DOCSLIB.ORG

Baton Rouge, La. May 4, 2015 for Immediate Release Slim Harpo

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Baton Rouge, La. May 4, 2015 for Immediate Release Slim Harpo Baton Rouge, La. May 4, 2015 For immediate release Slim Harpo Music Awards Announces 2015 Recipients Recipients of the Slim Harpo Music Awards for 2015 will be honored at a reception at Chelsea’s Café on Thursday, June 4, announced executive director Johnny Palazzotto. The reception begins at 8 p.m., followed by a jam performance by previous honorees at 9. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the door. This year’s honorees are Jimmie Vaughan and Lou Ann Barton, Legends; Kim Wilson, Pioneer; and Martin Hawkins and Bear Family Records, Ambassadors. The awards are named for James Moore (1924–1970), professionally known as Slim Harpo. An internationally acclaimed Baton Rouge artist, Harpo had a significant influence on artists worldwide. Jimmie Vaughan’s style as a player, songwriter, and bandleader draws on many influences. His clean, uncluttered style conveys the message of the music. His raw emotion, simplicity, and elegance powerfully communicate exactly what he feels inside. He has earned the respect of many contemporary music artists. Vaughan performs Harpo songs in his live shows and has recorded them with The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Lou Ann Barton’s 1989 album Read My Lips marked a return to her blues roots with songs made famous by Slim Harpo, among others. She was a founding member of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble and did a stint with the jump-blues band Roomful of Blues. A charter member of Jimmie Vaughan's Tilt-a-Whirl band, she performs Harpo songs “Shake Your Hips” and “Scratch My Back” in her live shows and has recorded both on her albums. Slim Harpo Music Awards, 2 Kim Wilson is one of the all-time great Rock and Roll and blues harmonica artists. A founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, his work was influenced by Slim Harpo and ranks with that of Harpo, Little Walter, and James Cotton. The Fabulous Thunderbird’s first two albums include Harpo’s songs “Scratch My Back” and “Tip On In.” Martin Hawkins started collecting imported American records in England in the 1960s and has written about country, blues, and Rock and Roll since 1971. He has compiled and written notes for more than 400 LPs, CDs, and boxed sets. He recently produced the five-CD boxed set Buzzin' the Blues: The Complete Slim Harpo for Bear Family Records and wrote an LP-sized illustrated book about Harpo that is included with the set. He is completing a full-length biography of Harpo to be published in 2016. Bear Family Records, founded by Richard Weize near Bremen, Germany, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The acknowledged leader in the field of quality reissues, it is fronted by Detlev Hoegen, a long-time blues fan. The Slim Harpo Music Awards is a nonprofit organization. Members of the board of directors are William Gambler, Alonzo Gambler, Tynita Howard, Pat McBride, Brian Blache, Fabian Blache, David Couvillon, Tommy Rice, and Palazzotto. Sponsors of this year’s awards ceremony are the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living and Louisiana Cultural Economy. Proceeds from the ceremony will benefit the Music in the Schools outreach program. For more information about the awards, go to LouisianasMusic.com/slim- harpo-music-awards. -30- .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Classic Posters - Antones Blues Club
    Classic Posters - Antones Blues Club Classic Posters - Antones Blues Club by Michael Erlewine [email protected] Right up there with the Armadillo is probably the best blues club in the southwest, Antones in Austin, Texas. Classic Antone's Poster Antone's also recorded and release a number of albums under Antone's Records by blues greats like James Cotton, Ronnie Earl, Memphis Slim, and Matt "Guitar" Murphy and younger players like Angela Strehli and Marcia Classic Antone's Poster Ball. Antone's blues club in Austin may is the best-known blues venue in the southwest, and maybe in the whole country. Started by Clifford Antone in 1975, this blues venue has hosted all the great blues players, everyone from Jimmy Reed, Fats Domino, Big Walter Horton, Jimmy Reed to John Lee Hooker and Percy Mayfield. Younger blues artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds (the house band for years), Lou Ann Barton, and others frequented Antone's and learned their craft. Classic Antone's Poster Antone's posters and flyers feature Texas artists like Guy Juke, Sam Yeates, and most of all the wonderful work of Danny Garrett. Antone's has always been vigorously collected by a small group, but in recent years more and more collectors are getting into this Classic Posters - Antones Blues Club great venue and the prices for Antone's items have been inching up. Antone's has been a steady source for great music for decades. That history is reflected in the many fine posters and handbills for that venue, some of them stunning like this large handbill for John Lee Hooker.
