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M AG i C
C i T Y
B LU ES NEWS
AUG 2014
iSSUE# 253
BiRMiNGHAM,
ALABAMA
junkyard juke
cadillac Funk
August 8
daniel day gallery
An Interview with Keithen Ruff p.4
from the prez
It has long been discussed whether
to the stage crew and to Iron City and
or not we could eliminate our printed
Cathead Vodka who help sponsor the
newsletter in favor of the PDF version.
event. Also a huge thank you to the
All members with an email address on
MCBS board for all pitching in with the
file receive the PDF version each month. planning and organization, and thank
About one third of our members pay for you to all our members who came to
and receive the printed version by mail. cheer on the competitors. Thank you
Rounding off the figures, about 100
to member Mark Giorgi of All Around
newsletters are mailed and the cost is
Town Catering who donated food
about $400 a month or $4 a copy, which and refreshments for the judges and
is $48 a year. The difference between
competitors, it was fantastic. Thank you
the membership
to Frank Ranelli
rate for PDF and
who has assisted
mailed copy is
us by lending us
A huge thank you to
only $5. Clearly
his drums and
everyone who helped make
it’s an expensive
backline, and to
proposition to
the Battle of the Blues Bands Paul Walters for
print and mail
running the stage.
a success, to our judges,
newsletters. We
Thank you to all
could increase
those folks who
timekeepers, to the stage
the cost of memhelped and are
crew and to Iron City and
bership for those
not mentioned
Cathead Vodka who help
people who want
specifically,
to receive the
you are all
sponsor the event.
printed version.
appreciated. We
I doubt however
couldn’t do it
that we could increase it by say $40 to
without you all.
try and cover our costs without losing
Time for another Junkyard Juke,
members. Your board is generally in
August 9th, we welcome Cadillac Funk
favor of eliminating the printed version. to the Magic City. Guitarist Andrew
Yurkow plays a range of styles from
All members with an email would reMississippi Hill Country to jazzy New
ceive the emailed version. Additionally
Orleans funk. Come on out for this late
all members can sign on to our website
afternoon show which starts at 4pm in
and read and download current and
the hopes that the August midday heat
past newsletters. There are three major
will be receding. See full article in this
advantages to the PDF version, it is in
newsletter.
color, can be any number of pages and
The end of August has some great
is timelier by several days as it doesn’t
Blues. Friday the 29th is the Howling
need to be printed and mailed. There
Wolf Festival in West Point, MS. BE
are of course a couple of disadvantages-- mainly they are great to give out to THERE AND HOWL WITH THE WOLF!
GEORGE PORTER JR. & RUNNIN’
visiting musicians and to leave around
PARDNERS, CAROLYN WONDERLAND,
town at Workplay, Iron City, etc. to
LIGHTNIN’ MALCOLM & STUD, MR. SIPP
promote our society. I’d welcome your
all on the schedule. In my mind nothing
opinions as we make decisions. Just
email them to [email protected] beats a small friendly local Blues festival
and you can catch another one the next
Thank you to all the bands that
day on your drive back to Birmingham.
entered our Battle of the Blues Bands.
The Johnny Shines Blues Festival is
Congratulations to our winners-Hallelujah Junction for the electric band held at the late Johnny Shines home in
Tuscaloosa on the street that carries his
and BJ Miller & Mack Davis for solo/
duo. These acts will be representing the name on Saturday August 30th. Gates
open at 10:30 AM. Here is the schedule.
state and our society in Memphis in 6
11:00- Prayer
months. A huge thank you to everyone
who helped make the competition a
success, to our judges, timekeepers,
Continued on page 13
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Magic City Blues News august 2014
From our memphis correspondent
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Saturday, June 28, 2014 – The black
cloud rolled from the southwest into
the Betty Davis Bar-B-Que around 7:00
and no amount of prayer or karmic
radiation could change its direction
or darkness. For a few moments it was
almost obscured by a wispy, low hanging stratus scudding to the west in
that odd way that the sky can move in
two directions at once. Any hopes that
the first scattered drops would be the
extent of it were dashed as the shower
turn to rain, and, just moments after
most reasonable adults took cover, in
cars or tents or under the awnings of
Betty Davis’s or in the Cathead Vodka
VIP pavilion, the bottom dropped out
and the rain started coming in sideways.
