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The BluesAudience
April/May 2016 #218
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Performance schedules and Blues
news from the most talented local
New England Blues Bands and
swinging Blues Clubs.
Carl Querfurth,
very sought after
Blues trombone player, engineer,
producer, and general bon vivant
talks to Art Simas
TJ Wheeler talks
about the rise of
Cigar Box Guitar.
Blues news
and points of view
Carl is everywhere top photo is from The Blues Audience Anniversary Party,
photo by Diana Shonk, (l) Art Simas took the one at the Gardner Ale House
below is from a show with Jimmy Vaughan and with Loaded Dice at the
Blue B Que with the late Danny Vitale on vocals. photo by Diana Shonk
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Roomful of Blues, Carl is also a
producer, composer and arranger.
By Art Simas
Mudcat, Neil, Anthony, Ray, Otis Grand, Doug, Ray Scona, Doug and Carl in Beruit
If your son or daughter has long arms, don’t be surprised if they
are chosen to play a trombone when it comes time to “pick an
instrument day” in elementary school. That’s what happened to
Carl Querfurth of Peterborough, NH, on that fateful day that
determined his musical destiny.Young Carl really wanted to
play trumpet, but, because of his excessive sleeve length, he was
handed a trombone, some lip balm and instructed
to practice, practice, practice. And he did.
Born into a musical family, everyone played
one or multiple instruments, Querfurth followed
his predestined future playing in the high school
band and got together with his friends to fool
around with their instruments. “That was when
I met Matt McCabe (piano) and Skip Philbrick
(guitar), Peter Shonk (harmonica and vocals),
Addie Thomas (bass), Bill “Foot” Sandbergen
(drums), and Sean Benjamin (guitar). They
were nice enough to put up with me because I
recently heard some tapes from those days, and
man, I was pretty bad.”
All of them would go on to pursue
professional careers in New England. “We called
ourselves the Fat City Blues Band and practiced
in a garage in Dublin, NH, and played at the
Photo by Klem Klimeck
local ski areas and clubs,” Querfurth said. They
also ventured down to Providence and played at the original Met
Café, which had about 6 bar stools and a total square footage of
a typical hotel bathroom. It was a great little joint and it was (not
surprisingly) packed every night.
Querfurth, McCabe, Phibrick and bass player Addie Thomas
eventually moved into an apartment in Providence around 19761977. Rent, split between four people, was pretty cheap in those
days, so they had the good fortune to go to clubs in the Boston
area and see Hound Dog Taylor at Joe’s Place, Willie Dixon,
James Cotton, Koko Taylor, and many others. This was also the
time the youngsters met the late, great David Maxwell (piano)
Johnny Nicolas, Kaz Kazanoff (sax), Sister Sarah Brown (bass
guitarist and songwriter), and dozens of other musicians who
were part of the Boston blues scene.
Around 1978 Duke Robillard of Roomful of Blues called
Carl and asked him if he’d like to join the crew. Robillard was
thinking of beefing up the horn section and Carl was on his
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short list as the trombone player. “And of course I accepted,” he
said. “During the same timeframe, Doug James, the baritone sax
player, was leaving to join the National Lampoon Band, which
was going on the road to support the magazine. So I started
working with Roomful full time for about a year,” Carl said.
In 1979, Roomful wanted to go back to their original lineup,
which meant no trombone in the band.
“So I went back to playing with the guys in
Providence, the band Blue Lights which had
Peter Shonk on harp and vocals, Matt McCabe
on keys, Rob Nelson and Skip Philbrick on
guitars, Fred Schifino on sax and drummer
Jackie Howarth, and either Ken “Doc” Grace or
Addie Thomas on bass.”
After a few more years of local success
in the Providence area, Peter Shonk left the
band, so another incarnation was formed. This
time it was Loaded Dice with Rob Nelson,
Matt McCabe, Bob Soiot on harp and vocals
(who also contributed as a songwriter), and a
rhythm section with interchangeable parts. In
fact, Querfurth played drums for 6 years (19821988), after receiving some drum lessons and
putting in some long hours of practice on the
kit. “At least I could keep a beat – and that’s the
most important thing for a drummer,” he said.
During his time with Loaded Dice, Querfurth also was
dabbling in sound engineering, a skill that, combined with
producing recordings, would come in mighty handy over the
next decade.
“Greg Piccolo,
who had taken
over as bandleader
of Roomful, when
Duke Robillard
left, he called to
ask me if I could
do sound for the
second of three
gigs they had
on one day in
1988,” Querfurth photo by Heidi Nelson
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said. “So I said sure … and on
the break a few of us, including
trombonist Porky Cohen, were
hanging out in my van. And
Porky told me he was retiring
from Roomful. So he asked me,
‘You want the gig?’ “Porky said,
‘Don’t worry about a thing.
I’ll tell the other guys that they
should hire you.’ And that’s how
I joined Roomful a second time,
this time taking over for Porky
Cohen.”
So on the road he went for a
decade-long adventure with
Roomful – 10 years of non-stop
Loaded Dice 1982
excursions to just about every
state in the union, Europe dozens of
times, witnessing different continents and
cultures, and a ton of stories of life on the
road with a real traveling band.
