Review by Greg Johnson On November 24th, the Portland blues community came together to celebrate the life of beloved DJ Steve Pringle. The show, titled Bluesmania, was a benefit to help Steve and his family defray the cost of the cancer treatment he had been receiving. The line-up of a virtual who’s who of the […]
Out Of The Box Middle Mountain Music By Greg Johnson As the old adage goes, what’s more fun than a barrel full of monkeys? Why two barrels of course. And so what can be more fun on an album than a cigar guitar player. Well, you know where this is going . . . two […]
Bluesman John Clifton has dedicated himself to the genre that wasn’t getting the respect it deserved. But when you’re a frontman who delivers the goods straight from the heart, soul and gut, the blues become relevant. From the first note of the first song on stage, you know Clifton is the man in charge. Great […]
Amanda Fish began as a singer songwriter in late 2012, refining her original material as a solo act for 2 years before she formed her band in early 2014, a Roots Rock and Soul project featuring Amanda’s signature gritty lyrics belted out with her ‘from-the-gut’ vocals. In 2015, she released her first all-original LP, “Down In The Dirt“, on […]
A benefit has been scheduled to help Fenix Sanders meet the expenses of a month-long hospital stay following surgery recently that also meant lost revenue due to missed work. The event will take place at The Blue Diamond on the Fenix Rising Band’s regular Wednesday night gig, and starting with the second set they will […]
Traveling Man Northernblues Music By Greg Johnson Sometimes to truly capture a musician’s talent you need to witness them in their most vulnerable setting — on a stage, bare-bone solo, with nothing to back them but their voice and instrument. That was the way I first came to know Bill Homans, better known as Watermelon […]
There is so much good music out there. To help sort through it, here are our recommendations. Ben Rice & RB Stone – Out of the Box (Middle Mountain Music) Dave Keller – Live At The Killer Guitar Thriller (Tastee Tone) Dave Plaehn – Cold Front (Plaehn Music) Dusky Blues — Dusky Blues (Self […]
Plan on joining us at The Eagles Lodge for our monthly General Membership Meeting where you are guaranteed to find some fun times with two sets of blues, a bunch of fun give-aways for our lucky ticket drawings, and good times with special friends. This month we have two acts that we know you’re going […]
The Journey To Memphis is the Cascade Blues Association’s regional competition to select the acts that will represent our organization and region in 2021’s International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. Up to 250 acts from around the world converge on Beale Street to perform before the music industry searching for new talent, with the chance […]
By Randy Murphy “History,” T. S. Eliot observed, “has many cunning passages, contrived corridors,” and effective biographical documentaries succeed in exploring those historical passages and corridors in a way that allow us not only to see the subject of the documentary, but the context in which he lived and worked. In the new “director’s cut” […]