APR2019 Issue 295 The Publication of the Linn County Blues Society - lcbs.org April 2019 Anthony Gomes The Redstone Room Phil Smith Captures the Night! Inside this April 2019 issue — • H.D. Youth Center closing • Big Muse by Phil Smith • Bill Graham reviews: The Kentucky Headhunters • Vin Mott- Peter “Blewzzman” Lauro • 5 Inducted in to the IA Blues Hall of Fame! • Anthony Gomes at The Redstone Room, Phil Smith • Local music schedules • Wooden Nickel Lottery, Phil Smith LCBS Bluespaper.LCBS Copyright © All rights 2019. reserved The Linn County Blues Society is a way cool, non-profit organization dedicated H.D. Youth Center Closes to the preservation of Blues music in Eastern Iowa as well as to provide A difficult decision charitable contributions to other commu- nity organizations. LCBS is an Affiliated Steve Springer Organization in the Blues Foundation’s international network. The BLUESPAPER am sure the members of the is a monthly publication of the LCBS. LCBS have heard via local me- Website: lcbs.org dia that the Board of Directors LCBS Officers I President - David Antin of the Henry Davison Youth Center Vice President - Ric Holmquest recently made the very difficult deci- Secretary - Jeff Craft sion to close the Youth Center. Treasurer - Bill Graham Declining attendance coupled with Social Media - Phil Smith reduced donations and high fixed Directors at Large expenses leaves the Center with ap- Bob DeForest, Steve Miller proximately one year of funding. The Committee Chairs Board plans to use current funding, Education: John ‘Big Mo’ Heim along with that received from liqui- Entertainment - Greg West Membership - John Lane dation of assets, to form a “Henry Merchandise - Anita Skelton Davison Scholarship Program”. All statistics verify that the driving force The Bluespaper & LCBS folks Bluespaper Editor - Evan Vulich for helping young people escape the Director of Development - Mark Rowell cycle of poverty is education and that Henry Davison Web Administrator: Kerry Cutsforth Photographers - see bylines is the direction the Board is taking Staff Writers - see bylines the Henry Davison Youth Center. an avid supporter of the Youth Center Distribution - Kevin Cutsforth All of the actions that Henry initiated and a huge fan of Henry’s efforts for Membership currently have city wide support and many years. We look forward to your To learn more about the Linn County the Youth Center has become “one of continued support for Youth Center Blues Society or to join, see the member- the crowd”. The Board and those that Scholarship Program as their benefit ship form in this Bluespaper or the LCBS website. Your membership includes; knew Henry are confident he would charity for the chili event. • Discount admissions to many local be thrilled that his organization con- If anyone has questions about the Blues activities. closing of the Youth Center, please feel • Monthly LCBS Bluespaper. tinues to follow his lead and strike • Voting rights in the LCBS elections. out in a new direction that will help free to contact me. • Being a part of the groove! young people achieve their dreams. Bluespaper Contact information Thus, this action will continue Hen- Send news, band or club live ry’s legacy for approximately ten entertainment schedules, advertising, years as opposed to going broke in donuts, Oreos®, or Bailey’s® to: Evan Vulich at: [email protected]. one. 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Send your new address to; LCBS, PO Box 2672, Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-2672 so you won’t miss a single issue of your Bluespaper. 2 / Linn County Blues Society ~ April 2019 Blue Muse Big Legal Mess Records by Phil Smith The Music Maker Relief Founda- tion, whose mission is “to preserve the musical traditions of the South by directly supporting the musicians who make it, ensuring their voices will not be silenced by poverty and time”, is issuing a new book and CD package called Blue Muse to cele- The Kentucky brate their twenty-fifth year. Accord- of the late great Piedmont Blues artist Headhunters ing to their website, musicmaker.org, Algia Mae Hinton, who passed in Feb- “Live at Ramblin’ Man Fair” this organization, founded by Timo- ruary of 2018, as she delivers “Snap thy and Denise Duffy, has helped Your Fingers”. Guitar