Some of this travel in the early
years, at least in the U.S., was done
in a windowless Bookmobile, also
affectionately called “Das Book,” because
it was basically a submarine on wheels.
Then the mode of transportation was
an airport shuttle bus, and finally a real
Blue Lights Blues band- (l-r) Fred Schifino, Skip Philbrick,
tour bus in 1995. “It had primitive bunk Peter Shonk, Jackie Howarth, Carl Querfurth, Rob Nelson,
beds and maybe four or five seats in the Addie Thomas in 1979
back. Man, that was one ugly vehicle to be
riding cross-country,” Querfurth recalled,
which at that time was about every two or
three weeks.
Two years into the road odyssey with
Roomful, Carl married Tory McCagg.
Married or not, the road was his home for
the next eight years.
During this tenure with Roomful
he was executive producer, mixer, and
arranger for Dance All Night in
1994; executive producer and arranger
for Turn It On Turn It Up in 1995;
executive producer, composer and mixer
for Porky Cohen’s album, Rhythm
& Bones in 1996; executive producer
Roomful of Blues (l-r) Doug James, John Rossi,
and composer for Under One Roof
Matt McCabe, CHris Vachon, Sugar Ray,
Kenny Grace, Bob Enos, Rich Lataille and Carl.
in 1997; and executive producer for
Roomful of Christmas, also in
Millinder, Doc Severinsen, the former
1997. For fans of Porky Cohen, Querfurth bandleader for the “Tonight Show starring
said you can hear him soloing on a couple Johnny Carson,” and even W.C. Handy.
tracks with R&B sax great Big John Greer. (Note: This album is an absolute treasure,
Cohen’s record RHYTHM &
not only because of the great music
BONES is extremely important because
featuring Porky and many Greater Boston
this was the first album where he was
musicians, but for its 32 pages of liner
the bandleader after decades of playing
notes written by Bob Bell, the longtime
with many of the jazz giants in the Big
manager of Roomful of Blues who spent
Band era. Porky began his career at 18
more than 20 years on the road with
and played with such luminaries as Benny
Roomful. The historical pictures of a
Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Wynonie
young Porky posing and playing with the
Harris, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Lucky
greats is a historical record of a bygone era
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featuring one of New England’s
greatest musicians.) Bell writes,
“Porky disdained sleeping in a bunk
(in the ‘Das Book’ bookmobile).
He’d sit in one of the four bus seats,
or in the passenger seat next to
the driver. Wherever he sat, if he
wasn’t asleep, he’d talk. Stories of
gigs with Charlie Barnet (a famous
bandleader), stories of the Savoy
Ballroom in New York, stories
about Lucky Millinder’s band …
monologues on Jack Teagarden,
the great trombonist whom Porky
called ‘The Master Painter,’ Louis
Armstrong, the problem with
elephants when working the circus
… the subject matters were literally
limitless. Needless to say, I got to know
Porky very well.”
Although Rhythm & Bones was
made into a record, Querfurth also has
music from Porky Cohen and Harold
Betters, a well-respected trombone
player from the Cleveland area, which
have not yet been mastered into an
album. So Porky and Betters played in
a studio for Carl. “I have the tapes and
it’s all ready to go … and I even put a
name to it, Smokin’ Bones. “I didn’t
do anything with it because I didn’t
have the money at the time. I tried to
pitch it to Rounder, Fantasy and 3 other
labels – Delmark, Blind Pig, but nobody
was interested. “If I did it myself, I felt
that I wouldn’t do it justice. So it’s one of
those things that I have to dig it out of
my closet. It’s got Marty Ballou on bass,
Marty Richards on drums, Matt McCabe
on piano, and Rob Nelson on guitar. It’s
really a great little record, a little on the
jazzy side but a great little record … and it
might be right up Duke’s alley,” (referring
to the constantly in-demand producer and
phenomenal guitarist).
“So after Roomful I worked with
Jimmy T-99 Nelson, whom I met in
Houston when I was with Roomful on
one of our trips. When we were there,
I mentioned to someone that one of
my favorite Texas guys was Jimmy T99
Nelson… and someone said, ‘Hey, he’s
playing tonight across town.’ “So I hopped
in a cab and got to the club and sure
enough, there’s Nelson with a nice little
blues band. I talked to him afterward …
told him I always liked his old stuff when
he did “T99,” “Unlock the Lock,” “Meet
Me with Your Black Dress On,” and I asked
him if he would be interested in doing
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Notes from the Publisher- Winter Blues
YES.YES.YES. We made it to spring without a
bunch of horrible snowstorms. It was like living
in North Carolina. Now we can get to the hard
work of enjoying the spring and summer in style.
We have lots of interesting reading in this issue.
IN THIS ISSUE
Art Simas has written about one of my favorite
people in the world, Carl Querfurth, trombone
player, record producer and genuinely nice person. I don’t think I could find anyone to argue
with that. I first met Carl in 1972, he was just
out of highschool, living in the nearby town of
Peterborough, NH in a family of very talented
musicians. His mother was my flute teacher (she
told me that kissing is the worst thing for flute
players, huh? no wonder I don’t play flute today.)
