North of the Quarter The Alley Tones Big Mike Aguirre and the Blu-City All-Stars Miss Molly Simms with Adam Andrews Bob “Bumble Bee” Kamoske

Pamela Devine with Vincent Saletto Dawn Weber’s Swinging Blues Review Al Holliday & the Eastside Rhythm Band St. Louis Blues Challenge Final Judging Sunday, October 13 3 pm to 8 pm Kirkwood Station Brewing Company

THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE SAINT LOUIS BLUES SOCIETY October 2013 Number 64 The St. Louis Blues Society

Officers Chairperson BluesLetter John May The Monthly Magazine of the St. Louis Blues Society Vice Chairperson The St. Louis Blues Society is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating blues music in Jeremy Segel-Moss and from St. Louis, while fostering its growth and appreciation. The St. Louis Blues Society provides blues artists the opportunity for public performance and individual Treasurer Jerry Minchey improvement in their field, all for the educational and artistic benefit of the general public. Legal Counsel October 2013 Number 64 Charley Taylor Secretary Contents Lynn Barlar Volunteers Needed 2 Communications Mary Kaye Tönnies Discounted Events for Members 2 St. Louis Blues Society IBC Blues Challenge 3 Board of Directors St. Louis Blues Society IBC Blues Challenge Who’s Playing 4 Ridgley "Hound Dog" Brown Bernie Hayes BLUES TO DOS 9 Glenn Howard Benefit for Tommy Bankhead’s Headstone 10 Rich Hughes 12 Greg Hunt Were You There? Eric McSpadden CD Review: Buddy Guy Rhythm & Blues 13 Paul Niehaus IV Musicians Directory 14 Johnny Willis blueSunday October 27 Jim Cady and Mike Apirion 15 BluesLetter Editor On the Cover.. Mary Kaye Tönnies The St. Louis Blues Challenge Final Competition will be held on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at Creative Direction Kirkwood Station Brewing Company, 105 East Jefferson, Kirkwood MO from 3 pm to 8 pm. Jeremy Segel-Moss Photos submitted by artists except Big Mike Aguirre photo by Reed Radcliffe. Staff Writer Bruce Olson DISCOUNTED EVENTS FOR BLUES SOCIETY MEMBERS teer with the Contributing Photographer show your Blues Society Membership card to un receive discounts at these venues: ol Reed Radcliffe V St. Louis Blues Society THE SLBS NEEDS YOUR HELP BB’s Jazz Blues and Soups Contributing Writers 700 South Broadway Oct. Vicki Stewart BLUESLETTER - volunteer for creation of HALF-PRICE DISCOUNTED EVENTS Road to Memphis Artists content and advertising representation. MEMBERSHIP OUTREACH - help sign up 12 Sharrie Williams Blues Revival 10 pm new members and arrange for new membership The St. Louis Blues Society is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit 13 Gina Sicilia 8 pm benefi ts. Missouri corporation. Memberships to the Blues Society are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. 18 Pete Anderson 7 pm EVENT COORDINATOR - help coordinate all 20 R J Mischo 8 pm SLBS events and work on promotion. 26 John Long 8 pm EDUCATION - help create curriculum for Blues St. Louis Blues Society in Schools and fi ll SLBS website with content. P. O. Box 78894 27 Davina & The Vagabonds 8 pm BUSINESS OUTREACH - help get more local St. Louis MO 63178 businesses involved with the SLBS. www.stlouisbluessociety.org [email protected] STREET TEAM - help with getting the word out Broadway Oyster Bar facebook.com/St-Louis-Blues-Society about the SLBS by hanging posters, passing 736 South Broadway fl iers and distributing BluesLetters. WELL DRINK SPECIAL $3 every Monday night Contact Jeremy Segel-Moss to volunteer Blues Jam with [email protected] the Soulard Blues Band 314-482-0314 St. Louis Blues Challenge Sunday October 13 Earlier this year, the St. Louis Blues Society announced the 2013 blues competition to select one blues band and one solo/duo act to represent St. Louis at the 30th International Blues Challenge (IBC) presented by the Blues Foundation in Memphis Tennessee January 21 to 25, 2014. Interested artists were invited to attend an informational workshop in May. Acceptable band and solo/duo applications were submitted by August 31, 2013. Submissions were further checked for adherence to IBC rules and completeness.

