March - Walla Walla Blues Society

Walla Walla Blues Society’s
Volume 23
Inside
Issue 3
Free
March 2016
bo diddley- howlin wolf - leadbelly - 2016 guitarfest
The Walla Walla Blues
Society Blues News
8237 Mill Creek Rd.
Walla Walla WA 99362
MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
Walla Walla Blues Society holds meetings on the
first Tuesday of the month. Next meeting is March
1st then on April 5th at Pacific Express.
The Blues News is the official publication of
the Walla Walla Blues Society. Any articles,
advertising, etc. must be submitted to the
Editor no later than the 15th of each month.
All submissions become the property of the
Walla Walla Blues Society. Views and
opinions expressed by individuals represented
in the Blues News are not necessarily those of
the WWBS. Permission to reprint any
material herein should be obtained from the
Editor. The Walla Walla Blues Society is a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all
donations are therefore tax deductible.
WWBS Officers
President:
Mike Hammond
Treasurer:
Secretary:
IFK Coord:
BITS Coord:
Webmaster:
Blues News Editor:
Verna Reesman
Kim Ruchert
Mike Hammond
Torch Davis
Rich Smith
Rand Bishop
Board of Directors
George Copeland
Rich Smith
Torch Davis
Donna Copeland
Laura Hall
Audrey Renaud
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Blues Society Members will receive a cool
membership card, the Blues News newsletter,
various perks and discounts from time to time
(including the Blues Lottery), and the
satisfaction of knowing you have helped to
promote this unique American art form known
as The Blues in Walla Walla and the
surrounding area.
Annual dues :
Single Membership :
$ 20.00
Family Membership :
$ 30.00
Supporting Membership :
$ 50.00
Corporate Sponsor :
$100.00
The Walla Walla Blues Society
8237 Mill Creek Rd.
Walla Walla, WA 99362
wwbs@ bmi.net
2012 Walla Walla Blues Society
Tinsley Ellis
How lucky can we be?!! TINSLEY ELLIS will be performing
in Walla Walla on Thursday, March 24th.
WWBS was contacted with an offer we could not refuse
because Tinsley will be here between scheduled shows.
He will be performing at
Main Street Studios, 207 West Main Walla Walla, WA.
The show will start at 7:30 pm and be over around 9 pm-perfect for a week night. Doors will open at 7.
The concert seating price is $15 and you can reserve a table
for 4 for $75 (limited number available). For a table, contact
Mike Hammond at 509/520-3373. Or you can drop a check
off at Melody Muffler located at 9th and Chestnut. See you
at the show!!!
Tough Love Nominated for 2016 Blues Music Award.
The Blues Foundation announced today that Tinsley's latest
release Tough Love has been nominated in the Rock Blues
Album of the Year category of the annual Blues Music
Awards.
Voting is open to all Blues Foundation members.
For more information about becoming a member and voting
for Tough Love visit the Foundation's Membership page.
http://crossovertouring.com/tinsley-ellis
http://www.tinsleyellis.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TinsleyEllis
The 2016 Walla Walla Feast & Guitar Festival goes LARGE! In its 5th year,
The Walla Walla Guitar Festival has combined with “Feast Walla Walla,” and will feature top
national acts and regionals, along with gourmet food and wine. The general format of the
Walla Walla Guitar Festival will stay the same, with multi-venue and tons of great bands, but
we'll be adding food and wine and MORE venues and MORE music to the weekend! During the
5th annual Walla Walla Guitar Festival, approximately 30 bands will perform in various venues
in Downtown Walla Walla, April 8, 9, & 10. Following a jam at Sapolil Cellars hosted by Tuck
Foster & Randy Oxford on Thursday evening, the 2016 Walla Walla Feast & Guitar Festival
officially kicks off on Friday, April 8th at 7 pm
at The Powerhouse Theater with Delta Groove
recording artist Sugaray Rayford in concert.
Sugaray Rayford is nominated for the
prestigious BB King Entertainer of the Year
Award for the 2016 Blues Music Awards. In
addition to this honor, Sugaray is also
nominated in the Contemporary Blues Male
Artist, Contemporary Blues Album (Southside)
and Song of the Year (“Southside of Town”)
categories. This is followed by The Friday
Kick-off Party, at The Marcus Whitman, The
Elks, The VFW, & Sapolil Cellars, with
performances by Ayron Jones & The Way, The
Stacy Jones Band, The Sara Brown Band, Gary
Winston & The Real Deal, Iguana Hat, &
Shanks Pony! On Saturday, the acoustic
showcase begins at noon at Sapolil Cellars
with Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons, and
Trevalyan Blue will play at Kontos Cellars. Ben
and Joe represented the Washington Blues
Society at this year’s International Blues
Challenge in Memphis and won in the
solo/duo competition at the historic Orpheum
Theatre. The “Large” Show begins at three
o’clock at the Walla Walla Elks with Robin
Barrett & Coyote Kings w/Tiph Dames,
followed by The 44s, then Alligator Recording
artists Rick Estrin & The Nightcats. Estrin has won Blues Music Awards over his storied blues
career, including Instrumentalist of the Year Award (Harmonica) in 2013 and for Song of the
Year in 1994 for “My Next Ex-Wife.”The Guitar Crawl begins at eight o’clock at Sapolil Cellars
with Charlie Butts & The Filter Tips and Pappa Frita & The Hot Mustard, at VFW Post 992 with
Big Monti Amundson feat: Rae Gordon, and The Wasteland Kings. The Walla Walla Eagles
features Randy Oxford’s All-Star Slam (feat: Patti Allen, Polly O’Keary, & CD Woodbury) along
with Billy Stoops & The Dirt Angels. The evening ends with an all-star jam hosted by Vaughn
Jensen from midnight ‘til 1:45 AM at Sapolil Cellars.On Sunday Morning, the Soul Sunday
Breakfast will feature a gourmet breakfast buffet, plus two acts, Rae Gordon and
Winston/Hemenway, providing Southern Gospel performances, and the Soul Sunday For
tickets and additional information, please visit https://wallawallaguitarfestival.com
Howlin’
Wolf
By TPP
Howlin’ Wolf
was born Chester Arthur
Burnett on June 10,
1910 in West Point,
Mississippi. He was
possibly one of the most
electrifying performers
in modern blues and had
one of the most distinct voices. He would jump around the stage when he was
performing and hoot and howl (thus the name Howlin’ Wolf). If you’ve ever seen any
footage of him performing, you can see that he put his whole heart and soul into his
singing.