His sister, Mary is a clairinet player, in a few professional orchestras and Billy, his brother, could
play some serious boogie woogie piano. Since
then Carl has literally traveled the world as a
professional musician. He helped run Roomful
of Blues for ten years, and all along he has been
sought after by many great musicians to enhance
their Blues recordings. Carl produced a record
for his idol Porky Cohen that is very sweet and
he brought singer Jimmy T-99 Nelson out of retirement to create a lasting legacy for him with
two recordings, Art will tell you about that.
Ed Vadas passed away last month and I must
admit it was a shock to me, I thought I would get
a chance to see him in the spring. “Never wait”
is the moral to that story. I couldn’t go to his
fundraiser so I missed my last chance to see him.
Art Simas went, and I am happy we got an article
about Ed into the Feb/March issue. I will never
forget Ed. He was a force to be reckoned with.
He made me sing with him whenever I went to
see him play live. He loved my silly song about
the Moo Cow. He encouraged me and helped
me keep going when I was in the throws of the
deadline, for this newsletter. He always made me
laugh, sometimes it was because he was so out
there, and now that he is actually out there I wish
he would call me up and tell me off.
BLUES AWARD NEWS
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CANTAB JAM
Cecil Rednellac relayed this news flash: March
20th The Cantab JAM returns.. That’s good news,
another place to go to see and play live music.
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones are up for a bunch of
Blues Awards... Sugar Ray & The Bluetones for
Band, Monster Mike Welch-Instrumentalist-Guitar,
Anthony Geraci Pinetop Perkins Piano Player, Michael “Mudcat” Ward- Instrumentalist-Bass
Anthony’s CD Fifty Shades of Blue on Delta
Groove Music Anthony Geraci and the Boston
Blues All-Stars are up for Traditional Blues Album,
Album of the Year, and Song of the Year “Fifty
Shades of Blue.” Also Sugar Ray and the Bluetones
were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of
Fame on Feb 12. Ceremonies to be held on April
24 at The Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket, RI followed by performances at The Met
Cafe, also in Pawtucket.
WELCOME A “NEW” CLUB
Pitman’s Freight ROOM
We are very pleased to bring you Pitman’s schedule. Located in the center of the Lakes Region in
downtown Laconia, NH. Take a gorgeous drive
north to a comfortable location. It’s a bit unassuming from the outside, but this former freight
depot has been completely renovated with modern amenities and a large dance floor. Any occasion: weddings, banquets, or musical events will be
enhanced by its rustic charm and antique furniture
creating a warm comfortable atmosphere. Pitman’s
is also rapidly becoming the premier location for
arts and entertainment in the Lakes Region. We
host live music every week with outstanding musicians from all over the country. Seating is general
admission and BYOB. We’re saving you a seat.
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TERRY O’REILLY’S JAM
O’Reilly’s is at 45 Union Street, Newton, MA
they have regular Sunday shows, 5 to 9 PM, Chris
Stovall Brown and Bob Dallas anchor it on guitar
and drums. They line up a special guest headliner
every week. It is a nice little neighborhood Pub,
always a great time. Live music every weekend.
Wednesday is Newton Open Jam sign up at 7pm
the jam starts at 8pm.
New Blues Comic strip Debuts - Me and
The Devil Blues.
Grego Anderson has had a long career illustrating the Blues - founder of Mojohand.com,
the world’s largest online Blues folk art gallery
and apparel store, he has sold over 1000 paintings
of Blues legends worldwide since 2001. Grego’s
unique folk art illustration style has gotten him
work on major magazine covers, concert posters, ad campaigns and most recently a series of
beer labels with a large east coast Brewery. Now,
he has turned his attention to a daily comic strip
“Me and the Devil Blues” the day to day story of
modern day Blues man “Blind Hambone Jefferson”
who sold his soul to the Devil in 2015 hoping to
become famous... but things aren’t going quite as
planned. You can follow the daily strip online at
meandthedevilblues.com. Store: www.
mojohand.
If you “JOIN” The Blues Audience FACEBOOK
group page there are lots of gigs posted there as
well. Thank you for your continued support.
I have been having a lot of pain in my left knee (for
about 5 years) which has kept me “in” lately, but I am
getting it replaced in June and hope to be back out
there with you all. Please get out and keep the scene
going for me while I am healing
- Diana
CB Gitty and the Cigar Box Guitar Phenomena
C.B. Gitty’s, the Cigar Box instrument super
store, one of the the world’s leading manufacturers, is located in Gonic, NH. Though
you rarely see them for sale in mainstream
music stores, over the last decade or so
there has been quite an underground Cigar
Box Guitar revival happening worldwide.
I met the mastermind behind the Cigar
Box Gitty factory about a year ago when
I was taking a lunch break, from a Blues
in the School residency I was doing in an
alternative school located just across from
CB Gitty’s. A gentleman hurrying out of the
main entrance of the restored shoe factory
approached me (the school is on a different
floor of that building). He asked me if I had
a few minutes, he introduced himself as
Ben “Gitty” Baker, the proud proprietor of
Cigar Box Crafter Supplies, instrument factory. Well...so much for lunch. Ben took me
on a tour of his store and I was as captivated by the cavalcade of instruments as if I
was Charley in the Chocolate Factory, being
led around by Willy Wonka. Maybe “Bubba
Smith” from Forest Gump would be a more
fitting comparison. Just as Bubba had a 100
different shrimp dishes, Ben had funkified
Cigar Box rigs, including a wide variety of
assorted 3,4 and 6 string Cigar Box guitars,
some fretted, some not, some instead of
actual cigar boxes had for resonators, bedpans, shovels, gas cans, mufflers...he also
has a few basses, and Cigar Box ukuleles,
banjos, Diddley Bows, Canjos, Cigar Box
percussion instruments and even fiddles.
