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This year marks 25 years of Blues for Byron Bay. It’s like watching a child grow up – it’s hard to believe that someone you knew as a tiny baby could possibly be an adult in what seems like a blink of an eye. But that’s how it is for Bluesfest. I remember fondly the gigs at the Piggery (Arts Factory) dancing along to the Blind Boys from Alabama singing If I had a Hammer. Which I guess, now if it were to be contemporised might be something like If I had an Allen Key. I thought the Blind Boys were in their 80s then. They must be well into their 90s – maybe even 100 – by now, and still shining on. I guess it proves that gospel is better for longevity than botox or juice fasts. So in an economic landscape that sees the big festivals struggling, one wonders why a festival, in a regional location such as Byron Bay, seems to have established such longevity and such well recognised international standing. Perhaps it’s the town of Byron and the utopian mystique it still holds; perhaps it’s the nostalgia of seeing acts that we loved when we were 20, or the thrill of seeing acts that are breaking bad right now, the soul-stirring goosebump-producing thrill of authentic blues, or the feeling of hot sweaty bodies dancing beside you. Maybe it’s that there’s something gloriously adult to do at Easter when the kids are at home having their chocolate sugar rush. I guess some things can’t be explained, so perhaps they just need to be celebrated. In this issue we pay homage to the festival’s humble beginnings, we have a welcome from festival director Peter Noble, we share the stories of Bluesfest diehards, and I’ve done a pick of my top 50 acts that I want to see. Welcome to Bluesfest – 25 years on and going strong. I hope you make a sizeable deposit in your memory bank this Easter! – Mandy Nolan

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Main image: John Mayer From top: The Wailers, How the Blues came to Byron Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, India.Arie and Joss Stone, The Doobie Brothers, Grace Mandy’s top 50 picks Potter & The Nocturnals, Steve Earle & The Dukes Why the locals love Bluesfest Beth Hart and Joss Stone interviews

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THREEWORLDS PLAYSHOPS African Drumming Intermediate A message from Peter Noble, Bluesfest director Total beginners: African Drumming Thursdays 5.45pm Tuesdays 5.45pm Whether this is your fi rst planet recently – I also want to put out a Saturdays 5pm $10/$15 with drum hire Fun grooves for hand drumming Bluesfest or you have been from Buddy Guy special shout out to the $10/$15 with drum hire GROUP AND to many of them – A Big to James Cotton, ladies of Bluesfest – what a Juggle Jam Wednesdays PRIVATE CLASSES Welcome to Byron Bay and Jimmie Vaughan, year for them! – on top of From 4pm – $15 all ages ARE AVAILABLE our 25th Anniversary Event. Robben Ford, those mentioned above, Come and share, explore, pass, twirl, UPON REQUEST! hoop, play, skip, slack line. Creating a We are ready to present Booker T Jones, Beth Hart, the incredible juggling community in the centre of town. what I really believe is our Aaron Neville, Dr Trixie Whitley (another Fire Twirling best Bluesfest yet. John; both the don’t miss), Suzanne Vega, Everyday during school There are artists performing North Mississippi KT Tunstall, Skye Edwards holidays 3.30pm $15 AllStars and Valerie back with Morcheeba, Single, double, contact staff, dragon who played the fi rst-ever staff, rope dart, poi and more. East Coast Blues Festival June are simply Grace Potter, Dyson, Didgeridoo at the Arts Factory in not to be missed, Stringer and Cloher… the Mondays and Fridays 5.30pm Byron Bay all those years as is Chain – plus list just goes on. $10/$15 with hire ago; they are Charlie so many others I would like to thank Musselwhite, The Paladins, including the best everyone for supporting THREEWORLDS of Aussie blues… I Phil Manning and The Bluesfest over all the years. FUN FOR LIFE could go on and on. 7 Marvell St Byron Bay • 6680 8317 • threeworlds.com.au Backsliders. We are grateful to the And there are many who On top of the community of Byron and have a special signifi cance abovementioned is the northern rivers. This is % # &$ to us over the years from a slew of the fi nest our home and we feel that guitar players including represented with original we have given something Candye Kane to Dave members of both Captain # Matthews Band and The Jeff Beck, the mercurial back over the years and 17-year-old Matthew Curry, Beefheart’s Magic Band contributed to the growth Wailers – keeping Bob and The Grandmothers Marley’s music alive as well Warren Haynes performing of the arts and music in the with Govt Mule, Joanne of Invention – featuring area. as so many others’. original Mothers of Shaw Taylor – winner of the &#$ !#% $% #$ ! My sincere thanks also There are familiar artists British Blues Awards Best Invention, WAR, The goes to our music fans $% !#% and those playing for the Female Artist at only 20 Doobies, Boz Scaggs, and "&%# %' (# $ who come along for one, fi rst time. There is a cutting- years of age, Gary Clark Jr one of our favourites, KC & three or all fi ve days and edge contemporary and John Mayer – phew! The Sunshine Band – plus element within the festival, a genuine supergroup are such are a huge part featuring artists such as There are quite a few in Coronet Blue. And of our success. Thank you Edward Sharpe & The recent favourites returning: of course we have alt- for trusting us to deliver Magnetic Zeros, Jake Bugg, Playing For Change, Elvis country and country an amazing and enjoyable Joss Stone, Matt Corby, Costello, Jack Johnson, music well represented festival each year. India. Arie, Kim Churchill, Erykah Badu, Passenger with appearances from This one is going to be very, new favourite Genevieve and Iron & Wine to name Steve Earle, one of our very special – a deafening Chadwick and our favourite just a few – sitting beside all-time favourite artists cheer for the blues and Zydeco artist Terrance what I believe is the best Kasey Chambers, John roots music movements # # # %#% &&( Simien… coming together of blues Williamson, Jason Isbell will ring around the world and soulful artists on the We have classic rock and Troy Cassar-Daley. this Easter. How the Blues came to Byron The story of the festival’s beginning

The Echo spoke to who were only doing left in 92 to return to the Keven and Karin Oxford capital cities… at the time USA and never got to see about pioneering a there were no stop-off s for what he was responsible regional music industry international artists in the for, the Byron Bay he Variety products at value prices and just what it took to northern rivers,’ said Keven helped create.’ start one of the world’s Oxford who, along with Interestingly, the story of leading festivals. Karin and Dan, created the the international Blues EASTER MEANS BLUESFEST! early northern rivers music It has been well Festival was forged in an scene including the Byron • Gumboots Mens + Ladies $29.99 recorded that there is international friendship – a Blues Festival. (Bata – Made in Australia) something undeniably surfi ng music lover from • Ponchos $2.00 unique about Byron ‘They was pioneering days,’ the central coast – Oxford • Umbrellas from $4.99 Shire and so it’s no laughed Oxford. ‘Dan and – meets a US west coast surprise these days that • Camping Items I used to get into our car hippy musician – Doeppel – we are home to the go to the local truck stop • Chairs $11.99 transplanted straight from Byron Blues Festival, – we’d score some speed The Summer Of Love. • Sleeping Bags from $19.99 industry- and peer- off the truckers and go and ‘Dan and I had been friends • Tents from $25 recognised and ranked do poster runs all night, up • Portable Gas Stove from $19.99, Gas $2 alongside Glastonbury since 1967,’ said Oxford. ‘He on the counterculture and down the coast!’ • Camp Kettle $9.99 and Montreux as one of came out to Australia from pulse and a penchant Keven and Karin Oxford the US in 67 with a band • Camping Mat $6.99 the world’s best festivals. for promoting when the fi rmly believe that the called Nutwood Rug to • Air Bed: Single from $17.99 Byron’s coming of age is intrinsically linked with Australian festival industry late Dan Doeppel was dodge the draft. We met Double from $29.99 this seminal event created was taking its fi rst baby instrumental in setting at a midnight screening of Endless Summer Queen from $34.99 twenty-fi ve years ago by steps. Byron onto its creative in Gosford. • Camp Toaster $2.50 a rather unlikely crew of ‘Karin, Dan and I started path, yet little has been I was with friends and we • Hot & Cold Flask 1litre $14.99 people with an even more promoting music here written or acknowledged went outside to smoke • The Western Lantern $14.99 unlikely vision for a festival: in the 1970s – we had in that regard. ‘There some hash,’ reminisces • Tarps – Assorted sizes from $2.99 I mean who would think a company called Live should be a statue of Oxford, ‘and we ran into • Easter Rabbit Bubble Machine $6.99 of staging an international Coverage based in Byron Dan at the roundabout,’ all these guys with really laughs Karin Oxford. • Angry Birds, Moshi Monster Easter Egg $2.99 festival in a little-known Bay; we toured acts from long hair, fringed jackets, regional outpost? Husband the Tweed border to Coff s ‘He was a humanitarian, beads and granny glasses. Variety Value Next to IGA in Sunrise and wife Keven and Karin Harbour. We picked up a big soft-hearted guy These guys were freaks. We Hotline call Oxford and their friend international acts such as who, unfortunately, had were like – who are they? Shop 7–8, 8 Bayshore Drive Gary direct Dan Doeppel were rock ’n‘ Blondie, BB King, Fairport a drinking problem that We were just surfers. We’d 0412 140 822 6685 5998 roll mavericks with a fi nger Convention and Osibisa ended up killing him. He never seen dudes like 38 April 15, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au GET SERIOUS ABOUT SOUND