It wasn’t a disaster for all, however. As
the low area between the rise on which
the stage was built and ridge on which
the vendor’s tents were pitched turned
into a muddy lake, every child under 12,
of whom there were many, because this
really is a picnic, could be found sliding
and splashing and squealing as their
parents collected coolers and chairs and
headed for the cars. Thus ended the 9th
Annual North Mississippi Hill Country
Picnic, for your correspondent, anyway.
Early close meant canceling the Ris-
ing Star Drum and Fife Band, the Garry
Burnside Band, Alvin Youngblood Hart
and Muscle Theory, the Kenny Brown
Band and the Hill Country Kings, just as
a rain-delayed departure from Memphis
meant missing Robert Belfour, Reverend John Wilkins, Robert Kimbrough
and the Cedric Burnside Band. Friday
night Featured Blue Mother Tupelo,
Rocket 99, George McConnell and the
Nonchalants, the Eric Deaton Trio, the
David Kimbrough Band and the Dwayne
Burnside Band. One of the benefits of
the Mid-South is that all these performers play in the vicinity twelve months of
the year; but they are only in one place
at the same time right here, just an hour
from Memphis. So, the two trips down
and back were a small price, indeed,
for a show that mines one of the Blues’
more evanescent sub-genres.
The Hill Country Picnic is definitely
Country, with a capital “C”. The natural
amphitheater (turned mud pit) is dotted
with large hay bales and surrounded
by tractors and front-end loaders. The
crowd is not huge, mostly from North
Mississippi in fact, with a smattering
of pilgrims from Massachusetts, Missouri and Michigan and very few from
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Your correspondent’s favorite vendor
was a painter whose offerings included
as many paintings of deer and turkey
(all, one assumes, in their last minute on
earth) as of Blues musicians.
The entire lineup was anchored in
that particular geography and more
specifically derived from two families,
the Burnsides and the Kimbroughs,
whose paterfamilias, RL and “Junior”
respectively, are the most prominent of
a deep and peculiar local tradition that
also included the fife and drum music of
Othar Turner and country Blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell and Jesse Mae
Hemphill. This music has barely made
it into even the Blues mainstream and
only through a few bands such as the
North Mississippi Allstars and the Black
Keys. It is powerful stuff, however. When
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an interview with Keithen Ruff
Roger Stephenson
Keithen Ruff in action
Interview, by Mike Stephenson, took
place in Birmingham, Alabama, in
June 2014.
I started out in church, my mother
is a minister and the whole family
are musicians. There are about two
hundred of us, a really big family, and
everybody in the family sings and plays
instruments. My mother had a gospel
group called The McKinney Sisters and
we grew up watching them sing and we
would go to a lot of church programs.
After we got older and started playing,
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then they put us in their group. I got
my first guitar when I was fifteen but I
always wanted one because I would sit
and watch my uncle play in church. I
don’t think they were taking me serious, I really wanted a guitar. When I got
in the seventh grade they had a talent
show and they had these guys dressed
up like Kiss, the rock band and when
they came out everybody went berserk,
and I knew then that’s what I wanted
to be was a musician, and so from that
day on I was pushing for a guitar and
my mother finally bought me one when
I was fifteen. At first they wanted me to
play the bass; my mother thought the
bass would be easier for me to play but
I wanted the guitar. They gave me the
bass and my older brother the guitar,
so we got to struggling over it and so
they talked him into letting me have
the guitar. When I was trying to learn
to play I wasn’t playing in the church.
My cousin could already play and my
mother would have him come up to the
house and show me to play and start
me out, and he showed me two chords
and from that I picked it up. I started
listening to different albums and trying to pick things up myself and that’s
when I really started learning about it
all, listening with my ear. When I got to
high school I had friends who played in
a rock band and this guy named Mike
Taylor was a rocker, and I was more
into rock music than black music back
then, and he would come and show me
riffs from Kiss and Led Zeppelin and I
really got into that. I didn’t want to play
black music because I thought it wasn’t
exciting like rock music. I would hang
out with Mike and he would show me
stuff and I would try and pick it out. I
then started picking up more stuff than
the guy who was teaching me and I was
into Van Halen and all that stuff at that
time. I also did a lot of sport back then. I
was doing football, basketball and track
and I was still playing the guitar. We
had clubs in the school once a month
and the school had a guitar club which
was the most popular club in school.