He learned to play guitar from Charlie Patton and Sonny Boy Williamson II taught him
to play harp (Sonny Boy was married to his
half-sister) but he didn’t play either very well.
He didn’t start recording until he reached
middle age, being a farmer before that
working on his father’s farm but played blues
on the weekends at juke joints and plantation
picnics.
Ike Turner (who was a record scout for Sam
Phillips) heard Howlin’ Wolf and suggested
that Sam record him. He went into the studio
in 1951 and recorded two songs, “Moanin’ at
Midnight” and “How Many More Years”. The
songs were leased to Chess Records who
released them in 1952. In 1952, he moved to Chicago and stayed there for the rest of
his life. He died of kidney failure in 1976. He was inducted into Blues Foundation’s
Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
Bo Diddley had most of his success in the music business on the R&B
charts in the 50's and early 60's. He had a very strong influence on others who
followed.
His name at his birth in 1928 in McComb,
Mississippi was Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel; he
had been adopted by his mother's cousin,
Gussie McDaniel, and a man named Bates.
The family moved to Chicago when young
Ellas was five years old. As a child he studied
violin.
He taught himself how to play a guitar and
played it in a band he joined while in school. He also played the trombone in his
church choir. Ellas began a five-year stint as the leader of a three-man washboard
band when he was seventeen.
He started to record for the Checker and Chess labels in
1955, an association that lasted for 21 years. Some of
his best work can be found in his more obscure songs
from albums that he made in the 50's. Some of these
albums had titles such as "Bo Diddley" and "Go Bo
Diddley". Included in this group are such songs as "Who
Do You Love?", "Bring It To Jerome", and "Diddey Wah
Diddey".
In addition to singing and performing, he also did some
songwriting. His hambone beat [shave-and-a-hair-cut,
six bits] was his trademark, and was often copied by others in their music.
Although he had few hit songs in the pop vein, his powerful delivery, somewhat
intimidating songs, and the pounding rhythm of his guitar caused him to be a
performer in demand. He toured with Dick Clark's road shows, and appeared on the
Ed Sullivan Show. Bo Diddley took his name
from a one-stringed African guitar, and
usually played a guitar with a rectangular box
shape.
He managed to work his name into some of
his songs. He is still singing and performing,
he played at Ritzville Blues Festival last year,
and took his place in the Rock-and-Roll Hall Of
Fame in 1987.
Leadbelly
By TPP
Huddie Ledbetter may be the most widely known
of all the blues (folk-artists), was nicknamed
"Leadbelly", and called himself the king of all the 12
string guitar players of all the world! Perhaps
debatable, but one thing is sure Leadbelly was one of
the most influential folk artists in North America. He
wasn’t a blues singer but more of a songster who
played blues. He had many paths in life: songster,
teller-of-tales, musician, convict, blues artist were
just some of them.
He was a large, muscular man with a volatile temper
that caused him many run-ins with the law. He killed
a man in 1917 in Texas and was sentenced to 30 years
in Huntsville Prison Farm. He tried to escape and got
6 more years. He used his musical talent to stay away
from some of the harder prison work and even wrote
a song pleading for his freedom which got him a
pardon in 1925. Then in 1930 he was sent to Angola
Prison Farm in Louisiana (one of the harder prisons in
the U.S. even now). He was discovered by brothers
John and Alan Lomax and they persuaded the
governor to pardon Leadbelly.
He played 6 and 12 string guitar as well as harp,
accordian, piano, mandolin. He sang blues, field
hollers, children’s songs along with many of his own
topical songs. He was born near Mooringsport,
Louisiana on January 21, 1885. and died December 6,
1949 from a muscular-deteriorating disease (Lou
Gehrig’s desease). He never saw any commercial
success during his lifetime but after his death several
of his songs became popular hits.. "The Midnight
Special", "Goodnight Irene", "Cotton Fields", "Rock
Island Line", to mention a few. For a time he was
teamed up with the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson
and became well known as street performers in the
Dallas - Fort Worth area. It would seem he inflenced
many artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seegar, The
Weavers, Brownie McGee & Sonny Terry and a lot of
others.
He was inducted into the Blues Foundation’s Hall of
Fame in 1986 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1988.
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