Nov 2014

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Nov 2014

MONTH FULL OF THE BLUES
The Newsletter of the MO Blues Association
MO Blues Jam
Nov. 20, 2014
8:00 pm at
The
Mission
915 East High, Jefferson City
Our Host Band is:
Nov/Dec 2014
NOVEMBER
MO BLUES JAM
at The Mission with
Dig Nitty
Blues fans, slip on your dancing shoes, and
all you local players grab your axes, and
join fellow MO Blues folks at on Nov. 20
(8 p.m.) as Dig Nitty kicks off our
November jam at The Mission, a great
Jefferson City MO Blues sponsor venue.
John Ashton
(guitar, vocals)
Dave West
(keyboards, vocals)
Dave Raithel
(bass)
Jerry Russo
(drums)
Last time Dig Nitty hosted a MO Blues jam,
they knocked our socks off. (Honest, we all had
to go out and buy new socks.) These guys are a
veteran bunch of rocking R&B players that know
how to lay it down.
HEY THERE JAMMERS. It’s a jam! SO –we
really love to have jammers. Bring along those
axes, horns, sticks, voices, kazoos – whatever ya
got. After the opening Dig Nitty set, it’ll be your
turn to step up and shine.
November/December 2014 - MONTH FULL OF THE BLUES
“Support, Promote and Preserve the Blues!” - 1
Nov/Dec 2014
MO Blues
Featuring
featuring
The Bel Airs
The
Bel Airs
Join us Sunday, December 14, 5 -11 pm, at
Michigan Place Banquet Center
(714 Michigan Ave., Jefferson City)
Doors: 5pm ; Dinner: 6pm
Music – 7pm
The BEL AIRS -- Everyone in Missouri who really knows
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014
5:00- 11:00 p.m.
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Doors at 5:00,
Dinner at 6:00
Music starts 7:00 p.m
Michigan Place
Banquet Center
714 Michigan Ave,
Jefferson City, MO
TICKETS ARE
LIMITED, so
ORDER SOON!
available at
Will West Music & Sound
& online at MOBlues.ORG
the blues loves The Bel Airs, one of Missouri’s longestestablished and most-respected bands. Fronted by brothers
Dick and Dave Pruitt on bass and electric guitars, with
Michael Cherry on drums, the Bel Airs play an authentic but
eclectic bluesy-country-soul-and-rock-n-roll mix influenced
by the likes of Wilson Picket, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf and
Johnny Cash.
HEY JAMMERS – in addition to the Bel Airs, we’ll
do some jamming – bring your axes!
The event will feature an Italian-style meal with all the
trimmings. MENU: chicken parmesan, chicken
piccata, lasagna, seasoned green beans, Italian
salad, garlic sticks. Cash bar & other beverages available.
We’ll also have cool door prizes & raffles!
Tickets: $15.00 per person, $25 per couple
Available at:
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Will West Music and Sound (807 Missouri Blvd)
online at MOBlues.org
TICKETS ARE LIMITED, ORDER SOON!
Event proceeds will support a special holiday contribution to
the Special Learning Center of Jefferson City, in addition to
the mission of MO Blues and Blues in the Schools.
Nov/Dec 2014
PRESIDENT’S CORNER – from Chuck Renn:
TO THE MO BLUES MEMBERSHIP:
As the end of 2014 moves toward its end, it brings with it changes for MO Blues Association, Inc.
There will be board member changes and changes to the leadership. After serving two years as the
President, I will be stepping down and passing the responsibility to another member of MO Blues.
I am definitely not unique in wanting to take such an opportunity to reflect on what was accomplished
and pointing to specific achievements. However, the real accomplishments and the most important
achievements lies in the fact that MO Blues is functioning for the very purpose of its mission: To
Promote, Preserve and Support the Blues. You can boil all the efforts of the MO Blues board and
membership down to that accomplishment.
During my two terms as President, MO Blues has had some very engaged and enthusiastic board
members resign. The important point is that none of those resignations were due to disagreements or
even mild disenchantment with what MO Blues was doing or where the association was headed.