    [Show full text]
  • Austinmusicawards2017.Pdf
    Jo Carol Pierce, 1993 Paul Ray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and PHOTOS BY MARTHA GRENON MARTHA BY PHOTOS Joe Ely, 1990 Daniel Johnston, Living in a Dream 1990 35 YEARS OF THE AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS BY DOUG FREEMAN n retrospect, confrontation seemed almost a genre taking up the gauntlet after Nelson’s clashing,” admits Moser with a mixture of The Big Boys broil through trademark inevitable. Everyone saw it coming, but no outlaw country of the Seventies. Then Stevie pride and regret at the booking and subse- confrontational catharsis, Biscuit spitting one recalls exactly what set it off. Ray Vaughan called just prior to the date to quent melee. “What I remember of the night is beer onto the crowd during “Movies” and rip- I Blame the Big Boys, whose scathing punk ask if his band could play a surprise set. The that tensions started brewing from the outset ping open a bag of trash to sling around for a classed-up Austin Music Awards show booking, like the entire evening, transpired so between the staff of the Opera House, which the stage as the mosh pit gains momentum audience visited the genre’s desired effect on casually that Moser had almost forgotten until was largely made up of older hippies of a Willie during “TV.” the era. Blame the security at the Austin Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan walked in Nelson persuasion who didn’t take very kindly About 10 minutes in, as the quartet sears into Opera House, bikers and ex-Navy SEALs from with Double Trouble and to the Big Boys, and the Big “Complete Control,” security charges from the Willie Nelson’s road crew, who typical of the proceeded to unleash a dev- ANY HISTORY OF Boys themselves, who were stage wings at the first stage divers.
    [Show full text]
  • Gary Clark, Jr
    GARY CLARK, JR. 21st Century Blues The last two years have yielded a dizzying RISING FROM AUSTIN parade of triumphs for Gary Clark, Jr., the 28-year-old artist from Austin, Texas. With the by Tom Hyslop force of Warner Brothers Records behind him, Clark has received a promotional push that rivals that of any mainstream artist, one that certainly exceeds anything witnessed in the blues realm at least since the 1980s, with the mainstream breakouts of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray, and possibly since the highly-publicized signing of Johnny Winter by Columbia Records in 1969. In the course of the blitz, Clark has performed at every major festival, including Coachella, SXSW, Made In America, Bonnaroo, Summerfest, Lollapalooza, Dave Mathews Band Caravan, Newport Folk Fest, Electric Forest, Sasquatch! Festival, Mountain Jam, and others, along with dates in the most coveted clubs; received ink in a dizzying variety of publications, from MOJO and SPIN to such unexpected settings as Esquire, Vanity Fair, and even the mainstream Entertainment Weekly, with recurring coverage in Rolling Stone, including a five- star rating for his debut EP on Warners, in a write-up that led off the review section; and made appearances on the major late-night shows: Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He has taped an episode of Austin City Limits as headliner. A fragment of “Bright Lights” provided the soundtrack to a major mobile phone provider’s ubiquitous TV advertisement, and the video for “Ain’t Messin’ ‘Round” received regular rotation on VH1, America’s almost univer- sally available cable music television channel.
    [Show full text]
  • San Diego's Queen of the Boogie Woogie
    by Put Kramer Sue Palmer Sun Diego's Qaeen of Boogie Woogie rflhirty years in lhe mustc Sue's first professional I indrrt.y is a long time band was in Tobacco Road, for any performer, particular- a band she formed with well ly for blues artists and espe- known jazz and swing bass cially for women blues per- player Preston Coleman. formers. For Sue Palmer, the Over the next 15 years, the "Queen of Boogie Woogie," band played regular gigs at it's been a star-studded blues the Belly Up Tavern in So- career with many rewards lano Beach. Of Coleman she and awards. The swing, blues says, "Working with Preston and boogie-woogie piano was like going to college to player has toured the world learn my craft. He was the and played music festivals real thing - a man who was throughout the U.S. and Eu- a fantastic performer and ar- rope as the pianist for blues ranger and was kind and gen- diva Candye Kane. But it's erous with us." her solo and band recording While fronting Tobacco as Sue Palmer and Her Mo- Road, Sue met Candye Kane tel Swing Orchestra that have and soon after the two be- generated the most awards. gan collaborating on music. Her fourth release, Sophisti- Later, Sue was invited to join cated Lady won an Interna- Kane's band as piano player tional Blues Challenge Award which led to world tours for "Best Self Produced CD" through the '90s playing club in 2008, her third release, dates and festivals in Canada, Live at Dizzy's won "Best Australia, France, Holland, Blues Album 200212003" the Netherlands and United and her solo piano album, States.
