over 100 blues free concert at the Raise the Roof! Rally – and past Blues Foundation Board president Paul March 2013 DEADLINES: Proud Recipient of a 2009 Keeping the Blues Alive Award from The Blues Foundation fans joined blues society competitors from Benjamin and President and CEO Jay Sieleman presided over a live auction that rose over Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, $50,000 in less than an hour. The Memphis Blues Society pledged $10,000 to help Raise Advertising Space Reservations: March 5th 2013 Officers [email protected] and Idaho. With each passing International the Roof! – the largest contribution by any Blues Affiliate to-date. Over 30 societies have President Eric Steiner [email protected] Blues Challenge, I am always surprised at some joined in this effort so far, and the Washington Blues Society plans to raise over $6,000 this

Vice President Tony Frederickson [email protected] Calendar: March 10th of the new events and new venues that the Blues year through the sales of ear plugs at concerts, festivals, and our monthly Blues Bashes. Secretary Mary McPage. [email protected] [email protected] Foundation adds to one of the most exciting weeks Treasurer (Acting) Chad Creamer [email protected] for blues music in Memphis. Only ten of the approximately 120 competing societies worldwide had both their solo/duo Editorial Submissions: March 5th - [email protected] Editor Jesse Phillips [email protected] and band act reach the semi-finals. That’s a pretty impressive achievement, and I am proud This year, the former hardware department at Schwab’s of our society’s acts that have reached this milestone two years in a row!. The Washington Camera Ready Ad Art Due: March 12th - [email protected] 2013 Directors general store was turned into a blues salon featuring the Blues Society’s competitors reached the semi-finals last year, and our band entry, The WIRED! Camera ready art should be in CMYK format at 300 dpi or higher. Music Co-Directors Cherie Robbins “Talking the Blues” series of lectures and conversations Band, won first place. This year, Randy Norris and Jeff Nicely returned to the semi-finals for & Janice Cleven Gage [email protected] with Robert Gordon, Andy Cohen, and Dr. David the second year in a row while Sammy Eubanks reached the semi-finals on his International from the Membership Michelle Burge [email protected] Evans. Blues Challenge debut. Other first-time competitors that advanced to the semi-final round Advertising Rates: Education Roy Brown [email protected] of competition include the White Rock Blues Society’s Poppadawg, and Blues Redemption, Graphics: 300 dpi Volunteers Rhea Rolfe [email protected] New venues were added to the program this year, from the South Sound Blues Association. PDF, TIF or JPG Merchandise Tony Frederickson [email protected] too: Coyote Ugly, Pat O’Halloran’s Broadway Club Text: Plain .txt or Word Advertising Malcolm Kennedy [email protected] ter inside the Orpheum, and Dancin’ Jimmy’s. There are I am also very grateful that the Washington Blues Society’s nominee in the Keeping the Blues Full Page: $260 (8.5” x 11”) Coyote Ugly bars in nine states, Germany, Romania Alive Award in the Best Festival – USA category received the award. Festival promoter and Russia – can we export the blues to these other Lloyd Peterson graciously accepted the pyramid statuette with one of the shortest acceptance Half Page: $150 (8.5” x 5.5”) 2013 Street Team Back Half Page: $200 (8.5” x 5.5”) locations, too? The Broadway Club felt like a living speeches of the day, and later that night on Beale Street, Lloyd told me that the International

Downtown Seattle Tim & Michelle Burge [email protected] Let Quarter Page: $90 (4.25” x 5.5”) room with dozens of framed prints from touring Blues Challenge was “just like a blues cruise but on dry land.” West Seattle Rev. Deb Engelhardt [email protected] President Fifth Page: $65 (4.25” x 3.5”) musicals and plays dating back to the 60s, and it was a Business Card: $25 (3.5” x 2”) North Sound Malcolm Kennedy & perfect addition for the solo/duo competition. Dancin’ Jimmy’s, though, If you work for wages, please consider saving $25 per pay period in an “IBC Fund.” That ADD COLOR: ADD 25% Joy Kelly [email protected] may be better suited for the summer months as some of the blues fans financial discipline will pay off next January, because I am confident that first-time International Northern WA Lloyd Peterson [email protected] told me it was colder inside the tent in the courtyard than back outside Blues Challenge blues fans will return for another exciting week celebrating the blues. If We’ve Got Discounts! Penninsula Dan Wilson [email protected] on Beale Street. the $100 ticket may be financially out of reach, blues fans on a budget can buy wristbands 20% off- 12 month pre-payment South Sound Smoke [email protected] at the clubs on Beale Street for $10. 15% off- 6 month pre-payment Central WA Stephen J. Lefebvre [email protected] This year, there was no keynote luncheon, but there were ample opportunities 10% off- 3 month pre-payment Eastern WA Cindy Dyer [email protected] to learn new skills at Lee Oskar’s harmonica workshop, Tas Cru’s Blues This month, I hope that you’ll join me at our monthly Blues Bash at the Red Crane Restaurant Contact: [email protected] Ballard Marcia Jackson in the Schools presentation with a local fourth grade class, Keeping the in Shoreline on the second Tuesday of March. Until then,please go out and support live Lopez Island Carolyn & Dean Jacobsen [email protected] Blues Alive Award winner Nat Dove’s “Blues Stories” discussion, and blues music. We value your business. Please send all advertising Middle East “Rock Khan” [email protected] the Cincinnati Blues Society’s marketing workshop. The Blind Raccoon Eric Steiner inquriries and ad copy to [email protected] with a Eastside Liz Caraway [email protected] showcase (and Finis Tasby benefit concert) was held at Purple Haze, while President, Washington Blues Society copy to Malcolm “Yard Dog” Kennedy at Special Thanks Member, Board of Directors, The Blues Foundation [email protected] Webmaster The Sheriff [email protected] Web Hosting Adhost www.adhost.com THANK YOU FOR READING THE WBS Logo Phil Chesnut [email protected] BLUESLETTER AND SUPPORTING LIVE BLUES IN THE EVERGREEN STATE!

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6 7 the Best Self-Produced CD contest, the judges Society, Inland Empire Blues Society, Lake of the and grace, and it was fun watching Lloyd work determined the best to be: Solo Recordings by Steve Ozarks Blues Society, Los Angeles Blues Society, the room reconnecting with performers whom Hill, Montreal Blues Society. This year marked Memphis Blues Society, Minnesota Blues Society, he has hired at the festival like award-winning Washington Blues Society award-winning blues Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola, Alligator recording artist Janiva Magness. DJ, Jonathan “Oogie” Richards’ debut as one of Norsk Blues Union, North East Ohio Blues the Best Self-Produced CD competition judges. Association, Ottawa Blues Society, Panama Blues, This year’s International Blues Challenge was “Oogie” was a real blues trooper in Memphis: he Santa Barbara Blues Society, Thunder Bay Blues another exciting event, and I am looking forward immersed himself totally in the week’s events, and Society, Topeka Blues Society, Ventura County to the 30th anniversary next year in Memphis. participated in an early morning the meeting of Blues Society, Vicksburg Blues Society and the One thing I did learn (or, rather, re-learn) is that the Blues Foundation Board of Directors (after a Washington Blues Society have each pledged to Memphis weather can be unpredictable: some of very late night out), and enjoyed the 2013 Keeping the Campaign for the Blues Hall of Fame. the days were clear and sunny, but the wind chill the Blues Alive Award luncheon (after another reminded me of Chicago in December! Next very late night out). Thanks to the visionary leadership of our Vice year, I’ll be better prepared with an extra sweater President and Merchandise and Promotions and pair of gloves, and celebrate this uniquely The Blues Foundation hosted a rally to get the word Director Tony Frederickson, the Washington American art form with my extended blues family. out about the Raise the Roof! campaign for a new Blues Society has pledged to raise $6,000 to help Blues Hall of Fame. The rally featured a spirited Raise the Roof! Volunteers got off to a good start When I return to Memphis for the Blues Music live auction led by former Board president Paul at this year’s challenge by selling high quality, Awards in May, I am going to revisit places I Benjamin and Blues Foundation CEO Jay Sieleman. reusable ear plugs for $3 each emblazoned with missed this trip: Alcenia’s, for some of the greatest To date, 32 affiliates’ have pledged over $50,000 to the Raise the Roof! logo on the outside and a soul food in America; the Smithsonian Memphis Article and Photos by Eric Steiner & Jerry Peterson build the Blues Hall of Fame. The largest pledge Washington Blues Society logo on the inside. Rock and Soul Museum, for a little Memphis has come from the Memphis Blues Society, who So, when you need ear plugs this year, please musical history; and the Peabody, so that I can has pledged $10,000. Other contributing affiliates visit our merchandise booth and you, too can play tourist and see the procession of the fabled include the Billtown Blues Association, Blues help us Raise the Roof! ducks in the grand lobby. Alliance of the Treasure Coast, Blues Society of Central Pennsylvania, Blues Society of Western This year’s awards luncheon was special for There’s something for every blues fan at the Musings Pennsylvania, Canal Bank Shuffle, Central Iowa Washington State as the awards committee selected International Blues Challenge, and despite the Blues Society, Colorado Blues Society, Connecticut the Washington Blues Society’s nomination of the weather and an overcrowded club or two, it’s the Blues Society, Crossroads Blues Society of Illinois, Mount Baker Rhythm and Blues Festival in the chance to honor Keeping the Blues Alive recipients Thefrom 2013 International Memphis Blues Challenge Great Lakes Blues Society, Great Northern Blues Best Blues Festival – USA category. Lloyd Peterson as well as some of the world’s best blues talent. Society, Houston Blues Society, Indiana Blues accepted the award with his wife with aplomb

