By Laurie Morrisey The Thunder Brothers are one of the final four bands competing in the Journey to Memphis competition during the 2016 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival. This is a group that has played with others locally and in other configurations, but joined together to compete this year. The finals will be held on Monday, […]
This year’s Waterfront Blues Festival will again welcome the United by Music North America Band. They will perform July 4 at 2:15p on The Front Porch Stage, July 1-4 from 11-1 at Hotel Rose, and on the July 3 “Sail on Sister” DME Blues Cruise. The UBMNA Band is part of the international performance-based United by Music North America program […]
Here’s a list of new music received at the CBA office or purchased personally this past month that should be noted: Barbara Healy & Groove Too – Been There Done That (McKenna Records) Big Jon Atkinson & Bob Corritore – House Party At Big Jon’s (Delta Groove) Gabriel Cox – I Surrender (Self-Produced) Mr. Stress […]
CALL FOR BLUES ARTIST SUBMISSIONS: Portland independent label Flying Heart Records is planning a second volume of the “Taste of the Blue Rose” sampler of Portland-area blues artists. The first CD, “A Taste of the Blue Rose,” featured Mel Solomon, O.C. Thomas, Bob Shoemaker, Johnnie Ward, along with several others, and was very well received. […]
On The Shoulders Of Giants Self-Produced Shawn James hails from Fayetteville, Arkansas and is the leader of the successful band The Shapeshifters whose music encompasses a unique mixture of heavy rock, bluegrass, and folk. The band tours seemingly endlessly across the country (recently playing Portland at Dante’s in May). But for his latest recording, “On […]
Live At The Brick Cottage 1972-1973 Smog Veil Records Take note — sound-wise, Live At The Brick Cottage 1972-1973 may not come across as the best recording that you’re going to hear of a live performance. After all, it was recorded using an old reel-to-reel tape recorder in a crowded bar in Cleveland during a […]
Blood Moon Underworld Records Over the length of his career, Tim “Too Slim” Langford has delivered us with a multitude of directions he’s pursued on the guitar. Whether it’s slide, swampy, rockin’, psychedelic, acoustic, or back porch country blues, he delivers all in the same splendid fashion that keeps our ears in tune. Now I […]
Promised Land Or Bust Alligator Records Band co-founder and guitarist Aaron Moreland describes Moreland & Arbuckle as “gritty blues and roots rock from the Heartland.” Hailing from Wichita, Kansas, they couldn’t be more centrally located in America’s Heartland and they’ve developed their own unique sound that could also be viewed as Kansas Hill Country (with […]
Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award Hall of Fame member Duffy Bishop is one of the most beloved musicians hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Since she and her guitar-playing husband Chris Carlson moved to Florida they have been sorely missed, but they still make the occasional trips back home and when they do they draw sold-out […]
July 4 at the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival — you know it’s going to be packed to the extreme. People coming for the great musical line-up and the fireworks staking their claim of space in the bowl right from the gate’s opening in the morning. But once you have found your ground for the day, […]