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September 2007 Issue 297 &Blues Report Free jazz now in our 33rd year September 2007 Issue 297 &blues report Free www.jazz-blues.com Irma Thomas in the Poconos Pocono Blues Fest Reviewed San Diego’s September Festivals Previewed Pocono Blues Festival REVIEWED Published by Martin Wahl By Ron Weinstock Communications Editor & Founder Bill Wahl Long John Hunter, and countless oth- ers. The Festival has grown and Layout & Design Bill Wahl evolved to include twenty performers on the two main stages and the tent Operations Jim Martin stages and its consistent booking policy Pilar Martin brings back many year after year like Contributors myself. Michael Braxton, Mark Cole, Before arriving at my Lake Har- Kelly Ferjutz, Dewey Forward, mony hotel, we drove through some Chris Hovan, Nancy Ann Lee, downpours. The whole weekend had a Peanuts, Wanda Simpson, Mark forecast of thunderstorms, although Smith, Dave Sunde, Duane Verh, those attending lucked out on Saturday, Emily Wahl and Ron Weinstock. which was a gloriously beautiful day. Check out our constantly updated Sunday, as would be seen, was another website. Now you can search for CD matter. Like the past few years, the Reviews by artists, titles, record Festival this year opened up with a Fri- labels, keyword or JBR Writers. 15 day night casual dinner and show in the years of reviews are up and we’ll be tent featuring three acts. Willie Pooch going all the way back to 1974. opened the festival with his gospel Address all Correspondence to.... based soulful funk-laced blues that Jazz & Blues Report showcased his strong singing. He was 19885 Detroit Road # 320 followed by Alexis B. Suter, a deep- Rocky River, Ohio 44116 voiced thrush from Brooklyn that has Main Office ...... 216.651.0626 Phillip Walker become a regular of Levon Helm’s Mid- Editor's Desk ... 440.331.1930 For the 14th year, I made it up to night Ramble in Woodstock, NY. [email protected] Big Boulder Resort in Lake Harmony, Backed by a band that included Bruce Web .................. www.jazz-blues.com Pennsylvania for the 16th Annual Katz on organ. She certainly has a pow- Copyright © 2007 Martin-Wahl Communications Inc. Pocono Blues Festival, July 27 erful voice heard on a mix of bluesy pop No portion of this publication may be through the 29th. This festival has and soul in addition to reworking blues reproduced without written permission become one of the most highly re- like Big Maybelle’s That’s a Pretty Good from the publisher. All rights Reserved. garded blues events in the Eastern Love. We called it a night before Mac United States, if not the world, for its Arnold came on. Jazz Report was founded in Buffalo New no nonsense booking approach that The main festival takes place on York in March of 1974 and began in Cleve- presents real deal blues acts, many land in April of 1978. the two aforementioned main stages, a W division of that may otherwise not play the Mid- with acts alternating between the artin-Wahl c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Atlantic region. Most of the significant stages. In between the two stages are blues artists of the past two-decades a variety of vendors and there is a fur- have played this event including Ruth ther tent with vendors between stage 1 Brown, Johnny Copeland, Denise and the tent stage. There are a variety LaSalle, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, of crafts available as well as blues re- Artie lated booths selling t-shirts and other ‘Blues Boy’ White, Irma Thomas, merchandise. Dick Waterman was Koko Taylor, Robert Lockwood, there selling t-shirts using some of his "Buffalonious" Cephas & Wiggins, Bobby Parker, photographs of famous blues and pop Otis Rush, Luther Allison, Bob artists, and another festival vendor had Our original mascot Margolin, Snooky Pryor, Lowell t-shirts with replicas of labels of classic from the early Fulson, Guitar Shorty, Luther Allison, and rare blues singles. The music on Buffalo Jazz Report Kenny Neal, Big jack Johnson, Magic Saturday started on stage 1 with An- days – mid '70s Slim, Anson Funderburgh & the Rock- drew ‘Junior Boy” Jones, who is a He is older now, ets with Sam Myers, Gatemouth strong singer and guitarist. After listen- but Still Cool! Brown, Roosevelt’‘Booba’ Barnes, ing to a good portion of his set, I ambled Jimmy Dawkins, Big Time Sarah, to the Tent Stage to catch Johnny ‘Yard PAGE TWO September 2007 • Issue 297 Dog’ Jones and Aaron Burton.” Canadian vocalist Dianna Braithewaite was originally scheduled but had to be re- placed by veteran bassist Aaron Burton and guitarist-har- monica player Jones, who played amiable, low-key rendi- tions of Chicago blues numbers. Across the grounds led me to catch Minnesota’s Big George Jackson who certainly is an imposing presence as