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How the Blues came to stop all live bringing to town. This to Byron (continued) music happening was in the days, laughs at venues in Karin, ‘that you could fi re that! But in the end we town. a cannon down Jonson weren’t really that diff erent ‘In those days Street during winter and from each other; a couple Byron was a not hit a soul!’ of them turned out to be bit of a lawless ‘We continued at the Arts A variety of treasures, new and surfers as well and the town. There Factory until 92, getting pre loved clothing, gifts, cards etc. common thread we had were only a few more pressure from certain was music (and drugs).’ cops and a lot sectors in the town. The Local and beyond In the late 70s, Doeppel of drunkenness! cops’ phone would run 76 Burringbar St Mullumbimby was living in Byron Bay. He Bringing hot; all the residents had next to La Table 6684 6603 invited the Oxfords to join in random to do was call and make him, and they moved in a breathalyser complaints. We got hit by heartbeat. units had a a NSW Licensing fl ying huge impact squad from Sydney, who ‘We promoted a lot of EASTER CHOCOLATE on us. The local turned up at the front door, regional concerts with residents also and we had a full house MI CASA TU CASA Bangalow international artists that had an impact.’ going crazy with American Exquisite Handmade Easter Eggs & Chocolate culminated in Byron’s fi rst blues legend Albert Collins festival, Sunrock 78, held Although standing on the bar playing • GIFTS – Fabulous gifts for him and her at what was then called the Oxfords and Doeppel happened; we sold 6,000 his guitar at the back of the Globetrotters, the West faced immense public BEAUTIFUL RANGE OF tickets and had to go way auditorium!’ Karin laughs. Byron – ex-Becton – site. and fi nancial pressure in BEDDING, QUILTS over our capacity.’ ‘I’m in a rubber outfi t, and We put a few fl at-bed keeping the doors of the AND TEXTILES The Arts Factory, a onetime these guys turned up with semitrailers together for a Arts Factory open, they pig slaughterhouse, had video cameras, videoing stage, and created a mini- fought back, taking more See you at 1A/36 Byron Street, Bangalow at the pedestrian crossing. become the creative everything that went on, Tel 6687 0779 www.micasatucasa.com.au Sunbury by the beach on creative risks, the most birthplace of what was and that culminated in our Australia Day 1978. We had outrageous being the fi rst to be one of Australia’s losing our 3am licence and Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs East Coast Blues Festival leading festivals. Although being cut back to midnight. headline along with Sydney over the Easter long the event was successful, After further licensing and Brisbane new wave weekend of April in 1990. the Oxfords and Doeppel and resident pressure we acts. Our catch phrase: Featuring an impressive Where the old wave meets continued to face decided reluctantly to close lineup from the USA, the new wave and washes mounting pressure from a down the Piggery. It was a including Charlie community who were now drag, because we’d done up in paradise – we got Musselwhite, Canned upset at the new ‘tourism’ over twelve hundred major COOL, QUALITY nowhere near the amount Heat, The Paladins, that the Arts Factory and concerts and three sold-out of people we’d hoped Guitars, Amps, etc. Smokey Wilson and Big the new enterprise of festivals there. The next for and lost a shitload of BOUGHT & SOLD Jay McNeely, alongside the Blues Festival were obvious step was, in 1993, money! Australian acts such as ‘We went back to Sydney Dutch Tilders, Phil Manning russells music lismore.com.au 6622 0708 with our tails between our and The Backsliders, the legs and didn’t move back event sold 6,000 tickets. THURSDAY here until 1983 when Dan Unlike Sunrock 78, this asked us to come back event had legs. Start Thursday 17th April and help him manage the And it wasn’t fi nanced Piggery,’ said Oxford. by big money or private Time MOJO Dan Doeppel had bought investment. The fi rst Blues 22.15 the disused Piggery on the Festival was done on little John Mayer (90 mins) wrong side of the tracks more than a wing and a 20.30 Edward Sharpe & the MagneƟc Zeros (75 m in the early 70s for a paltry prayer. In fact the idea itself 19.00 Grace PoƩer and the Nocturnals (60 mins) sum with the vision of was more of an impulse 17.30 Beth Hart (60 mins) than a hard-won plan. repurposing it as an arts 17.00 Arakwal Opening Ceremony precinct. With the injection ‘Every year beginning in 16.00 Zane Carney (60 mins) of Keven and Karin Oxford, the mid 80s we’d go to who’d been involved in the the States and do these Time CROSSROADS Sydney music industry, the buying trips for our venue 22.15 venue sprang to life. ‘You Buddy Guy (75 mins) and gather ideas and we’d 20.30 could see anyone from The always take in a festival or Dr John & the Nite Trippers (75 mins) Ramones to New Order, two. 19.00 The Charlie Musselwhite Band (60 mins) from Marianne Faithful to 17.30 ‘At one festival in San The Black Sorrows (60 mins) Midnight Oil. Rock, blues, 16.00 Tijuana Cartel (60 mins) punk, folk, jazz or kids’ Francisco I had this pantomime – it was a really brainwave and said to Dan, “Why the fuck can’t Time JAMBALAYA eclectic booking policy 22.15 but it worked. We were we do a smaller version of Seun KuƟ & Egypt 80 (60 mins) 20.45 there from 83 until the last one of these in Australia?” Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (60 mins) shows in 92’. While one There had been no festivals 19.15 Playing For Change (60 mins) half of the town embraced since 1983 since Narara 17.30 Steve Earle & the Dukes (75 mins) and there had been a big their energy and ideas, 16.00 Dyson, Stringer and Cloher (60 mins) there were other residents gap in between – we had who wanted to close it a great venue and thought Time DELTA down. ‘Nothing much has it might just be possible. I 22.15 had a friend in the US who Allen Stone (60 mins +) changed around here,’ 20.45 laughs Karin, refl ecting on was a major booker – he Coronet Blue (60 mins) the public pressure they was one of my closest 19.00 Suzanne Vega (75 mins) experienced in the early friends,’ refl ects Keven, ‘and 17.30 Trixie Whitley (60 mins) he said I have a ton of acts days of Blues Festival and 16.00 Genevieve Chadwick (60 mins) the Arts Factory. ‘They used I can supply you. My sister to call the area bounded by was the group manager Time CAVANBAH the Brasserie (now Woody’s for Continental Airlines so we also had cheap airfares. 22.00 Grandmothers of InvenƟŽn (60 mins +) Surf Shack), the Rails and 20.30 the Arts Factory The Devil’s Karin and I had American The Magic Band (60 mins) Triangle!’ Express cards, and I swear 19.00 The Soul Rebels (60 mins) to god that’s how it came 17.30 In fact there was a huge together. That was the Skunkhour (60 mins) public meeting held to try synchronicity of how it 16.00 Dubmarine (60 mins) 40 April 15, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au 5 to take the event outdoors – to now solely run by former business go to Belongil Fields – and that partner Peter Noble. ‘Festivals was an even bigger gamble. are dynamic things and business ‘I was on the phone trying to partnerships, like many relationships, fi nd circus tents; that sort of stuff don’t last forever. It was our life and tĞ^ƚŽĐŬ was pioneering back then, now our baby but when it ceases to be fun Ukuleles, Banjos, Mandolins there’s a gigantic industry that it’s time to leave.’ Tuners, Guitar Strings supports festivals, but it wasn’t in It was the festival’s massive growth Stomp boxes, Piezo Pick-Ups Bongos, Didgeridoos place then. I’d phone up carneys that created the greatest pressure. to try to get a tent they weren’t Djembes, Bags & ‘It takes over your life,’ says Oxford of using.’ Accessories running a big event such as Bluesfest African Drumming DVDs, In 1994 local record store owner for fi fteen years. ‘It was either feast Books & CDs, Clide Cue and current festival or famine. It was an internationally Songstone Ocarinas, owner Peter Noble bought in to recognised and nominated event and Clarke Tin Whistles, the event. ‘Unfortunately, Clide we walked the red carpet. When the Local Made Percussion & was a very ill man and only lasted festival got into the millions of dollars Much Much More!!! one year; we ran it with Noble to stage, you go: shit, if this goes until selling in December 2004.’ EHQML#VRQRIGUXPFRPDX south we’re fucked. Fucked forever!’ KƉĞŶŝŶŐ,ŽƵƌƐ Keven refl ects, noting the Karin rolls her eyes at the most vivid Mon to Fri 9.30-5.30pm challenges that face events such Sat 10-1pm Sun Closed as Bluesfest haven’t really changed memory: ‘the stress!’ since the event’s inception. Keven continues: ‘We’re immensely ‘That same antagonism exists today place. We’d be driving down the old proud of what we’ve created but TONY NUGENT – the anti-festival movement – when two-way tarred Pacifi c Highway with none of that defi nes anybody; A Silent World we were at Red Devil Park we pissed an artist and they’d ask where’s the it’s part of the journey; we’ve had off a lot of people, the traffi c was freeway? We’d get to Byron and they’d incredible success in our lives. We’ve abyssal, people would come up and go: shit… this is fantastic! And good had amazing adventures that have make threats, it was a tough gig – we news spreads fast: they’d go back made us the people we are because were trying to do something that we and tell other artists and then they we have gone out and taken huge thought was benefi cial to the area – would come and do it. The best thing risks, and that’s the diff erence. It was yet there was a certain sector of the we ever did was treating people right the love and the passion that drove community that hated it.’ when they came here. I spent half us. Our accountant used to say, “Why Opening 18 April at 6pm Both Keven and Karin are still amazed my time in the audience,’ says Keven. don’t you go and take this money and 18-28 April 7 days that they managed to seed and ‘I got into this thing because I was put it on black at the casino – festivals create a festival that has grown into a music fan. Promoting is a strange are an intangible thing, there are no a massive international identity in a world. Promoters these days are often bricks and mortar…”’ sleepy seaside village. bigger than the event. But we never With Byron Blues Festival turning 25 bought into that; it was always about ‘It should have been impossible in a this year I guess you could say the the music and the fans.’ LONE GOAT GALLERY small coastal town in northern NSW accountant was almost right, except 18-28 APRIL 2014 OPENS 18 APRIL 6PM but the secret ingredient was Byron Refl ecting on the beginnings, Oxford they didn’t put the money on black. 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Jack Johnson albums, compounding John Mayer Scofi eld, the legendary jazz his success with his latest pianist Herbie Hancock, Hawaii-based singer- album From Here to Now After a seven-year absence, Taylor Swift, Zac Brown and songwriter Jack Jonson has to You where he portrays Bluesfest is extremely Australia’s Keith Urban and FRIDAY proud to announce the become one of the icons his Hawaiian rootsy Guy Sebastian. He headlines Time MOJO of Bluesfest. Jonson fi rst return of songwriter and the Mojo on Thursday. paradise. Not dissimilar to 22.00 met the Bluesfest crowd our eclectic community, musician John Mayer to Jack Johnson (120 mins) back in 2002 when he was perhaps that’s part of the the main stage. Mayer Morcheeba m 20.30 MaƩ Corby (60 mins) touring as a warmup for will be bringing his newly resonance! Jonson plays Paradise Morcheeba are a British 18.45 Gary Clark Jr (75 mins) Ben Harper. Since then he’s Friday at the released album Bluesfest Valley band that mixes infl uences 17.00 India.Arie (75 mins) sold more than 20 million Mojo. (August 2013) with him. Seven times from rock, trip hop, rhythm 15.30 Nahko & Medicine for the People (60 mins) and blues and pop. Grammy award winner 14.00 Grace PoƩer and the Nocturnals (60 mins) and a list of nominations The trio are back with their 12.30 Tijuana Cartel (60 mins) and global accolades that original lineup, so get ready are seemingly endless… to hear the dreamy, soulful, Time CROSSROADS and no wonder, with such down-tempo sounds of 21.45 classics as Your Body is the Godfrey Brothers and Doobie Brothers (90 mins) a Wonderland, Waiting the sweet, sensual vocals 20.00 Boz Scaggs (75 mins) on the World to Change, of Skye Edwards that we 18.15 Buddy Guy (75 mins) Gravity, Daughters, Belief have loved since the 90s. 16.30 No Such Thing Joss Stone (75 mins) and , scoring She is one of the most 15.00 him awards and an ever- vocally gifted soul singers Beth Hart (60 mins) growing army of fans at of today. Morcheeba defi ne 13.30 Trixie Whitley (60 mins) every turn. His fi rst six the ‘chill-out’ genre, with a 12.00 Dyson, Stringer and Cloher (60 mins) albums, Room For Squares, music career spanning 18 Heavier Things, Continuum, years and millions of albums Time JAMBALAYA Battle Studies, Born & Raised sold worldwide. The perfect 22.45 Try antidote to a big night, Seun KuƟ & Egypt 80 (60 mins) and the live set as The 20.45 John Mayer Trio have set songs such as Rome Wasn’t Gregg Allman (90 mins) Mayer on a pathway to Built In A Day, The Sea, Even 19.15 Aaron Neville (60 mins) dizzying career heights in Though and Otherwise 18.00 Eric Bibb (45 mins) a relatively short time. He’s have been played in cafes, 16.30 Steve Earle & the Dukes (60 mins) collaborated and played loungerooms and at 14.00 alongside an outstanding Sunday sessions worldwide Rockwiz (2 hours) and featured on endless array of cross-genre musical Time DELTA talent including The compilations including the Rolling Stones, Kanye West, Café Del Mar series. It’s been 23.00 Clairy Browne & the Bangin' RackeƩes (60 m Common, Buddy Guy, Katy 10 years since their debut 21.15 Larry Graham & Graham Central StaƟŽn (75 at Bluesfest, so fall in love Perry, BB King, Frank Ocean, 19.30 The Wailers (75 mins) Eric Clapton, jazz artist John with them all over again. Saturday at Jambalaya 18.00 The Soul Rebels (60 mins) and Sunday at Mojo. 16.30 Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (60 mins) KT Tunstall 15.00 The Backsliders (60 mins) 13.30 The Beards (60 mins) Way out in the desert, KT 12.00 The Mastersons (60 mins) Tunstall found herself… and we love the KT she found! Time CAVANBAH Bluesfest welcomes back 22.30 The Magic Band (60 mins +) Tunstall, enjoying her 21.00 Grandmothers of InvenƟŽn (60 mins) BLUESFEST SURVIVAL PACK evolution from the young 19.30 Allen Stone (60 mins) + Gumboots only $15! busker who burst onto the UK’s Later program with 18.00 Dubmarine (60 mins) + Poncho $3.50 Jools Holland way back in 16.30 + Wee Coronet Blue (60 mins) Socks $6 or 2 for $10 2004 – pumping her 14.45 + Camping Chair $19 Bastard loop machine into Suzanne Vega (75 mins) highly infectious rhythms 13.15 Garland Jeīreys (60 mins) WHILE STOCK LASTS and beats. 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Making his Bluesfest debut guitar-driven style has sold Tennessee native The John Butler Trio (JBT) this year is Sam Beam, an estimated 40 million Valerie June is a self- are consistently one of the better known as his pen- records over four decades. taught musician, singer most requested artists to name, Iron and Wine. It’s Their latest release is World and songwriter who play at Bluesfest. This multi- been far too long (over six Gone Crazy, heralding yet came to the fore after a platinum-selling, multi- years) since Sam has played another chapter in this great mesmerising debut UK TV ARIA-winning, multi-APRA- in Australia and with a American music story, but performance on Later… brilliant new record in tow it’s neither comeback nor award-winning band is one Ghost on Ghost With Jools Holland and of those rare acts who have ( ), the timing nostalgia. An exhibition of it has snowballed from managed to successfully couldn’t be better. Bearded aggressive and emotional there. Her timeless sound straddle mainstream and before the ironically trendy performance, evocative is a stunningly emotive alternative radio airwaves masses, Sam has been storytelling, unapologetic amalgamation of blues, folk, simultaneously, continuing creating some of the most attitude and world-class gospel, soul, Appalachian to pave the way for music engaging folk-saturated pop musicianship, the collection and bluegrass (including released by independent around: brilliantly crafted, is its own justifi cation. Friday at The Crossroads irresistible banjo) that artists in Australia. A live intricate melodies entwined . with timeless stories whose seems to sit outside any set from the JBT is an meanings shift and change defi ned musical era. Like a awe-inspiring show that Aaron Neville over the years. These songs potent distillation bubbling captivates the audience and have happily sat left of Aaron Neville’s voice has on a Prohibition-era porch, always includes a good dose centre with a strong and been described as ‘the Valerie June makes self- of those all-time favourites passionate following, but sweetest voice in music’ styled ‘organic moonshine including Zebra, Something’s this change in pace seems and after fi ve decades roots music’, music for the Gotta Give, Better Than and poised to explode if the of constant recording porch parties of today, a the incredible instrumental press around the latest success – with The Neville party where she strums Ocean, which has brought her guitar, plucks her album is anything to go by. Brothers, with Linda tears to many in the sea of Saturday and Sunday in Ronstadt (two Grammys), banjo, opens her mouth adoring fans at Bluesfest the Mojo. with Trisha Yearwood and delta-blues-country over the years and has been stridently sashays out, a (another Grammy) – has viewed online more than 25 striking peal somewhere Erykah Badu a total of 12 Grammy million times. At the Mojo between Dolly Parton and award nominations. He on Saturday. Erykah Badu isn’t easily Billie Holiday. Her new also won Best Male Singer forgotten. Whether for album, Pushin’ Against a two years running Edward Sharpe her attire, her music or Stone (which entered the her personality, once you Billboard 200 Charts at & The Magnetic encounter Erykah, she stays 41) saw her collaborating, with you. She fi rst burst on writing and producing Zeros the scene in 1997 with her with Dan Auerbach (multi- Feelgood folk has never debut album, a critical and Grammy winners The Black been more fun to dance to commercial success called Keys & Dr John) and Kevin than with the truly unique Baduizm Augunas (Edward Sharpe & . The album hit Edward Sharpe and the the No 2 position on the The Magnetic Zeros, Sinéad Magnetic Zeros (ESATMZ). O’Connor, Florence & The Billboard charts, the highest RETROSPECT GALLERIES Machine) to create a unique With live shows that are position ever for a fi rst-time is thrilled to welcome you to our space in the heart of sound. Sunday at the Delta nothing short of joyous album. Four-time Grammy Byron Bay this Easter. Come and enjoy some local and aff airs, comparisons award winner and widely Stage and Monday at the international art and receive a 10% discount on our Juke Joint. continue to be drawn to the regarded as the ‘First Lady soulfulness of The Supremes’ of Neo-Soul’ or the ‘Queen limited selected prints on presentation of this coupon. Nikki Hill Where Did Our Love Go, the of Neo-Soul’, she eff ortlessly raw exuberant pop of The fuses a heady concoction of Those who have seen Nikki Beatles’ Yellow Submarine soul, hip-hop and jazz and Hill sing her heart out and the psychedelic echoes cannot be contained to a agree she isn’t just another of Jeff erson Airplane’s single genre. She is often newcomer on the scene; Surrealistic Pillow. Upbeat compared to jazz great Billie this is a ‘whiplash’ moment. and full of spirit, the Holiday in lyrical delivery. Where did this fi reball come band have embodied the Headlining the Mojo on from? Why haven’t I heard communal essence on stage Sunday. of her before? Hill draws that has since defi ned a on vintage female rhythm new sound that could quite Doobie Brothers and blues infl uences such easily slip into the golden The Doobie Brothers are as LaVern Baker, Etta James era of the aforementioned one of the great American and Ruth Brown, as well comparisons. Thursday music stories. Since they as some of her favourite night in the Mojo. fi rst began back in the 52 Jonson st, Byron Bay. 02 6680 8825 |RetrospectGalleries.com North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au The Byron Shire Echo April 15, 2014 43 8