People left the board because they were moving out of the area, health issues interfered or just that
life was making new demands that required more of their time and energy. Equally important is that
other MO Blues members stepped into the big shoes of those who were departing and the
organization continued to move in a positive direction with the same sense of camaraderie and esprit
décor.
My job as President has been made easy by the unselfish efforts of board members and other MO
Blues members. People who are willing to give of the their time, talents and personal resources to
conduct fundraisers, organize events and participate in cultural and social events for the sake of
promoting, preserving and supporting the blues. In the end, the hope is that what was done in the
past two years will inspire others who share the love for the blues to want to see it promoted,
preserved and supported.
MO Blues is financially stable. MO Blues has good organizational tools that will keep it operational
into the future. MO Blues needs and wants all of its members to see a benefit in being affiliated.
There are still goals that need to be realized. There is always room for improvement. The excitement
comes from realizing that MO Blues is very capable of attaining its goals.
Blues music is as alive and relative as it has ever been. Thank you for letting me serve you as the
President of MO Blues. It has been my privilege and a blessing in life. See you at the jams!
- CHUCK RENN
You a’comin’ to the
?
featuring
TheBel Airs
Sunday, December 15, 2013, 5:00-11:00pm
Tickets: Single - $15.00, Couple - $25.
Available at: Will West Music & Sound,
and at MOBlues.org
Tickets are limited - don’t delay!
ATTENTION:
Nov/Dec 2014
MOBLUES BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONS
NOMINATING COMMITTEE SLATE
Sue Barnes, Chair of the Nominating Committee, has presented the following slate of nominees to the
membership for consideration and election at the December 4, 2014 General Membership
Meeting. The meeting will convene at 7:30 p.m. at The Mission and the agenda will include
election of the 2015 board nominees, approval of change to the bylaws and presentation
of the 2015 budget.
The nominees for positions on the
2015 board of directors are:
Returning board members for 2015
whose terms are not expiring are:
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Sue Barnes
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Cathy Bertolotti
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Deb Brown
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John Robinson
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Kerry Cordray
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Rita Turley
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Ben Green
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Kris Webber
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Herb Kuschel
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Wayne Johnson
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Chuck Renn
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Larry Zulauf
These board members will be elected for a two-year term expiring in 2017. Nominations
can be made from the floor at the meeting.
We will also be voting on a proposed change to the Association’s bylaws
The bylaw amendment is a technical change that brings two provisions into harmony and eliminates
contradictory language. The change is as follows:
ARTICLE VIII – OFFICERS
Section 1 – Composition: There will be four officers of MO Blues Association, Inc. – a President, Vice
President, Secretary, and Treasurer – who shall be elected by the MO Blues Association, Inc. Board of
Directors from the membership by the membership at its Annual Meeting among the members of the
Board to represent and act on behalf of MO Blues Association, Inc. For conflict of interest reasons, no
member who owns or manages a music venue may serve as an officer.
ARTICLE XI – ELECTIONS
Section 1 – Election of Officers and MO Blues Association, Inc. Board of Directors
Members: A Nominating Committee will be appointed by the Board of Directors and chaired by an
appointed Board Member to solicit candidates for officethe Board of Directors from the membership and
to prepare a slate of candidates for each office to be filled. This list of candidates will be presented to the
General Membership meeting. Nominations from the floor will be accepted at thisthat time.
Section 2 – Voting Procedures: In the event that officer elections are uncontested, no ballot is
necessary. If officer positions are contested, the slate of candidates will be mailed to voting member at
least 15 days before the Annual Meeting in December. Each voting member will submit one ballot to the
Nominating Committee by the start of business of the January meeting. A candidate receiving a simple
majority of the vote for any office will be declared elected.