    [Show full text]
  • Bargain Blues
    100% unofficial newsletter for P&O Blues Cruises Bargain Blues – book now! Those of you who keep a close eye on our ‘Blues@Sea’ Facebook Page will be aware that last month there was a sudden, unannounced, increase by P&O in the price of the November Blues Revue. This decision was reversed with the alert that the £99 price may well increase on Tuesday 19th September. DON’T DELAY!!!! Phone 0800 130 0030 (Currently there are almost 250 ‘cruisers’ signed up) 5-4-3-2-1 (Countdown for Kaz) For many years it’s been the ultimate accolade for UK blues artists to appear on the Paul Jones BBC Radio 2 Blues Show. In this edition (which focusses primarily on the great ‘Swamp Blues’ harpist Slim Harpo) a Kaz Hawkins track is featured. Kaz is at the start of her final tour with this fabulous multi-national band – ‘Cruisers’, of course, get two ‘bites at the cherry’ in November. This programme is well worth a listen - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09039ny Ciao! Perhaps the least well known ‘Blues Revue’ act (to UK fans at least) is Veronica Sbergia & Max De Bernardi (Italy)…but that’s about to change. They swept to victory in the 2013 European Blues Challenge (as ‘The Red Wine Serenaders) and since then have performed across the Continent with their country blues and ragtime, hokum, jug band and rural music from the 20’s and 30’s. Veronica and Max who use strictly acoustic instruments such ukulele, washboard, kazoo and resophonic guitars, are terrific musicians and a lot-of-fun! Check-them-out on this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj1rWJBuUJI Out of the studio into the Spinning Top! Norman Beaker and his band seem to be constantly on the road …particularly on Mainland Europe.
    [Show full text]
  • Doyle Bramhall
    BIO DOYLE BRAMHALL It’s apropos that DOYLE BRAMHALL’s new Yep Roc CD is titled Is It News because, although they’re absolutely true to his deep roots in the blues, its dozen original tunes mark a turning point that is both ambitious and the logical summation of his artistic evolution. The answer to the forward- thinking, envelope-pushing CD’s title is a resounding yes—and the news is all good! “I wanted to make an all-original record that was big, energetic, intimate, and unpredictable,” Doyle states. “We got a lot of the sounds by pushing everything to the limit and then pulling it back from there.” Fans already accustomed to Doyle’s high standards and willingness to chart new territory will nonetheless be pleased and surprised at just how high he raises the bar. This instant classic is the benchmark of Bramhall’s storied career—which is saying a lot! Continuing the tradition he started with the songs he co-wrote with Stevie Ray Vaughan, which struck a chord with the biggest audience the blues has ever enjoyed, he deftly expands the idiom’s vocabulary and texture. Any discussion of Texas blues, be it T-Bone Walker or Stevie Ray, is incomplete without mention of Doyle Bramhall. As singer, songwriter, and drummer, he has been an integral part of that rich state’s music for almost 40 years and, indeed, one of the founding fathers of the blues/roots resurgence synonymous with the Lone Star state and the migration from Dallas to its musical epicenter, Austin.
    [Show full text]
  • Early Blues Bibliography
    EARLY BLUES BIBLIOGRAPHY In any selection of books the choice must inevitably be subjective as to what to include or exclude. This selection has ommitted some choices that other might have included. Also there are many articles, periodicals and magazines that provide information for the researcher that cannot be included here but are, perhaps, in Robert Ford's 'Blues Bibliography' or Edward Komara's '100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Have'. This selection is based very much on my own collection of books found in markets, second hand book shops but more recently through Amazon and the web site 'Abe Books' Many books are out of print, have reached the third, fourth or later edition but details are included here that will allow the collector to locate and purchase their own choice. I have not sought to comment on the accuracy, usefulness or expertise of each publication and care should be taken on choice of purchase as many are price inflated when a little more research will lead to better value for money. Where possible I have tended to provide details of hard cover books but many are also available in soft cover at a much reduced price. It should also be remembered that any list such as this is out of date the moment that it is produced. New books are regularly published. The University Presses of America provide a sound source of academic work under the general priciple of 'Publish or Perish' which reflects the wide range of books from the very simple history to the in depth difficult to read study of an aspect of my favourite genre of music - The Blues.