They would let us sit outside and play,
so everybody would gather around and
listen and people didn’t know that I
played guitar and I would be playing all
that Van Halen stuff, and that’s when I
became really popular and I knew that
this was a calling. I was seventeen when
we formed our first band, a heavy metal
band, and we were playing Motley Crue
and Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and
all that kinda stuff. I was too young to
get into the clubs back then and my first
gig was at Gatsby’s and I was seventeen
years old and they talked them into letting me in the club to play. After we got
older I got into another band and we
toured all over the US. This guy Gene
Continued on page 9
Junkyard Juke:
Cadillac Funk
When: August 9th at 4pm
Where: Daniel Day Gallery, 3025 6th
Avenue S
How much: $12 members, $15 non
members
Details: BYOB, and a chair, food for sale.
Andrew “CadillacFunk” Yurkow grew
up in Indianola; the heart of the Mississippi Delta and home to Blues legend,
B.B. King. At 16, Andrew played at the
B.B. King Homecoming festival and
continued on his Blues journey after
graduating from Cleveland High School
(Cleveland, MS) by playing with other
remarkable Blues performers such as
Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry, Duwayne and
Garry Burnside, Lightnin’ Malcolm and
Cedric Burnside, Kenny Brown, Little Joe
Ayers, and Willie Foster. In addition he
has opened for acts such as Bobby Rush,
the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Hal and
Mal’s in Jackson, MS, and he opened for
Blues legend Johnny Winter at the 2013
Oxford Blues Festival alongside Effie Burt.
The Cadillac Funk band has built a
strong following and have performed
countless shows since they began
over five years ago. Cadillac Funk plays
regularly at Rooster’s Blues House in
Oxford, MS. The band has also played
at the North Mississippi Hill Country
Picnic, Ground Zero Blues Club in
Clarksdale, MS, and Foxfire Ranch in
Waterford, MS. Andrew has played at
the Georgia Theater in Athens, GA,
Home Team BBQ in Charleston, SC, and
Gip’s Place in Bessemer, AL with Garry
Burnside. The Cadillac Funk band is a
four piece band known to have guest
appearances by artists such as Scott
Albert Johnson and Johnny Blackthorn
White. For this show we understand
that Bill Perry Jr., son of Bill Howlin
Madd Perry, will be playing keyboard.
Andrew has recorded original music
at the renowned Rodney Mills Masterhouse and the world famous Ardent Studios. Cadillac Funk’s self-titled, recently
released debut album is gaining momentum both in the US and internationally. The original material was recorded,
mixed, and mastered by Quarter After
Blue Productions. It boasts several writers including George Henry Jackson, and
includes a taste of the band’s unique
Mississippi home-grown sound.
Andrew considers himself a true
Bluesman with a passion and commitment to preserving and creating new
authentic Mississippi Blues music ranging from low-down, dirty delta Blues to
the hill country stomp with funky flavor.
So as usual, bring your enthusiasm,
dancing shoes and party hat for a fun
for this late afternoon party.
Roger Stephenson
Michael Fant / hottytoddy.com
Andrew Yurkow of Cadillac Funk
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on a sad note
Johnny Winter, one of the seminal
blues guitarists from the 1960’s
and 1970’s, passed away from
undetermined causes on July 16
while on tour in Switzerland. Born
John Dawson Winter III in Beaumont,
Tx in 1944, Winter and his younger
brother by two years, Edgar, were both
brought up in a house full of music. First
appearing on local television at age 10,
and first recording at age 15, Johnny
knew at an early age that music would
be his life’s pursuit.
In 1968, Winter recorded and released
The Progressive Blues Experiment, to this
day perhaps this writer’s favorite Johnny
Winter recording. With Uncle John
Turner on drums and Tommy Shannon
on bass (who would, of course, go on to
great success as a member of Stevie Ray
Vaughan’s Double Trouble,) TPBE was a
mostly blistering set of songs from Johnny’s musical heroes – Muddy, BB, Howlin’
Wolf – with a few old style acoustic slide
numbers added for good measure.
Shortly afterwards, Winter sat in with
Mike Bloomfield at the famed Fillmore
East. Seen by Columbia Records reps,
Winter was signed to what at the time
was reportedly the largest advance in
the recording business, and shortly
thereafter recorded and released his
major label debut Johnny Winter. And
his career took off. Winter was a staple
at some of the major famed festivals of
the times – Woodstock and both the
Atlanta Pop Festivals come to mind –
and he experienced his most successful
commercial and touring success over
the next few years with his band
Johnny Winter And, which also included
guitarist Rick Derringer.
