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BIMONTHLY NEWS OF THE COLORADO BLUES SCENE • VOL. 22, NO. 3 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2016 • [email protected] 2013 KBA WINNER BLUES SOCIETY OF THE YEAR ELECTION BLUES THE PEOPLE WILL DECIDE BY JACK HADLEY It’s been a long, hot summer. While poli- ticians continue their endless campaigns we can choose to tune in or tune out. I’m doing both. The truth is I’d rather soothe my soul with great music ev- ery chance I get. Doug MacLeod bringing his acoustic blues to Thornton in August, BLIND BLAKE the revived Trinidad- dio Blues Festival coming in hard and fast with Sh- emekia Copeland, Janiva Magness and Chubby Car- rier. And don’t forget to support your local venues who feature local and national blues acts on a regu- THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND, 1966 lar basis: Ziggie’s, the Oriental Theater, The Zephyr Lounge, Jezebel’s, El Chapultepec and Jazz@Jack’s in Denver; Oskar Blues, Chillers and the Pourhouse north of the metro area. And it does matter. The Colorado Blues Society has set the bar very high. Yes, we argue and fight but guess what: people come to us for advice on how to make their blues scene better. Vote your conscience. Vote blues. IN THIS ISSUE 1 ELECTION BLUES 16 HERMONIUS REVIEW 23 BLUES ACTS 3 SHOUTIN’ THE BLUES 17 GRAMMYS 24 BLUES RADIO 6 GREELEY BLUES JAM REVIEW 18-20 CD REVIEWS 26 MEMBERSHIP 8 COLO. BLUES COMMUNITY HANGS TIGHT 21 TOO SLIM INTERVIEW 12 - 15 GREELEY BLUES JAM PICS 22 MOJO & BUSINESS LEFT TO RIGHT - SHEMEKIA COPELAND AND JANIVA MAGNESS HIGHLIGHT THE 2016 TRINIDADDIO BLUES festival. AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2016 HOLLER 2 SHOUTIN’ THE BLUES BY TARRY UNDERWOOD Festival season started earlier for us this year at the Beaver Creek Blues & BBQ. Lots of great BBQ and I enjoyed seeing and THE COLORADO BLUES SOCIETY was formed to create a greater talking to two of my favorite California blues people: Gary Allegretto and Shari Puorto. awareness and wider appreciation of the American indigenous Closing out that night was eighty-two year old John Mayall, the legend himself! Then art form, the BLUES. it was on to the Greely Blues Jam and Blues From the Top. Both exceeded our expecta- P.O. Box 386, Windsor, CO 80550 tions with too many highlights for me to mention without forgetting somebody. We also went to our first Frisco BBQ festival. With over 100 competitors, it is one of the biggest BBQ events in the country! Friday had Ronnie Baker Brooks and Mike Zito lighting Affiliated with The Blues Foundation up downtown Frisco. Keep an eye out for next year’s event. You won’t be disappointed. www.blues.org OFFICERS Our summer continues with the inaugural Five Points Brew & BBQ on August 6th. Tarry Underwood, President Chick Cavallero, Vice-President Several bands are playing with Austin Young Band headlining. It would be great to see Mike Golden, Vice-President Jennifer Underwood, Secretary our members supporting this new event. The following night we’ll be at Fiddler’s Green Kyle Deibler, Treasurer for Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy. There are several events happening on August 14th — DIRECTORS Scott Fitzke, Patti Cavallero, Habitat for Humanity Blues & BBQ festival at its new Edgewater location and Blues and Joanne Cole, Joe Menke, Kerry Morrison, Daryl Reichenender, Brews on South Pearl Street in Denver. At the end of the month we have the return of Fordham Murdy, Peggy Jamison, Judy Talaba, Sandee Lewin Nye the Trinidaddio Festival! It will be great to see some of the blues buddies that I only see WEB MASTER in Trinidad. Be sure to check the website and weekly update for more information about David Brandt these events and all of the other great shows happening up and down the front range. If HOLLER Published for Feb-March, April-May, you are not getting the Weekly Update, go to the website to sign up. It is full of timely June-July, Aug-Sept, Oct-Nov, and Dec-Jan information. EDITOR & CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jack Hadley In closing, while we have had a lot of tragedy in our blues community, it is nice to CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE see such strong support from our friends and blues family. I am proud to be a part of it. Jack Hadley, Tarry Underwood, Chick Cavallero, Dan Willging, Miss Ella - Sister To The Blues, Jim Primock, Kyle Deibler, Max Schutte ADVERTISING Ad placement, Rates & Specs: Jack Hadley Design [email protected] AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2016 HOLLER 3 Vintage and Collectible The largest Collings guitar dealer west of the Mississippi. 