The St. Louis Blues Challenge Final Competition and Judging will be held Sunday, October 13, 2013 at Kirkwood Station Brewing Company, 105 East Jefferson, Kirkwood Missouri from 3 pm to 8 pm.

The Blues Foundation recommends that all Affiliated Organizations in their competition use established IBC scoring criteria for local challenge judging. Scoring categories include Talent, Vocal, Blues Content, Stage Presence and Originality. 1. Blues Content: Everyone has his or her own interpretation of what is and is not Blues. Thus, any given three-judge panel will include members with varying opinions of Blues, covering the spectrum of Blues whenever possible, from the most traditional to soul blues and rock blues. Bands should pick material carefully. At the Memphis quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals, the judges are Blues professionals, not a bar crowd, and are likely to be unimpressed with song selections that are uninspired. (Call this--with all due respect to Sir Mack Rice and Wilson Pickett--the “no Mustang Sally rule.”) 2. Vocals: The act’s vocal skills. 3. Talent: The act’s instrumental skills. 4. Originality: Original work is encouraged. Cover tunes are allowed but playing the recorded rendition lick by lick is discouraged; will not be looked upon favorably by the judges; and will be reflected in scoring. 5. Stage Presence: Over the years, the quality of talent has risen so dramatically that the Blues Foundation no longer considers this an “amateur” competition. Most contestants have performed on stage enough to know that they are not simply playing music, but putting on a show. This category rates how “sellable” a band may be. To reflect the relative importance of each category in the success of a band, a band’s score in each category is weighted. Raw scores for Blues Content is multiplied by four, Talent and Vocals by three and Originality and Stage Presence are multiplied by two. The total in each category represents the weighted score for that category. Total possible weighted score is 140. EIGHT ACTS (FIVE BANDS AND THREE SOLOS/DUOS) WILL COMPETE ON OCTOBER 13 FOR THE CHANCE TO REPRESENT ST. LOUIS AT THE IBC IN JANUARY 2014. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE COMPETITION. THE WINNERS OF EACH CATEGORY AGREE TO PERFORM TOGETHER IN A SHOWCASE AND FUNDRAISING EVENT AT BB’s JAZZ, BLUES AND SOUPS ON DECEMBER 8, 2013, 8 PM TO 12 AM. AL HOLLIDAY & THE EASTSIDE RHYTHM BAND BIG MIKE AGUIRRE AND THE BLU-CITY ALL-STARS BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE DAWN WEBER’S SWINGIN’ BLUES REVIEW MISS MOLLY SIMMS WITH ADAM ANDREWS NORTH OF THE QUARTER PAMELA DEVINE WITH VINCENT SALETTO THE ALLEY TONES The following pages contain each act’s bio and photograph as submitted with their application to the Blues Society for your review. St. Louis Blues Challenge Sunday October 13 The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter 3 Al Holliday & the Eastside Rhythm Band It seems that every day, it is so very hard to find something that is truly genuine. Al Holliday, with every bit of help from the East Side Rhythm Band, brings just that. The name of this band pays tribute to the burning Rhythm and Blues music that has come from our beloved Metro-East. This band is deeply influenced by this music, along with classic Soul, and the music of New Orleans - to create their own natural sound. The East Side Rhythm Band is built on the rock solid foundation of the deep rhythm section of Neil Ghanti and Caleb Klinger. Roll- ing deep with a battery of horn players, set this band up, and let them blow! Over the top of the whole thing, Al Holliday testifies, and there is not one jive bone in that man’s body. Big Mike Aguirre and the Blu-City All-Stars When you hear Big Mike Aguirre play guitar, you know where he’s coming from: the East Side where the blues isn’t for tourists, it’s for survivors. Big Mike is from Belleville, Illinois, and he sounds like he’s cut his teeth in every working-class juke-joint from Brooklyn to Wellston. He began his career at the age of 19 playing under the tutelage of St. Louis blues legends David Dee, Big George Brock, and Boo Boo Davis. In 2010, he founded the Blu-City All-Stars, a world-class group comprised of St. Louis’s finest blues musi- cians. Now 32, he recently completed his first international tour in the Netherlands in April of 2013. In February 2014, he will take a shot at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Make no mistake, BluCity All Stars are taking St. Louis Blues to a whole new level. A grinding and slashing player, he channels the overdrive of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Luther Allison but also possesses a lyrical acuity that shows how closely he’s listened to Keith Richards and Magic Sam. While he has been known as a talented guitarist on the St. Louis scene for quite some time, his real secret weapon is his vocals. He is a gifted and soulful singer, one who continues to grow in talent and scope all the time. Whatever shape his blues