Sadly, it was also during this time
period that Winter began his well
known decades long battle against
substance abuse. Nevertheless, he was
fairly prolific with new material, both
The first white musician
inducted into the Blues Hall
of Fame, Johnny Winter will
live forever as one of the
Giants of the Blues.
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wikipedia.org
Johnny Winter
studio and live recordings, throughout
the 1970’s. Still Alive and Well, Saints &
Sinners, John Dawson Winter III, Nothin’
But the Blues, and White, Hot and Blue
were joined by live recordings Live
Johnny Winter, Captured Live, and
Together (with brother Edgar.)
During the mid/late ‘70’s, Winter
also had great success while fulfilling a
lifetime dream – working with Muddy
Waters. Producing, playing guitar, and
adding some vocal hoops and hollers to
Muddy’s Hard Again, I’m Ready, King Bee,
and Muddy “Mississippi” Waters – Live,
those recordings were both commercial,
critical and Grammy winning successes.
Again, for this writer, Muddy’s Hard Again
was a recording that really hit home – I’m
not quite sure I had ever heard anything
quite like the version of “Mannish Boy”
that starts Hard Again.
Beginning in the 1980’s, Winter was
a bit of a recording vagabond, releasing
albums on the Alligator, Point Blank,
Virgin, and Megaforce labels with
moderate success. He continued to tour,
headlining blues festivals world wide,
but in all honesty his performances at
Ruff
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Ferrari was based out of New
York and we were doing the
Holiday Inn circuits and the
casinos and Vegas, Atlantic
City and all over, and we
were called the Gene Ferrari
Band. We had three different shows as he was into like
Tom Jones, so we would do
stuff like that and then we
had the rock set of the band,
and then we had the band
set so we played everything.
When I left high school I hit
the ground running. I was
touring all over the US and
then we went to Canada.
After that, when I got back
home, my brother was in
this real popular band called
Between The Two and they
were really popular around
Birmingham and I always
wanted to play in that band
but they always had a guitar
player. When I got back from
Canada their guitar player
had got on drugs and he
burned out and they called
on me to play. When I got in
that band it was the second
chance to play with my
brother as we had played
in that heavy metal band
before. We played in that
band for about two years
and then it busted up. That
band would play R&B and
bit I missed out was when
I heard Jimi Hendrix in my
friend’s car and I had not
heard of him and my friend
told me who he was and I
was completely hooked from
that point.
The Blues thing came, I
would say, about 1993 and
I started out in church, then went to heavy
metal, then to R&B and then all the oldies,
so it all got mixed up. The bit I missed out was
when I heard Jimi Hendrix in my friend’s car
and I had not heard of him and my friend told
me who he was and I was completely hooked
from that point
stuff like that. So that’s how I
got so spread out into different styles of music, because
I played so many styles. I
started out in church, then
went to heavy metal, then to
R&B and then all the oldies,
so it all got mixed up. The
1994 as I got with Poonanny,
but he did all kind of stuff
in that band and they had a
Blues part where they would
do just Blues.
I was with Poonanny for
about a year and a half. The
bass player, Terry Richardson, in that band was a good
friend of mine and they did
a gig in Meridian and Bobby
Rush saw him play and he
took the bass player, and
about a month after that he
called me and told me Bobby
Rush wanted a guitar player
that can be out front and do
things. So my friend put my
name forward to Bobby, and
my friend told me they were
going to New York and to
meet them on the way and I
didn’t know anything about
Bobby Rush or his music. I
learnt Bobby’s show on the
road; I never had a rehearsal
with him. So we went to New
York and Bobby would let me
go out and solo and do what
I loved to do, and he fell in
love with me right then and
that was in 1995. So I’ve been
with Bobby about eighteen
times were less than stellar, due to his
long-term drug issues. Johnny does
has one recording in the can and due
for release in September, Step Back,
which finds many of Johnny’s musical
fans adding guitar and vocal support,
including Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons,
Leslie West and Joe Bonnamassa,
among others.
The first white musician inducted
into the Blues Hall of Fame, Johnny
Winter will live forever as one of the
Giants of the Blues. This writer was
fortunate enough to see him a few
times, in completely different settings.