Rolling Stone in the and a solo musician Boz Scaggs critics’ poll. In January in his own right. 2013 Neville released his Allman is a Rock and Blue Note debut My True Roll Hall of Famer Story, a collection of twelve known for his gifted classic doo-wop numbers natural interpretation including Tears on My Pillow of the blues and his and Under the Boardwalk, soulful and distinctive performed in his utterly voice. Friday at the inimitable vocal style. The Jambalaya and album was co-produced by Saturday at the Blue Note president Don Crossroads. Was and Keith Richards, and fi nds Neville backed Boz Scaggs by a top-fl ight rock ’n’ roll Boz Scaggs’s career band, led by the distinctive, spans more than 50 propulsive guitar work years: there’s school, of Richards himself. Friday at the Jambalaya uni and collaborations and Saturday at the with Steve Miller (who extensive touring – not only solo rocked Bluesfest in 2013), 20- with his own crack band but also Crossroads. plus albums, a near-10-year some wonderful tours as part of Gregg Allman hiatus from the industry, the Dukes Of September alongside more collaborations with Michael McDonald and Donald Bluesfest welcomes Gregg the likes of Walter Becker, Fagen. Allman – founding member Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Now Boz Scaggs is back with his of the one and only Allman Phoebe Snow, David Paich new album Memphis (his fi rst in Brothers Band, the greatest and Jeff Pocaro (Toto) fi ve years). With producer Steve southern rock band ever and, in recent times, more Jordan (John Mayer: Continuum) and a crack band he puts a distinctive touch on classics such as Rainy Night in Georgia, Corinna Corinna and Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl, as well as on a couple of originals. Friday at the Crossroads. India.Arie It has been eight years since Denver-born India.Arie last graced the Bluesfest stage. This time she returns with a new album SongVersation, which marks her luminous return after a self- imposed four-year hiatus. The album is a compelling snapshot of her hard-won breakthrough to simultaneous personal and artistic growth. Highly acclaimed, SongVersation reached No 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart, almost copying her previous release, which held down the coveted No 1 spot. One of festival director Peter Noble’s personal favourites, she is at the Mojo on Friday and Monday. Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading fi gure of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s when, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, she sang what has been labelled contemporary folk or neo- folk songs of her own creation in Greenwich Village clubs. 1300 261 090 Since the release of her self-titled, critically acclaimed 1985 debut album, she has given sold-out Money matters... concerts in many of the world’s best-known halls. Suzanne Vega International Money sings in a distinctive, clear vibrato- Transfers less voice that has been described as ‘a cool, dry sandpaper-brushed Rates & fees better near-whisper’ and as ‘plaintive but than the banks disarmingly powerful’. Bearing the stamp of a masterful Global Travel Cards storyteller, Suzanne’s songs have always tended to focus on city life, Foreign exchange ordinary people and real-world subjects. Notably succinct and www.atlascurrency.com.au AFSL#342627 understated, often cerebral but also streetwise, her lyrics invite Byron Foreign Exchange multiple interpretations. Thursday Festival tickets and info: www.bluesfest.com.au at the Delta Stage and Friday at Buses to the festival: blanchs.com.au/bluesfest-timetable-2014 02 6685 7787 Cavanbah. 44 April 15, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au 9

Steve Earle bringing The Dukes along his bulging back catalogue. The Wailers for the ride. He’s showcasing Thursday and Friday at & The Dukes his 15th studio album, Jambalaya. It’s been nearly ten years We have kangaroos, The Low Highway – a road since The Wailers last Singer/songwriter, actor, record written about what Dr John & The appeared at Bluesfest parrots, farm animals author, political activist, he experienced from the – and they make their producer – Steve Earle is window of his tour bus Nite Trippers welcome return for the 25th one of America’s greatest and a barista. while travelling across the Dr John is back in town anniversary. It’s impossible living storytellers. His tales, United States. Backed by a – and he is armed with not to groove along to encapsulated in songs new lineup of The Dukes their sunshine and ‘good- The Galway Girl his incredible new album Jammin’ Is such as , (& Duchess) featuring The Locked Down feeling’ classics: , Hard-Core Troubadour . This Love Exodus Lively Up , Mastersons (Chris Masterson , , Jerusalem Goodbye’s All We Released in 2012, Dr John Yourself I Shot The Sheriff , on guitars and wife Eleanor , , Got Left Guitar Town proves the Grammy- One Love People Get Ready 10 mins. south from Byron Bay along the Pacific Highway • 6687 8432 , , and Whitmore on fi ddle and , , www.macadamiacastle.com.au Copperhead winning collaboration with Stir It Up Redemption his anthemic vocals), Kelly Looney on , Road Dan Auerbach of The Black Song have fi lled 14 albums bass and Will Rigby on and so many more. and earned him three Keys, who produced and The iconic Wailers were drums, Steve Earle rolls Rolling Stone Grammy awards. Now he’s played guitar. formed in 1969 when Bob through a bumper taster gave the record four out of back, and this time he’s from this new album and Marley, Bunny Wailer, and fi ve stars, calling it ‘… the Peter Tosh recruited the wildest record Rebennack Barrett brothers – bassist BYRON’S BEAUTIFUL BOUTIQUE has made in many years… Aston ‘Family Man’ and full of muscled, vintage R&B drummer Carly from Lee SATURDAY grooves, fevered soloing, Perry’s Upsetters, to play New arrivals from Time MOJO psychedelic arrangements on hits such as Lively Up 21.30 and oracular mumbo Yourself, Trenchtown Rock, Dave MaƩhews Band (150 mins) jumbo’. Duppy Conqueror Paris and Germany 19.40 and many John Butler Trio (80 mins) Dr John is a fi ve-times more. This lineup, inspired 18.10 Seun KuƟ & Egypt 80 (60 mins) Grammy award winner – by Rastafari, pioneered Brax, Aventures 16.40 Iron & Wine (60 mins) 1989, 1992, 1996, 2000 and and powered-up roots ) 14.55 Devendra Banhart (75 mins) 2012. After a half-century of rock reggae, making it a & Lauren Vidal worldwide phenomenon. 13.25 Kate Miller - Heidke (60 mins) creating music for others 12.00 and himself, Dr John Today – as always, The Skunkhour (60 mins) continues to write, arrange, Wailers continue their Time produce and interpret with worldwide campaign of Essential shopping CROSSROADS promoting peace, love 22.15 a passion that has yet to for everyone Jeī Beck (90 mins) wane. Thursday at the and equality through the 20.15 Gregg Allman (90 mins) Crossroads. message of reggae and 18.15 Govt Mule (90 mins) Rastafari. The Wailers play 02 6680 9493 Jimmie Vaughan the Delta on Friday. 16.30 Aaron Neville (75 mins) annamiddleton.com.au 14.45 Jimmie Vaughan (75 mins) Jimmie Vaughan is far more John Williamson Cnr Byron & Fletcher Streets, 13.15 The James CoƩon Blues Band (60 mins) than just one of the greatest and most respected Having released more than Byron Bay 12.00 Lime Cordiale (45 mins) guitarists in the world of 40 albums, selling more Time popular music but as Guitar than 4,000,000 copies in JAMBALAYA Player 22.30 magazine notes, ‘He Australia alone, it’s easy to Morcheeba (60 mins +) is virtual deity – a living see why John Williamson is 21.00 Larry Graham & Graham Central StaƟŽn (60 legend’. Vaughan provides a national icon, treasure and 19.30 Playing For Change (60 mins) a vital link between institution. He’s the writer of 18.00 contemporary music and the songs you didn’t know The Black Sorrows (60 mins) Old Man 16.30 its proud heritage, as well you knew, such as The Soul Rebels (60 mins) Emu, True Blue, Old Farts in 14.00 as being a longtime avatar Rockwiz (2 hours) of retro cool. Known for Caravan Parks and Rip Rip his deceptively simple yet Woodchip, all bursting with Time DELTA complex attack, his clean inspiring melodies and lyrics m 22.30 WAR (60 mins) uncluttered style capitalises that will make you laugh 5 21.00 Ozomatli (60 mins) on conveying the emotion and make you cry. and message within the 19.30 North Mississippi Allstars (60 mins) Few artists have 18.00 music. Since releasing his experienced and earned the Robben Ford (60 mins) fi rst solo album in 1994 he 16.30 longevity of such a career Devon Allman (60 mins) has set the standard for as John Williamson. After 15.00 KT Tunstall (60 mins) quality modern roots music forty-three years in the 13.30 Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges (60 mins) and he continues to music industry, touring fi nding relevance with 12.00 Hat Fitz & Cara (60 mins) continuously, his music. His latest Williamson’s career is Plays Blues, Time CAVANBAH album stronger than ever. Ballads and Favorites Jambalaya on 22.30 Saskwatch (60 mins) was nominated for Sunday. 21.00 Clairy Browne & the Bangin' RackeƩes (60 m Best Traditional Blues 19.30 Grandmothers of InvenƟŽn (60 mins) Album at the 2011 18.00 Grammy awards. Nikki Hill (60 mins) The older brother 16.30 The Beards (60 mins) of legendary 15.00 Taste of Boomerang - Glenn Skuthorpe Texas blues 13.30 Chris Tamwoy, Troy Cassar Daley, Jannawi a guitarist Stevie 12.00 Terrance Simien - Creole for Kids (60 mins) Ray Vaughan, Jimmie comes Time JUKE JOINT from good stock 22.30 and, with a The Mojo Webb Band (60 mins) genuine love 21.00 Music Maker FoundaƟŽn (60 mins) of and fi nesse 19.30 The Backsliders (60 mins) with the guitar, 18.00 plays some The Paladins (60 mins) of the best 16.30 Eric Bibb (60 mins) goddamn blues 15.00 Glenn Cardier (60 mins) on the planet. 13.30 He plays the Daniel Champagne (60 mins) Crossroads on 12.15 Claire Anne Taylor (45 mins) Saturday. Jimmie Vaughan North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au The Byron Shire Echo April 15, 2014 45 10