    [Show full text]
  • On the Road to Memphis
    Ottawa BLUES Society Winter 2008 MonkeyJunk In this issue: OBS AGM & Christmas Party 3 Save DAWG FM 4 Kat Danser’s Blues Pilgrimage 6 On the Road to Cisco Bluesfest News 8 Blues on the Rideau 10 International Blues Challenge 12 Memphis CD Reviews 13 Postcards From The Road 18 Corporate Directory 22 New and Renewing OBS Members – July-December 2008 We welcome two new Corporate Members to the Ottawa Blues Society Gerald Baillie, David Bedard, Pierre Brisson, Ross Brown & Lori Kerfoot, Colin Chesterman, Brian Clark, Bob Crane (family), Louise Dontigny, James Doran & Diane Leduc-Doran, Jean-Louis Dubé, Alison Edgar, Cleo Evans, Bernard Fournier, Robewrt Gowan, Mike Graham, Sandy Kusugak, Jeff Lockhart, Jack Logan, Annette Longchamps, Hugh MacEachern, Fraser Manson, Tom Morelli, Tom Morris, Gary and Vickie Paradis, Roxanne Pilon, Terry Perkins, Chris Pudney, Jeff Roberts, Mark Roberts, Tom Rowe, Jim Roy (benefactor), Bill Saunders, Ursula Scherfer, Ken Stasiak, John Swayze, Liz Sykes (benefactor), Ian Tomlinson, Chris & Linda Waite, Gord White, Larry Williams, Ross Wilson, Linda and Pat Yarema www.worksburger.com www.lorenzos.ca 2 OBScene Deadlines 3 OBS CONTACTS OBS Annual General Meeting Issue Copy Deadline Distribution Date Website: www.OttawaBluesSociety.com OBS Mission Spring March 15 Online in April & Christmas Party E-mail: Please use feedback form on website Summer June 15 Mailed in early July Saturday, December 6, 2008 CORRESPONDENCE AND ADDRESS CHANGES To foster appreciation, Ottawa Blues Society promotion, preservation P.O. Box 708, Station “B” The OBS AGM got underway at 8:15 pm with Cover charges for this event, along with money From the Editor … and enjoyment of the Ottawa, ON K1P 5P8 reports from the President and Board Members.
    [Show full text]
  • BLUES ROCK GUITARIST JIMMIE VAUGHAN ADDED to BETHEL WOODS EVENT GALLERY LINE-UP Tickets On-Sale Friday, June 7Th at 10 AM
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Bridget Smith v.845.583.2179 Photos & Interviews may be available upon request [email protected] BLUES ROCK GUITARIST JIMMIE VAUGHAN ADDED TO BETHEL WOODS EVENT GALLERY LINE-UP Tickets On-Sale Friday, June 7th at 10 AM May 31, 2019 (BETHEL, NY) – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the nonprofit cultural center located at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y., will welcome blues legend Jimmie Vaughan on September 29th for a performance in the Event Gallery. Reserved seating tickets will go on-sale to the general public on Friday, June 7th at 10:00 AM at www.BethelWoodsCenter.org, www.Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 1.800.745.3000. Plus, prior to the concert, Bethel Woods will put a farm-fresh twist on its Event Gallery concert experience with a bountiful pre-show farm-to-table dinner. Taking place in the open-air Market Sheds overlooking the historic Woodstock festival field, the multi-course dinner will feature delicious recipes using locally-sourced ingredients and are presented by Bethel Woods' own Executive Chef, Jodi Cummings. The communal, family style seating wholly embodies the "Peace, Love and Music" atmosphere and is wonderful to experience with neighbors and friends, both old and new. Tickets for the farm-to- table experience also go on-sale Friday, June 7th; this does not include admission into the concert. Jimmie Vaughan's new album, BABY, PLEASE COME HOME, is a rolling and righteous celebration of everything the blues can be. The songs can go up, down, sideways and even off in their own distinctive direction, but one thing is certain, each and every one of them is packed with pure feeling and striking originality.
