Archive for the ‘BluesWire::GRIPE’ Category
Set in 1930s noir-like Gotham City (I guess of Batman fame?), Dark Streets follows the life of Chaz Davenport (Mann) a big town playboy with the city’s hottest blues, jazz, swing nightclub. Davenport’s father, a wealthy power company owner, mysteriously commits suicide and leaves Chaz disillusioned, broke, and in financial trouble as he gets written [...]
Juke Joint Soul: John Németh – Love Me Tonight.
The East Bay Express in Oakland touts “the world’s best white blues singer”…
East Bay Express | News | John Németh’s Blues Explosion.
Review of Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s latest CD.
The Napster Blog: Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Doin’ The Funky Thing.
Review of Shemekia Copeland’s latest CD.
‘Back’ to the blues | Wichita Entertainment-Kansas.com.
The always-provocative Karen Hanson with a short piece that trashes the “blues is dying” meme…
TODAY’S CHICAGO BLUES: Why Even Bother? The Blues Has Been Pronounced Dead
Dave Specter’s Live In Chicago DVD – Review of Dave Specter’s Live In Chicago DVD
The clouds cleared over the Chicago Blues Festival just in time for me to catch Tony Joe White, whose set like all those at the festival that day had been delayed by a sudden mid-afternoon cloudburst which included hail, another of the many delights we know as Spring in Chicago. Fortunately, my “L” ride [...]
Entering the Chicago Blues Festival on Friday from the north, I heard a tremendous growling and yowling coming from the Louisiana Bayou stage (