St. Louis Blues Challenge Final Judging Sunday October 13 take, the sound is scrappy and soulful.

4 The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter After four decades of live gigs,

“The Bumble Bee” still plays every Kirkwood Station Brewing Company 3 pm to 8 set like it was his last. City, country, fingers, picks, or slide, Bob lays down the foundation of all American Music: The Blues. Chicago shuffles, bluesy swing, and country twobeats merge like the mighty Missouri and Missis- sippi Rivers just above the great music city of St Louis, Missouri. Whether pickin or slidin on his old Bob National Resonator or Silvertone electric, the music explodes, seduces and grooves. “Bumble Bee” Witnessing Bob’s dangerous guitar and passionate vocals for the first time, even Kamoske the most cynical of listeners sit back and muse: I guess the Blues gonna be alright.

Dawn Weber’s Swinging Blues Review Dawn Weber grew up on the Border of Wisconsin and Minne- sota in a town called Waukon, Iowa. At the age of 16 she knew she wanted to be a professional musician and got on a Grey Hound bus that took her to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to study at a performing arts high school. This is where her journey began to where she is today. Dawn studied trumpet intensely on the classical side and on the jazz side. After graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts she attended the highly esteemed conservatory Cleveland Institute of Music. Here she was trained to be an orchestral trumpet player while also studying jazz and freelancing in the Cleveland music scene, playing everything from Salsa, to jazz, to classical, to rock. After graduating from Cleveland Institute of Music she moved her way out to St. Louis. It wasn’t long before musicians and the people of St. Louis started to get to know her. Her first group she joined in St. Louis was the popular Vargas Swing. This is the group that groomed Dawn to also becoming a vocalist, songwriter, and front personality. Their mod swing sound that was bluesy and rockin’ took them on the road all over the country. After the group deciding to go different directions Dawn found herself writing, singing, and playing trumpet for the Urban Jazz Naturals, an electronic based group. That broadened her writing style into a new genre. Currently Dawn is one of the top performers in St. Louis. You can even see her playing in the trumpet section with the St. Louis Symphony. Dawn’s current projects that she writes, sings, and plays trumpet for are the Dawn Weber Group, Dawn We- ber’s Swingin’ Blues Review, Dawn Weber and the Electro Funk Assembly, and Naked Rock Fight (a soul, groove, fusion project). No matter what show of Dawn’s you will see, you will be highly entertained and sure to leave with your soul uplifted! Check out www.dawnweber.com to see her schedule. The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter 5 Miss Molly Simms with Adam Andrews Smoldering, angry and saucy; Daddy's Little Girl is a full grown woman now (and more than a bit pissed). Miss Molly Simms can sweep the floor with tender ruminations on loves lost and quiet yearning (along the lines of Lucinda Williams), but not before setting the situation straight with a few doses of hard-earned sass and voodoo bile. Miss Molly has shared the stage with acts ranging from Clownvis to Chuck Berry. Her recent solo release, Revenants, was recorded on all analog equipment born on or around 1979 with engineer Erik Thompson as well as at the famed RCA Studio B using Elvis's own microphone. Voted best female vocalist 2010 in Saint Louis publication 'The Riverfront Times' at age 20, Molly has traveled from LA to Louisiana and released two albums since her debut in 2008. "Her voice is deep, unaffected, and seemingly full grown" says the RFT "She's making you feel what she feels, taking a simple emotion and turning it into art."