Memphis in May/Beale Street Music
Festival 1990 - Ernie Isley, Albert King,
Johnny Winter and then Stevie Ray
Vaughan, all in a row - was my first
Johnny Winter experience, and really,
after that lineup, what could have been
better? The last time was at the locally
World famous Louie Louis in the early/
mid 90’s I think. A much smaller crowd,
but man, Johnny Winter fans are a
passionate bunch!
RIP, Johnny….
Jamey McMahon
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Mark Ortiz
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Laura Dorning
Ruff
years now.
I’ve also played with E.C. Scott. She is
from the West coast and I have done a
whole lot of stuff with her and I played
with her almost a year and she had a
hot show. I did have some experience
with Prince, I worked with him for two
weeks in his studio. I stayed with him for
two weeks and worked with his band
and put some songs down. I’ve also
played with Jessie James the singer. As
far as the gospel thing goes, I’ve played
with the Gospel Keynotes, The Mighty
Clouds Of Joy, Shirley Caesar and that
circuit for two years. I played with this
Memphis
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Cedric Burnside and Lightnin’ Malcolm
toured with the soul/punk band Black
Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, the Honeybears featured Hill Country-inspired
music on their next album.
If Blues is dismissed by the uninitiated for having only six songs based on
group called The Chosen Sons Of God
and they were based out of Birmingham
and they had some hits in the gospel
world, and we toured with them for a
while and I got a chance to play with
and sit in with them.
I’ve produced Bobby Rush’s album
‘Look At What You Gettin’, we did that
at my studio. He came and stayed with
me and he would sleep on the floor. He
would get a blanket and sleep just there
and when I woke up I could smell eggs
and bacon and stuff and he’s cooking
for me. It was something working for
him. We spent about a month on that
album, just me and him. I’ve done some
stuff with Outkast, a rap group out of
three chords, what would they make of
a songbook based, more often than not,
on one chord, as is much Hill Country
music? There is nothing simple about it,
however, as the range of performances
at the Picnic showed. The hallmark of
the genre is that, in the right hands, it is
both incredibly complex and even more
basic that the Delta blues, with less
structure and fewer connections to the
Atlanta, I worked at their studios and I
produced tracks for them at their studios and I played on them as well.
I was born in Birmingham, Alabama,
a little town called Pinson that’s north
of Birmingham, and I’m a full time musician and there have been some highs
and lows. I’m currently working with my
wife DieDra, playing and producing and
arranging for her. On most of my shows
I swing the guitar around my neck and
that took a lot of practice and bruised
elbows and head. I beat myself up bad
before I got that down.
Reprinted courtesy of Blues & Rhythms
Magazine www.bluesandrhythm.co.uk
jazz and popular music of its era. It is
called trance music by some but when
the performer is not really cooking the
trance can be more soporific than ecstatic. At its best, it is about making very
much from very little. The Picnic is a
wonderful view into a strange land, only
an hour from Memphis. Your correspondent will report next year on the entire
event without regard for the weather.
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SAM POINTER
Contact: 205-967-8453
SASSY BROWN
Contact: Lauren Brown
SOUL COLLISION
Contact: Greg Franklin
THICK AS THIEVES
Contact: Scott Lander
THOMAS HENRY BAND
Contact: Mark Mizzell
WEEKEND HEAT
Contact: Stevo
205-405-0628
Please direct all additions & changes to: Carolyn Pocus ([email protected]).
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meet a member: basie devereaux
My Family History
My name is Basie Devereaux. I have
lived in Birmingham all my life and
graduated cum laude from UAB with a
degree in psychology. Charles thought
I should include this information so
folks won’t think I’m kooky, but he tells
people that I am all the time. I have
always thought psyche majors were the
crazies anyway – ha ha!!
My family history and legend
indicates that the Devereauxs were
French Huguenots who fled religious
persecution in France to the Caribbean
and North America. Some of the more
reputable Devereauxs immigrated to
Charleston and others settled in St.
Augustine. My great great great …
grandfather, Charles Devereaux, joined
Jean Laffite in the Caribbean and fought
for the Americans in the Battle of New
Orleans. He was with Jean Laffite
when they founded a pirate colony,
Campeche on Galveston Island. Later my
Devereauxs emigrated from SE Texas
through Louisiana and Mississippi to
eventually reside in Alabama.
