Cuban - Canadian harmonica virtuoso Carlos del Junco & the Blues Mongrels will be at St. James Hall in Vancouver on Fri Mar 11th. Carlos and the band are touring in support of their recently released “Mongrel Mash” cd featuring guitarist Kevin hankfully March is upon us T Breit. This new CD is del Junco’s 8th & is and we’re almost a quarter of described as “a rollicking rollercoaster ride the way through 2011. In through the stratosphere of blues meets jazz addition to St. Patrick’s Day, meets roots music”. we can look forward to the switch to Daylight Savings He was mentored by Time, and the official arrival of Spring, along Texas Blues Legend with plenty of “Live” Blues of course. March Albert Collins and kicks off with some steamy, hot Blues to warm spent 10 years with things up when Janiva Magness performs at one of the founding Seattle’s Jazz Alley on Tues Mar 1st and nd fathers of British Weds Mar 2 . Soulman Curtis Salgado Blues, John Mayall. stops by the Triple Door in Seattle on Fri Mar th th RUF Records recording artist Coco Montoya 4 . Also on Fri Mar 4 , the North Mississippi has been confirmed for Weds Apr 20th at The Allstars return to Seattle for a gig at The Yale in Vancouver. His last visit to The Yale Crocodile in the Belltown neighborhood. The was in Jan ‘07 just after his “Dirty Deal” cd. River Rock Show Theatre in Richmond th His latest “I Want it All Back” released on presents Smokey Robinson on Sat Mar 5 . RUF Records last year highlights Montoya’s Janiva Magness returns to The Yale for a th th vocals, more so than his fret burning guitar, 5pm show on Sun Mar 6 . On Fri Mar 11 the making for a much more soulful musical work. James Cotton Blues Band are at Skagit The new album produced by Bluesman Keb Valley College in Mount Vernon, and Jonny Mo features musical support from Rod Piazza Lang is at The River Rock Show Theatre in th on harp, Keb Mo on guitar & drummer Stephen Richmond. Also on Fri Mar 11 & Sat Mar Ferrone from Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers. 12th The Yale features Too Slim & the Taildraggers. 21st Century Bluesman Chris A former member of John Lee Thomas King & his band (a trio) are at The Hooker’s Coast to Coast Blues Yale on Sun Mar 13th for a special 5pm show. Band & a slide guitar phenom, That same day, Sun Mar 13th, Marcia Ball and Roy Rogers & the Delta her band are at The Triple Door. The 9One9 Rhythm Kings ride into club in Victoria welcomes the James Cotton Seattle on Thurs May 5th. Blues Band on Mon Mar 14th. San Francisco They’ll be on stage at The based Soul & Blues singer John Németh & his Triple Door that night. If you band are at Highway 99 Blues Club in Seattle are a fan of this band, like I am, then you’ll be on Sat Mar 19th. The following Fri, Mar 25th looking forward to the forthcoming dvd the original Blues Brother Curtis Salgado will highlighting some “Live” shows with very be on the stage at Jazzbones in Tacoma. special guests recorded for an upcoming PBS Rounding out the month of March, one of our special. Editing & mixing has been taking fave swingin’ rock-a-boogie-woogie Blues place since mid-Jan & the end result will pianists Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88’s feature some of Roy’s down-home-Delta return to The Yale for two successive nights, inspired music, along with a few roadhouse on Fri Mar 25th and Sat Mar 26th. rockers. The dvd will be out in late fall. 1 Once a member of The 24th Annual Winthrop Freddie King’s great Blues Festival will take backing band, “The place July 15th – 17th at the Thunderbirds” Dallas Blues Ranch along the musician, Andrew Jr. banks of the scenic Mellow Boy Jones has added River, and this year they’ll another gig to his feature Jimmie Vaughan & the Tilt-a-Whirl Pacific Northwest swing. In addition to their th Band, Booker T., The Commander Cody Thurs May 5 stop at the Rock Fish Grill in Band, Michael Burks, Lydia Pense & Cold Anacortes WA, Junior. & his band will play Blood, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Too Slim & the Highway 99 Blues Club in Seattle on Fri May th Taildraggers, and The Lee Boys. Camping is 6 . Born in Dallas somewhere between 1948 limited to 400 and available right on the festival and 1950 – depends which website you believe grounds which are only a one mile walk from – Jones was only 16 when he played in King’s downtown Winthrop. band, then in 1967 he was in Bobby Patterson’s Mustangs, then went on to play he 16th Annual Mount behind noteable musicians & singers like T Baker Blues Festival is Johnnie Taylor, Katie Webster, and eventually th st