American music began in the French Quarter, New Orleans, coming up the Mississippi through the small towns and city centers of the country and beyond… North of the Quarter does the same thing...

We start with the danceable, funky stuff from the bayou, add a little Memphis blues, a pinch of St. Louis soul, and some classic Detroit rhythm, and then spin in a contemporary twist of our own... St. Louis Blues Challenge Final Judging Sunday October 13

North of the Quarter | Toby Mechem | 513.212.7782 | www.northofthequarter.com | [email protected] 6 The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter Pamela Devine with Vincent Saletto Kirkwood Station Brewing Company 3 pm to 8

Biography

"Simply put, Pamela Devine has a captivating voice and sense of melody. Imagine Adele and Amy Winehouse with a cool indie vibe. All the S-words apply here: Sexy, Sultry, Sensational music!" - Bob Baker, author of "Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook" and half of the musical duo Soul Massage

Does Pamela Devine sing like Adele, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, or Ani Franco? No---but if all those singers could be on one stage, Pamela Devine would be more than worthy of her spot on that stage with them. She aptly represents her adopted home of St. Louis, Missouri---an important center in the history and the future of jazz, blues, and rock.

"This lady sings with a whole lot of soul and passion ... .The real deal.” - Buffalo Bob, iconic St. Louis blues musician and composer, his band has backed Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, the Coasters, Johnnie Johnson, and numerous other artists of international fame.

Pamela Devine has performed live music locally in St. Louis since 1985 and has sung with the best musicians in St. Louis. Of her life long devotion to music she says, "The reason I write and perform music is that it is my life's purpose. When I sing these songs, I feel an absolute obligation to deliver them so they are directly injected into the heart. I sing all that was given to me for no other reason than to share it with you." Pamela is working on her debut album in which she is writing, arranging, producing and performing each of the songs. It is a labor of love, 25 years in the making.

Recently, she has undergone an amazing personal and musical transformation that she has named her "Soul Flight.” It is the culmination of years of training, experience, and a tenacity to succeed. When asked about her original music arrangements, she will tell you they are auditory gifts to her. And it is clear these arrangements support her honest lyrics and her powerful passionate vocal delivery by blending soul, blues, and jazz with a less than considerate groove.

“It has been my honor to get to know and hear Ms. Pamela Devine. I consider her the greatest undiscovered talent I have ever heard in my lifetime. Music is about soul and passion: Pamela is the most soulful and completely passionate vocalist I know. Every note she gives to us in performance is from her heart. She makes you feel she has lived the lyrics she sings. Art and life merge into one voice. She is the real deal.” - Mark L. Arbogast, St. Louis guitar player and composer and member of the Allman Brothers tribute band, “The Brothers”

Pamela’s debut album is scheduled for release in March 2014. A worldwide tour to support its release will follow. The Alley Tones Formed in March of 2012, to play and preserve the blues art form, the four members immediately came together as a unit, proving the blues is a universal language. Age nor background separates any of the players. Blues standards was the starting point. We gathered together individual influences to mix with it on the way. There was a com- mon thread in a respect for the fundamentals of the style. Staying deep in the pocket, but turning the lead guitar and vocals loose to improvise kept it interesting while keeping it super tight. St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis are the three most important blues cities on the planet. Playing blues in the St. Louis metro area regularly while hitting the road occasionally to do other cities and festivals is what we like to do. We have an offer to be signed to a label, but so far we prefer to make our own original recordings in our home studio. We are very encour- aged by the audience response to our show. There are fewer slow blues tunes than some bands, and we love slow blues, but we like to keep it hopping. We love jump blues which is essentially swing from the 1940's. All the tunes are super danceable. We have a large collection of songs and we vary the set list to accommodate everybody. The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter 7 SOULARDSinceSOULARD 1978 BLUES BAND