How I Got into the Blues
I think it was natural for me to
develop an attraction to the Blues
because of my familial African/
Caribbean/Creole music and dance
influences. My first recognition of the
Blues evolved from my experience
with the Magic City Blues Society
at a real Junkyard Juke across from
Avondale Park. The outdoor setting
with great, soulful music and happy,
friendly people on a beautiful summer
afternoon hooked me. From that day
forward, I have attended virtually every
event sponsored by the MCBS.
Blues Influences
With Roger Stephenson’s and others’
guidance and suggestions, I came to
realize that my favorite rock bands
growing up had strong Blues influences.
The Allman Brothers Band; Cream; Stevie
Ray Vaughn; Howlin’ Wolf. The Doors are
probably my favorite group of all time.
Favorite Blues Venues
Gip’s Place is an authentic juke joint,
one of only two left in Alabama, and
has been hosted by Henry Gipson in his
back yard since 1952. I consider Mr. Gip
a good friend. He is a legendary Blues
man who people from all over the world
come to meet.
Red Wolf Lounge in Powderly is the
realization of Reita James’ and Roger’s
vision of a true Juke Joint. Wynton
Marsalis did a video documentary for
CBS News to feature the Red Wolf and
Gip’s Place in 2012.
http://www.cbsnews.com/
news/musical-history-of-theblues-found-in-juke-joints/
Other Favs
Daniel Day Gallery, Memphis in May,
New Orleans French Quarter Festival,
Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar
in Nashville, Alys Stephen Center,
WorkPlay, Iron City.
Charles and I listen to Sirius XM
Radio and DISH Blues channels in favor
of television always. All the traditional
Blues and my favorite old rock ‘n roll
bands still doing the Blues, including
new releases and exclusives.
We make it a point to dance at
Blues shows everywhere we go!! And
sometimes I hula hoop!! HA HA
MCBS $10 T-shirt blowout
Get one at our next event or visit
www.magiccityblues.org/merchandise/
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From the Prez
11:15-Tuscaloosa Community
Heritage Chorale
12:00-Arkeithan L Bivins
12:30-Hattie “Alwayzrealnevafake”
Butler
1:15-Sound of Color
2:15-Stephen BluesDude Duncan
3:15-Simple Interest
4:15-SharBaby Newport
5:00-Neon Smoke with Shawn
Battles.
the extended mcbs calendar
friday, August 1
Friday, october 10
Ranelli’s Soul Pit
Junkyard Juke/Daniel Day Gallery
MCBS Open Blues Jam
saturday, August 9
Sunday, october 12
Junkyard Juke/Daniel Day Gallery
Phelan Park Music Series
friday, September 5
Friday, November 7
Cadillac Funk
Bring your chairs your cooler and
your tents. Children 5 and under get
in free. I hate that I won’t be able to
go, but the Gulf Coast Blues Society
has asked me to help judge their
competition that day in Mobile. Well
enough writing, I need to put my words
into practice and go find some live
Blues this evening. May see you there!
Roger Stephenson
Gina Sicilia
Hallelujah Junction
MCBS Open Blues Jam
Canned Jam
Cantina
Sunday, September 14
Friday, December 5
Big Daddy’s New Band
MCBS Open Blues Jam
Phelan Park Music Series
Ranelli’s Deli
Friday, october 3
saturday, December 13
MCBS Open Blues Jam
Blues Ball, Delta Moon,
Clarence Davis opens
Workplay
library corner
MAGIC CITY BLUES SOCIETY
LIBRARY CHECKOUT
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I understand that any unauthorized duplication or storing of any music on CDs or other
media I check out from the MCBS lending
library is a violation of federal law and also
violates the agreements that MCBS has with
the artists and record labels that provide these
CDs. This includes burning any copies of the
CD or storing the music in my computer or any
mobile audio device like an I-Pod. I agree not to
copy, duplicate or store or upload to file sharing
services any music contained on CDs lent to me
by the Magic City Blues Society.
Just one in this month, but it’s a
powerhouse addition to the library, all
part of your perks of being a member
of MCBS. At most of our events, our
ever energetic Mark Giorgi drags out
boxes and boxes of Blues CD’s that
have been donated to our library.
These are available to you, dear member, just for being a part of our organization. You check them out of the
library, give it a listen, and return it.