Charlie Musselwhite, before branching out on set for the July 29 – 31 his own in the mid-nineties. weekend at the log show grounds located in Blues Festival season is fast Deming WA and they’ve approaching, and we got a great line-up again already have wind of some this year. Confirmed acts include The of the acts that will be playing at some of the Average White Band, Ana Popovic, Curtis festivals within a day’s drive of Vancouver Salgado, Shane Dwight, Hamilton Loomis, including... Matt Schofield, The Twisters, The Fat James Band, The Fat Tones, the Chris Eger Band, Sweet Talkin’ Jones, CD Woodbury, James King & the Southsiders, plus Jesse James & the MOB with Jumpin’ Josh. While the 19th Considered the largest Blues Festival west of Annual Salmon the mighty Mississippi, the Safeway Arm Roots and Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland Oregon Blues Festival has yet to announce their full has announced a good portion of their line-up line-up for 2011, we are already aware of some for this year. And what a line-up thus far! This of the Blues acts that have been booked. year’s performers will include Blues Legend Those acts include Jonny Lang, Mark Buddy Guy, the Robert Cray Band, Maceo Hummel & the Blues Survivors, JJ Grey & Parker, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp MOFRO, Samuel James, MonkeyJunk and Band, Grady Champion, the James Harman the Ben Waters Trio (from the UK). This year’s festival dates are from Fri Aug 19th to Band, Nathan James, Corey Ledet & his st Zydeco Band, Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Sun Aug 21 . This festival features six Playboys, Black Joe Lewis & the daytime stages and two evening stages, plus Honeybears, Preston Shannon, Steve Riley there are plenty of food vendors on site, & the Mamou Playboys, Arsen Shomahov, beverage gardens, an artisan’s market, a Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, and recycling program on site, and on site Lucinda Williams, with more to be children’s activities. Camping is available announced. nearby. 2 On February 6th, 2011 This past Sunday, we lost a Blues Rock February 27, 2011 we great, Irish musician, lost another Blues guitarist, singer, Gary Legend, a Legend who Moore, considered to was known as the be one of the finest “Gypsy of the Blues” guitarists the British and the “Road Isles ever produced. Warrior”. We regret, that 88-year-old Eddie Born Robert William Kirkland, was killed in Florida when his car Gary Moore in Belfast turned into the path of a Greyhound bus. He Ireland on April 4, 1952, was travelling on U.S. Highway 98 in Crystal he passed away of a suspected heart attack River just north of Tampa when the accident while on vacation in Estepona, Spain. He was occurred at around 8:30 Sunday morning. only 58. Moore was a member of the Irish rock According to Kirkland’s website, he had band Skid Row before forming the Gary Moore performed the night before in Dunedin, the final Band in 1972. By 1973 he joined another Irish stop in a four-city swing through Florida. Eddie rock band, Thin Lizzy for a couple of years was born in Jamaica, and raised in Alabama, before moving on to studio session work, In then moved to Indiana before settling in Detroit the late seventies there were short stints with Michigan. He polished his Blues sound and the likes of rock fusion band Collosseum., a toured for seven and a half years with Blues U.S. tour with Thin Lizzy, plus guest Legend John Lee Hooker. Later Eddie moved appearances on recordings by Rod Argent’s to Georgia, became a bandleader for the great Moving Home, Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Otis Redding and performed with a variety of Variations, and Gary Boyle’s Electric Glide. A artists including Little Richard, Ben E. King, notable solo album “Back on the Streets” was Ruth Brown, and Little Johnnie Taylor. In 1962 released in 1978 and spawned a surprising Eddie recorded and released “It’s the Blues Top 10 UK hit, “Parisienne Walkway” in 1979. Man” for Prestige Records, then “Hawg” on the In 1980 he formed a new band G Force that Stax Volt label which earned him national only resulted in one album and he also lent celebrity status. In the seventies he released some guitar work on a solo album by Thin “Front and Center” and “The Devil and Other Lizzy drummer Cozy Powell. This was Blues Demons” on the Trix Label. In the followed by guesting on solo albums by former intervening years he earned the nickname “The ELP band member Greg Lake and on another Energy Man” for reinventing his Blues with a solo album by Cozy Powell.