In this column: festivals and events, blues, the Netherlands, Kwadendamme Bluesfestival, The Juke Joints, Peter Kempe, Chicago Bob, BB and The Blues Shacks, The Hoochies, New Blues Festival Assen, De Bonte Wever, Doin' Alright, Eliana Cargnelutti, Albert Cummings, Roots Ribs and Brews Emmen, Easterfield, Amersfoort World Jazz Festival, Musicians' Paradise. The following episodes describe a …
In this column: festivals and events, blues, the Netherlands, Big Rivers Dordrecht, Greyhound Blues Band, Asser Bluesdagen, Robbert Fossen Band, Jim Kahr, Big Bo, Little Boogie Boy, Keerpunt Blues, Tommie Harris, Jon Meyerjon, Harp Mitch and The Sheiks of Rhythm and Blues, Lefthand Freddy, Hoogeveen Blues Festival, Theater De Tamboer, Archie Lee Hooker, Eddy Clearwater, …
In this column: festivals and events, blues, the Netherlands, BRIDGE Guitar Festival Eindhoven, Chris Corcoran, Aynsley Lister, Fapy Lafertin, Paulus Schafer and Daniel Gueli, Breda Jazz Festival, Ruud Weber Band, Lars Müller, Bikkelblues, Vlierden, David Ronaldo and the Dice, Giles Robson and Little Steve Band, Bluesroute Helmond, 2 x Bluesroute Helmond in 20 minutes. The …
In this column: festivals and events, blues, the Netherlands, Utrecht Blues Festival, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Blues Estafette, Meena Cryle & the Chris Fillmore Band, Sean “Mack” McDonald, “Big” Monti Amundson, Richard Earl, Ribs & Blues, Raalte, Leif de Leeuw and Sem Jansen, Jazz in Duketown, Den Bosch, 's Hertogenbosch, Gregory Porter, Jazz Orchestra of the …
In this column: festivals and events, blues, the Netherlands, North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Dutch Swing College Band, Muddy Waters Band, B.B. King Blues Band, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Rhythm and Blues Night De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Lucky Peterson, Guy Davis, Popa Chubby, Moulin Blues Ospel, D.K. Harell, Monster Mike Welch, Holland International Blues Festival, Grolloo, …
In this column: Gospel, Blues, Denomination Blues, Getting the blues, Washington Phillips, Rosetta Tharpe, Ry Cooder, Big Bill Broonzy, Hans Theessink and Wilson Blount The blues were generated in the cotton fields, on the levees, or on the front porch of a people who has born unspeakable burdens of privation and destitution. Yet the …
In this column: websites which offer a road map to the history of American folk, roots, blues music, vernacular-shellac, Weenie Campbell, Bill Boslaugh, Harry Smith, Curt in Australia, discogs In this blog Curt in Australia uses Harry Smith's Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore American folk music and traditions. He’ ll use texts, images, …
Subjects: documentaries about the story of the blues, famous artists, styles, cities like Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans, American blues festivals and blues festival tour in Europe. Record Row, an avenue in Chicago lined with independent record companies. A remastered edition of a 1966 CBS TV Festival series featuring - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sunnyland …
On July 27, 2022, Jon recorded some songs with his smartphone and edited them in iMovie and Garageband. He used the Roland Loop Station for the accompaniment. The videos on the wall come from Pixabay. The picture shows the setup: Mackie amplifier with 1 speaker (Mackie/RCF), Fender Blues Junior with Celestion Vintage 30, Roland Loop …
NIEUW in 2022! Officiele bootleg editie van een live-optreden in Bluesclub Heimathaus in Twist (D) op 15 oktober 1999. De onbewerkte opnames laten horen met welke energie en passie de Greyhound Blues Band toen hun repertoire konden brengen. --- Zang en gitaar, Johan Meijer Gitaar, Martin Hartsteen Bas, Martin van der Velde Drums, George Snijder …
In this column: hand signals and keywords for tempo and progressions In my career as a guitarist I have accompanied a lot of blues musicians/artists and there is never room to practice the songs together. Usually we prepare a set list before the concert or the artist calls out the songs while playing. We use …
In this column: guitarists who play left-handed: Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Doyle Bramhall, Otis Rush It is customary to place the thick strings on top. Albert has the thin strings at the top, which makes it easier for him to pull down the strings and thus raise the string half or whole tone. That gives …
In this column: The Hoss (Muddy Waters), Gibson ES-335 Lefty (Otis Rush), Old Lady (Albert Collins), 1958 Fender Telecaster, Gibson ES-335, 1966 Fender Custom Telecaster Ash, Aron Burton Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) was a blues singer-songwriter and important in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". In …
Een Blues-Out brengt een concert van eigen composities, een mix van verschillende muziekstijlen met altijd een verbinding naar de blues. In een Blues-Out wordt muziek met passie gespeeld, waarbij de muzikanten ieder vanuit hun eigen achtergrond hun creativiteit inbrengen. Met aanstekelijke ritmes wordt een muzikaal verhaal verteld, dat uitnodigt om te bewegen. Jon …