We are always looking for volunteers
to write a review of a CD that they
particularly enjoyed. This both helps
the artist and helps us get more ads
through record label, and you know
that you like what you will be buying.
We have always operated this library
with the agreement that these CDs are
for you to listen to and then buy if you
like it, not to download to your music
library. Help support the Blues and buy
the CD if you like it!
Elvin Bishop
Can’t Even Do Wrong Right
Label: Alligator Records
What’s gonna catch you and draw
you in before even hearing the CD is
the very groovy album artwork by one
of my fav musicians Paul Thorn, his art
is really clever. So Elvin, Elvin, he’s just
pure fun. Elvin Bishop has been entertaining us for an amazing 50 years now,
and this album is no disappointment.
With 5 originals and 5 covers, featuring some great appearances by harpist Charlie Musselwhite and amazing
vocals and harmony from Mickey Taylor,
this is a thoroughly enjoyable listen.
Wendy Walters
DON’T GET LEFT
BEHIND
Check out the calendar
of the Blues each and
every month and make
a point to support your
favorite artists!
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calendar of the blues: august
Call clubs to confirm! Birmingham listings in BOLD face.
To be listed in MCBS calendar, contact Carolyn Pocus ([email protected]).
Fri. 01
MCBS Open Jam
The Hearts
Daniel Day Gallery
Microwave Dave & The Nukes
Brackins, Maryville, TN
Sat. 02
Blue Note Grill, Durham, NC
Sun. 03
Fri. 08
The Zaratans
Daniel Day Gallery
George Griffin and
The Firebirds
Champy’s
Mon. 04
Sunset Grill, West Ocean City, MD
Tues. 05
Diedra & the Ruff Pro Band
Sun. 17
Tues. 26
Daniel Day Gallery
City Vineyard
Henderson’s, Midfield
Sat. 09
Daniel Day Gallery
Christian Herring
& True Blue
Moe’s BBQ, Lakeview
Sun. 10
Elija Butler Band
Daniel Day Gallery
Diedra & the Ruff Pro Band
Legends
Wed. 06
Capitol Oyster Bar, Montgomery
Eden Brent
Glen and Libba
Satterfield’s
Mon. 11
Open Jam
Microwave Dave
Red Wolf
Mama Annie’s, Huntsville
Wed. 13
Thurs. 07
Glen and Libba
Satterfield’s
Open Jam
Red Wolf
Microwave Dave
Bandito Southside, Huntsville
Thurs. 14
Boz Scaggs
Alys Stephens Center
Microwave Dave
Max Russell
and The Shakedown Kings
Doug Demming
and Dennis Gruling
Mon. 18
Microwave Dave
Wed. 20
Open Jam
Sam & Greg’s, Madison
Fri. 22
Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Daniel Day Gallery
B.J. Reed
Shelby County Arts Council,
Columbiana
Thomas Trussell
City Vineyard
Microwave Dave
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Fri. 29
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UnChain the Melody
Crawmama’s, Guntersville
Sat. 30
Blues Rock n’ Soul Party /
Sassy Brown Band and
2BLU & The Lucky Stiffs
WorkPlay
Elyjah Butler Band
Microwave Dave
Below the Radar, Huntsville
Sun. 31
Magic City Blues Society, Inc.
MAGIC CITY BLUES SOCIETY, INC
P.O. Box 59506 • Birmingham, Alabama 35259
Daniel Day Gallery
You can find us ONLINE:
www.magiccityblues.org
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Daniel Day Gallery
Madison Station, Madison
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Red Wolf
Greene Street Market, Huntsville
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Alys Stephens Center
Winston Ramble
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Please list members’ names for membership cards:
River Dan
Thurs. 21
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Keb’ Mo with
G Love & Special Sauce
Red Wolf
Microwave Dave
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Microwave Dave
Brick, Decatur
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Randall Bramblet
Micky Fins, West Ocean City, MD
Boots Pizzeria
Daniel Day Gallery
Matt Willis
& Taylor Honeycutt
MCBS Junkyard Juke
Cadillac Funk
Microwave Dave
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Mon. 25
Colin Linden
City Vineyard
1. fill out
Jeff Jensen Band
Sat. 16
Micky Fins, West Ocean City, MD
Bourbon & Bleach
Sun. 24
Travis Posey
George Griffin and
The Firebirds
Daniel Day Gallery
Fri. 15
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