    [Show full text]
  • My Guitar Is a Camera
    My Guitar Is a Camera John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History Texas State University–San Marcos Gary Hartman, General Editor Casey_pages.indd 1 7/10/17 10:23 AM Contents Foreword ix Steve Miller Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Tom Reynolds From Hendrix to Now: Watt, His Camera, and His Odyssey xv Herman Bennett, with Watt M. Casey Jr. 1. Witnesses: The Music, the Wizard, and Me 1 Mark Seal 2. At Home and on the Road: 1970–1975 11 3. Got Them Texas Blues: Early Days at Antone’s 31 4. Rolling Thunder: Dylan, Guitar Gods, and Joni 54 5. Willie, Sir Douglas, and the Austin Music Creation Myth 60 Joe Nick Patoski 6. Cosmic Cowboys and Heavenly Hippies: The Armadillo and Elsewhere 68 7. The Boss in Texas and the USA 96 8. And What Has Happened Since 104 Photographer and Contributors 123 Index 125 Casey_pages.indd 7 7/10/17 10:23 AM Casey_pages.indd 10 7/10/17 10:23 AM Jimi Hendrix poster. Courtesy Paul Gongaware and Concerts West. Casey_pages.indd 14 7/10/17 10:24 AM From Hendrix to Now Watt, His Camera, and His Odyssey HERMAN BENNETT, WITH WATT M. CASEY JR. Watt Casey’s journey as a photographer can be In the summer of 1970, Watt arrived in Aus- traced back to an event on May 10, 1970, at San tin with the intention of getting a degree from Antonio’s Hemisphere Arena: the Cry of Love the University of Texas. Having heard about a Tour.
    [Show full text]
  • Giving America Back the Blues
    GIVING AMERICA BACK THE BLUES OVERVIEW ESSENTIAL QUESTION How did the early Rolling Stones help popularize the Blues? OVERVIEW The Rolling Stones ultimately made their mark as the nonconformist outlaws of Rock and Roll. But before they were bad boys, the Stones were missionaries of the Blues. The young Rolling Stones — Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman — were white kids who hailed from working- and middle-class Britain and set out to play American music, primarily that of African Americans with roots in the South. In so doing, they helped bring this music to a new, largely white audience, both in Britain and the United States. The young men who formed the Rolling Stones emerged from the club scene fostered by British Blues pioneers Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner. These two men and their band, Blues Incorporated, helped popularize the American Blues, whose raw intensity resonated with a generation of Britons who had grown up in the shadow of war, death, the Blitz, postwar rationing, and the hardening of the Cold War standoff. Much of the Stones’ early work consisted of faithful covers of American Blues artists that Davies, Korner, and the Stones venerated: Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed. The early Stones in particular helped make the Blues wildly popular among young Britons. As the Stones’ fame grew and they became part of the mid-1960s British “invasion” of America, they also reintroduced the Blues to American listeners, most notably young, white audiences with limited exposure to the music. But almost from day one, the Stones were more than a Blues cover band.
    [Show full text]
  • George Lesiw Recognized As One of the Most Prolific and Versatile
    George Lesiw Recognized as one of the most prolific and versatile jazz performers on the Connecticut music scene, guitarist George Lesiw has made his surge a topic of conversation and interest amongst the Northeast audience. Lesiw combines the true improvisational essence and language of jazz, the daring electricity of rock-fusion and the gritty fire of blues. Known as a bandleader and sideman for some time now, Lesiw initiates a spark of rock-fusion with a combination of the emotional fire of the blues sprinkled with funk, soul and R& B, making him a desired performer in music venues across the state and beyond. Whether playing a straight-ahead jazz gig with his quartet at Bar 140 in Shelton, Connecticut or wailing his blues with his new blues project, Black Snake Boots, at Connecticut’s premier blues clubs, Black- Eyed Sally’s in Hartford, or playing original jazz fusion music on the main stage of the Long Beach Jazz Festival in California, one thing remains constant – Lesiw exemplifies a passion, virtuosity, versatility and fire to his music like no other. His most recent performances include a duo residency with Lee-Ann Lovelace at Crave, a Latin fusion restaurant and night club in Ansonia. Once a month, he leads the popular blues jam at Café Nine in New Haven. Twice a month, he leads the jazz jam at Bar 140 in Shelton, Connecticut. Lesiw was also the main guitarist with “A Nordic Sound Jazz Orchestra” (2016-17). In 2017, his band “Black Snake Boots” was a finalist at the 2017 Connecticut Blues Challenge.
    [Show full text]