This year marked my sixth International Blues Gang, Kat Magic Express from the Phillipines, bands and seven solo/duo acts. One innovation Challenge. Each year, the event gets bigger and and Australia’s Tim Griffin to kick off this year’s that the Blues Foundation added this year to the better, and I encourage all blues fans to make festivities. finals was food: three local food trucks were the pilgrimage to Memphis, and if time allows, kept busy most of the day, and Pat O’Halloran’s add a day or two to explore nearby Clarksdale, The size and the scope of the week-long series Broadway Club next to the theatre lobby was Mississippi, to get to the Ground Zero Blues Club of events continue to grow. There were book opened for us. This year, the finals alternated and stay at the Hopson Plantation. There is a lot readings, workshops on marketing, a Blues in between solo/duo and band performances unlike of history within two hours of Beale Street, and the Schools presentation by New York’s Tas Cru, in years past when each category was grouped each I time I visit Memphis, I learn something new. a youth showcase, storytelling with Keeping together. I think that this change is a positive the Blues Alive Award educator Nat Dove, and one for the solo/duo performers. I was very pleased that our entrants – Randy Norris jam sessions that continued well past two in the and Jeff Nicely in the solo/duo category and Sammy morning. The Galaxie Agency hosted a showcase The solo/duo winner was Little G Weevil, sponsored Eubanks in the band category – made it to the in partnership with the Nashville Blues Society, by the Atlanta Blues Society and second place semi-finals. The South Sound Blues Association’s and the Blind Raccoon Roots and Blues Showcase honors went to The Suitcase Brothers, a duo from Blues Redemption also made the first cut as did featured Tim “Too Slim” Langford and Stacy the Barcelona Blues Society in Spain. the White Rock Blues Society’s Poppa Dawg. It Jones. The strong Canadian blues contingent was a thrill to see Sammy competing at Blues returned to the Kooky Canuck restaurant for The top prize in the Band competition was City Café as well as marvel at the jam session at the Polar Bear Blues Showcase, and it was great awarded to the Selwyn Birchwood Band of the Hard Rock Café that included a stage full of to reconnect with a number of Canadian blues Florida’s Suncoast Blues Society. A beautiful bluesmen from Washington State when Sammy fans and bands. custom Gibson ES-335 guitar featuring The Blues joined Blues Redemption. I also enjoyed the Foundation’s logo and a Category 5 amp was packed house at Mr. Handy’s Blues Hall when The event features two nights of quarterfinals in awarded to Selwyn Birchwood as the band finals’ Randy and Jeff mesmerized the audience with 12 band venues and nine solo/duo venues. This top guitarist. Second place honors were earned their authentic acoustic blues. year 124 bands began the competition, and 60 by Michael van Merwyk and Bluesoul, German advanced to the semi-finals. In the solo/duo Blues Network, and the third spot went to Dan The International Blues Challenge features six days’ category, 79 acts started, and 36 advanced. There Treanor’s Afrosippi Band w/ Erica Brown, hailing of blues events, starting with the international is simply no way a blues fan can catch each of from the Colorado Blues Society. Little G Weevil showcase sponsored by the Beale Street Merchants’ these 203 different performances! The semi- won the St. Blues Cigar box guitar for best guitarist Association on Tuesday night at the FedEx Forum. finals and finals were announced after midnight in the Solo/Duo competition. Jim Liban of the The Dutch Blues Foundation’s Robbert Fossen on Thursday and Friday nights, and the historic Alex Wilson Band took top harmonica honors & Peter Struijk joined Croatia’s Delta Blues Orpheum Theatre hosted the finals with nine for the Lee Oskar Harmonicas prize package. In 8 9 10 11 LiveWire:

Don O’Dell Cable ODell and Albert Cummings TV Access Show ‘Legends’ Continues Tommy Castro and to Attract Talent the Painkillers Story by Donnie Moorhouse/Photos by Bill Odell - reprint courtesy of The Republican newspaper Celebrate the Release Don O’Dell continues to bring in high-end of a New 45RPM Single performers for his cable access “Legends” ODell and Ana Popovic Ana and ODell

show which profiles some of the top names ODell and the Walter Trout Band “Greedy”/”That’s All on the club and theater live music circuit in the greater Springfield, Massachusetts, area. I Got” at the Highway The performances are recorded and available by request on most local cable access stations 99 Blues Club on and through the program’s YouTube channel.

March 15th! “We had 18 shows last year and they were all national touring acts,” said O’Dell. “Some of Tommy Castro & The Painkillers will the shows shot right here in Palmer include celebrate the release of their new 45 rpm Joe Louis Walker, Guitar Shorty, and Pat single, “Greedy”/”That’s All I Got” with a Travers. The Royal Southern Brotherhood live performance on Friday, March 15th at which includes Devon Allman, Cryil Neville Seattle’s Highway 99 Blues Club. Multiple and Mike Zito stayed in the studio for three Blues Music Award-winning guitarist/vocalist/ days and rehearsed for an upcoming tour.” songwriter Tommy Castro has been playing Brotherhood Southern Royal and ODell his signature brand of rocking rhythm and When O’Dell started recording in the Palmer blues professionally for over 25 years, thrilling studio almost five years ago there was far more fans around the world with his incendiary live legwork involved in pulling in these types of he said. “It works out good for the bands performances. acts. More recently, O’Dell has noticed the because they don’t lose any gigs. Management show’s reputation out on the touring circuit or booking agents have called me with tour With his new, stripped-down, turbo-charged has made management and booking agents dates and I see if I can squeeze them in when band, The Painkillers, Castro has embarked far more receptive to his pitch. they’re in the area and have a night off.” on the next phase of his storied career. Along with original Tommy Castro Band bassist “I had Albert Castiglia come in and he was The Palmer studio only seats 30 for a Randy McDonald, new members Byron Cage so excited about doing the show,” O’Dell said. performance and O’Dell says this intimate on drums and James Pace on keyboards, Castro “The day before he did the Rockport Maine setting is one of the driving forces behind the pares his music down to its tough, raw core. Blues Fest with Anna Popovic, Walter Trout success and quality of the show. and the Royal Southern Brotherhood and they Experience Tommy Castro and the Painkillers all told him what a great time they had. So I “I announce shows on an email list,” he said. on Friday, March 15th beginning at 8:00 PM. went from bands coming in being skeptical “Since there are only 30 seats I have a two For reservations and ticket information, about who I was and what I am doing, to seat limit. It’s very exciting for the audience please call (206) 382-2171 and visit www. looking forward to it.” to see such big bands in a room the size of a highway99blues.com. large living room.” Often O’Dell is at the mercy of tour schedules when putting his wish list together for There are currently over 400 shows available performances. through the “Legends” YouTube channel at “>youtube.com/user/dodell590 “I have to be very flexible, most shows are generally on Tuesday and Wednesday nights,” 12 13 Billy Stoops

