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Fans of Little Toby Walker, who is in the middle of his UK tour, will be pleased to hear that Toby will be the featured session guest on the Paul Jones show on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow 8 Sep.
Listen live on the wireless or listen again if you have an internet.
Don’t forget that Toby has another gig in the region; he is playing at Goin’ Up The Country” at Worthenbury Village Hall on Friday 26th Sept.
The new faces have the answers. This is a NPR “Morning Edition” broadcast from 02 Sept 2008 available for online listening. The programme features Sharon Jones and Eli “Paperboy” Reed.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94186584
If you don’t know who The Stumble are then where on earth have you been for the last ten years or so. The Stumble are without a doubt one of the few top drawer blues acts from the bluesinthenorthwest.com region. Anyway on to the point of the post. bluesinthenorthwest.com has received this short update from our friends The Stumble and the news is good. Jonny says…..
To all friends and fans of The Stumble,
Just to let you all know that the band have a brand new website at www.thestumble.com where you can now listen to some brand new soundclips of the new album. All being well the album should be released late September 2008.
Hope you are all well folks
All the best from Colin, Jonny, Boyd, Paul, Dave and Simon
Flickr photo Blackie at Burnley, originally uploaded by The Stumble Blues Band.
I just heard that tonight’s Wilko Johnson gig has been posponed to 20th Nov.
I had not heard of Jerry Reed. So when I read on Blues-L that a famous country guitar picker called Jerry Reed had died I looked him up on YouTube, boy could that cat play..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCE48O6U4Yw
Nice singer too. Be sure to stick to the end where Jerry plays a bit of Ray Charles. Check out some of the other great clips too.
You can read the BBC News article on Jerry at
Black and Tan Records have put the complete interview of Don Wilcock with Doug MacLeod, that was published in three parts in the last three issues of BLUES WAX, on one page.
Here are a few Jerry Wexler links posted as a tribute to the music legend who recently passed.
THe AMG biography
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hzfrxqygldke~T1
The 20 songs that Jerry was most proud of
http://www.adioslounge.com/2008/08/rip-jerry-wexler.html
An NPR interview from 1993
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93693817
I did not post on the recently departed Chicago harp player Little Arthur Duncan who passed away recently.
The Chicago Tribune have an obituary here.
I read on Blues-L last night that bluesman Phil Guy passed away this week aged 68.
Here’s a quick moblog from Las Islas Cies off the coast of Galicia in the north of Spain.
Heading home tomorrow.
Ken
I see a few reports that Jerry Wexler passed away last night aged 91 at his home in Florida.
I do not need to describe the impact of Wexler on the music business. Billboard magazine has a page on Jerry.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003839539
Jerry Wexler Jan 1917 - Aug 2008.
There is an interview with Billy Branch on Chicago Blus Guide.
http://www.chicagobluesguide.com/features/billy-branch/billy-branch-page.html
Here’s a picture of Liverpool’s Albie Donnelly at a festival in Germany
Hello everyone. I am taking a few days away from today. I have never been to the north of Spain known as green Spain so I decided to take a few days in Galicia. I will then be able to travel to some of the other northerly parts of Spain like Asturias, Pais Vasco and Cantabria by train on a future visit to Madrid.
I have set some posts in line to publish automatically while I am gone, so normal service should continue, however I may not be able to respond with my usual turnaround to emails. I am taking my laptop and all my hotels have wifi but my internet time will be small.
Hasta pronto.
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