Ozomatli With three diff erent Zappa Elvis Costello & his peers. Elvis Costello, eras represented, the fedora hat askew, steps Ozomatli’s music delivers Grandmothers have a The Imposters into the spotlight and a notorious urban-Latino- wide palette of material to lets rip with the hits… and-beyond collision of It’s pretty much impossible choose from. They serve up spitting out like a musical hip-hop and salsa, dancehall to corral the musical vintage psychedelia – rock machine-gun peppering and cumbia, samba and curiosity of a luminous songs with surreal lyrics, the air with anthem Cnr Marvell & funk, merengue and career spanning four jazz-like harmonies and after million. Sidestage, comparsa, East LA R&B decades, in which Elvis Fletcher St Byron melodic complexity, with Costello has carved out his Hollywood actor/musician and New Orleans second fl ashes of wacky satire. line, Jamaican ragga and own special place in the Tim Robbins and just about They are amazing virtuoso Indian raga – and will have pantheon of rock history. every other Bluesfest artist musicians, fun and funny. A swag of nominations are bouncing, pogo-ing, you dancing all night. They Cavanbah on Friday and have never fi t into just one and awards litter that singing along in time with Saturday. genre and neither has their historic trail – evidence of the captive audience out At the Crossroads on approach to performing. the respect and awe this front. The Magic Band Monday Starting off as hometown performer commands from . heroes playing in the Combining free jazz, blues streets of Los Angeles, and rock, Captain Beefheart these culture-mashers and His Magic Band served went on to become US up a potent mix, commonly SUNDAY State Department Cultural regarded by critics and fans Ambassadors, the fi rst as one of rock’s truly original Time MOJO western band to play in bodies of work. With his 22.30 Erykah Badu (90 mins) Nepal (to 14,000 people) controversial methods of 20.45 and Mongolia (to 25,000 Morcheeba (75 mins) rehearsing and recording, 19.15 people), headlining the the Captain produced Iron & Wine (60 mins) Hollywood Bowl three times albums of controversial 17.45 Passenger (60 mins) and even offi cially having brilliance, both musically 16.15 Playing For Change (60 mins) their own day named after and lyrically – and found 14.45 Terrance Simien (60 mins) them by the City of LA – fans in Frank Zappa, Red Hot 13.15 Foy Vance (60 mins) April 23 is OZOMATLI Day! Chili Peppers, Jack White, At the Delta on Saturday, 12.00 Kim Churchill (45 Mins) Crossroads on Sunday and The Kills, Tom Waits, Sonic Jambalaya on Monday Youth and many more. Matt . Groening (The Simpsons/ Time CROSSROADS CW Stoneking Futurama creator) was 22.30 Michael FranƟ & Spearhead (75 mins) the catalyst for The Magic 21.00 Ozomatli (60 mins) As musical enigmas go, Band to reform when he 19.30 Nahko & Medicine for the People (60 mins) CW Stoneking is up there curated an All Tomorrow’s 18.00 Chali 2na (60 mins) with the best. It’s as if he Parties festival in 2003. Their has walked right out of the reception at that festival 16.30 WAR (60 mins) American deep south at the ensured tours of Europe and 15.00 Cambodian Space Project (60 Mins) dawn of the 20th century. the UK were to follow – and 13.30 CW Stoneking (60 mins) But there’s not a hint of spawned two CDs: Back 12.00 Hat Fitz & Cara (60 mins) parody or acting in him – To The Front in 2003 and 21st Century Mirror Men his authentic early blues in Time JAMBALAYA 2005. The Magic Band has sound has intrigued and 22.30 captivated every passer- proven to stay true to the Govt Mule (90 mins) by and leaves them with original music, revisiting 0 21.00 Sly & Robbie and the Taxi Gang (60 mins) no doubt this inimitable the original recordings with 19.15 Mystery Performance - Watch This Space (7 is both technical and soulful man the real thing. As 17.45 John Williamson (60 mins) you stand at his feet in a accuracy and by imposing 16.15 crowded tent, engrossed The Magic Band’s collective Kasey Chambers (60 mins) SEE YOU AT THE by his voodoo-calypso- character on a heady mix 14.00 Rockwiz (2 hours) styled epics, take a moment of songs drawn from their BLUESFEST! to turn around and take classic albums such as Trout Time DELTA in the sea of mesmerised Mask Replica, Clear Spot, Safe 22.00 Jimmie Vaughan (75 mins) THE GINGER NECKTAR DRINK COMPANY and disbelieving faces, As Milk, Lick My Decals Off 20.15 www.gingernecktar.com.au • 6680 9433 Baby Bat Chain Puller Robben Ford (75 mins) transfi xed to another time and . 18.30 and place. Sunday at the The music is a mixture of The James CoƩon Blues Band (75 mins) Crossroads and Monday at avant-garde jazz and delta 17.00 Booker T Jones (60 mins) the Juke Joint. blues that has to be heard to 15.30 Tim Rogers (60 mins) Is pain stopping you Thursday, be appreciated. 14.00 Valerie June (60 mins) The Friday and Sunday at the from enjoying your Cavanbah stage 12.30 MaƩhew Curry (60 mins) life to its fullest? Grandmothers of . Invention The Paladins Time CAVANBAH 22.30 Music Maker FoundaƟŽn (60 mins +) The Grandmothers of They played the fi rst, and 21.00 Angel Medispa in their seventh Bluesfest m The Magic Band (60 mins) Invention are the only Frank 19.30 Zappa/Mothers of Invention performance The Paladins Saidah Baba Talibah (60 mins) • Specialising in PRP alumni consistently play the 25th! The Paladins 18.00 Watussi (60 mins) (Platelet Rich Plasma) performing the music of hail from San Diego, 16.30 Taste of Boomerang - Glenn Skuthorpe and Neural Prolotherapy California, and are known the maestro since 2003. 15.00 Chris Tamwoy, Troy Cassar Daley, Jannawi a for injury management They are the authentic live for delivering blues and rockabilly to adoring fans in a 13.30 KT Tunstall (60 mins) • Back to Work version of Zappa’s music. They have performed on its purest form. 12.00 The Beards (60 mins) • Back to Sport a very long list of classic They were founded in the • Back to Life Frank Zappa and the early 1980s by guitarist Time JUKE JOINT • Anti-ageing medicine for Mothers of Invention’s Dave Gonzalez and his 22.30 Chain (60 mins) women and men albums, movies and other high school friend and 21.00 Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges (60 mins) projects. The Grandmothers double bass player Thomas 19.30 Devon Allman (60 mins) ANGEL MEDISPA 6685 5533 are able to go deeper into Yearsley, and have recorded the material, rather than 18.00 2/27 Fletcher St (facing Byron St) Byron Bay nine studio and three live Ray Beadle (60 mins) merely parroting Zappa’s albums, and along the way 16.30 Dr Kylie Bown Joanne Shaw Taylor (60 mins) notoriously tricky composed built a reputation as one of 15.00 B Phty MBBS (UQ) FRACGP Diplomate ABAARM lines – as many do. This America’s hardest-working Candye Kane Band (60 mins) truly is the reincarnation of live bands. At the Juke Joint 13.30 Nikki Hill (60 mins) on Friday and Saturday ANGELMEDISPA.COM.AU The Mothers of Invention. . 12.00 Claude Hay (60 mins) 46 April 15, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au 11

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Robben Ford Passenger, including an HipHoprisy (who toured predictable when it comes upcoming Australian tour with U2 and Public Enemy). to this unique producer. In 2004 Robben Ford blew in December that sold out Franti knows all about the OUR away the audience with His music is mischievous, immediately. From years power of music; along with has an acute sense of live renditions of songs dedicated to busking the his band Spearhead they PANCAKES from his long list of albums, humour and is full of streets of towns and cities have earned a reputation satirical anti-romantic showing that he is not REALLY across the globe, to sudden for the communal spirit banter. just a gifted guitarist but worldwide recognition with they create with their STACK UP a great songwriter too. A his international hit Let Her extraordinary live shows, His sound is intimate in fi ve-time Grammy nominee, Go that now has over 100 and their Bluesfest scale but an eccentric he has played with artists million views, Passenger performances over the years mix of lyrical musings, as diverse as Joni Mitchell, is rapidly becoming a have been no exception. falsetto warbling vocals, Miles Davis, George household name worldwide. Monday in the Mojo. folk rhythms and vibrant Harrison, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Sunday in the Mojo melodies that have had him 10 mins. south from Byron Bay along the Pacific Highway • 6687 8432 . www.macadamiacastle.com.au Dylan, John Mayall and Greg RocKwiz Live compared to Van Morrison, Allman. Hailing from the Grace Potter & John Lennon and Jeff USA, Ford was raised by a A Bluesfest favourite and Buckley before his very own musical family and began The Nocturnals back by popular demand – sound became a reference RocKwiz Live returns to the to teach himself guitar at Grace Potter has a voice point itself. He plays the Jambalaya stage for three Mojo on Saturday and age thirteen upon hearing you rarely stumble across: the two guitarists from the exciting shows this year. Monday. a smoky, assured voice RocKwiz Live at Bluesfest Paul Butterfi eld Blues Band, that spans eff ortlessly from 2014 will of course feature namely, Michael Bloomfi eld a whisper to a soaring a Buddy Guy dynamic host Julia Zemiro, and Elvin Bishop. Since then cappella within a single adjudicator Brian Nankervis, He’s a Bluesfest favourite – he has gone on to carve breath. The band is human scoreboard and an absolute legend and, can himself a reputation among fronted by the 21-year-old roadie Dugald and the you believe it, he will be 78 his contemporaries as a dynamo whose nuanced vintage * retro supremely talented RocKwiz next birthday! truly talented and versatile singing, organ playing and Orkestra. Here’s another musician. The Delta on songwriting belies her Buddy Guy is a Rock and designer * costume fantastic opportunity for Saturday and Sunday. age. Equal parts seductive Roll Hall of Fame inductee, all Bluesfest fans to see and dangerous, live this a major infl uence on rock themselves as well as The James Cotton evocative voice and titans such as Jimi Hendrix, their favourite artists on commanding presence Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, television. The RocKwiz Live Blues Band translates her inventive, Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray shows are bigger, bolder, soul-searching poetry to Vaughan. He has received You haven’t heard harp longer, louder and a little life and is sure to have you six Grammy awards, 28 playing until you have heard looser than the television transfi xed for her entire set Blues Music awards Grammy award winner programs and the team James ‘Superharp’ Cotton and leave you covered in goosebumps. If you’re up for revels in the unique play his harmonica. Born in atmosphere at Bluesfest. 