SeanGoodrich & BillyStoops The February 2013

Blues Bash The violin or fiddle added something to this There was the usual raffle from Tony’s gift bag, and performance. I have heard Billy do some of the Blues for Food’s Deb Rock played “Vanna White” at theBy Robert Red Horn, Photos Crane by Blues Boss same songs with a full electric band on stage at major in assisting Tony with the raffle. festivals like the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival Tuesday, February 12th 2013 was not only two (and that is about as big-time as it gets) but it had a Alice Stuart’s band, The Formerlys, put on an days before Valentine’s Day, but also the date of different sound as a duo that included a fiddle and outstanding electric set. Jim McLaughlin did a the traditional State of the Union Address by the Billy sitting in a chair. It was good, too. The guitar, great job on harmonica, and he deserves a lot of President of the United States. I was watching fiddle, and vocal combinations were unique and recognition for his music. Stephen Penn did some the pre-event discussions on TV, and thinking of should be tried more often. Billy Stoops sometimes great singing and guitar playing, and I conducted channel surfing to catch any political or economic shows up at a jam but also plays in a couple bands. another restroom interview where he talked about fight between the John Maynard Keynes camp vs. Catching him in either the Rectifiers or with playing with the “Armed and Dangerous Blues the Ayn Rand camp. Yes, that is what I sometimes Junkyard Jane with female vocalist extraordinaire Revue” at the J & M Café in Pioneer Square. The do for fun with a pile of political, philosophical, and Leanne Trevelyan is a great experience that should third restroom interview I conducted that night economics books next to me. Then, I saw that it was be guaranteed by the constitution. got me the business card of The Joseph Barton Trio nearing six o’clock, and I knew I had an obligation after I told another singer they sounded good on on the second Tuesday of the month. No, it was Speaking of the constitution, a constitutional scholar stage. The guy playing the keys sang “Flip, Flop, not the obligation of sending something red with was speaking somewhere else on C-SPAN, and and Fly” later and I had to get on the dance floor. green stems to a dear friend, though I do like doing Washington Blues Society President Eric Steiner There was far too much talent at the February that when it’s appreciated, but I had to go to the made reference to that from the stage. Our president, Blues Bash to do justice to it in one page of this Red Crane Restaurant above Club Hollywood on Eric Steiner, began his remarks by saying that some great publication. The audience was demanding Aurora Avenue North, so I was so happy to be there of you may have wanted to hear another president more as I left - way later than I assumed I would as soon as I saw the inside of the place. in another Washington speak tonight, but he was for a regular Blues Bash. there to tell us about the state of the blues: it is All the chairs were taken by 6:45 PM, even though strong in the Evergreen State, and I know that is I stayed up later than I planned that night, but the event didn’t start ‘til seven o’clock. Billy Stoops true. Tony Frederickson was soon introduced after it did no harm. I am ready to do it again, and to was already on stage with his guitar and was soon a comment from the President about how much quote the great McKinley Morganfield: “as ready joined by Sean Goodrich who brought his fiddle. money Tony had raised for the Blues Foundation. as any man can be,” because the second Tuesday Billy did a lot of original songs like “The Problem Actually, I was thinking of an idea for generating at the Red Crane Restaurant in Shoreline needs to with Your Plan,, “Walkin’ On My Dreams,” and revenue for rebuilding America’s infrastructure, be marked on each and every Bluesletter readers’ “The Difference Between Whiskey & You”. and now I know I will be calling Tony to enlist calendar if it’s not there already. him in this effort. Billy talked about each song, and it often started These monthly Washington Blues Society Blues out with something like “I met this girl and....” I ran Tony talked about the new earplugs in cases with labels Bashes feature a great opening set, an outstanding into Billy in the restroom and got more information showing the Washington Blues Society logo on one free raffle of blues CDs and other blues memorabilia, about some songs he wrote and this happened right part and the Blues Foundation logo on the other. Those and a great electric set – not to mention the great after a woman asked if guys ever talk in the restroom earplugs can be purchased from Tony at festivals and camaraderie of blues fans from throughout Puget and I told her “No, we don’t do that.” the Blues Bash. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Sound. That is one of the things this blues society that those high-quality stickers can be ordered from does well: it brings people together once a month OK, ladies, we talk about songwriting in there and nothing 1-800-456-8884 ext #265 in quantities of at least 1,000: for a great free evening of blues. else (or maybe some wild stories related to some songs). and they’re good for more than earplug cases, they’re 14 good your band, bottles of wine, BBQ sauce, etc. 15 of blues. Tom Wait’s “Temptation” is performed in works quite well breathing new life into this Dead Eric Bibb and Habib Koite a jazzy Latin style rhythm with tastefully polished classic. The shimmering slide guitar sets “Nowhere Brothers in Bamako solos on guitar and sax. Standout tracks abound to Hide” off well and the strong vocals make it one (Stony Plain) with stellar takes on Johnny Otis’ “Aged and of the standouts. The strong groove of “Hurts My Mellow” as Sonja sings, ‘I like my men like I like Heart” is reminiscent of a Tom Petty classic while Blues Reviews Malian guitarist Habib Koite joined Eric Bibb on my whiskey, aged and mellow;” another Big Mama the final track “Brotherhood” has a jazzy Jeff Beck New Blues that you can Use his second Stony Plain CD, Brothers in Bamako. Thornton shouter “I’m Feeling Alright,” with its meets the Allman Brothers vibe that also could Recorded long before last year’s most recent flare- cooking sax solo, Billie Holiday’s “Lady Sings the turn into an extended jam tune. My one complaint up of Islamist terrorist attacks in the Malian capital Blues,” and “At Last,” often associated with Etta and this very well have been done by design, is that city of Bamako, this CD captures two acoustic James. Most singers would have difficulty with the there is a dearth of liner notes telling who is singing musicians that complement each other nicely. range required to sing these varied songs not to lead vocals and which guitarist, Mike or Devon, is Doug Macleod Brothers in Bamako features 11 original songs and mention the chutzpah to attempt songs by these on which solo. They clearly left their egos at home There’s a Time two covers: a thoughtful version of Bob Dylan’s legends. Sonja Lee has the stuff to pull it off with before they even met up to record this project. I’ve Johnson, Miller & Dermody (Reference Recordings) “Blowin’4 in the Wind,” and a banjo- and pedal aplomb and gusto. There are standards like Brooks heard that the band’s tour supporting it has met We Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop steel (courtesy of Finland’s Olli Haavisto)-tinged Bowman’s 1935 tune “East of the Sun and West of with enough positive response that there is already (Orb Discs) Doug Macleod’s debut on Reference Recordings interpretation of the traditional “Goin’ Down the the Moon” covered by artists from Sarah Vaughan talk of a follow-up release and commitment by all will be released March 12th. There’s a Time Road Feelin’ Bad.” The CD opens with Bibb’s to Diana Krall, Fitzgerald, Bird, Sinatra, Bennett, to keep their solo careers on hold while this project The trio of Orville Johnson, John Miller and features 2013 Blues Music Award nominees hopeful, forward-looking song about going to Armstrong, Getz and Holiday just to name a few; continues to blossom. Malcolm Kennedy Grant Dermody perform an acoustic mixture Doug Macleod and drummer Jimi Bott, along Mali “On My Way to Bamako,” and continues Cole Porter’s “Get Out of Town” sung by both Ella of music featuring elements of folk, old timey with bass player Denny Croy (who played on on with Koite’s ode to Los Angeles in which he and Peggy Lee and the title track “Telling It Like Coyote Kings w/ Mush James Armstrong music and pre-war blues. Sometimes when I listen Doug’s Black and Tan3 releases Dubb and A Little sings (in French): “one glass, two glasses, three It Is” first recorded by Aaron Neville in 1966. If Nasty Habits and Dirty Little Secrets Blues at The Border to it my mind tells me, ‘that’s really not blues,’ Sin). Doug kicks off this new CD with a plaintive glasses, four: tequila makes me happy!” The light pressed to pick a favorite I would go with Pablo (Twin Lion Records) (Cat Food Records) while another part2 of me is saying; ‘oh, yes it is!’ “Rosa Lee” and this baker’s dozen of acoustic and lilting “Nani Le” from Habib is one of the Ruiz’ mambo, “Sway” a hit for Dean Martin in 1954 One thing I know for sure is that every time I blues is a must for fans of the National steel CD’s standout instrumentals alongside the song and Rosemary Clooney in 1959; but there just isn’t For over a decade, Walla Walla’s Rob Barrett and Several of the songs on James Armstrong’s Cat listen to We Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop I guitar. The playful “My In-laws Are Outlaws” is dedicated to the water goddess, “Mami Wata.” anything that is less than supreme on Telling It Like his Coyote Kings have been a driving force in the Food Records debut were already familiar to me am hearing some really good music regardless a lot of fun, but my favorites on this CD tap into While Eric and Habib’s music was included It Is. The Sonja Lee Band is a well-conceived and eastern Washington blues scene. This month, they from the last time I caught him live at the New of what label you want to use to describe it. All Macleod’s ability to be an exceptional storyteller: on the Putumayo compilation in 1999’s Mali compelling mix of jazz and blues, the vocals are are proud hosts of the 2nd Walla Walla Guitar Orleans Creole Restaurant in Seattle’s Pioneer three share vocals, sometimes solo and other times “A Ticket Out,” “East Carolina Woman,” and to Memphis: An African-American Odyssey, a paragon of excellence and the music top notch. Festival. In 2010, the Kings teamed up with Square as they were works in progress. I like them together in harmony, Orville plays mandolin, the closing song, “Ghost.” There’s A Time was Brothers in Bamako captures these musicians Telling It Like It Is, is a fantastic album and I give it powerhouse vocalist Michelle “Mush” Morgan, just as much now as I did then, too. Eight of the John plays the guitar and banjo and Grant is on engineered by “Prof” Keith Johnson at Marin live in the studio for the first time. Eric’s also my highest recommendation. – Malcolm Kennedy releasing the critically-acclaimed album Move 11 tracks were produced by Michael Ross with the the harmonica. This is a trio of highly regarded County’s Skywalker studios. In 2011, “Prof” been included in other Putumayo world music the following year. Their follow up, Nasty Habits instruments recorded1 in New York and the vocals professionals, and to me it sounds like they really Johnson received the Grammy Award for Best compilations, such as Blues Around the World, and Dirty Little Secrets,7 features 11 new songs in Toronto. The remaining three were co-produced get a lot of enjoyment making music together. Surround Sound Album (for vocal or instrumental Sing Along, and World Playground, and he’s Royal Southern Brotherhood immaculately produced and penned by Barrett by Armstrong and Cat Food’s Bob Trenchard in From the opening refrain of “The Rain Don’t albums) at the 53rd Annual Grammy® Awards recorded more than two dozen CDs out on a (Ruf Records) who tag teams lead vocals duties with Morgan Texas and featured the Cat Food studio band. Fall On Me,” an old Blind Willie Johnson tune, for Reference Recordings’ hybrid multi-channel number of other labels, including Ruf, Telarc, equally and offers a bonus instrumental track One of the tracks I enjoyed most is the opener with its strumming guitar, picking mandolin, SACD, Britten’s Orchestra performed by the Kansas Earthbeat/Rhino, M.C., and now Stony Plain. The critics are positively raving about last year’s for good measure. The album kicks off with the “Everything Good To Ya (Ain’t Always Good expressive moaning harp and Orville’s warm City Orchestra, conducted by Michael Stern, I expect that this CD will land on a number of Royal Southern Brotherhood’s eponymous titled Texas BBQ styled funk of the title track featuring For Ya),” and I will let you read between the lines vocals through to the traditional gospel song “I “Best Of” lists for the way it effortlessly mixes debut produced by Jim Gaines and recorded at Morgan belting out vocals as gritty as the guitar there for yourself. Armstrong is one of my favorite Shall Not Be Moved” the 11 songs on this CD