RFT “Best Blues Band” 13 years in a row (314) 832-4924 www.soulardbluesband.com [email protected] King Solomon Records Nosotros Hacemos El Blues

8 The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter Saturday 5 Geyer Street Sheiks at BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups Sunday 6 Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band at Old Rock House Monday 7 Hardtale Blues Band at Beale On Broadway Tuesday 8 Blues Open Mic at Highway 61 Roadhouse

Wednesday 9 Rough Grooves at BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups Thursday 10 Brian Curran at Broadway Oyster Bar Friday 11 Bob ‘Bumble Bee’ Kamoske at Maya Cafe Saturday 12 Funk Fest 2013 at Broadway Oyster Bar Sunday 13 St. Louis Blues Challenge at Kirkwood Stati on Brewing Co. Monday 14 Soulard Blues Band at Broadway Oyster Bar Tuesday 15 Eugene Johnson & Co. at Beale On Broadway Wednesday 16 North of the Quarter at Silver Creek Saloon Thursday 17 Jeremiah Johnson & The Sliders at Hammerstones Friday 18 Miss Jubilee & The Humdingers at Moonshine Blues Bar Saturday 19 Pete Anderson at Blues City Deli Sunday 20 Killer Blues Headstone Benefi t at Schlafl y Tap Room Monday 21 Open Mic at The Venice Cafe Tuesday 22 Booti grabbers Delight at The Livery Company Wednesday 23 Young Fellaz In Blues at BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups Thursday 24 The Catapults at 1860’s Saloon Friday 25 Rhythm Secti on Road Show at Broadway Oyster Bar Saturday 26 Billy Peek at Highway 61 Roadhouse Sunday 27 Jimmy Lee & Co. at 1860’s Saloon Monday 28 Open Mic at Atomic Cowboy Tuesday 29 Open Mic at The Shanti Wednesday 30 Shemekia Copeland at Old Rock House Thursday 31 The Bott oms Up Blues Gang at The Venice Cafe

St. Louis Blues Societyswag is now online Visit our website to link to our Square Up Market page to purchase Blues Society tshirts and select posters www.stlouisbluessociety.org 10 The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter Tuesday, Nov. 13 Thursday, Dec. 20 BB’s Jazz Blues & Soups Broadway Oyster Bar 9:30p 9p-1a

Friday, Nov. 16 Friday, Dec. 21 The Famous Bar END OF THE WORLD PARTY 9p-1a The Livery Company 10p-1a Wednesday, Nov. 21 The Shanti Saturday, Dec. 22 8p-Mid Blues City Deli October Live Music 1-3:30p Thursday, Nov. 22 Thursday 10 Aaron Griffi n Mangia Italiano and Fri. Oct. 11 11p-2:30a Saturday 12 The Soul Endevors with Roland with Ellen The Fellon The Duck Room The Venice Cafe Dynamic Duo Benefit for Play It Johnson Friday, Nov. 23 Forward w/ Cree Rider Family Duo, The Livery Company Brown Bottle Fever, East End Girls Thursday 17 RJ Mischo Band Sat. Oct. 12 10p-1a and more Moonshine Blues Bar 9p Saturday 19 Pete Anderson Wednesday, Dec. 5 Fri. Oct.Apple 18 Barrel (New Orleans) Friday, Dec. 28 Thursday 24 Nate Boff [Austin] with Wes Starr 10:30p-2:30a Venice Cafe Culpeppers - CWE 9p-1av and Preston Hubbard Friday, Dec. 7 The 3 Muses (New Orleans) Free Song Downloads Sat. Oct. 19 9p-Mid Saturday 26 Nate Boff [Austin] with Wes Starr Scan This and Preston Hubbard The Shanti Saturday, Dec. 8 Check Point Charlies (New Orleans) Thursday 31 Miss Jubilee and the Hundingers Wed. Oct. 30 11p-2a