Nov/Dec 2014
MO Blues Reviews
Duncan Street – Baptized By The Blues – reviewed by Chuck Renn
If you are a fan of the basic, no-frills blues, then this CD is a must
for your collection. Duncan Street is a collaboration between singer,
songwriter and guitarist Dave Duncan and the wicked blues
harmonica player, Stan Street.
Duncan has long been at his craft of composing for blues and
country artists. He has been nominated twice in the Blues Music
Award category "Song of The Year" for work with Curtis Salgado and
two previous solo albums that featured musical guests including
Delbert McClinton. This release by Duncan Street – Baptized By The
Blues – really offers up meaty, down-home music to be consumed
with zest. This CD features ten southern-flavored blues originals and
a cover of a Muddy Waters' classic.
The CD opens with a steady rolling dobro guitar and honking
harp, on the whimsical “Watermelon, BBQ and Beer.” This is a singalong mantra urging fans to consume from the three major food groups. The Delta-inspired duo
stomps hypnotically on “Come to Mississippi”, likewise luring the faithful with “Cornbread and
collard greens, black-eyed peas /Ham hock, barbeque, fried chicken please.” Shifting gears to shuffle
like a Chicago combo, they create a relentless groove on “Color Me Blue”, as Street blows blues harp
while he kicks bass drum and Duncan sounds like two pickers on a blues lament: "Well she used to
treat me right, she used to love fine / Now I do believe another man is on her mind.”
Duncan exhibits his sly wit and pure blues growl on the slinky, slower 12-bar “Sharpest Marble in
the Drawer.” With irony to spare he attests “In a world of uncertainty, one thing I know for sure./ I'm
a natural-born lover man, I ain't the sharpest marble in the drawer.” Next up is Street's turn to sing
his blues away on the sprightly “I Be's Troubled” and to be sure, Duncan Street plays the classic
Muddy Waters signature riff with exuberance. Duncan gives us another glimpse of his extraordinary
fingerstyle chops on “Love Me Tonite”, a toe-tapping romantic plea of “Won't you love me tonight,
like there's no tomorrow? / Let your sweet kisses wash away my sorrow...”
The urgently propulsive title track, “Baptized By The Blues” is written and sung by Mr. Street, and
features Duncan playing acoustic slide like a man possessed while his ‘blues brother’ relates with
passion “My daddy had soul, so did uncle Bill / When I found Muddy Waters it gave me cold chills. /
I was baptized by the blues.” Followed with “Shakin' the Bacon Down”, the duo marches on a fife and
drum snare drum figure containing dynamic breakdowns and the lusty metaphor, “Oh you know she
looks so good, I'm all about her mind. / Once that frying pan gets hot, we lose all track of time.”
Duncan describes another femme fatale in delicious terms on the sensuous “Tater Salad Woman”
with, “Baby got a secret sauce, really hits the spot / Jalapeno mustard seed, boys, she smokin' hot”, all
this served up over another very cool open tuning delta blues riff. On “Go Right Back to Bed” Duncan
dusts his blues via "I'm gonna get up in the morning, go right back to bed. / I got way too many
demons runnin’ round my head”, while blistering the strings with outstanding slide licks and Street’s
harp wailing throughout. The minor riff-driven “The Blues Comes in All Colors” closes with a
poignant declaration of the multicultural evolution of the blues through “It's not a destination, it's
nowhere you can find / you’ll know it when you slip below the Willie Dixon Line.” Stan Street
conjures a tasty sax solo on this song to close the record on a sweet note.
If you noticed a pattern, the food analogy threads throughout the numbers included on the CD.
However, don’t let that give you the wrong impression. This CD is a serious project that is steeped in
some of the best slide guitar and harmonica work that you hear on any blues music compilation.
These two bluesmen are on the top of their game on these songs. As a duo, Duncan Street offers the
listener some of the best toe-tapping productions that you’ll ever hear. If you’re a blues musician
looking for some inspiration, this CD is chock full of slide licks and sweet passes on the harmonica.
You will want to steal some for your own.