Doug’s careers as a bluesman has spanned three West African music with the blues. - Eric Steiner Louisiana’s Dockside Studios. Although I like it riffs. The 6/8 blues of “the Best You Couldn’t Do,” vocalists, and he is an equally good guitarist. On are a fun ride. The spry lyrical rhythm of the decades, and he’s recorded 19 studio albums, immensely, I would call it jam rock; but not call it burns icy-hot with a feel reminiscent of Robert the title track, Armstrong laments the difficulties title track featuring Orville’s exquisite vocals several live records, compilations, a blues guitar blues. The two big names in this five piece outfit Cray including a jagged guitar solo from Barrett faced by the touring musician trying to move back is a gem. Other standouts include the brisk instructional DVD and a live performance DVD. The Sonja Lee Band give it the name with Devon Allman, Greg’s son and a moaning B3. Barrett pushes his baritone to and forth across either the Canadian or Mexican instrumental penned by Miller “Down to the His songs have been covered by such artists as Telling It Like It Is and Cyril Neville, at 64, the youngest of the famed the max on the low down blues of “Hard To Be borders to perform (or for that matter the average Hills,” and the heartfelt lament of Dermody’s Albert King, Albert Collins, 2013 Blues Hall of (Self-Released) Neville Brothers. I am pleased that guitarist Mike a Man,” matching notes with the guitars on an citizen). James unleashes some of his wicked slide “I’d Do It All Again” with Grant on lead vocals Fame inductee Joe Louis Walker and Eva Cassidy. Zito is part of the Brotherhood: Mike’s got two infectious turnaround hook; a nice touch on a guitar to punctuate his points of frustration, and I and Orville harmonizing on the chorus. I also Doug MacLeod is currently on tour nationally In researching a piece I was going to write on stellar Eclecto-Groove6 releases out on Eclecto classic theme. After the clever, but maybe too cute, love the list that he recites of what you will need in enjoyed the trio’s version of Mance Lipscomb’s and internationally in support of There’s a Time. the Centrum Fundraising event, held last May at Groove Records, both of which were nominated for sing along of the funky “Baby Wake Up,’ Morgan order to cross our borders. The upbeat rhythm of “Take Me Back” with its delightful harp solo and Seattle’s Triple Door, I ran across Sonja Lee, an a Blues Music Award in the Best Blues Rock Album gets to stretch out on the mournful “Baby’s Gone.” “Nothing Left To Say” belies its serious lyrics of a the slow peaceful take on “I Shall Not Be Moved” Note: This month, Doug Macleod returns to artist who was performing with Centrum Acoustic category: , 2011’s Greyhound and 2009’s Pearl River. Barrett gives us a fine twist on a classic lazy shuffle relationship come to an end. On “High Maintenance with more fabulous harmonizing with Grant on the Pacific Northwest with performances at Blues Festival Artist Director Daryl Davis. I didn’t Cyril and Mike penned “Pearl River,” which won feel with his own “My Rider,” featuring some great Woman,” James sings ‘if it wasn’t so much work/ lead vocals and Orville on supporting vocals. Duff’s Garage in Portland, Dusty Strings in recognize her at first, so I looked her up. Sonja Lee’s the 2010 Blues Music Award for Song of the Year. barrelhouse piano from Doug Scarborough. The it wouldn’t be so much fun.’ James Armstrong We Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop contains Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, The Upstage web site features several sound bites, and I was The rhythm section keeps things all together with surf rock boogie “That Hot Daddy,” is bound to should already be a well-known name in the blues witty songs with superior craftsmanship, deft in Port Townsend, Blues-to-Do TV “Life from instantly impressed by the Bellingham resident’s Yonrico Scott (Derek Trucks Band, Greg Allman, be popular dance floor filler. The album hits its world: if he isn’t already on your blues radar he musicianship and terrific vocals. This CD was the Sound,” Blues Vespers at the Immanuel wonderful jazz meets5 blues vocals. Sonja’s band is a Allman Brothers Band) and Charlie Wooton on bass highpoint with the sweet, southern fried backyard sure should be. Check out Blues At The Border and on my “top 10” list of last year, and I recommend Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, and two private harmonious blend of a veteran rhythm section on (Bonerama, Zydefunk), and Cyril plays percussion. lullaby “Afternoon Sun,” with a laid back groove so listen firsthand to what I’m talking about. Highly this CD very highly. - Malcolm Kennedy house parties. For more information, please visit bass and drums with guitar, sax and piano provided The thundering beat of the opening track “New smooth you can taste the iced tea and feel the warm recommended. - Malcolm Kennedy www.doug-macleod.com. – Eric Steiner younger players. Sonja expertly mines the jazz and Horizons” shows that they mean business. The cool summer breeze. The CD ends with the poignant blues vaults for 14 chestnuts and nails every one groove of “Fired Up!” shows excellent potential as honky tonk blues “Am I Getting’ Wise,” which of them. Several other local women, notably Mia an extended jam song and I am sure that they could finds Barrett doing his best Delbert McClinton Vermillion, Stickshift Annie and Dana Lupinacci stretch this five and three quarter’s minute studio and preaching the blues of an experienced road have also had success with this format, and I would version into a fifteen plus minute live version. The dog. Nasty Habits and Dirty Little Secrets will easily put Sonja Lee in their league. The version of Make sure you check them Royal Southern Brotherhood give the Grateful Dead’s satisfy longtime fans of the Coyote Kings, and its out at wablues.org for all the Peggy Lee’s “He’s A Tramp” has a distinctly jazzy feel “Fire on the Mountain” from their 1978 release high production values should win over some new 16 Blues Reviews Blues you can use. while “Hound Dog-Big Mama Style” has a touch Shakedown Street a lilting reggae treatment that ones, as well. – Rick J. Bowen. 17 As we walk back out, dejected, we see our band with disapproving eyes and point fingers instead crash. As the last unbroken dish spins to a stop on mates standing outside the vehicles. They are over of waving. the floor, you can hear the men’s denim-clad butts heated, dehydrated, hungry, and road-fatigued. squeak on the plastic seat cushions of their chairs Part Two of Three As we approach we see them looking at us with Finally, on the outskirts of town, we spot a little rib as they turn, curiously, to see what has caused hopeful expressions on their faces. We break the joint. There are no “White Only - Colored Only” the commotion. news that “Plan D” has failed. Their reaction isn’t signs, just one screen door at the entrance. good. Some of the guys are getting pretty bent out “Stop right theah,” says the waitress in an agitated, of shape over all of this by now, and it’s tougher “This looks promising!,” I think to myself. almost panicky voice. She points at the large table Birmingham Buzz Kill to control the loud outbursts from more than one just inside the door, and barks the next command. of them. I can’t blame them. I want to shout the We park in the dirt parking lot, naively oblivious to (or I Hate To Eat And Run….For My Life! ) same repartee they are directing at us to the cold- the fact that all the other vehicles in the parking lot “Y’all just sit right thayuh at thayuh table! Don’t By Billy “The Pocket” Barner (All rights reserved) hearted, prejudiced people we have encountered, are pick-up trucks with shotguns mounted inside y’all come in heuh any futhuh! I can smell y’all from but dared not. the rear windows. heuh! I’ll bring y’all catfish and greens and that’s all y’all! Y’all eat fast and leave three dollars each (An excerpt from a work-in-progress, It’s now around nine o’clock in the morning. It Road weary, tired, wearing wrinkled clothes on the table and leave on outta heuh!” Real Road Stories of a Blues Musician, seems so simple…we just need to get somewhere we’ve slept in, crammed around and on top of our by Billy “The Pocket” Barner) to stay out of sight until eleven o’clock when we equipment, and not able to clean up anywhere, The “good ol’ boys” glare at us with disgust as, one can get into the club, and find out where the hell we definitely don’t look our best. We, once again, by one, the rest of the seven musicians filter through we are to stay that night. I’m feeling like a fugitive disembark and head toward the restaurant together the door. The prolonged squeal and a final slam on the lam desperately seeking cover. in hopes that we may experience some semblance of that screen door gives us a hopeless feeling... Recapping the first installment which was featured and mistreatment and still being oppressed in the and they politely take my reservation. Relieved, we of “normalcy” on the other side of that screen door. similar to the feeling that a first-time offender in the March 2011 Bluesletter: South (we’re white), proceed to our newest potential sanctum. So, we develope “Plan E:” to try to find an air- feels when the prison door slams shut behind - Those who see white Hippie/musicians as being conditioned restaurant that isn’t segregated, and one The spring in the screen door squeaks as we open him while hardened criminals inside salivate at It’s Spring in 1972. non threatening and an easy target for revenge or Once again, Curt and I disembark and go into the that preferably tolerates and serves Hippies, Yankees, it and entered the restaurant. Three or four of the the sight of fresh meat at the new arrival. We feel retaliation without consequence (we’re White, we’re second hotel while the rest of the band waits in and musicians. This seems like an impossibly tall tables have two to four men sitting at them. One of like we arre the main course on an “all you can The South is still in the throes of civil unrest. We, Hippies, we’re musicians) and we’re equally hated the vehicles baking in the 100+ degree heat. As order. Where we’re from – the Pacific Northwest the empty tables is a large one just inside the door. eat Hippie Yankee Musician Smorgasbord at a the members of the seven-piece Tacoma-Seattle by bigoted whites who would have no interest in soon as we enter the lobby we see the desk clerk - this would not be a problem in 1972, but like All the men inside are white farmer types. About Redneck Convention.” based Hometown Blues Band, are on tour with protecting us but would (more likely) take delight side step over to the manager, point at us and say Dorothy and Toto, we are no longer in Kansas (or, half of us have come through the screen door, and ATCO recording artist R.B. Greaves. After driving in seeing us in a skirmish with “blacks” and in something to him. They both glare at us as we in our case, Washington State). We pile back into none of the seated regulars have paid us any mind. With the melodramatic demonstration performed 500 miles overnight straight through from the gig arresting us all. approach the desk. the vehicles, and we are determined to succeed. by the waitress, and the hateful, snarling expressions we did the night before in Shreveport, Louisiana, Suddenly, the kitchen door swings open as a white on the faces of the redneck regulars, we know this we arrived in Birmingham, Alabama, at about five On the other side. “This doesn’t look good,” I am thinking. By the time we launch “Plan E,” Birmingham is waitress hurriedly stepped though carrying a large is no safe house. o’clock in the morning. - We don’t have the address of the motel where we awake and active, but the temperature just keeps tray piled with silverware and dishes. Glancing our have reservations, but we know we need to get out The manager utters something else to the desk getting hotter and hotter: the humidity is so high, way, with an expression of horror, she stops dead Hell, no. In town now for little more than an hour, we had of the public eye… the sooner the better. clerk, and then steps back to the side as if to do we feel like we could drown in it. We feel very in her tracks. She throws both hands up and drops already: something else. The desk clerk does not greet us… conspicuous as we tool around town in search of the tray. Silverware, dishes and the tray clang and This is the lion’s den. - Received a warning from a colored woman to We drive around until we find a motel. Curt gets he just abruptly barks: “We have no vacancies”! our elusive refuge. We feel like we are on parade: crash loudly to the floor. “get out of town if we know what’s good for us,” out of the Econoline van, and I exit the Travelall, but, instead of smiles and waves, people ogle us “Oh my Gawd!” she exclaims in unison with the (End of Part Two. To be continued) - Been banished to the “Colored Only” section of and together we approach the sliding glass door at “Oh, well,” I start to explain. “We have reservations.” a restaurant by a bigoted, white “Soul Food Nazi” the entrance of the motel office. As we approach The manager then steps back over and interjects who refused us service, and the door, the desk clerk looks up from the desk “Did y’all just call and make a