The next thing he told me, surprised me.
I was doing a BITS residency in the same old
mill as my school. Ben explained that part
of his interest in playing and building Cigar
Box instruments came out of being lured
into a workshop tent by the strange, whining, and human like, singing sounds of some
kind of slide instrument, several years ago,
at the White Mt. Blues & Boogie Festival
in Thornton, N.H. After entering the tent
he saw a guy with a thin board, with an
Altoids tin serving as a combined bridge
and resonator (which also contained a small
pickup) a single tuning peg for the 16 gauge
“B” string, and a small wooden “nut” which
the sting was secured on with the bridge.
The player as it turned out was moi. Ben
reminded me how the main stage act was
playing so loud that I eventually just had
to start playing my Diddly Bow slide guitar
(just to those attending my show) on top
of their songs. If you can’t beat’em join
‘em. Anyhow, we both got a laugh out of
his reflection and I was certainly amazed by
this memory of that moment.
Ben also conveyed some of his official
Cigar Box philosophy “I feel that in today’s custom, high end guitar market, the
vintage guitar market and even some of
the imports are way beyond what a lot of
people can afford. The Cigar Box market
allows almost anybody a very affordable
way to own and be able to learn how to
play on an inexpensive instrument without
a sacrifice of sound quality. If a customer
still can’t afford a pre made guitar they
by TJ Wheeler
have the choice to buy a kit and
assemble it themselves, or buy the
individual parts and build it from
scratch.”
I have to testify to the accuracy
of that statement. I witnessed Ben
build a complete 3 string Cigar
Box guitar in under 30 minutes at
last January’s New Orleans Cigar
Box Guitar festival, right in the
heart of Frenchmen St.. Ben had
a good crowd of Cigar Box guitar
novices, other builders, musicians
and curious folks watch his nimble
fingers put it together right before
their eyes and then he played some
oh so sweet sounds out of it, as
soon as the strings were tuned and
stretched.
Bow) were some of the first heard sounds of
New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar festivalthe Blues played on a stringed instrument.
The festival was a 3 day affair in January
I first became of aware of Diddley Bow and
with a very diverse array of styles, includother Cigar Box guitars after seeing Loning some very, down home country Blues
nie Pitchford at the New Orleans Jazz &
by the likes of Jontavius Willis; a Folk/
Heritage Festival. There are some great
Blues mixed gumbo by Amazie Adams, Hot
videos of him on YouTube. I started playing
Jazz by the New Orleans Swinging Gypsies;
them about twenty years ago. It’s overa very polished R&B oriented set by the
whelmingly the favorite of most students
Stacy Mitchart Band; house rockin’ meets
in my Blues in the School programs. The
Cigar Box metal from Shane Speal’s Snake
kids especially like it when the Diddley Bow
Oil Band and many other talented Cigar Box talks to them. Through my BITS sojourns
aficionados and musicians. A great time was to Brazil and Ghana I saw players playing
had by ALL.
a variety of 1 stringed instruments, some
Ben also is the publisher of the definitive
that looked almost indentical to some of
on line Cigar Box group called Cigar Box Na- my Diddley Bows. One player in Brazil had a
tion. There you can get some great insights three string Diddley Bow and played it with
about the history of the instruments, the
three slides on his left hand fingers.
current Cigar Box revival, links to a wide
In closing, here’s a quote from Lighting
assortment of other players and builders,
Hopkin’s on the subject: “I felt the blues
tips, listing of other Cigar Box Festivals and was in me, so I went ahead and made me
concerts.
a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a
I speculate that Cigar Box Guitars and
round hole in the middle of it… and got me
other Cigar Box stringed instruments (ina tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played
cluding their one string cousin the Diddley
from then on.”
While I was writing my series Back to the future of the Blues, Corey Harris (Blues
& related Roots Musician) gave me permission to include some of his writings from
his Blog. The comments I selected were beyond the space allotted so here they
are.... Some thought provoking comments indeed. - TJ Wheeler
“The blues was the voice of black people’s
lives. It still is. It has never stopped evolving and
changing. Whatever happened to black people,
happened in the music. And since black culture
is obsessively fresh, as soon as the new influence became standard, a new standard was
applied. Black music is that tree that is always
growing. Africa is the root, the blues is the
trunk and the other styles from jazz to gospel,
rock n’ roll and hip-hop are the branches. Many
white blues fanatics and players not only adopt
the music, they adopt ‘blues’ ways of dressing
and speech in a way that can seem like a trip
down a memory lane that they never really
knew or understand. Though black culture is
fresh and innovative, what white culture is presenting as blues is often no more than nostalgia.