Broadway OysterSunday, Bar Dec. 9 The deli has live music just about every Thursday and Thur. Applect. Barrel31 (New Orleans) Saturday. Lookin’ for a taste of the blues? Check out our ☻ 10:30p-2:30a website for upcoming shows and events! The Venice CafeFriday, Dec. 14 The Famous Bar www.bluescitydeli.com 9p-1a Scan This for 2438 M cNai r , St. Louis M O 631 04 (314) 773 -822 5 Free Song Downloads and Our Schedule WWW.BOTTOMSUPBLUES.COM

Upcoming Musical Highlights Every Monday The longest running blues jam in the United States hosted by the Soulard Blues Band 9PM Saturday Oct. 12 Funk Fest 8 featuring 8 bands including Funky Butt Brass Band, Al Holliday’s East Side Rhythm Revue, Big Brother Thunder and the Master Blasters, Downstereo plus more. 8PM Wednesday Oct. 16 Hot Buttered Rum with Allie Krall of Cornmeal with special guests Dead Winter Carpenters 9PM Thursday Oct. 17 We’s Us [Denver] 9PM TextFriday Oct. “ 18BUBG”to 55678 Al Holliday’s East Side Rhythm Revue10PM Saturday Oct. 19 77 Jefferson with guests Unifyah and The Driftaways10PM Friday Oct. 25 RhythmSchedule Section subj eRoadct to cShowhange. 10PM For a complete schedule visit bottomsupblues.com Saturday Oct. 26 Aaron Kamm and the One Drops 10PM Tuesday Oct. 29 Brian Curran 9PM Free Show Wednesday Oct. 30 Bottoms Up Blues Gang 9PM Free Show Thursday Oct. 31 Halloween Blowout with Kinetix [Denver] and guests The Snarky Gargoyles 10PM Special Industry Prices for everyone starting at 10PM

The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter 11 Were You There? REAL PEOPLE - REAL BLUES Tommy Halloran and Guerrilla Swing at the Blues City Deli By Miss Vicki Tommy Halloran is an extraordinary talent to say the least. On Saturday, September 21 Tommy Halloran and Guerrilla Swing took the Blues City Deli stage with a very young outstanding band. Guerrilla Swing includes Tommy on guitar and vocals, Adam Hucke on horns and vocals, Mark Wallace on standup bass and Kaleb Kirby on drums.

These young guys showed us the real deal. Tommy has a smooth voice, perfect for the style of music per- formed. The sun was shining and the songs were perfect for the day; “Sunny Side of the Street,” “Sun’s Gonna Shine in my Backdoor Someday,” and “You Are My Sunshine” was perfect for a Saturday afternoon at the Deli.

I really enjoyed it when Tommy would mix it up New Orleans style. It reminded me of the Bottoms Up Blues Gang and how they mix, match and totally change the song. Adam Hucke did several songs on the Flugel- horn and traded licks with Tommy. Adam muffled his horn while Tommy mouthed the trumpet songs. We were all wowed with the true crowd pleaser.

The style of music performed on this particular day was jazzier than the blues that usually graces the stage of the Blues City Deli, but these boys mixed it up and wore us out! We even brought them back for an encore, which means they were great and we wanted more!

I had only a brief time with each of them to delve into their previous music experiences. Tommy and Adam have been playing together since Adam was 15. He is 32 now—you do the math. Mark and Kaleb joined Tommy and Guerrilla Swing more recently. The number of young and talented musicians we have in St. Louis never ceases to amaze me. ♫

For more information about Tommy Halloran and Guerrilla Swing go to: www.reverbnation.com/tommyhalloran

For more information about The Blues City Deli go to: www.bluescitydeli.com

Tommy Halloran photo by Reed Radcliffe 12 The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter Buddy Guy Rhythm & Blues RCA Records 2013 By Hound Dog Brown