resahvation?” cruise-only option, it’s $15. The four-band festival Sunday morning features a Gospel Brunch from - Avoided a potential brawl with some intoxicated and spots us. alone is $25. All other jams and pre-function events 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Dockside Restaurant. colored guys in the alley behind the fabled Showboat- “Yes, I did,” I reply are free and open to the public. Lounge in Birmingham’s historic district. With an expression on his face best described as Tickets are $37 for combination Blues Cruise on a combination of panic and contempt, he swiftly “Unfahtunately,” he says. “We have a convention The Doghouse Boyz kick off the festival in Whispers Lake Coeur D’Alene and four-band Coeur d’Alene Trying to rationalize this, we thought that this is runs around the check-in counter and up to the comin’ in today and all ah rooms are already taken. Lounge on Friday afternoon from 4:00 PM-7:00PM Blues Festival. The cruise-only option is $15, and all occurring because we are long haired outsiders glass doors. He locks the door, turns the VACANCY Yo resahvation was taken in errah and is no good.” shortly before the Boat Cruise and Dock Party. the four-band festival is $25. All other jams, after - Yankee/ Hippie/ Musicians - who looked, talked, sign over to NO VACANCY, dropps the Venetian Festival Preview: There will be two boats with two bands: Bakin’ and pre-function events are free. and acted differently than everyone else. blinds, and pulls them shut! Exasperated, I plead “We only need the room for Phat and also Royce/Govedare & The High Rollers. a few hours. We just got into town. We’ve driven April 5-7th The Fat Tones will play at the after-cruise party at For more information, please visit: www.cdaresort. We are not welcomed by: One of us says to the other, “Holy cow! Can you straight through from Shreveport, Louisiana. Plaza Center Court Friday at 9:00PM. com/. For information on special room and festival - That segment of white folks who are still holding believe this shit?” or words to that effect. We’ll be performing at the Show-Boat Club with packages, please contact a Coeur d’Alene Resort a Civil War grudge -we’re Yankees, RB Greaves, and we have reservations at another On Saturday afternoon from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Specialist at 800-688-5253. To purchase 2013 - Those who detest the philosophies that they We return to the trucks to commiserate with our motel, but we won’t know where that motel is for VooDoo Church will host the Blues Jam on the Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival event tickets only by believe Hippies represent - we’re Hippies, and band mates to brainstorm a new plan. This will another few hours and we need to get in out of The Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival returns to the Coeur Coeur d’Alene Resort rooftop. After the rooftop phone, contact The Coeur d’Alene Resort Business - Those who find our passive demeanor to be be “Plan D.” the heat and clean up. Won’t you help us out? Our d’Alene Resort in Idaho on April 5th through the 7th. jam, Roberson & BZ will play until 7:00 PM in Center at 208-765-4000, Ext.21. Online tickets are different from theirs, and easy to prey upon - money’s good!” The event will also include the Washington Blues Whispers Lounge. available at www.ticketfly.com - just type in “cda because we are musicians. We decide to go to a phone booth and call a hotel Society’s traveling blues store led by Washington blues festival.” The online homes of the Coeur and reserve a room. “They can’t turn away someone I get no reply; just two blank stares. I might as well Blues Society VP/Merchandise and Promotions Saturday evening’s lineup features four great bands d’Alene Blues Festival are: On one side and: with reservations!“ we figure. have be speaking to the concrete pillar next to the Director Tony Frederickson. in the Resort Convention Center beginning at - That segment of African American folks who desk. Both of them ignore everything I say, and 7:00 PM with Lloyd Jones, Duffy Bishop, Charlie www.cdabluesfestival.com and (understandably) still hold a grudge against white Locating a phone booth, I pick out a hotel from the then just walk away. There are a number of ways blues fans can experience Musselwhite, and Ty Curtis. Two stages make facebook.com/pages/CDA-BLUES- Saturday night a nonstop blues experience! folks because of their past generations of slavery yellow pages that’s not far from our location. I call this festival. For the entire cruise on Lake Coeur FESTIVAL/282040363067. d’Alene and four-band festival, it’s $37, and for the 18 19 March 17 - Sunday (continued) Laurelthirst, Portland: Alice Stuart, 6pm March 27 - Wednesday (continued) Blues Vespers, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, March 22 - Friday (continued) Engels Pub: Granite Reign, 8pm Tacoma: Doug Macleod, 5pm (All Ages) New Orleans: Flexicon w/Thomas Marriott New Orleans: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Johnny’s Dock: Steve Cooley & the Woodard Lane, Olympia: Doug Macleod, Acox, 8pm Blues Dangerfields, 5pm 7:30pm (All Ages) Royal Lounge, Olympia, Alice & Friends, 7:30pm Siren’s Point Port Townsend: Keith Scott Pogacha: Dirty Rice, 8pm March 28 - Thursday Calendar March 18- Monday March 23 - Saturday Highway 99: Monster Road 88 Keys, Pioneer Square, Blues To Do TV: El Norte, Lake City/Seattle: Stickshift Annie w/ New Orleans: Ham Carson Quintet March 1 - Friday March 7 - Thursday March 13 - Wednesday J.D. Hobson Fugitives Kimball, Larry & John Engels Pub: Red Hill Dawson’s: guest artist Alice Stuart, 8pm 88 Keys: Blues on Tap, 8pm Mr. Villa, Lake City: Annie Eastwood, Kimball Engels Pub: The Weather Heads March 29 - Friday Jazz Alley: Freddie Pink Jazz Alley: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, featuring Madison Pub, Everett: Eric Rice hosts the Conant, Larry Hill, Fugitives Trio, 7pm Grinders, Shoreline, John Stephan Band, 8:30 pm Engels Pub, Edmonds: Wire Old Village Pub: Chris Steven’s a tribute to Etta James Unbound Blues Jam, 7pm Slaughter County Brewing, Port Orchard: Madison Pub: Ladies First! A vocal showcase Prohibition Gastropub, Everett: Randy Norris Surf Monkeys, 8:30pm New Orleans: Ham Carson Quintet Engels Pub: Moon Daddy Band, 8pm Malcolm Clark Trio, 6pm featuring Mary McPage, Annette Taborn, & Jeff Nicely, 7pm Rockfish Grill: Snake Oil Salmon Bay Eagles: John Stephan, solo, 8pm New Orleans: Holotradband, 7pm Triple Door: Hot Tuna Stickshift Annie Eastwood, Michelle Taylor, Sonny Newman’s Dance Hall: Two Twelve On Central, Kirkland: Royal Lounge, Olympia, Alice & Friends, 7:30pm March 23 - Saturday (continued) March 30 - Saturday Phantoms of Soul, 8:30pm Annie Eastwood w/ guitarist Bill Chism, 8pm March 19 - Tuesday Becki Boyle, Marilyn Beebe & Suze Sims. Central: Alice Stuart & the Formerlys, 8pm Highway 99: Brian Lee and the Orbiters March 14 - Thursday New Orleans: Holotradband, 7pm Muse, Conway: Nick Vigarino’s Back Porch Destination Harley, Fife: Mark Whitman band, 12pm March 2 - Saturday Highway 99: James King & the Southsiders Red Wind Casino, Olympia, Alice Stuart & the Stomp, 7:30pm Dusty Strings, Seattle: Eric Madis’ Jazz-Blues Destination Harley, Fife: Mark Whitman March 8 - Friday New Orleans: Selbred/Jackson Formerlys, 6pm Old Edison Inn, Bow/Edison: the Stacy Jones Band Fingerstyle Workshop, 1:30pm Band, 12pm Engels Pub: Project-86 Band Salmon Bay Eagles: Big Multi-Guitar Show Engels Pub: Tweety & The Tom Cats Engels Pub: 44th St. Blues Band Flights Pub,Everett: Stacy Jones Band March 15 - Friday March 20 - Wednesday with Chris Steven’s Surf Monkeys, 8:30pm New Orleans Restaurant, Seattle, Gin Creek Highway 99: Nathan James & the Jazz Alley: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, featuring Dusty Strings, Fremont: Doug Macleod & 88 Keys: Blues on Tap, 8pm Rockfish Grill: Dirty Rice hosts the Guitar Muse, Conway: Nick Vigarino’s Meantown Rhythm Scratchers a tribute to Etta James Mary Flower 7:30 pm, All Ages $(20.00) Engels Pub: Richard Allen & the Louisiana Slinger Showcase with Scotty Lind, CD Blues, 8pm Pony Keg, Kent: Brian Lee Trio, 8pm Match Coffee & Wine, Duvall: Annie Engels Pub: Mary Mcpage & the Assassins Experience, 8pm Woodbury and Eric Rice Owl ‘n Thistle, Seattle: Randy Norris & Jeff Rockfish Grill: Mark DuFresne Eastwood, Kimball Conant, Larry Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel, Worley, New Orleans: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Nicely, 10pm Stonegate: Steve Cooley & the Dangerfields, 7pm Hill, Fugitives Trio, 7:30pm Idaho: Mark Holt , 8pm Acox, 8pm March 24 – Sunday Sons of Norway Hall, Bothell, “Left Foot Triple Door: Roy Rogers & the Rhythm Kings Elliot Bay Pizza, Mill Creek: Annie Eastwood Royal Lounge, Olympia, Alice & Friends, 7:30pm Boogie” Dance w Brian Lee & the Orbiters, 7:30pm March 3 - Sunday Wild Hare, Everett: The Stacy Jones band w/guitarist Bill Chism, 7pm Highway 99: Dirty Rice, 8pm March 25 - Monday Vino Bella, Issaquah: Kid Quagmire Band - Central Club, Kirkland, Brian Lee & the Garden House Blues: Elliott Bay Blues w/ 88 Keys, Pioneer Square, Blues To Do TV: NW Phil Lane, Kimball Conant, John Rockwell & Orbiters, 8:30pm March 9 - Saturday Jack Cook & Mick Knight & piano great, March 21 - Thursday Blues Forum: Duo Streaming Broadcast w/ Annie Eastwood, 7:30pm Destination Harley, Fife: Chris Steven’s Ray Skjelbred Juxtamuse Equinox Showcase, Everett: Nick Live From The Sound Dot Com & NWCZ March 4 - Monday Surf Monkeys, Noon New Orleans: Ham Carson Quintet Vigarino’s Back Porch Stomp, 6:30pm Radio’s Jonathan ‘Oogie’ Richards & ‘Sweet’ March 31 - Sunday 88 Keys, Blues To Do TV: NW Blues Forum: Highway 99: Kevin Selfe & Blues Tornadoes Old Village Pub: Stacy Jones Band New Orleans: Ham Carson Quintet Danny Ray Edison Inn, Edison/Bow: Stickshift Annie with Jam Host Symposium w/ various area Jam Delta Groove CD Release Party Pt. Townsend Elks: Swing Dance w/ Two Twelve On Central, Kirkland: Annie New Orleans: New Orleans Quintet Kimball & the Fugitives & Dan Duggin host, Hosts including Jeff Haas, Tim Turner, Engels Pub: Astro Cats Brian Lee & the Orbiters, 7pm Eastwood w/guitarist Bill Chism, 8pm Slaughter County Brewing, Port Orchard: Sunday dance, 5:30pm Bruce Ransom, Billy Brandt, Kim Workman, Pony Keg, Kent: Dirty Rice Slider’s House of Slide, Carnation: Eric Madis 3231 Creatives, Everett: Juxtamuse EQUINOX Malcolm Clark Trio, 6pm & and maybe...Cory Wilds, Justin Kausal- Jazz Alley: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, & Blue Madness, 7:30pm $howcase, Brian Lee Trio 7:30pm 1:30-11pm Hayes, Stephanie Porter, Tommy Wall, featuring a tribute to Etta James Highway 99: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers Ballard Eagles: Dirty Rice, 8pm March 26 - Tuesday Andrew Cloutier, Paul & Willow, ( more next Left Foot Boogie Dance Sons of Norway, April New Orleans: Holotradband, 7pm month on the first Monday as well) Bothell: Stickshift Annie w/Kimball & the March 16 - Saturday March 22 - Friday April 1 - Monday New Orleans: New Orleans Quintet Fugitives and Brian Kent, 8:30pm Top Shelf Broiler, Kirkland: Dirty Rice Engels Pub: Boomtown March 27 - Wednesday Slaughter County Brewing, Port Orchard: Scotch and Vine, Des Moines: Brian Lee Trio, 7 Conway Muse, Conway: Randy Norris & Jazzbones, Tacoma: Stacy Jones Band, 8pm 88 Keys: Blues on Tap, 8pm April 2 - Tuesday Malcolm Clark Trio, 6pm Walla Walla Elks Club: Guitar Festival, Alice Jeff Nicely, 7:30pm New Orleans: Holotradband, 7pm Stuart & the Formerlys, afternoon Destination Harley, Fife: Chris Steven’s March 5 - Tuesday Wild Hare, Everett: The Stacy Jones band Surf Monkeys, Noon April 3 - Wednesday New Orleans: Holotradband, 7pm Dusty Strings, Fremont: Doug Macleod Blues attention all music people: New Orleans: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Renton Senior Center: Norm Bellas March 10 - Sunday Guitar Workshop, 10:30am ($40) If you would like to add your music schedule to our calendar please send it to: wbscalendar@ Acox, 8pm (grand piano), 12:30pm Jazz Alley: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, Dusty Strings, Fremont: Mary Flower Up the yahoo.com It is greatly preferred to be sent in this format: (Arial, 8pt). date - venue, city(if featuring a tribute to Etta James Neck Workshop, 1:30pm ($40) other than Seattle): band name, time(if other than 9pm) please no bold or Caps. Thank you, April 4 - Thursday March 6 - Wednesday Engels Pub: T-Town Aces your calendar girl, Maridel New Orleans: Ham Carson Quintet 88 Keys: Blues on Tap, 8pm March 11 - Monday Port Gardner Winery, Everett: Annie Eastwood Engels Pub: Dirty Rice, 8pm 88 Keys, Blues To Do TV: NW Blues Forum: w/guitarist Bill Chism, 6pm New Orleans: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Women Mentoring Women: Pianozilla w/ Repp, Snohomish: Alice Stuart, 7pm Acox, 8pm Ashley Young, &more female piano blues Station House, La Conner: Nick Pike Pl. Bar & Grill: John Stephan Band, 6 pm player ....hopefully, Gael Kurath & Annieville Blues! Vigarino’s Back Porch Stomp, 8:30p Royal Lounge, Olympia, Alice & Friends, 7:30pm Slaughter County Brewing, Port Orchard: Top Shelf Broiler, Kirkland: Stacy Jones Band Waterwheel Lounge, Ballard: Annie Eastwood, Malcolm Clark Trio, 6pm Wild Hare, Everett: Gin Creek, 9pm Larry Hill & Tom Brighton w/guitarist