Gabriel’s “Land- Alligator Records 2019 with over 12,000 grants, and has sup- lord Blues” oozes with authenticity. The Kentucky Headhunters have always ported 435 artists. Blue Muse con- ‘The Blues Doctor’ Drink Small from been a problem for record companies. tains twenty-one tracks of southern Columbia, South Carolina wonderfully What kind of a band are they? Whatever they play, whether it’s a country song, a blues and roots music from various sings and picks “Widow Woman”, a pop song or a blues song, it comes out artists. It features recordings made melancholy and reflective piece paying sounding like a country bar band cover- from the nineties up to the present homage to those who have lost their ing the Rolling Stones. If the Headhunt- ers had happened along in 20 years be- day, with tracks contributed by both husbands. fore they did, they might have joined the Taj Mahal who beautifully performs This collection also contains “I am southern rock acts like the Allman Broth- ers Band, the Outlaws, Marshall Tucker or “Spike Driver Blues” and Eric Clap- the Lightning” from one my recent any of others in the southern rock move- ton who joins with Timothy Duffy favorites, Willie Farmer whose latest ment. They came along a few years later, for a sweet instrumental cover of album, The Man From the Hill was re- but at a time when country music still rocked and they just built on to that sound Willie Brown’s “Mississippi Blues”. viewed on my blog last month. This is for 30 years. Eddie Tigner who played many such cool song. I was also happy to The band has played together for many years with the Ink Spots and was at see Ironing Board Sam’s “Loose Dia- years Richard Young Guitar and vocals, Doug Phelps Bass, Greg Martin Lead and one time the lead of Elmore James’ monds” appear on this album too. His Slide Guitar, Fred Young Drums. Play- house band, tears it up on piano CD, Super Spirit, which this track is ing live they have always been drawn to a fairly eclectic repertoire. Here they play with his performance of “Route 66”. from, was one of my memorable finds everything from “Big Boss Man” to the When Alabama Slim kicks off “I Got in 2018 while visiting one of my favor- Beatle’s “Don’t Let Me Down” along with the Blues”, it puts a big smile on my ite stores on the planet, Cat Head Delta many of their original tunes. But in the hands of the Headhunters, everything face. His hypnotic guitar stylings Blues & Folk Art in Clarksdale, Mis- gets a hard blues-rock treatment. “Sufflin’ pull me deep into the song. The soul- sissippi. Back To Memphis” for instance, has some ful deep-cutting vocals of Robert Available by March 28th, 2019 , intense lead guitar work, and “Ragtop” sounds like ZZ Top. Finley marvelously sing out on “Age Blue Muse is also paired with a pow- This disc is another live one from them, Don’t Mean a Thing”. With Jimbo erful 152 page companion book titled and live is the way they should be heard. The crowd loves the show and it’s easy Mathus on guitar and Al Gamble on Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy’s Southern to guess that that’s the kind of response keys, this is southern soul at its best. Photographs, published in association the Kentucky Headhunters gets as a live Former Carolina Chocolate Drop co- with the New Orleans Museum of Art, act night after night. So even if the record business has never figured out how to founder Dom Flemons breaks out his and loaded with tintype photos taken handle them and market their music, they harmonica and sings “Polly Put the by Duffy of musicians representing continue to play and record. So who cares Kettle On”. Ben Hunter appears on American roots music. For more in- as long as they put out great music. You’re walking a wire between pain and desire, and looking for love in-between. love for looking and pain desire, and walking a wire between You’re fiddle and Guy Davis on guitar, mak- formation or to purchase this set, visit — by Bill Graham ing this traditional song also covered musicmaker.org . by the blues-great Sonny Boy Wil- Then one fine mornin’ she turns on a New liamson, a delightful listen. Yeah, you right! - New Orleans’ York station. She doesn’t believe what she One can feel the blues in the voice hears at all. She started dancin’ to that fine, answer to every question.