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi, a dance, pop along to see this big personality light up Yes, it could be you! Expect he grew up working in the a thrilling mix of music, quiz, cotton fi elds alongside his the Bluesfest stage with her eff ortless stage presence chat and comedy when parents and older siblings. RocKwiz plays Bluesfest His Christmas present one and sweeping soul voice Friday at the 2014. Friday, Saturday year was a harmonica; it once again. Mojo and Sunday at Jambalaya cost 15 cents. The Delta . Stage from 2pm Stage on Sunday . . Michael Franti & Passenger Devendra BREAKFAST & COFFEES Spearhead Banhart Mike Rosenberg aka Start your day off right with the best breakfast in town along Franti will be bringing his with fresh juices & the perfect Espresso Botero. Passenger’s fi rst-ever tenth studio album All Making his long-awaited Bluesfest performance is People with him, an album Bluesfest debut is the going to make our 25th that has seen Franti look Caracas–Venezuela-born LUNCH, SUNSET DRINKS & EVERYTHING IN-BETWEEN anniversary even more to his primary infl uences and very avant-garde folk special! Armed with referencing a wide range singer/songwriter and Settle in for the day, choose from our all day tapas menu & watch his acoustic guitar, the of music icons including renowned visual artist the world go by from the balcony. Why would you even leave...? renowned folk rock solo John Lennon, Bob Marley, Devendra Banhart. artist will be mesmerising Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye Sometimes an album just the crowd with his poignant COCKTAILS & LATE NIGHT DINING and The Clash. One of the gets under your skin; you lyrics and soothing melodies most positive and conscious want to play it to everyone Whether you’ve dined with us or coming home from the festival, at his exclusive Bluesfest artists in music today, you know, but that would you’ll be welcome to join us for tapas & a late night cocktail. performance on Easter Franti’s musical journey mean having to take it Sunday. started with his punk and out of your CD player. The last year or so has hip-hop beginnings in Mala is such an album. FOR BOOKINGS AND INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.BALCONY.COM.AU certainly been a wild his bands Beatnigs and Devendra is such an artist. and wonderful ride for The Disposable Heroes of Nothing is ever expected or OR CALL 66809 666 7/3 LAWSON STREET, BYRON BAY North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au The Byron Shire Echo April 15, 2014 47 12

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(the most any artist has Bluesfest performer Valerie time he has been given this New album Bang Bang ARIA Country Album chart Bay High, Kadina High, received), the Billboard June’s latest album released honour. At the Juke Joint Boom Boom has been at No 1. The album won Brunswick Public School magazine Century Award this year. At the Delta on on Friday. earning this superb singer the Deadly for Album Of and the Steiner schools are for distinguished artistic Sunday at the Jambalaya critical acclaim around The Year in 2012 and four giving us a taste of their achievement, and the on Monday. Larry Graham the world, showcasing Golden Guitars, including incredible musical talents! Cavanbah on Monday Presidential National Medal & Graham Central her amazing range across Male Artist of the Year and . of Arts. Rolling Stone rank Charlie blues, R&B, swing and more. Album of the Year at the Thursday at the Mojo and him at No 23 in its 100 Station 2013 CMAA Music Awards. KC &The Sunshine Musselwhite Friday at the Crossroads. At the Cavanbah Stage on Greatest Guitarists of All Larry Graham is gonna add Saturday and Sunday. Band Time. The Crossroads on Charlie Musselwhite is a some bottom. It’s what he Devon Allman Thursday and Friday. Bluesfest veteran; in fact does. He was the thumping, Candye Kane Shakin’ bootys and selling he played at the fi rst-ever funky bass engine providing Devon has appeared more than 100 million Booker T Jones Bluesfest in 1990. The the churning undercurrent occasionally as a guest Band featuring albums since 1973. harmonica master is one for numerous hits by Sly musician for both his With their catalogue of Booker T’s 25th Bluesfest of the most revered blues and the Family Stone. Hits father Gregg Allman’s Band Laura Chavez dance anthems including performance will mark fi ve musicians in the world such as Dance to the Music, and The Allman Brothers Songwriter, fi ve-time Get Down Tonight, That’s The years since the soul and rock and has collaborated Everyday People, Thank Band. He blew the minds national blues award Way (I Like It), Please Don’t legend last captivated the with legendary musicians You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf of the Bluesfest audience nominee Kane and guitarist Go, Shake Your Booty, Keep Bluesfest audience. Booker including Howlin’ Wolf, Agin), I Want To Take You as part of the blues-rock Laura Chavez are feminist It Comin’ Love, Boogie Shoes, T has recorded with the Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Higher and then the band’s supergroup Royal Southern fi reballs who delight Rock Your Baby, I’m Your likes of Wilson Pickett, Ray Williamson and Tom Waits stellar appearance at the Brotherhood last year audiences worldwide with Boogie Man, (Shake, Shake, Charles, George Harrison, to name a few. He recently legendary Woodstock and this time he returns songs of empowerment. Shake) Shake Your Booty KC Sam and Dave, Neil Young, won the Living Blues Award Festival in 1969 propelled to Bluesfest leading his Bluesfest welcomes back & The Sunshine Band are Barbra Streisand and Bob for Most Outstanding the band and Larry’s own Devon Allman Band. Candye Kane after her last still as widely popular today Dylan, and not to mention Musician (Harmonica) in the Saturday at the Delta and innovative slap-pop style of inspiring performance at as they were when they he features on fellow readers’ poll. This is the 10th Sunday at the Juke Joint playing bass into the global . Bluesfest in 2002. Juke Joint fi rst danced into the music limelight. After Sly and The on Sunday and Cavanbah scene 40 years ago. The Crossroads on Monday Family Stone, Larry Graham Saidah Baba on Monday. . founded and fronted Talibah Graham Central Station, the Zane Carney WAR funk-soul collective that has Soul-rock diva Saidah Baba Zane Carney is the lead WAR is not a band. WAR is a been his home (apart from Talibah makes her Bluesfest guitarist of the Rock movement! The movement a few solo years) for the debut this Easter. Toronto- Quartet CARNEY and will be started out in 1969 when last forty years. Whatever bred vocalist Saidah, performing with John Mayer. Eric Burdon, former lead the setting, he has spent a daughter of Tony and singer of iconic English band half-century redefi ning the Grammy award-nominated Confl uence is Zane Carney’s The Animals, combined with bass by pushing the limits icon Salome Bey, is Canada’s long-awaited and much- WAR to record and release of its potential as both a fi rst lady of blues. Strong anticipated debut record their fi rst album entitled melodic instrument as well bloodline notwithstanding, as a solo artist. Zane will Eric Burdon Declares WAR. It as a percussive tool. At the Saidah is a fi erce artist who be performing a special featured the No 1 single, Spill Delta on Friday and the isn’t afraid to combine rock, solo show at Bluesfest on The Wine, which became an Thursday in the Mojo Jambalaya on Saturday. funk, blues and raunchy soul immediate worldwide hit before joining John Mayer in all of her performances. and launched the group’s THE for the fi nal Bluesfest Eric Bibb Saidah marches to the beat career. WAR’s unique mix of her own drummer and show of the night. International folk-blues of funk, jazz, R&B and rock her preternatural punk ’n’ roll has sold them more ROCK & ROLL master of songcraft and attitude, striking good looks Round Mountain than 50 million records acoustic guitar, Eric Bibb and sartorial splendour will makes a welcome return to Girls and been performed to have you gobsmacked in no 1,000,000 people a year. COFFEE COMPANY his Bluesfest fans. He has time at all at. Cavanbah on From humble beginnings Crossroads on Sunday and criss-crossed the world for Sunday and The Delta on in a shed atop an isolated Monday. COFFEE & Pan-Asian specialists four decades paying his Monday. outcrop, to one of the main dues as a true storyteller, stages at this year’s Bluesfest Seun Kuti where blues, folk and Troy Cassar-Daley – the phenomenon of Open all world music intersect at a & Egypt 80 Troy Cassar-Daley is at the Round Mountain Girls Easter/Bluesfest musical crossroads. At the has etched itself into the Jambalaya on Friday the top of the Australian Seun Kuti, the youngest weekend . ‘strange but true’ annals Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon country music scene. He son of Afrobeat founder has a reputation among of Australian musicology. Fela Kuti, is joined by his from 7:30am Beth Hart At the Delta Stage on his peers in the Australian father’s 16-piece funk- Monday. Also open This is one of festival music industry for being fuelled orchestra, Egypt for dinner director Peter Noble’s top one of the most loved 80. Unanimously hailed for Wed-Thu-Fri picks. When Beth Hart and respected singer/ Young Sounds continuing Fela’s musical from 5pm sings, clocks stop, hearts songwriters in country of Byron – Byron legacy, Seun took control dance, and neck hair music. Troy’s career has of his father’s band Egypt 3/55 Burringbar St tingles, it’s that compelling! spanned eight studio Bay High School 80 at the age of 14 and has Mullumbimby Then there’s the A-list albums over 20 years. His Showcase been laying down a potent Ph: 6684 4224 collaborations with the likes latest album HOME, released version of indestructible of Jeff Beck, Slash, Buddy in March 2012, debuted on Showcasing local school rhythms ever since. 