Bill Chism, 7pm March 12 - Tuesday March 17 - Sunday Engel’s Pub, Edmonds: Dirty Rice New Orleans: New Orleans Quintet Red Crane Restaurant, Shoreline: 2nd Annual Red Crane Restaurant, Shoreline: Washington Pass the Torch Fundraiser with The WIRED! Blues Society Blues Bash – 7 PM all ages! Band, Mark Riley, the Duffy Bishop Band, Pianorama, and more! All-ages! 3:30 PM 20 21 Washington Blues Society South Sound on the Tacoma, Burien, Federal Way, etc Blues Al Lago, Lake Tapps (253) 863-8636 Venue Guide 2 Wheel Blues Club – Tacoma Barnacles Restaurant, Des Moines (206) 878-5000 The Barrel – Burien (206) 246-5488 RadioPLEASE SEND ANY RADIO Dial UPDATES TO CC’s Lounge, Burien (206) 242-0977 Peninsula Capitol Theater/Olympia Film Society – (360) 754-3635 [email protected] Clearwater Casino – Suquamish (360) 598-6889 Destiny Seafood & Grill – Port Angeles (360) 452-4665 Cascade Tavern – Vancouver (360) 254-0749 Halftime Saloon – Gig Harbor (253) 853-1456 Charlie’s – Olympia (360) 786-8181 Monday Junction Tavern – Port Angeles (360) 452-9880 Cliff House Restaurant – Tacoma (253) 927-0400 KUGS 89.3FM Bellingham: Highway 61 8:00AM - 10:00AM Saturday Little Creek Casino – Shelton (360) 427-7711 Destination Harley Davidson – Fife (253) 922-3700 KPLU 88.5FM Tacoma: All Blues 6:00PM - 12:00AM Seven Cedars Casino – Sequim (360) 683-7777 Blues Vespers at Immanuel Presbyterian (253) 627-8371 www.kugs.org - DJ, Chalkie McStevenson Jazzbones in Tacoma (253) 396-9169 www.kplu.org - DJ, John Kessler Siren’s – Port Townsend (360) 379-1100 Upstage – Port Townsend (360) 385-2216 (The) Junction Sports Bar, Centralia (360) 273-7586 KAOS 89.3FM Olympia: “Blues On Rye” 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seattle Lighthouse – Des Moines (206) 824-4863 www.kaosradio.org - DJ, Val Vaughn KAOS 89.3FM Olympia: “Blues For Breakfast” 8:00AM - 10:00AM Blarney Stone Pub and Restaurant (206) 448-8439 Maggie O’Toole’s – Lakewood (253) 584-3278 www.kaosradio.org - DJ, Jerry Drummond China Harbor Restaurant (206) 286-1688 Magnolia Café – Poulsbo (360) 697-1447 Mighty Mouth Blues on NWCZ Radio - www.nwczradio.com - Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley (206) 441-9729 x210 Mint Alehouse – Enumclaw (360) 825-8361 KSER 90.7FM Everett: Audio Indigo 7:00PM - 9:00 PM EMP Liquid Lounge (206) 770-2777 Pat’s Bar & Grill – Kent (253) 852-7287rr Monday 8:00-11:00PM Pacific EMP Sky Church (206) 770-2777 Pick & Shovel – Wilkeson (360) 829-6574 www.kser.org - DJ, Robin K North Sound Fiddler’s Inn (206) 525-0752 Bellingham, Anacortes, Whidbey Island, etc The Pony Keg - Kent (253) 395-8022 Northwest Convergence Zone Online Radio: Grinder’s (206) 542-0627 China Beach – Langley (360) 530-8888 Riverside Pub, Sumner (253) 863-8369 NWCZradio.com: Dave Samson’s BluesShow 7:00pm - 10:00PM KPBX 91.1FM Spokane: Blues Kitchen 10:00PM - 12:00AM Highliner Pub (206) 283-2233 Just Moe’s – Sedro Woolley (360) 855-2997 Silver Dollar Pub – Spanaway (253) 531-4469 www.kpbx.org - DJ, Tina Bjorklund Highway 99 Club (206) 382-2171 LaConner Tavern – LaConner (360) 466-9932 The Spar – Tacoma (253) 627-8215 J & M Cafe (206) 467-2666 Little Roadside Tavern – Everson (360) 592-5107 The Swiss – Tacoma (253) 572-2821 Tuesday Lock & Keel (206) 781-8023 Tugboat Annie’s – Olympia (360) 943-1850 KBCS 91.3FM Bellevue: Eh Toi! 11:00PM - 1:00AM KZPH 106.7FM Wenatachee: The Blues 11:00PM - 12:00AM Old Edison Inn – Edison (360) 766-6266 Maple Leaf Grill (206) 523-8449 Rockfish Grill – Anacortes (360) 588-1720 Uncle Sam’s Bar & Grill - Spanaway (253) 507-7808 www.kbcs.fm - DJ, DJ Marte’ www.therock1067.com - DJ, Dave Keefe Mr. Villa (206) 517-5660 Stump Bar & Grill – Arlington (360) 653-6774 Wurlitzer Manor – Gig Harbor (253) 858-1749 New Orleans (206) 622-2563 Watertown Pub – Anacortes (360) 293-3587 Wednesday KSER 90.7FM Everett: Blues Odessey 9:00PM - 11:00pM Paragon (206) 283-4548 Wild Buffalo – Bellingham (360) 312-3684 KEXP 90.3FM Seattle: The Roadhouse 6:00PM to 9:00PM www.kser.org - DJ, Leslie Fleury Pike Place Bar and Grill (206) 624-1365 Viking Bar and Grill – Stanwood (360) 629-9285 The Rimrock Steak House (206) 362-7979 www.kexp.org - DJ, Greg Vandy Salmon Bay Eagles (206) 783-7791 North End Sunday St. Clouds (206) 726-1522 (Lynnwood, Everett, Edmonds, etc.): KSVR 91.7FM Mount Vernon: “The Blue Boulevard” 8:00PM - 10:00PM KEXP 90.3 Seattle Preaching the Blues with Johny Horn Third Place Commons, Lake Forest Park (206) 366-3333 Anchor Pub – Everett (425) 252-2288 Eastside Balefire – Everett (425) 374-7248 [email protected] - DJ, Jackson Stewart Sunday Mornings 9am to Noon Triangle Tavern (206) 763.0714 Tractor Tavern (206) 789-3599 Bellevue, Kirkland, etc. Bubba’s Roadhouse – Sultan, (360) 793-3950 Bake’s Place - Bellevue (425) 454-2776 Canoes Cabaret – Tulalip (888) 272-1111 KYRS 92.3 FM, KYRS.org Blues Now and Triple Door (206) 838-4333 KSVR 91.7FM Mount Vernon: “The Blues Note with Janice” 10:00PM - 12:00AM Central Club – Kirkland (425) 827-8808 The Conway Muse in Conway (360) 445-3000 Then 6-8 PM. DJ, Patrick Henry and Jumpin’ Jerry. Crossroads Shopping Center – Bellevue (425) 644-1111 Demetris Woodstone Taverna, Edmonds (425) 744-9999 [email protected] - DJ, Janice Gage Damans Pub – Redmond Diamond Knot Brewery & Alehouse – Mukilteo KPLU 88.5FM Tacoma: All Blues 6:00PM - 12:00AM Forecasters – Woodinville (425) 483-3212 (425) 355-4488 Central & Eastern Raging River Café & Club – Fall City (425) 222-6669 Engel’s Pub – Edmonds (425) 778-2900 Thursday www.kplu.org - DJ, John Kessler BBQ & Blues – Clarkston (509) 758-1227 Rockin’M BBQ, Golf Range & Lounge - Everett (425.438.2843) Historic Spar Tree – Granite Falls (360) 691-6888 KSER 90.7FM Everett: Clancy’s Bar and Grill 8:30PM - 10:30PM Breadline Café – Omak (509) 826-5836 Time Out Sports Bar – Kirkland (425) 822-8511 Madison Pub - Everett (425) 348-7402 www.kser.org - DJ, Clancy Dunigan KWCW 90.5FM Walla Walla: Blues Therapy 7:00PM - 9:00PM Club Crow – Cashmere (509) 782-3001 Top Shelf Broiler & Tervelli Lounge - Kirkland (206) 239-8431 Mardini’s – Snohomish (360) 568-8080 CrossRoads Steakhouse – Walla Walla (509) 522-1200 Vino Bella – Issaquah (425) 391-1424 Mirkwood & Shire Café – Arlington (360) 403-9020 www.kwcw.net - DJ, “Biggdaddy” Ray Hansen and Ice Harbor Brewing Co - Kennewick (509) 582-5340 Armand “The Doctor” Parada Wild Vine Bistro, Bothell (425) 877-1334 North Sound:Star Bar, Anacortes (360) 299-2120 ( Lakey’s Grill – Pullman (509) 332-6622 Wilde Rover – Kirkland (425) 822-8940 Prohibition Grille, Everett (425) 258-6100 Friday Main Street Tavern – Omak (509) 826-2247 Valhalla Bar & Grill, Kirkland (425) 827 3336 Stanwood Hotel & Saloon – Stanwood (360) 629-2888 KEXP 90.3FM Seattle: Shack The Shack 6:00PM - 9:00PM KKZX 98.9FM Spokane: Blowtorch Blues 7:00PM - 10:00PM Peters Inn – Packwood (360) 494-4000 Yuppie Tavern - Kirkland (425) 814-5200 Stewart’s – Snohomish (360) 568-4684 www.kexp.org - DJ, Leon Berman www.kkzx.com - DJ, Ted Todd Brion Foster. Pine Springs Resort - Goldendate (509-773-4434 Timberline Café – Granite Falls (360) 691-7011 Ram’s Ripple – Moses Lake (509) 765-3942 Tracey’s Place – Everett (425) 259-0811 Rattlesnake Brewery – Richland (509) 783-5747 KSER 90.7FM Everett: The Juke Joint 1:00PM - 3:00PM Red Lion Hotel Wenatchee (Tomasz Cibicki 509-669-8200) Wicked Rack BBQ – Everett (425) 334-3800 Washington Blues Society www.kser.org - DJ, Jon Noe Tumwater Inn Restaurant and Lounge – Leavenworth (509) 548-4232 Mondays Caffe Mela, Wenatchee, 7pm (first Mon. of the month) 88 Keys, Pioneer Square: Star Drums & Lady Keys host Blue Monday Jam, Wednesdays Blues Jams Charlies Olympia: Blues Attitude 8pm Sundays JR’s Hideway: Malcolm Clark, 8pm Daman’s Pub, 8 PM Alki Tavern: Jam hosted b y Manuel Morais Opal Lounge, South Tacoma Way: Tim Hall, 8pm Dogghouse Tavern, Mt. Vernon Alan: Hatley Trio, 7pm Dawson’s, Tacoma: Tim Hall Band, 7pm Oxford Saloon: All ages open jam, 7 - 11pm Eddie’s Trackside Bar & Grill, Monroe: every 1st & 3rd Wed., 8pm 88 Keys, Pioneer Square: Blues on Tap, 8pm Thursdays Castle’s, Sedro Wolley: Gary B’s Church of the Blues, 6-10pm Ten Below: hosted by Underground Blues Jam, every 1st Monday Bad Alberts: Invitational w/Annieville Blues Half Time Saloon: Billy Shew & Billy Barner Eastlake Zoo Tavern: Eastlake Zoo Social Club & Jam featuring of the month, Wenatchee Barrel Tavern: hosted by Tim Turner, 8pm Locker Room, White Center: Michael Johnson & Lynn Sorensen, 8-12pm the Seattle Houserockers, 7pm Club Flight Nightclub: w/Cory Wilde, 9pm Madison Pub, Everett: hosted by Unbound w/special guests 7:30pm Pony Keg, Kent: Rafael Tranquilino Jam Conway Pub Tuesdays March 6 - Andy “Badd Dog” Koch Raging River: Tommy Wall Barrel Tavern: hosted by Doug McGrew, 8pm Dawson’s, Tacoma: Billy Shew, 8 pm March 13 - Eric Rice Silver Dollar: Big Nasty, 8pm Dawson’s, Tacoma: hosted by Shelley & Jho, 8pm Eddie’s Trackside, Monroe: Tommy Cook, Patrick March 20 - Chester Dennis Jones Two Twelve, Kirkland: hosted by HeatherBBlues, 7pm Elmer, Burien: hosted by Billy Shew McDanel & Teri Anne Wilson, 8:30pm March 27 - AEK Engels Pub, Edmonds: Jam Session with Lou & Don, 8pm O’Callahan’s: Tim Hall, 7pm Salmon Bay Eagles: Broomdust presents Blues of the Past jam (1st Wed.), 8pm J & M Cafe Jam Top Shelf (formerly Olive You), Kirkland: Yuppie Tavern, Kirkland (Totem Lake), HeatherBBlues Acoustic jam, 8pm Pacific Rim Marysville Best Western: Mike Wright & the Blue Sharks, 7 - 11pm hosted by Chester Dennis, 8pm Snohomish Spirits & Sports: Sean Denton & friends Oxford Saloon: Invitational Jam w/Steve Ater, 8pm 22 Summit Pub: Tim Hall & the Realtimes, 7:30pm Wild Buffalo, Bellingham: hosted by Rick Baunach, 6:30 - 9:30pm 23 A.H.L. (206) 935-4592 James King & the Southsiders (206) 715-6511 AlleyKattz (425) 273-4172 Virginia Klemens / Jerry Lee Davidson (206) 632-6130 Annieville Blues (206) 994-9413 Mick Knight (206) 373-1681 Author Unknown (206) 355-5952 Bruce Koenigsberg / the Fabulous Roof Shakers (425) 766-7253 Baby Gramps Trio (425) 483-2835 Kolvane (503) 804-7966 BackGround Noise (425) 931-8084 Lady “A” & the Baby Blues Funk Band (425) 518-9100 Back Porch Blues (425) 299-0468 Brian Lee & the Orbiters www.brianleeorbiters.com Badd Dog Blues Society (360) 733-7464 Brian Lee Trio (206) 390-2408 March 2013 Membership Update: Bare Roots (206) 818-8141 Scott E. Lind (206) 789-8002 Billy Barner (253) 884-6308 Little Bill & the Bluenotes (425) 774-7503 Thank You to New and Renewing Members! Bay Street Blues Band (360) 731-1975 Dana Lupinacci Band (206) 860-4961 Norm Bellas & the Funkstars (206) 722-6551 Eric Madis & Blue Madness (206) 362 8331 Black River Blues (206) 396-1563 Bill Mattocks Band (206) 601-2615 Blackstone Players (425) 327-0018 Albritten McClain & Bridge of Souls (206) 650-8254 Blues Attitude (360) 701-6490 Washington Blues Society Brian “Jelly Belly” McGhee (253) 777-5972 NEW: RENEWED: Keith Kuhnau * Jeffrey Ross Blue 55 (206) 216-0554 Doug McGrew (206) 679-2655 Jeannie Angelo Jim Allchin Michael Lambert Aaron Saliba ** Blue Healers (206) 440-7867 Mary McPage Band (206) 850-4849 Dan Barclay Rene Anderson * Al Larimer Tony & Jan Saulewicz Blues on Tap: 206 618-6210 Miles from Chicago (206) 440-8016 James Barkshire * Craig Angus Patrick Lee Margene Schotz Blues To Do Monthly (206) 328-0662 Reggie Miles (360) 793-9577 Talent Guide Jake Barr ** JW Bass Steven Leifheit Ken Sederdahl * Blues Playground (425) 359-3755 Rob Moitoza / House of Reprehensibles (206) 768-2820 Blues Redemption http://www.bluesredemption.com Moon Daddy Band (425) 923-9081 Linda Beilfus Cindy Bee & Nick Ericson Sandi & Al Lynden Robert Seidman Blues County Sheriff (206) 979-0666 Jim Nardo’s Boogie Train Blues Band (360) 779-4300 Nola Blaswich Marilyn Beebe & Marc Tachell Harvey Malone Steven P. Shamberg Blues to Burn (253) 945-7441 Keith Nordquist (253) 639-3206 Joyce Bloomstrom Dave Bernhardt ** Lisa Mann Lindy Sheehan * Boneyard Preachers (206) 755-0766/ 206-547-1772 Randy Norris & the Full Degree (425) 239-3876 Bill Brown & the Kingbees 206-276-6600 Randy Norris & Jeff Nicely (425) 239-3876/(425) 359-3755 Barbara Campbell Robb Boatsman & Courtney Hanks Adrianne Marsh Billy Shew Bump Kitchen (253) 223-4333, (360) 259-1545 Randy Oxford Band (253) 973-9024 Liz Caraway Jennifer Boynton Chris Mason Jordy Sigler Brian Butler Band (206) 361-9625 Robert Patterson (509) 869-0350 David Chapman ** Jim Brandt ** Keylin Mayfield ** Scott Simmons * Charlie Butts & the Filtertips (509) 325-3016 Dick Powell Band (425) 742-4108 Christine Clinton Kathy Brandt Conner McDanel Neil Sorensen ** Ellis Carter 206-935-3188 Bruce Ransom (206) 618-6210 Malcolm Clark Band (253) 853-7749 Red Hot Blues Sisters (206) 940-2589 Sean Divine CJ Brantner Patrick McDanel ** Billy Stapleton Colonel (360) 293-7931 Mark Riley (206) 313-7849 Susan K. 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G. Jackson & the Shakers (360) 896-4175 Mark Whitman Band (206) 697-7739 Jeff & the Jet City Fliers (206) 469-0363 Michael Wilde (425) 672-3206 / (206) 200-3363 Vaughn Jensen Band (509) 554-6914 Rusty Williams (206) 282-0877 Stacy Jones Band (206) 992-3285 Hambone Wilson (360) 739-7740 Chester Dennis Jones (253)-797-8937 C.D. Woodbury (425) 502-1917 Harry “The Man” Joynes (360) 871-4438 Beth Wulff Band (206) 367-6186, (206) 604-2829 * Thank you for donating to the Washington Blues Society’s Junkyard Jane (253) 238-7908 Musician Relief Fund!