As one white interviewer once told me, ‘you
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recreate the old blues so well. Don’t you wish
you lived in nineteen thirties Mississippi?’ My
answer: HELL NO... There is a tendency among
white blues fans to forget that blues was a reaction to the brutality black people experienced
daily at the hands of the white power structure.
People lived and died the blues. Though there
were also good times, the music was a tool to
overcome oppression and depression.
To put it simply, the music existed in Africa
and in America long before the white man
called it the blues. They just didn’t know what
else to call it. In the early days, white colonials
and their descendants in the United States
wrote of the ‘strange’, ‘eerie’, or ‘wild’ sounds
the Africans sung during work, recreation
or praise. It frightened them, but they were
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springtime makes it easy to go out and see live music. forget the cold weather
S-April 2
Sugar RAy &
The Bluetones
Su-April 24
House Party- Kingston, MA
(Bluestones were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame on Feb 12)
Ceremonies to be held on April 24 at The
Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket, RI
followed by performances at The Met Café.
Su-April 10 Tampa Bay Blues Festival
Tampa, Florida
MAY
Th-May 5
The Blues Music Awards
Memphis, TN
F-May 13
New England Blues Summit
Cape Cod Resort-Hyannis, MA
May 18-20 Hawaii (Islands and venues TBA)
Su-May 22 Doheny Blues Festival
Dana Point, CA
S-May 28
The Bull Run- Shirley, MA
The Boston Blues All-Stars- Sugar Ray & the Bluetones featuring Anthony Geraci and special guests Michelle Willson
and Darrell Nulish
Su-May 29 (12-4) Paradise City Arts Festival-
Northampton, MA
Get our new CD LIVING TEAR TO TEAR at gigs
sugarrayandthebluetones.com
For bookings call Ray at 401-284-6404
TOKYO TRAMPS
S-April 10
Raynham Flea Market, Raynham, MA- Geezers Garage Night Music Stand
S-April 17
Raynham Flea Market, Raynham, MA- Geezers Garage Night Music Stand
We’ve got a new drummer and we are ready!
We are currently working on our New Album
Stay tuned for updates and More shows to be
announced at our web site.
Please visit our websites to see our updated
schedule..
The latest album
Rollin’ Rockland Blues Hour
is on Sale at our web site.
www.tokyotramps.com
www.facebook.com/tokyotramps
www.reverbnation.com/tokyotramps
www.sonicbids.com/tokyotramps
Booking : email us at
[email protected]
Or call us at 617-775-0750
The Love Dogs
PROFESSOR HARP
Strange Brew- Manchester, NH
Shoreline Swing- E. Lyme, CT
Swing City- Cambridge, MA
MAY
S-May 7
C- Note- Hull, MA
Su-May 8 Dance 2 Swing @ The Elks’- Leominster, MA
F-May 13 (4-7) New England Blues Summit
Opening Party- Hyannis, MA
F-May 20 Budget Buddies Fundraiser- Chelmsford, MA
S-May 21(7) Acton Jazz Cafe’ Commemorative Party- Westford, MA
F-April 27
Jasper Hill Tavern- Holliston, MA
JUNE
F-June 3
Black Box Theater- Franklin, MA
S-June 4
Theodore’s- Springfield, MA
For more info:thelovedogs.com
S-April 16 The 5th Element- Newport, RI
S-April 17 (4-8) Alone w/Tom Williams guest-
fronting for Michelle Rockwell Band
at Players- Rockland, MA
F-April 22
Theodore’s- Springfield, MA
S-April 23
Fairmont Grille- Hyde Park, MA
S-April 30
Stomping Ground- Putnam, CT
MAY
S-May 14
The Local Café- at Nelson’s Candy Shop, Wilton, NH
Th-May 26 Harp with members of the
Houserockers- Pete’s Grill, Quincy, MA
F-April 1
S-April 16
S-April 30
THE DOGHOUSE ALLSTARS
Featuring Eddie Scheer, Ricky Russell,
Mario Perrett, Randy Bramwell & Special Guests.
S-April 23 O’Leary’s- Brookline, MA
F-April 29 The Cantab- Cambridge, MA
S-May 21 O’Leary’s- Brookline, MA
S-May 28 Swing City - Cambridge, MA
EDDIE SCHEER’S TUESDAY NIGHT ALL STARS
Featuring the BEST Blues and R&B musicians
from all over New England, the U.S. and the
World. Every Tue 8-11:30 at The CoribbBrighton Center, MA Great food, no cover, and
you never know WHO might show up.
Upcoming guests:
4/5 “Last Date” w/Scotty Shetler & Bruce
Millard, 4/12 John Colby, Bev Rohlehr & Chris
Stovall Brown, 4/19 Big Jack Ward, Jimmy Ryan
& Larry Luddecke, 4/26 Johnny Bluehorn & The
Doghouse Allstars, 5/3 Cheryl Arena, Danielle
Miraglia & Cheryl Aruda, Fri 5/6 Special Friday
Show w/The Charles River Reprobates,
5/10Quenby Iandorio & Friends,
5/17 International Guitar Summit w/Roberto
Morbioli & Ricky “King” Russell, 5/24 Willie
J. Laws & Mario Perrett, 5/31 Ken Clark, Matt
Stubbs & Scotty Shetler
for more info:
facebook.com/tuesdayallstars
DUKE ROBILLARD
F-April 8
Treme- Islip NY
S-April 9
Crossroads Coffeehouse
North Andover, MA
Th-April 14 Iridium-NYC
JULY
Th- July 7
Historical Society Under
the Elms- Providence, RI
For booking: Blue Mountain Artists Booking
www.bmatours.com/
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available on our web site
www.professorharp.com for more info
[email protected]
willie J. Laws, Jr.