he played some Chicago styled harmonica blues. Both Jones and Jackson played second sets in the tent. Back to the Stage 1 for some blues from Dietra Farr, who has established herself as among the finest of Chicago’s woman blues vocalists of today. This writer saw her with Mississippi Heat and she has become an even more compelling vocalist with a dry delivery and a big voice. Her excellent band included, I believe, Roosevelt Purifoy on keyboards, Rodney Brown on saxophone and the ver- satile Billy Flynn on guitar. She recorded an excellent CD for JSP in 1997, The Search is Over, which Johnny Rawls produced and was available for sale at the festival. A visit to the tent stage enabled me to see James ‘Boo Boo’ Davis, a Mississippi native who has lived in St. Louis and played some tough down home styled blues. It has been several years since I saw Jimmy Johnson in performance and his set did not disappoint. With a band that included Rico MacFarland on second guitar (his play- ing was perhaps a bit rocked out), Johnson was excep- tional with his distinctive tenor vocals and guitar playing. He has the ability to recast overly familiar blues numbers into sounding like he just wrote them. Incidentally, Johnson had three flights canceled from Chicago to Philadelphia, so he ended driving from Chicago so he would not miss his appearance. This is something noteworthy in light of a prominent no-show on Sunday. Also at the festival was Mark Hummel’s marvelous Jimmy Johnson Harmonica Blowout. Hummel is an amiable singer and a terrific harp player who has been putting together tours of oree at the festival). She and her band, the Professionals, harp players as well as issuing recordings from some of took us down to New Orleans as she revisited some of her these tours. For his Pocono appearance he was joined by classic recordings for Instant and Minit as well as the more Lazy Lester and Billy Boy Arnold, and Billy Flynn augmented recent recordings (many for Rounder). And while the fore- Hummel’s excellent band. Hummel did several numbers cast had called for thunderstorms, the weather was about including a Jimmy reed number that for once was taken at as perfect as one might have hoped for and the music over- its proper tempo. Lester was on the level he was when I all first rate. saw him twice in New Orleans in early May and delivered Over the last couple years, the Pocono Festival has standout renditions of’I’m a Lover Not a Fighter, and Sugar- shortened slightly the Sunday schedule; realizing folks were Coated Love. Billy Boy Arnold came up and played guitar traveling back home. Instead of seven acts on the two out- as well as harp and sounded wonderful, even going back door stages as on Saturday, they had five acts on the main a half century to rework one of his Vee-Jay recordings. stages. For the past several years, Sunday has opened Later Arnold and Hummel jammed, joined by Harmonica with some sacred steel music, this year provided by Shah who was scheduled to play (and did play) Sunday. Florida’s The Lee Boys who sounded typical in the idiom, On the basis of his Delta Groove release, Going Back expressing their religious fervor with some pop and R&B Home, Phillip Walker is becoming more prominent again seasoning to their music. Guy Davis was one of the tent in the blues circuit and it was great to see him again at the acts this day and was delightful whether on guitar or banjo Poconos after too many years. With his gritty, touch of sand- (he did a Muddy Waters blues on banjo in fact). paper vocals and his Gulf Coast seasoned guitar style his Jody Williams arrived on Saturday and I had briefly mix of T-Bone Walker, Guitar Slim and others remains a chatted with him as he recalled Robert Lockwood Jr. who distinctive voice. With the crack rhythm section and his mentored him, and because of their resemblance was of- horns riffing behind his singing and solos, his set was like ten mistaken for Jody’s father. Lockwood also helped Wil- the first beer after a hard day working in hot 90-ish degree liams resume his musical career when Williams saw him weather. Irma Thomas closed the Saturday schedule. She perform in Chicago several years ago and recorded on sev- was first honored by the Pocono Blues Festival with a Life- eral tracks with Williams on the second of the two excel- time Achievement Award that was presented by Philadel- lent Evidence CDs. Williams was also honored with a Life- phia blues programmer Johnny Meister (himself an hon- time Achievement Award before starting his set with a lively September 2007 • Issue 297 PAGE THREE Lucky Lou and includ- Wright’s A Nickel and a Nail, other songs were new to ing a rendition of’“I’ll Be me and reflect his continual development and use of There,” one of the fresh material.
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