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bands in an intimate venue at amazingly low Why I love Bluesfest ticket prices. All too good to be true! When an event runs for and band’s superlative most enjoyable live music a quarter of a century performance… experience, so come help Sadly, Danny’s eff orts you can guarantee that us celebrate 25 years strong cost him dearly. He had it becomes part of the Event DJ/MC and once again ‘the best no local support and fabric of a person’s story. lineup ever’. faced openly hostile True love has been found Beaver Suff olk attitudes from existing here, babies conceived, Park relives his Jim Stephens, music venues, local friendships forged, others government and local lost, careers inspired, ‘Glory Moment’ glass designer, business people. In heroes met, heroes the end, Danny lost his It was 2001, it was a long musician and family fortune through lost. In the bog of mud time coming and crikey, and sweat, hundreds of original Arts his entrepreneurial we were ready! The Big eff orts to bring world- thousands have marched Top was chock-a-block. I to their musical Mecca: Factory dweller class entertainment to reckon about 10,000 had Byron Bay. Sister Mary at Bluesfest with Steve Earle. The East Coast Blues assembled. Midnight Oil To my memory, the and Roots Festival aka beginnings of the Byron He lost a fortune but, had come out fi ring on The next best was last year. signifi cant infl uence on Bluesfest… Here are a few Bay Bluesfest were quite by God, he had a very, very Only The Strong and backed We were in Melbourne them. reminiscences from loyal humble compared to what (did I say very?) good time it up with Short Memory. the week before Bluesfest blues fans. the festival has become. Our son Jai was at the There was something doing it. and had the fortune I remember the event as 1996 festival and became extra special in the air Every day was Christmas. to meet Paul Simon at just another great music a huge fan of Ben Harper. Sista Mary that night, the fact that a charity talk he gave. off ering from Danny Every night was New Years Eve. At the 1997 festival, my Australia’s iconic surf During conversations later presents Mystery Doeppel at the Arts Factory. husband and I were rock legends had fi nally I mentioned that I played helping our friend who Train BayFM, found its place on Byron’s There were so many great BC Bill Connor – the blues harp and he said was the backstage caterer biggest stage. It was an concerts and bands that he didn’t. I replied that owner of Polka creator of BC Hats and we were able to get endurance performance they all tend to merge I thought how can Paul our daughter Yani, and Jai, Dot Productions that was supported by into one large party in and musician Will Simon not play the harp? backstage one night. We Byron’s biggest choir, the my mind. All good, all the It’s so simple and I would I moved to Byron because Connor went for a walk and saw audience. Word for word time. I lived at the Arts be most honoured to give of Bluesfest. some people standing near in unison we worked our Factory during that era I lived at the Piggery from him a lesson. After his a caravan. Camping for fi ve years way through 25 years of so I often just wandered around late 1979, I think, knockdown jaw-dropping (1997–2001) in Belongil songs that we’d grown over to listen to almost until about 1985. I was show in the big tent at Yani said, ‘Mum that’s Stone Fields was enough… with and had found their everything that happened lucky enough to witness Bluesfest we got a message Gossard.’ I said, ‘Who?’ It’s always arduous doing way into our DNA. I’d there. When such luxuries Kevin, Karin and Dan from his stage manager She said, ‘you know, from the full fi ve days, like being been a fi ve-day Bluesfest are commonplace they are create a music venue at to come see him in his Pearl Jam’. He was talking in the trenches with a fanatic for about 10 years taken for granted. The Piggery (also called dressing room before his to Dean Butterworth, the preselected racing form, but I peaked on that night. The Byron Arts Factory). group left for their night amazing drummer from making sure I don’t miss We united as ‘one’ as we From Danny D This is where hundreds of fl ight to Sydney. When we the Innocent Criminals. anything amazing! I still do celebrated Australia’s national and international met I kiddingly mentioned They called us over and it, but have slowed down own identity in music by Jim Stephens acts performed. Keven and that I suppose he would asked us where we were a bit! among an international Music ©2013: Karin – with Dan’s help – not have time for his from and were keen to array of legends. These turned this into the fi rst harmonica lesson. To my meet some locals and hear So many highlights – Kerri The fi rst few Blues Festivals days you’ll fi nd me on the Bluesfest in 1990. In my surprise he said he did and all about our hometown Simpson opening Easter were much more a Mojo Stage as Stage MC. humble opinion, these fi rst went over to his travel bag Mullumbimby and the Sunday with a Haitian celebration of blues music Bluesfest is dedicated to few years were the best! and pulled out a Hohner north coast. Voodun chant, Wilco, than a more diversifi ed Buddy Miller, Lyle Lovett giving you the safest and C… Time was going on and After a few minutes, Dean music festival that the Rusty Miller, I thought we best consider event became after adding took us over to the caravan roots that he was preparing to and opened the door and to the title. The music seminal surfer be on the trail soon. So Real Souvlaki? at the beginning of the said, ‘Ben, meet Elayne and and creator of the after thanking him for the Jai,’ (Yani was having a long FIND US AT BLUESFEST festivals was all about true great show and invitation chat with Stone!). So Ben blues music. Byron Guide backstage we went back Harper opens the door and into the blues masses… Word of mouth spread My favourite music says, ‘Hi, come on in!’. At this through the backpacker experience at the Bluesfest point Jai, who was only 15 community about Byron was watching, from the Elayne Mitchell – years old, was completely Bay, the pristine little resort side of the stage, John Bluesfest Trouper starstruck and speechless, town with magnifi cent Mayer the last time so I started chatting with beaches, fabulous surf he played here, hands Elayne Mitchell and her Ben, Juan Nelson and and unbelievable nightlife gripping the fence as he husband have been to David Leech. They were all where you could see just got better and more every single Blues Festival, lovely and asked all sorts of internationally renowned magic as the set advanced. right from the beginning. questions. And she has plans of course for doing it all again Ben asked what the vibe this year. 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Dean and Stone following multiple stages. 1993 was behind. one of those non-stop-rain We got to the dodgem cars festivals. From day one we Bluesfest fi nds home with Hart and Jai and Ben hopped were scrambling to get Beth Hart is one of this into cars and off they went bales of hay delivered to the It takes great courage for an – they were like two little site and distributed over the year’s Bluesfest’s director’s artist who has established boys. Ben was laughing biggest of the mud bogs. It top picks. And for good a voice in the market to and whooping; they had barely made a diff erence. reason: Hart not only has a take a sudden turn in a ball together! A small By day two we were on the powerhouse vocal; she has another direction. And that crowd started to gather, so phone to the Woodford a powerhouse story and a is how Hart continually Ben, Dean and Stone had Festival, arranging to powerhouse presence on challenges herself. to head backstage quickly. borrow their sidewalk stage. ‘It’s terrifying to wear those They hugged us and left. pallets, organising delivery Born with music in her old worn-out shoes and over Easter weekend, and blood, she recalls her fi rst let them go. We naturally putting pencil to paper Gayle Cue exposure at the tender are creatures of habit and trying to keep track of how age of four and the we get scared to try new – onetime much the weather was profound aff ect music has things – there is something costing us. As I recall we Bluesfest owner, on her. scary about that, and spent about $12,000 trying between you and me I am to keep Belongil Fields from ‘I will never forget it and music lover and going through that again turning into a sink hole. thanks be to god I still get with producers, trying longtime local That seriously cut into the to feel that all these years them out. I am so afraid of profi t of the festival that later. It’s a feeling of fi nding In 1992, Clide and Gayle working and fucking it up, year but we managed to home. As a very young Cue, along with Peter or their taking it away, and Noble, became partners come out debt free and girl I felt my family was that was a big improvement so close and something then going it’s okay and I in the Blues Festival. When will be fi ne, sure, whatever. Clide heard that Keven over the previous years. The happened later with my and it took the intervention that I didn’t want to show For me it’s about being able was looking for investment East Coast Blues Festival dad, but I remember being of road manager Scott him because I didn’t want to have the right working capital, he stepped right was off and running! Clide under a den table and this Guetzkow to pull her back anyone cutting down my relationship. It comes down in without a moment’s and Gayle sold their shares song kept coming on the from the brink. ‘I went into babies! It was fantastic. And to being able to look at the hesitation. This allowed back to Keven and Peter for TV; it was the Moonlight fi ve diff erent hospitals that why is there more joy in truth and decide well, I can the festival to expand to health reasons. Clide died Sonata by Beethoven and year, not including rehabs,’ my new work compared to work with this.’ an outdoor setting with in 1998. I remember hearing the she says. ‘It was so bad that my older stuff ? I think it’s chords and the touch of the I remember talking to my as simple as I found a new • This interview fi rst right hand and it brought psychologist and he said, “I genre to work in and tell published in The Echo me such a feeling. It was don’t think you can handle my stories through.’ February 11, 2014. MONDAY like fi nding out that in being in this business…”’ the dark you can still fi nd Fortunately for her Time MOJO home… in the night my 20.15 listening audience it Dave MaƩhews Band (150 mins) parents got up and I was turned out not to be Established 1902 playing this little bit of the 18.30 Michael FranƟ & Spearhead (75 mins) true. Meeting blues Classic country pub tucked away song, and for years I kept in the scenic Byron Bay hinterland 16.45 Joss Stone (75 mins) star Joe Bonamassa in a trying to play that!’ 15.00 hotel lobby changed her Serving lunch & dinner 7 days India.Arie (75 mins) using fresh local produce 13.15 A national win on Star trajectory both in music Devendra Banhart (75 mins) Search Live music, trivia & entertainment 12.00 , a forerunner to and in life. Kim Churchill (45 mins) American Idol and The Offering relaxed family-friendly setting ‘I was around 36 or 37 and with welcoming service Voice, gigging around Time CROSSROADS I had done a record called LA and a lot of pounding 21.00 My California; musically to Elvis Costello & The Imposters (75 mins) the pavement by her me it was ruined because it 19.15 Jake Bugg (75 mins) manager, eventually led was too fucking polished – ) 17.30 Foy Vance (75 mins) to Jason Flom and David 15.45 but musically and lyrically KC & The Sunshine Band (75 mins) Foster, who jointly signed when it was in its raw form 14.00 WAR (75 mins) her to Lava/143/Atlantic with just voice and acoustic Records. 12.30 Shaun Kirk (60 mins) guitar before the stuff was ‘I think that overall my put on top and it was a very Time JAMBALAYA greatest confi dence, and heavy lyric, it was still okay. 21.15 Gary Clark Jr (75 mins) insecurity, comes from I remember thinking: I am 19.45 Booker T Jones (60 mins) the writing because it is done in the spot and I have my fi rst and greatest love. to get out of here – I have 7 18.00 Sly & Robbie and the Taxi Gang (75 mins) 16.30 When it comes to the to get out of this box. It’s Ozomatli (60 mins) performing it’s more of an not that I was going to stop 15.00 Chali 2na (60 mins) addiction. I wouldn’t have playing music; it was that I 13.30 MaƩhew Curry (60 mins) admitted to that when I felt like I had beat the shit 12.00 Lime Cordiale (60 mins) was younger, and when I out of that horse and it was RETRO & VINTAGE say it’s an addiction I am dead, and the miracle for Time DELTA not saying it’s an ugly thing. me was that Joe came into 22.15 Watussi (60 mins) I spend a lot of time on the my life and says let’s make Don’t MENS & LADIES 20.45 road and my biggest fi ght a soul cover record: Saskwatch (60 mins) Explain. It was four days Recycled & Handmade 19.15 with my road manager is Jason Isbell (60 mins) understanding how you in the studio, so here I go Retro / Vintage and 17.45 Cambodian Space Project (60 mins) have to neon the road doing blues and jazz and 16.15 Terrance Simien (60 mins) working your thang but soul – you know doing all Designer Clothing 14.45 Saidah Baba Talibah (60 mins) also needing to be home so the music I loved as a kid you stay connected. Home but wouldn’t have had the OPEN 13.15 Round Mountain Girls (60 mins) 10 for me is a spiritual place.’ balls to do alone because AM 12.00 2014 Busking Winner (45 mins) ~ 5.30 I was too scared – but by DAILY PM For Hart, staying in touch the fourth day I found how Time CAVANBAH with that inner voice, and much joy I had doing these 21.00 having spiritual refuge is Playing For Change (60 mins +) songs and I thought how of extreme importance. 19.30 The Beards (60 mins) interesting it would be to 18.00 Chain (60 mins) Early in her career, pressure write in this genre. That was 16.30 clipped her wings. A heady how I came to make Bang Music Maker FoundaƟŽn (60 mins) Bang Boom Boom 0488 733 304 15.00 cocktail of drugs and Beth’s . Kevin Tim Rogers (60 mins) unmedicated bipolar Shirley, who produced it 95 Jonson St, Byron Bay (on crossing opp Woolies) a 13.30 Candye Kane Band (60 mins) disorder ensured that her for me, asked why I was 12.00 Byron Area High Schools Showcase (60 mins Atlantic deal went sour, hiding this. And I replied facebook.com/trashbyronbay North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au The Byron Shire Echo April 15, 2014 51 16

Performers’ quotes The power of Stone – from the 25th When she was just 15 the soon- summer sound of While You’re approach that seems to to-be soul-singing sensation Out Looking For Sugar, originally translate into her songwriting. Anniversary Book Joss Stone went into the studio recorded by The Honey Cone. ‘I wish I could play an instrument, 180-page hard-cover coff ee table to record her star-making debut So what was it like for young then I think I would write all the book including messages from album the Soul Sessions. It was a Stone negotiating a tricky time! A lot of the time I will be artists and stunning images. Published by Remy Tancred. Majority of stunning off ering to the world, industry at such an early age? driving in the car and I will hear a photography by Taojones Photography. The book will be on sale at showing that this little girl could song and write over that; it gives Bluesfest or online with mail delivery from www.bluesfest.com.au. sing the blues with as much ‘It was hard work, but I don’t think I ever felt out of my depth really me something – it inspires a story, conviction and power as any full which inspires a lyric. I love to co- ‘Playing in that sultry, steamy tent to a jammed crowd as ecstatic and grown woman. – I felt scared a couple of times, drenched as we were was what I’d always imagined Byron Bay to be. but comfortably scared in a way; write; I love to bounce off someone!’ In retrospect Stone laughs at Then sitting in with Ben felt like being transported to some kind of it’s not like a horrible thing – it So how does Joss Stone voodoo funky trance dance. What a blast!’ the industry amazement at her helped me continue. It wasn’t maintain the enormous energy ability to slip so easily into the the kind of fear that would have and emotion that she packs into – Bonnie Raitt mindset of a blues chanteuse. stopped me from walking forward a performance? ‘If the crowd’s against you it’s tough. If the crowd’s with you it’s easy, ‘When I was younger people – and besides, I didn’t have any ‘You have to hold on to a and if it’s the crowd at Bluesfest it’s a guaranteed ball! I ruined my would say to me: how could other calling; I hated school and I moment. You learn little tricks – I fl ashy suit I sweat so much but it was worth it!’ you sing these songs? You are didn’t want to go back.’ pretty much hold it all in until I – Chris Isaak so young and the songs are so Stone credits her mother and am ready to sing, and that’s when emotional! I couldn’t be more the good advice of the team I let loose. ‘It was a very special time for my band and me to play the Byron emotional than I was at that who gathered around her for Bluesfest. Thank you for letting us be a part of this great event.’ moment! I was a teenager; it’s the ‘Sometimes it’s exhausting, it helping her fi nd her feet in the gives you a headache, but it can – BB King perfect time to sing blues!’ music industry. Soul Sessions be interesting; and you have to ‘My fi rst real festival crowd was playing at the Bluesfest. We had about A decade on from ‘Becoming successful can be have to fl ip from one feeling to Joss returned to the studio with a quarter of the Jambalaya tent full and we were having a really good a dangerous game to play, another, especially in a show as gig. The the rain came. HARD! The next minute we had an overfl owing the man who signed her at just especially when you are so you go from song to song. It’s 15, Steve Greenberg, to do it all tent – of people, that is – and it was heaving. Soul Sessions Volume 2 young. It can totally mess with not a West End show were songs again: . you. My mum stuck around until I slowly morph into each other! In ‘It was like the whole gig was given a massive dose of steroids. By ‘It was completely diff erent this was 17; she didn’t disappear as my a gig I go from one song to the halfway through the set the atmosphere was electric. What an time,’ says Stone, ‘apart from the mother, but up until then she was next. It’s an emotional roller- amazing energy. I’d never experienced anything like that before. fact that it was covers – that working as my manager. She was coaster, and it does knacker you ‘As with many ‘fi rst times’ it was the loudest applause I’d ever heard was the theme we kept, but doing it because she loves me, out a bit, but you have to live that and in my mind and memory it still is. I was cracked open by that everything else was diff erent. not for any other reason. Those four minutes when it’s there.’ amazing Bluesfest magic and I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.’ I liked it. When you sing other reality TV shows are a worry; they • This interview fi rst published – John Butler people’s songs you don’t have to take all types of people and throw in The Echo March 25, 2014. agonise about them. You don’t them into being famous quickly, ‘Bluesfest is one of the most amazing experiences we’ve had as a band. have to write. You just have fun!’ and some people aren’t mentally For a little local act like ours, the opportunity to play in front of our The Soul Sessions Volume 2 prepared for it; they take biggest audience to date, and alongside so many of the biggest names in music, was really unforgettable.’ includes versions of classic tracks things too seriously. I never such as (For God’s Sake) Give More read my own criticisms, I – Liam McGorry, Saskwatch Power To The People don’t pay attention. I don’t (originally ‘The blues and roots is more than just a music festival; it’s The believe the hype. I think recorded by the Chi Lites) and a gathering place for musicians. Many of my best musical Love We Had (Stays on my Mind) when you don’t believe it you friendships were started backstage at the blues and roots festival.‘ by the Dells, as well as stunning can stay normal. It’s not that future single The High Road – a extraordinary anyway. It just – Aloha Jack Johnson happens to be the right time stone-cold soul makeover of ‘Thinking of the Bluesfest always brings a smile to my face. What for what I have to give. You can’t Broken Bells’ cult hit. Other stand- fabulous memories to treasure! turn into a fan of yourself. That’s outs include a classy version of ‘I vividly recall the night I shook hands with Buddy Guy, nodding Womack & Womack’s Teardrops weird and there’s no perspective there!’ to Billy Gibbons at the end of ZZ’s set, swapping stories with Keb and a laidback take on Sylvia’s Mo’ and the afternoon Toumani joined me on stage – WOW!’ Pillow Talk. The fi rst single from Stone is as natural off stage as the album will be the uptempo she is on stage, an eff ortless – Eric Bibb

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