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Celebrating its 12th edition, expected, there were a pleth- Surprisingly, the Lionel the Greeley Blues Jam (GBJ) ora of Muddy Waters staples Young Band caught me by continues to amaze while sprinkled throughout the surprise, even though Young never succumbing to being set but it wasn’t from some is hardly an unknown quantity the tired old festival recycling Johnny-come-lately who along the Front Range. May- the same perennial favorites. learned solely from records. be it was the leadoff song, a Six national and five local Instead, it was from one jammy version of the South acts alternated between the with history. Primer moved Louisiana hit “Last Night I Got East and West Stages, en- to Chicago in ’63 and joined Loaded,’ or maybe it was the suring just minutes of down- Willie Dixon’s The Chicago fact that occasionally Young time before the next act was All-Stars in ‘79. A few years could emulate the pitch of a launched. Underneath the later, Primer found himself harmonica by plucking the north stands was the Blues in Waters’ band until the el- fiddle strings. Then there 101 Stage where there were der statesman died in 1983. was the combination of bow- more musical performanc- Not only did he play with Wa- ing and plucking the fiddle to es and harmonica lessons ters but often opened shows sound like an African kora, taught by Dan Treanor. for him. His 2015 disc Muddy especially when bending the GBJ promoter Al Bricker Waters 100, a loving tribute strings. When he switched to pulled out yet another sur- to the Hoochie Coochie Man, electric guitar, he also made prise for the opening set notched a 2016 Grammy nom- it sound African, hence a brief – remember 2015’s high- ination. Perhaps blues pundit reminder of blues’ deepest octane Boogie Boys from Dan King said it best when he root. Poland – with 17-year old remarked that ‘[GBJ] should Jaden Carlson from Lafay- always book one Chicago guy “...driving Chicago ette, CO. Though not neces- and back him with the Delta sarily blues, Carlson led her Sonics.’ blues performed capable quartet through a The GBJ is also a great way delightful, jazzy funky groove to catch up with your favor- by 71-year-old with some vocals but mostly ite local artists that you’ve atmospheric instrumentals. been missing for one reason John Primer...” On a black-bodied, green- or another. Chris Daniels and stringed guitar, she played the Kings featuring vocalist melodic passages suitable for a Buddhist’s meditation. - Continued on page 7 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2016 HOLLER 6 Guitar gunslinger Davy ery was the perfect backdrop GREELEY Knowles, formerly of Back for “Ride” and its guitar- BLUES JAM Door Slam, held his atten- quaking tremolo. The idea of Saturday, June 11 2016 tive audience spellbound, “Common Ground,” mankind Island Grove Arena often inching up on the neck standing together as one, Greeley, CO to transcend sonic boundary resonated deeply with me . by DAN WILLGING after boundary. His band had It seems like The North to be in a zone as Knowles Mississippi Allstars are ev- - Continued from page 6 appeared buried in his music erywhere these days. Now and occasionally flashed an down to a potent duo from There’s nothing like having infectious pearly white smile a power trio, Luther played a zydeco band in the line-up when another barrier was ferociously fast slide guitar to spark things up, especially crossed. while brother Cody matched after five blues bands,” re- Blues legend Musselwhite his intensity on a beaty set marked KGNU’s Blues Lega- also appeared to be enjoying of traps. Luther graciously cy host Greg Schultz regard- himself as he and his quartet shared the stage for a spell ing the sonic onslaught of rolled through a set of Mem- with Fort Collins‘ rising blues Chubby Carrier and the Bay- phis-style blues.