This 2013 double-disc release, by one of the best bluesmen who has ever walked this planet, provides ample evidence that Buddy Guy’s vocal and six string prowess continues at a high level. The disc titled Rhythm delivers lusher, uptown urban soulful tracks with plenty of support by backing vocalists, keyboards and the Muscle Shoals Horns. The Blues disc focuses on sparer, closer-to-the-soil Delta and Chicago-style blues material. Five tracks feature guest performers who are all Buddy Guy admirers. Keith Urban, Kid Rock, Beth Hart and Gary Clark, Jr. all contribute on one track each, as well as the Aerosmith brotherhood of Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on another. With eighty-one minutes of total music on both CDs, there ought to have been a way to put all the material on one disc, though the two-disc plan does organize the tracks in a manner that allows the listener to pick one or the other, depending on your mood and preference du jour. This material is of comparable quality to Buddy Guy’s 2010 single disc release, Living Proof, for which Mr. Guy was awarded yet another Grammy, and which includes guest appearances by B.B. King and Carlos Santana. In fact, if the latter CD is not in your library, and if you wanted only a single-disc recent release by this towering figure in the blues world,Living Proof ought to satisfy pretty well. ♫

The Barry White Experience Eric Conley, vocals Known for his distinctive bass that is the voice of romance, Barry White is a legend. The St. Louis Symphony performs White’s popular hits including “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything,” and “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe.”

POWELL HALL

www.stlsymphony.org 718 N GRAND BLVD

The St. Louis Blues Society BluesLetter 13 Musicians Directory

Aaron Griffi n & Mojo Rising Funky Butt Brass Band Pat Liston Larry Griffi n Tim Halpin Dawn Liston [email protected] www.funkybuttbrassband.com www.patliston.com 314.662.1857 314.623.4504 618.741.1166 Al Holliday & The The Harris Brothers Raven Wolf East Side Rhythm Band Blues Project C. Felton Jennings II Al Holliday Sean Harris www.pugdogrecords.com www.alhollidaymusic.com www.facebook.com/ 314.550.2743 618.210.6078 HarrisBrosBluesProject 618.977.7333 The Rhythm Section Bible Belt Sinners Road Show Molly Simms Hudson & Andy Coco www.biblebeltsinners.com The Hoodoo Cats www.rsrs.co 618.980.2428 Hudson Harkins 314.255.3708 www.hudsonband.com Brown Bottle Fever 314.603.5641 Rough Grooves Billy Skelton Rich McDonough www.brownbottlefever.com Jim McClaren www.reverbnation.com/ 314.226.2575 www.jimmcclaren.com roughgrooves 314.664.3449 314.625.1787 Bootigrabbers Delight Jeremy Segel-Moss The Jeremiah Johnson Sarah Jane 314.482.0314 Band and the Blue Notes Jeremiah Johnson Sarah Jane Ulrich The Bottoms Up Blues www.thejeremiahjohnsonband.com http://www.reverbnation.com/ Gang 314.556.5211 sarahjanethebluenotes Jeremy Segel-Moss 314.539.1142 www.bottomsupblues.com Johnny Fox 314.482.0314 www.reverbnation.com/ The Thin Dimes johnnyfox Nick Pence Bumble Bee Bob Kamoske 314.792.4446 www.facebook.com/ [email protected] thethindimes Miss Jubilee 314.322.2400 314.657.6114 & The Humdingers Dave Black www.miss-jubilee.com Tom “Boss” Hall www.daveblackstl.com 314.645.7220 and Geyer Street Sheiks 314.647.1415 www.tomhallmusic.com Larry Griffi n 314.853.0060 Eugene Johnson & Eric McSpadden Duo & Company Larry Griffi n Tommy Halloran www.eugenejohnson.net [email protected] and Guerrilla Swing 314.537.2396 314.662.1857 www.tommyhalloran.com 314.243.3147 The Fab Foehners North of the Quarter Sharon Foehner Toby Mechem Uncle Albert [email protected] http://www.northofthequarter.com/ Tim Albert 314.577.1934 513.212.7782 www.unclealbertband.com 618.286.4102

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