Nov/Dec 2014
The Duck Tapes - by ROBERT DUCKWORTH
We lost another musician on October 25th. Bassist Jack Bruce died of liver failure at the age of 71, leaving a
large body of eclectic work from 1963 until just in the last year.
Jack, a Scotsman, started his education in music
studying cello in school so he could play in the local
symphony, and was also writing his first string quartet
music. Jack proudly took his written music to one of his
music teachers, when she started writing all over it with a
red pen, showing all of the errors Jack had written into his
music. Later in life Jack said he almost gave up right there,
saying it took him a long time to gain his confidence back
to trust his own musicianship.
One of Jack’s early band experiences was with the Graham
Bond Organization, where he played upright bass with a
Cream (1960)
certain volatile drummer named Ginger Baker, who was
(from left:, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton
recognized as one of England’s top players. Ginger thought
Jack’s playing was way too busy, and would throw drumsticks at him on stage in frustration. Ginger would
regularly fire Jack, but Jack knew Ginger was not the bandleader and still showed up for gigs. Graham Bond,
the real leader, was sinking into heroin addiction, so Ginger may have been taking over the reins to keep the
band working.
During this time, Jack would sometimes sit in with local blues legend, John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers,
who had a twenty year old guitarist named Eric Clapton, and the two would rev up the energy on stage to white
hot levels. Around this time, Ginger had decided to leave the ailing Graham Bond band, and approached Eric
about forming a new group, composed of what would be the finest players he and Eric (if he agreed to play with
Ginger in the first place) could find. Eric said yes to Ginger and when Ginger asked “What about a bass player”,
Eric brought up Jack in the next breath. While Ginger was hesitant, he respected Eric’s choice, knowing Jack
was the best bassist in the pickings of the London music scene. Ginger went to Jack’s home and asked if they
could bury the hatchet and just play music with the best guitar player either of them had ever heard. Both knew
it wasn’t a bad idea to be in a band with “God”.
“The Cream” formed, and for two and a half years set the world on fire, putting out several fine records and
laying the groundwork for what was to become known as “Heavy Metal” music. One album was “Wheels of
Fire”, a half live, half studio double album that showed both sides of Cream’s personalities. The band had an
excellent reputation for their live shows, and now had the proof on the market. Particularly, their live cover
version of the Robert Johnson classic, “Crossroads” is still played daily on classic rock radio stations
worldwide.
Cream folded up after a worldwide “Goodbye” tour, with a young Deep Purple being the opening act on many
shows. Jack then joined up with former Miles Davis drummer Tony Williams. Tony was assembling what was
to be The Tony William’s Lifetime, with organist Larry Young and guitarist John McLaughlin, all fresh out of
Miles Davis’s recording, “Bitches Brew”. That seminal record moved Mile’s new rock inspired music into the
record collections of the young, hip kids. The Lifetime recorded a couple of records, with Jack singing several
songs and exploring what is called Serial Music, a compositional style involving more mathematical formulas
than sweeping melodies.
After the Lifetime disbanded, Jack teamed up with former Mountain members Leslie West and Corky Laing.
Nov/Dec 2014
They called themselves West, Bruce and Laing, putting out a few records, including one live album. Jack would
also record with other musicians, one being Frank Zappa on his album “Apostrophe”, where Jack played “lead”
bass on the title cut. Around the same time, Chris Squire, bassist of the prog band Yes, put out his solo album
“Fish Out of Water”. The sound Chris used on the album was a change for him. Instead of his usual metallic
Rickenbacker sound, he purposely went for a dirty, almost fuzzy sound in emulation of Jack’s Gibson bass/
Marshall amp sound. Jack made records with The Jack Bruce Band, and also was a part of BLT, a band with
Robin Trower and Corky Laing. Later, Jack was a part of Anton Feir’s loosely assembled band, the Golden
Palominos, a band that also had the talents of Richard Thompson, Bill Laswell and Michael Stipe on its albums
credits.
