CRUISIN FOR A BLUISIN

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3.2.11

 DURING JANUARY THE FOCUS WAS ON THE TOP 10 FOR 2010, WHICH MEANS THAT BLUESFEST 2011 WAS NEGLECTED TO SOME EXTENT. DYLAN AND B.B. KING WHO’D A THOUGHT. WE WILL FEATURE THEM AT A LATER STAGE BUT PERUSING THE 2011 LINE-UP THERE ARE SOME SURPRISES AS YOU WORK DOWN THE PAGE. TONITE A NEW ORLEANS FEATURE FROM THE METERS AND TROMBONE SHORTY WITH OTHERS TO COME. ENJOY AND GO TO www.bluesfest.com.au FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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It was great to see DUTCH TILDERS and GEOFF ACHISON in town last week but it was disappointing that it wasn’t particularly well supported. Despite ill health Dutch was in fine form.

·      12. Them That’s Got. Dutch Tilders. Mine & Some I Adopted. Blackmarket Music. ’05.

·      10. Turpentine Farm. Charlie Parr. When the Devil Goes Blind. Level Two/Shock.

·      12. Desert Blues. Lucky Oceans. These Are My Blues. The Songs of Big Joe Williams.

·      5. I Got My Mojo Working. Kitty Daisy & Lewis. Sunday Best/Shock. 2008.

·      1. Going Up The Country. Kitty Daisy & Lewis. Sunday Best/Shock. 2008.

·      1. Pulling the Rug. Imelda May. Mayhem. Decca. 2010.

FEATURE ALBUM:

LOUISIANA SWAMP STOMP-HONEYBEE ENTERTAINMENT 2010

Supporting the Northern Louisiana Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Foundation.

The feature here is the Swamp which reflects and celebrates a diverse musical culture. There are the well known headliners Buckwheat Zydeco, Percy Sledge, Sonny Landreth, Lil Buck Senegal [Clifton Chenier] and Henry Gray [whose piano you can hear in Howlin Wolf’s band.]

Omar Coleman from Chicago provides some ‘swamp’ with versions of Slim Harpo’s Scratch my Back and Lightning Hopkins Mojo Hand. The individual performers contribute some mighty fine stuff but it is the overall selection of music and artists that put the swamp in the Louisiana Stomp. I hope I can remember that at the end of the year when the best of 2011 emerges.

·      1. Scratch my Back. Omar Coleman.

·      2. These Times are Getting Hard. Henry Gray.

·      3. Don’t You Lie to Me. Lil Buck Senegal [featuring Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr]

·      4. Every Day is not the Same. Carol Fran [featuring David Egan]

·      5. Can’t Do Nothing Babe. Little Freddie King.

·      6. First You Cry. Percy Sledge and the Aces Band.

FEATURE ALBUM:

TROMBONE SHORTY-BACKATOWN VERVE 2010

Further proof that New Orleans must be the most fertile ground for growing music. Within this release itself Trombone Shorty covers a musical rainbow with his own compositions. Allen Toussaint provides piano on his composition “On Your Way Down” the only cover on the album. Chicago gives us the Mississippi Saxophone New Orleans gives us a second line of horns. Trombone Shorty’s “Backatown” is a perfect example.

·      1. Hurricane Season.

·      2. On Your Way Down.

·      5. Backatown.

·      6. Right to Complain. [Marc Broussard-vocals]

·      8. Suburbia.

·      13. The Cure.

Trombone Shorty plays Bluesfest Sat/Sun check schedule

Another helping of Louisiana Swamp Stomp.

·      7. Swamp Stomp. Sonny Landreth.

·      8. Mojo Hand. Omar Coleman.

·      11. It’s Killing Me. Larry Garner[featuring Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr]

·      12. Livin’ Ain’t Easy. Buddy Flett.

·      13. Send Me Someone to Love. Charlene Howard.

·      14. How Could You Do It. Henry Gray.

·      15. Ms Boss. Larry Garner. [featuring Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr]

The Meters are the forefathers of New Orleans funk. After a respite they return with a new line up and a fresh approach to the material. Art Neville and George Porter Jr still remain the core of the band. They play Bluesfest Thurs/Fri. Check schedule. Here some stuff from the original Meters album “Good Old Funky Music” just to give you an idea.

·      1. Good Old Funky Music.

·      2. Rock’n’Roll Medley. [Something You Got, I Know, Personality]

·      6. Jambalaya.

·      8. I’m Gonna Put Some Hurt on You.

From The Meters Anthology. Funkify Your Life. Rhino. 1995.

·      1. Cissy Strut.

·      6. Hey Pocky Way.

·      8. Fire On The Bayou.

I have been trying to play this for a couple of weeks and is seems to fit into the Louisiana framework. C.C Adcock co-ordinator of Lil Band of Gold.

The best album I listened to this year was released in 1994. Mary managed to find a copy of this difficult to get album in New Orleans and said I could play it for you. It is HOUSEROCKER by C C ADCOCK.

·      3. Cindy Lou.

·      5. Sally Sue Brown.

·      6. Kissin’ Kousans.

·      8. Good Lovin’

·      9. Do Right Lil’ Lady

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