** Thank you for playing at our Blues Bash 24 25 Passing the Torch Early Entries will be considered beginning January 1, 2013 Application Must be Received by May 1, 2013 Centrum Blues Scholarship - 2013

Seattle Teen Music in conjunction with The Washington Blues Full Name: ______Society is offering scholarships to the 2012 Centrum Blues Week Address: ______in Port Townsend, Washington (www.centrum.org). Blues Week is held July 28th through August 4th. The minimum scholarship Phone Number: ______offering is $580 (approximately 50%); larger scholarships will be Email address: ______offered according to need. Music proficiency level is not required. 1. What musical genre is the most interesting to you and why? Process and Eligibility 2. What instrument(s) (including vocal) do you play, and how long have you been playing? Applicants must be between the ages of 12 and 18 to be eligible and 3. Have you performed in a live setting before? If so, tell us about it. have their parent or guardian’s consent to attend. After reviewing all of the eligible applications, an independent panel of judges will 4. Do you have interests as a solo player and/or as a band member? choose the finalists. Applicants may be asked to perform a three 5. Do you consider yourself a beginner, intermediate or advanced musician? song set of music prior to choosing the actual scholarship winners. 6. Please tell us about yourself, and why we should choose you for the scholarship Songs performed may be either original music or cover material. We (250 words or less). do not limit the genre of music you must perform for the audition; 7. Please provide the names and contact numbers/email addresses of two adults music must be acoustic and country blues is suggested. All applicants (non-parents) who we can talk to about your application. will receive a confirmation email of receipt of their application and 8. Will you be able to submit a performance video and / or perform at audition in a ‘next steps’ email. Thank you for your submission. Regardless of late May or early June? the outcome of the scholarship competition, we encourage you to continue your music and blues education. Good Luck to all! Please provide the information (above) and answer the questions as thoroughly as possible. Then email your completed application form to: [email protected]