In 1993, the Cream reassembled for the first time since 1969 to play at their introduction to the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. They played three songs, including “Born Under a Bad Sign”, a song by Albert King who had
died in December of 1992. I have a bootleg copy of the rehearsals for this show and it’s kind of funny listening
to the band run through nine or ten instrumental introductions of “Sunshine of Your Love”, a song that was
probably played more that “Smoke on the Water” in music stores across the globe.
In 2005 Cream reformed to play the Royal Albert Hall and did several sold out shows before playing their
final shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City. At those Cream shows, Jack would sometimes play an
old Gibson EB-1 that used to belong to Felix Pappalardi, the bassist for Mountain and producer of Cream’s
most psychedelic album “Disraeli Gears”. Jack also formed the band BBM that was Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker
and Irish virtuoso Gary Moore on guitar. This band sounded more like the sixties version of Cream than the
reformed one that played in 2005.
If you check out Jack Bruce on YouTube, you will see he played with some of the greatest guitarists of the
twentieth century. I grew up with the Cream record “Live Cream”. Those versions of “NSU”, “Sleepy Time” and
“Hey Lawdy Mama” were in my head since the age of ten! Quite honestly, Jack Bruce was the man who made
me want to be a bass player. I watched a friend of my older brother play a Cream song on bass, not even
plugged in, and his fingers on the shiny steel strings looked like a huge spider moving lightly on a web. That
was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I got a cheap bass in a couple of months and was on a mission to do like
my brother’s friend had done.
Jack’s bass sound was completely different than other bassists .This was intentional. He disliked the
common Fender Precision sound that everybody else had. He had an almost burpy sound, going up and down
the neck in a matter of seconds changing polyrhythms and syncopations like a jazz drummer. Jack started on
upright bass and can be heard playing it on his 1969 record, “Things We Like”, an album that featured John
McLaughlin on guitar and John Surman on saxophone playing almost traditional jazz. He then went to a
Fender Bass VI, a DanElectro longhorn bass and then the Gibson EB-3 that he used in his Cream days. His
amps were Marshalls in those days. He went to a Warwick fretless and played thru Hartke amps and speakers
in the eighties and kept using variations that bass and amp set for the rest of his career.
Jack Bruce was probably the first upfront bass soloist/singer in Rock. The bass player was no longer expected
to play in the shadows, to be heard (barely) and not seen. Jack put us in the spotlight and Jack played loud.
Jack forged a new path that still has new followers today. Without the influence of Mr. Bruce, today’s role of the
bassist in modern music might not be where it is today. Check him on YouTube. He plays with everybody from
Buddy Guy to Mick Taylor. There are some great Cream audio-only shows that are excellent. Check out an
excellent quality show from Anaheim CA. from 1968.
In closing, the side of the stage where Jack stood is now silent. He put --or shall we say shoved? -- the bass
into the guitarist realm and did it with style. Thanks for your hard work and sweat Jack. You’ll be missed.
Nov/Dec 2014
UPCOMING EVENTS
Month Full
of Blues
Thursday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.
MO Blues Jam
Nov/Dec 2014
Editor- Kerry Cordray
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MO Blues
Association Inc.
2014 Board & Officers
Chuck Renn –President
Sherry Hoskins – Secretary
Herb Kuschel – Treasurer
Wayne Johnson – Jams Chairs
Deb Brown – Membership Chair
Sue Barnes-Webmaster
Cathy Bertolotti
Kerry Cordray
John Robinson
Rita Turley
Kris Webber
Larry Zulauf
”The blues
ain't nothing
but a good
man feelin'
bad.”
Leon Redbone
featuring
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The Bel Airs
OUR SPONSORS
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MO Blues Association, Inc
P.O. 105758
Jefferson City, MO 65101
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with host band
Sunday, Dec. 14
Contact Us
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at The Mission
915 East High, Jefferson City
714 Michigan Ave, Jefferson City, MO
Member Artists
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The Bel Airs
Blue Max
Dig Nitty
The Mojo Roots
Please thank these folks for supporting
MO Blues
Nov/Dec 2014
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