S-April 2 (8) The Stomping Ground,
Putnam CT
Su-April 3 (4) The Villa, W. Warwick RI
Willie as guest with VRBE
F-April 8 (8:30)Terry O’Reilly’s Irish Pub,
Newton MA
S-April 9
Theodore’s Springfield MA
Willie J with Diane Blue and Friends
F-April 22 (8:30)
Terry O’Reilly’s Irish Pub,
Newton MA
S-April 30 (8) Larcom Theater- Rockin’ Blues Show with Danielle Miraglia, The Delta Generators, & Willie J Laws Band
MAY
M-May 2 (7) Time Out Pub, Rockland ME
F-May 6
Willie J Laws at The
Knickerbocker with the All Stars- Westerly, RI
S-May 7
Back Page, Lowell MA
Su-May 15 (4)The Villa, W. Warwick RI
Willie as guest with VRBE
S-May 21
Theodore’s Springfield MA
T-May 21 (8) The Corrib Pub, Brighton MA
Willie J with Eddie’s Tuesday Night All Stars
S-May 28 (8) The Tarragon Bar, Hotel
Providence, Providence RI Willie J with Joe Potenza and friends
The Next Page, Weymouth MA “Therapy
Thursday” with the Willie J Laws Band and
great guest artists sitting in.
8pm to midnight (jam from 9pm to 11pm)
Now every week the Willie J Laws Band is
joined by Anthony Geraci on keys Thursdays:
Th-April 14 Anthony Geraci on keys
Th-April 21 Sam Gentile on guitar
Th-April 28 Stephen Todesco on guitar
May (check web site)
For bookings call (603) 986-9161
[email protected]
gear, let your hair hang down, go out, Grab a friend and take them with you.
CHRIS FITZ BAND
Every Sunday Chris Fitz & Steve Peobody host
Sunday Funday with a who’s who of great New
England guests, Brodie’s Seaport, Salem, MA
4:30-8:00
*EVERY THURSDAY Chris Fitz & Steve Dineen
host “Fitzy’s Acoustic Hoedown @ Jasper Hill
Café & Bistro” - Holliston, MA. 8-11pm
ROOMFUL OF BLUES
Th-April 7 (8) Bethesda Jazz & Blues Supper
Club- Bethesda , MD
Co-bill with John Nemeth
F-April 8 (8) The State Theatre- Culpeper, VA
Su-April 10 (8)The Tin Pan- Richmond, VA
F-April 22 (7) Regattabar- Cambridge, MA
Check out our web site
chrisfitzband.com
for “tbas” and updates on gigs.
[email protected]
617-416-9048
Su-May 29 (7:30)
Gloucester, MA
MAY
Cruiseport Gloucester-
JUNE
S-June 4 (4) Connecticut College
New London, CT
To book the band call Midwood Entertainment 704-900-1965
Micah Davidson Owner/Agent. Email: [email protected]
TEN FOOT POLECATS
Peter “hi-fi” ward
Every Friday in April: Noon to 2 pm, with Ron
Sloan, BirchTree Bread Co., 138 Green St.,
Worcester, MA
S-April 9
with Babe Pino, Padavano’s
Place- Shrewsbury St., Worcester, MA
S-April 16 (8) with Babe Pino, White Eagle Polish Club-Green St., Worcester, MA
S-April 23 (11-2pm) BirchTree Bread Co.,
Green St., Worcester, MA
Every Friday in May: Noon to 2 pm, with Ron
Sloan, BirchTree Bread Co., 138 Green St.,
Worcester, MA
F-May 6 (8) with Babe Pino, White Eagle
Polish Club- 114 Green St., Worcester, MA
S-June 4 (7:30) Mai Cramer Blues Tribute
Regent Theatre, Arlington, MA
For booking and info contact Peter Ward
[email protected]
TJ Wheeler
Jazz & Roots related Education for student
from kindergarden thru to University.
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of his
KBA award winning program Hope, Heroes &
the Blues, My goal is to reach 100,000 new
students before the end of 2016.
evil Gal Michelle Willson
F-April 1
Back Page- Lowell MA
MAY
S-May 28
The Bull Run- Shirley, MA
special guests Michelle Willson with The Boston Blues All-Stars- Sugar Ray & the Bluetones featuring Anthony Geraci
Start your day in a musicalicious way with
Michelle on 90.5FM WICN - Worcester, MA
The Blend M-F • 6-9AM
streaming live at wicn.org
Get our new album FORTUNE COOKIE
at gigs or visit www.evilgal.com
For Bookings [email protected]
luther “gtr. Jr.” johnson
& The Magic ROckers
S-April 16 Luther’s Birthday Bash
Chan’s- Woonsocket, RI
S-June 4
Mai Cramer Benefit at The Regent Theatre- Arlington, MA
July 16
Private party
Westbrookfield, MA
S-August 6 Barnful of Blues
New Boston, NH
F-April 1
The Barn - Pawlet VT
S-April 9
PA’s Lounge - Somerville MA
w/ Rollover Baby, Cannibal Ramblers
and Sonny Jim Clifford
Booking: [email protected]
tenfootpolecats.com
Come check us out at
www.tenfootpolecats.com
Also join aboard our ship at Facebook,
Twitter, Reverbnation, SoundCloud, Itunes,
Bandcamp, Amazon, Rhapsody, You Tube and
other social media dungeons.
arthur james & band
M-May 2
The Gardner Ale House
“Blue Monday” Parker St., Gardner, MA
New Solo CD - Me, Myself & I can now be ordered thru the website or bought at the gigs.