Will You Be a Part of Passing the Torch? By Roy Brown Join Us on Sunday, March 17th at the Red Crane! Last year, this new Washington Blues Society from some of the finest country blues musicians the Torch by chipping in lots more than the cost of program, administered through the education in the world. This is an experience that literally the ticket. The raffle tickets will be $5.00. Come directorship, got off to a flying start. Our goal was changes the life of young musicians; it keeps prepared to buy ten, or twenty, or more. Come (and is) simple. We want the Washington Blues veterans coming back year after year to Centrum. prepared to throw a twenty or fifty dollar bill in Society to play a lead role in educating the next the tip jar. And if you win an item and can’t use it, generation of local blues musicians. After all, if we Sunday, March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day) will be our donate it back so we can raffle it again. Any way don’t act, then who? Money is tight these days, and second fundraiser in two years. The psychology of you can afford to donate is a help. a few hundred bucks here and there to surround a fundraiser is this: we provide you with the finest your kid with world class musicians and teachers in entertainment; we provide you with raffle items What I’m getting at here is that it isn’t just our is just too much for many families. worth your investment (how about 2 tickets for little group that is responsible for Passing the Winthrop, or two tickets to Sunbanks?). We let Torch. It is me, and you; its all of us, even those So last year we began the program to pass the you in for a pittance compared to the quality of the who can’t make it to the fundraiser. We are but a torch to a new generation of youth musicians. show. This year our “opener” is the Wired! Band. small cog in the blues genre musical wheel, and We don’t want to dictate that they must become We follow with an acoustic set from Mark Riley. we must all be responsible for pushing forward blues musicians; kids need to experiment and Next comes the headline act, The Duffy Bishop the original American art form, long after we are see where they fit. But we want to expose all that Band. And finally we give you the headline show, gone. This is how we can do it- by all Passing the we can to the blues genre so that it can become Pianorama. This is several keyboards on stage at Torch. Bring your cash and plan on spending it. a consideration. We want to find kids interested the same time with more players than keyboards. Admission might get us to half our $5,000 goal. in any instruments; we want kids with in interest The players thread in and out, sometimes taking Your generosity must provide the rest. If you in learning how to write music. We want kids to the lead and sometimes backing up. The result can’t come at all, the Washington Blues Society know that as musicians or fans, they will always is more than an hour of high test boogie woogie address is PO Box 70604, Seattle, WA 98127. have a place in the blues community if they choose piano blues, a show destined to be one you will Drop a check to Washington Blues Society and to be a part. never forget. Annieville is leading this part of the earmark it for Passing the Torch. You can get all We are providing partial to almost full scholarships program, and providing the players, some you the details for the fundraiser in the full page ad to musicians who indicate an interest, to attend the know and some you may not, but all are top of the in this Bluesletter. And if you know a kid, maybe 2013 Blues Week at Centrum. There they will spend line professionals. You get all that for ten bucks. a grandchild or a neighbor let them know about a week with other musicians of all ages and from our program. All applicants are welcome between all corners of the world who come together for a We can’t run the program by charging you ten the ages of 12 and 18. week of blues camaraderie as well as for learning bucks. We are hoping for your support for Passing 26 27 RickPhotos and Article by Robert Estrin Horn and the Nightcats: One Night of Old School Flaming Harp at the HighwayStory and Photos by 99 Robert Blues Horn Club!

On Saturday, February 2nd Rick Estrin and the some lively conversations throughout the club. out a number of things, and then built to an either Nightcats returned to Seattle’s Highway 99 Blues “My Next Ex-Wife” won “Best Blues Song of the a fast or slow ending that is appreciated either Club. In March, they will be performing in California, Year” at the 1994 Blues Music Awards in Memphis. way. Kid can play with his fingers, teeth, tongue, and in June, they will be in Colorado. This is a premier either in front or behind his body or head. Yes, he national act that hits many cities throughout the His blues harmonica style flows from the old seems to enjoy showing what he can do, and the country, and blues fans everywhere should make school tradition of Little Walter and Sonny Boy audience doesn’t seem to mind that. Rick plays the a point of catching them live. Williamson (the second). The songs have that harmonica with just his mouth (as far as I know) historical feel, and they make the body move, so I but has been known to make it disappear into his Before Rick Estrin joined the Nightcats, Little was on the dance floor a good amount of the time mouth somewhere and magically appear on his Charlie Baty fronted the band. Little Charlie retired while the band was onstage. lips again without missing a note. All magic tricks a while back, and Rick became the band leader. aside, this was a great blues show. He brought in another guitar talent, and he has The band did a number of their other big songs been singing and playing harmonica as always. like “Back from the Dead,” “D.O.G.,” “Calling All The show began at exactly at eight o’clock, and The band has been doing very well and records Fools,” and “P.A. Slim Is Back.” They pulled some the crowd was shouting for encores three and half on the Alligator label. songs from their back catalogue as well as some hours later. Rick came out and did a song with from their latest Alligator release, One Wrong Turn. his harmonica that sounded better than perfect. The history of this band includes Rick’s nomination If the audience had its way, the show would have for a Blues Music Award as Best Instrumentalist – The rest of the band is essential for the sound of never ended. Harmonica in 2012. In 2010, the band received four the band as well as Rick. Drummer J. Hansen is nominations: the band received nods in the Best extremely impressive, and Lorenzo Farrell is as I talked to Rick a little afterwards, and he thanked Contemporary Blues Album (for Twisted) and Band great on keys (piano or organ) as he is on standup me for working on this article (even though he of the Year categories while Estrin was nominated bass. The guitar monster, and I mean that as a didn’t know what I was going to write). I hope in the BB King Entertainer of the Year and Best compliment, is Kid Anderson. He did some guitar he likes it the way it turned out. It’s always a treat Instrumentalist – Harmonica categories. Before solos that knocked the audience out. to see award-winning, national touring acts like he began the award-winning “My Next Ex-Wife,” Rick Estrin and the Nightcats at the Highway 99 he asked audience members to raise their hands Rick and Kid changed tempos a number of times Blues Club, and I enjoyed seeing Rick Estrin and if they had ever been divorced, and this sparked in one song making couples on the dance floor try the Nightcats’ at Seattle’s own authentic juke joint. 28 29 WStory and Photoselcome by Eric Steiner Back Janiva Magness

Janiva Magness returned to Seattle’s Jazz Alley one of the three songs Janiva co-wrote on the with some inspired solos and improvisation. Records debut, “That’s What Love Will Make one on our Eastside, and many commuters in popular “All Blues” show from National Public on February 13th and 14th for two shows new CD, “There It Is,” a story about a woman By the end of the third verse, Janiva turned You D o.” the room identified with her wry “405.” Radio affiliate KPLU-FM at Pacific Lutheran that featured most of her critically-acclaimed who never dreamed of “hurting a man so bad.” this song into a classic call and response with University. and Blues Music Award-nominated Alligator the Jazz Alley audience. Gary traded some In addition to bringing back “You Were Never Janiva’s first visit to the Pacific Northwest this Records release Stronger for It. This year, she Janiva brought back her touring band for this pretty funky bass parts with Zach’s searing Mine” from her 2006 Northern Blues release year began February 11th on Marlee Walker’s After Jazz Alley, Janiva and her band left has received Blues Music Award nominations brief Pacific Northwest swing: fellow Michigan solos, and they clearly were having a lot of Do I Move You, Janiva introduced the audience Northwest Blues Forum “Women Mentoring Seattle for a show Friday night at The Upstage in the following five categories: B.B. King native Jim Alfredson played the Hammond fun on stage with a song that did not land on to award-winning singer-songwriter Cindy Women” on her Blues-To-Do television in Port Townsend, Washington, followed by Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, B-3 organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano Stronger For It. Alexander who open up each show. In 2004, program captured live at Seattle’s 88 Keys in headlining the second annual Winter Blues Song of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album along with veteran blues guitarist Zach Zunis Alexander won the Indie Pop Artist of the Year Pioneer Square and on Live On the Sound Dot Festival at the historic Bob White Theatre in of the Year, and Contemporary Blues Female (William Clark, Rick Holmstrom, Big Apple Before concluding the hour-and-a-half-plus at the LA Music Awards, Songwriter of the Year Com. This innovative series highlights the Portland, Oregon. The Winter Blues Festival, Artist of the Year. During the course of her Blues). Long-time sidemen Gary Davenport Jazz Alley set, Janiva talked about her roles at the Just Plain Folks Awards, and Best Female achievements and aspirations of blueswomen, just like the nationally-recognized Safeway career, Janiva has been nominated for 22 and Matt Tecu formed the considerably talented as a spokesperson for National Foster Care Vocalist from All Access Magazine. Janiva and Stickshift Annie with Kimball and the Waterfront Blues Festival, supports the Oregon Blues Music Awards, and she’s taken home engine room on bass and drums. Month, an ambassador for Foster Care Alumni and Cindy share a producer in David Darling, Fugitives followed Marlee’s conversation with Food Bank, the Children‘s Healing Art Project, four. The only other blueswoman to receive of America, and her life in America’s foster and while Cindy’s set clearly isn’t blues, Janiva Janiva. Marlee played selections from Janiva’ and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award is “I Won’t Cry,” co-written with Grammy- care system. While on the road, each member said that “this is our devious plan to do some s latest Alligator Records release, Stronger for the late Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor, and nominated David Darling, reflected a quiet of her band sports unique light blue National cross-marketing.” Devious or not, the Jazz It, throughout their spirited I look forward to this year’s awards ceremony resilience and strength, and it joins songs sung Foster Care Month pin, and offers information Alley audience warmly welcomed Cindy and and inspired discussion. in Memphis in May to see if Janiva will win by Shemekia Copeland, Curtis Salgado, Lurrie to fans about opportunities to help all children young guitar virtuoso Mason Stoops. Most Walker, honored by the this well-deserved award again. Bell, and Mighty Sam McClain as 2013 Blues in need. She reminds audiences that while May of tonight’s set featured her fifth original CD, Blues Foundation with a Music Award Song of the Year nominees. The is National Foster Care Month, she celebrates Every Rise and Fall (Jamcat), with a number Keeping the Blues Alive After her band warmed up with a couple other original, “Whistling in the Dark,” is a it every day when she meets fellow alumni of of songs reflecting on what it’s like being mom Award in the Commercial of bluesy note-bending jams that drew the story of self-preservation and survival and hints care while on tour. to twin four-year old daughters. “One Part Radio category in 2000, audience in, Janiva brought out her cigar at overcoming some pretty significant odds. Love” marvels at the miracle of birth and the was the first blues DJ to box guitar with a slide and launched into the One of the funkier numbers in the set was After a standing ovation, the band returned to live of a toddler, and “Turning Into You” is for play Magness’ music on closing song from Stronger for It: “Whoop “Humpty Dumpty,” which is available as a the bandstand with two encores: an emotional every parent who thought they were turning the radio in the region, and and Holler.” This rousing and upbeat revival- download-only (but free with the purchase of a song penned by Gary Nicholson and Delbert into their own mother or father. Cindy said fellow Keeping the Blues inspired holler and stomp from Texas songster CD). As in the night’s opening two instrumental McClinton, “You Were Never Mine,” and the that while her Interstate 405 was mostly under Alive Award recipient John Ray30 Wylie Hubbard was quickly followed by numbers, each player took turns, revue-style, powerful title cut from her 2008 Alligator construction, that highway moved (unlike the Kessler continues on his 31 Non-Profit U.S. Postage Paid Seattle, WA Permit No. 5617

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