Bookings & Info:http://arthurjames.org/
e-mail [email protected]
cell 603-801-8169
For program info
tjwheeler.com or call 978- 973-1709.
Presenting assorted Blues in the School
programs including special needs population,
alternative schools, libraries.
Typical showtime is 9pm
unless otherwise noted. For example
if it is an 8pm showtime it will be noted as (8).
Booking now for the 2015 -2016 school year.
TJ Wheeler - Jazz, Blues and roots-related
musician and educator.
978-973-1709
[email protected]
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CHAN’S
Main St., Woonsocket, RI
Great food and music, directions and tix and
more info at www.chanseggrollsandjazz.com
Shows start at unless otherwise noted
F-April 1
James Montgomery 8 pm $20
S-April 2
Jazz songbird Donna Byrne
Th-April 7
Champions Music Series- the Cadillac Horns featuring
Pete Henderson 7 pm $15
F-April 8
Lone Star Golden State Blues Review 8 pm $25
Featuring Texas guitar slinger Anson Funderburgh, Jump blues guitar master Little Charlie Baty and
harmonica virtuoso Mark Hummel
S-April 9
Dan Moretti & Brazilia
featuring Greg Abate 8 pm $20
F-April 15
John Primer 8 pm $20
S-April 16
Luther ‘Guitar Jr.’ Johnson &
the Magic Rockers Luther’s 77th Birthday Bash.
Th-April 21 RI Music Hall of Fame Jazz Award with Greg Abate and Carol Sloane
7 pm $15 Doors open at 5:30
F-April 22
Sarah Potenza 8 pm $15
S-April 23
Bucky Lewis 8 pm $12
F/S-April 29+30 Anthony Gomes $20
May
F-May 6 Honey Island Swamp Band $30
S-May 7
Alexis P. Suter 8 pm $20
F-May 13
Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood $20
S-May 14
Neal Vitullo & the Vipers $14
F-May 20
Commander Cody 8 pm $20
S-May 21
Fat City Band 8 pm $15
F-May 27
Chris Duarte 8 pm $20
S-May 28
Jimmy ‘2 Suites’ Capone
Birthday Bash 8 pm $20
JUNE
Th/F-June 2+3 Samantha Fish 8pm $30 10pm$25 both$35
Tu-June 7
Ana Popovic 8pm$35 10pm$30
both$40
Tickets and pricing on
web site chanseggrollsandjazz.com.
Limited seating advanced tickets
suggested call 401-765-1900.
major Credit Cards accepted
pitman’s freight ROOM
Local’s Cafe AT
Nelson’s Candies
94 New Salem Street in Laconia, NH
(603) 527-0043 • 603-494-3334
BYOB and schedule a private party
65 Main Street Wilton, NH
603-654-5030
Show starts at 7 House band opens
BYOB.
See you in the spring with artists like
Luther “Gtr. Jr.” Johnson,
Willie J. Laws, Chris Fitz and more.
F-April 15
Bobby Radcliff
MAY
S-May 14
Undaunted: Professor Harp
S-July 23
Willie J. Laws band
S-April 2
F-April 8
F-April 15
S-April 23
JP Soars and the Redhots
The Blues Tonight Band
Brian Templeton Blues Band
Chris O’Leary Band
MAY
Th-May 5
Rhythm Future Quartet
F-May 6
The Peacheaters
F-May 13
Truffle
S-May 14
Live Comedy
S-May 21
Swing Dance with
the Tall Granite Big Band
F-May 27
Lucy Wise Australian Folk Singer
Info and tickets available on
Pitmans Freight Room’s website.
Get out and support live music .
Tickets available at Nelson’s Candies
To Reserve by Charge Card
www.pitmansfreightroom.com
(603) 527-0043 • 603-494-3334
The Tap
100 Washington St., Haverhill, MA
Please check our web site
for events and the schedule.
More info at: www.tapbrewpub.com
Info and more 978-374-1117
CHILI HEAD BBQ
320 West Center St.
West Bridgewater, MA 02379
(508) 941-0707
Live Blues Tuesday through Sunday night,
featuring owner Shor’ty Billups and the Foxx
Band every Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday evenings.
Special guests Tuesday, Wednesday
and Sunday nights.
Open for lunch and dinner
Tuesday through Sunday.
Full barbecue menu including ribs,
pulled pork, brisket, chicken, chili,
cole slaw, mac and cheese, Hattie’s
cole slaw and peach cobbler.
Take out available.
Gardner
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74 Parker St., Gardner, MA 978-669-0122
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“Blue Monday” at the Ale House
7-10 no cover
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M-April 4 The Double D’s
M-April 11 Juke
M-April 18 B11
M-April 25 Wildcat O’Halloran
MAY
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M-May 9 Blue Switch
M-May 6 The Bees Deluxe
M-May 23 Barrett Anderson
M-May 30 Juke
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attracted to it. Even the most racist slaveowner or overseer was a
regular visitors to the Africans’ quarters, to listen to the music and
have a ‘good time.’ Africans who could play the fiddle well were favored and hired out by their masters to play for whites. These white
people could still comfortably despise black people and be mesmerized by their music, all at the same time. This saga of attraction and
repulsion, love and hate, desire and disgust, characterizes white mainstream America’s perception of black people, from colonial times to
the present day.
We are all free to play whatever styles we enjoy playing. Music
is truly universal in the sense that all human beings respond to its
language. But saying music is universal does not mean that all people
feel the same piece of music in the same way. It doesn’t mean that all
music is the same. Neither does it mean that anyone can play it, in the
same way as those who have a blood connection to the culture. Just
as a Chinese man may love to play mariachi music does not mean that
it has the same meaning to him as to a Mexican.... No one is losing
sleep over white people wanting to play the blues. Playing music is a
good thing. Everyone may feel sad in life, but not everyone gets the
blues in the same way as black folk. This does not mean that white
people can’t play the blues. It simply means that it is not at all the
same thing when they sing it. White blues lovers who want to sing and
play in the style should stop trying to sound black. Keep it real and
sing like who you are. Be true to yourself. Express yourself, not your
imitation of someone from another culture. This is what true artists
do. We all have a message, according to who we are. No, we are not
all the same, and that is a very good thing. A white singer can never
sing the same songs as a black singer and have the songs keep the
same meaning. The reverse is also true. Why? Culture. Black people
in America have inherited a long history of cultural progress in reaction to real life shit. That shit still matters. Culture and heritage is the
dirt that the blues grows out of. That culture and heritage is black. The
blues is black music.
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Photos from the top
down:
Karen,
Gretchen Bostrom,
Lisa Marie.
For years, I have depended on an old
dog-eared paperback I got back in the
1980s. It is called “Blues Who’s Who” by
Sheldon Harris. More than two inches thick,
this Blues Bible has every tidbit of information you’d ever need: Bios and photos of
everyone (with real names), every song,
and who wrote it, where and when the
musicians performed, including television
and radio, and more. It has vast indexes by
song, author, club – you name it.
So I was pleased to see this book and
its author included in the list of 2015 inductees into the new Blues Hall of Fame in
Memphis. It’s in a category called “Classics
of Blues Literature” (who knew, right?) and
there are 40 titles listed. Some are familiar: “Deep Blues” by Robert Palmer, “Can’t
Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy
Waters” by Robert Gordon and “The Land
Where the Blues Began” by Alan Lomax.
Of course, one can’t have a list of “best”
or “hall of famers” in Blues (or many other
things, for that matter) without controversy
– especially involving the Blues Foundation
and the Hall of Fame, and this was no exception. The list sparked some heated social
media discussion.
It began with a Facebook essay by Adam
Gussow, a harp player formerly of Satan
(Mississippi-born Sterling Magee) and Adam,
a really great duo who for years busked on
the streets of Harlem. Now, Adam is a professor of Southern Studies at the University
of Mississippi at Oxford and he teaches a
course called “The Blues Tradition in American Literature.” He is a darn good writer.
Well, Adam and Sistah had the same reaction to the list of classic Blues literature, but
he put it in much nicer words than mine. Here’s part of Adam’s essay:
“My problem isn’t with who is on the list—
although one might argue, perhaps, that
(Peter) Guralnick, with four books, and
(Paul) Oliver, with three, are over-represented. My problem is with who and what, is
not there. The moment I began meditating
on that question, the list began to look not
just creaky and quirky, but intellectually dishonest and profoundly unjust. But perhaps
the phrase “intellectually dishonest” is too
harsh. Perhaps the various Blues Foundation committee members who have voted
on Classics of Blues Literature for the past
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The Ex-President’s file...
by Karen “Sistah K” Nugent
33 years just don’t know the full extent of the
Blues literary tradition, and therefore have no
idea how unrepresentative and inadequate
their list looks to somebody who does.”
Adam then wrote two or three lists of his
own on what Blues books he recommends,
taken from his course syllabuses. So, I took a
look at his first list, and did not recognize any
of them except Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their
Eyes Were Watching God,” which I read
years ago with great difficulty as it is written
in dialect. (The list is in a separate sidebar.)
I decided to start from the top with W.C.
Handy’s autobiography, “Father of the Blues,”
published in 1941. It was not easy to find,
but OMG what a wealth of information from
a primary source.
Handy was performing and writing music
at the turn of the last century and practically
witnessed firsthand the beginnings of what
we know as Blues, although when I listen
to his music, including the famous “St. Louis
Blues,” it sure don’t sound like what I call
Blues. (It reminds me of background music to
early Mickey Mouse cartoons...Ragtime.)
Ever hear that story about how Handy, a
trumpet player, bandleader, songwriter, and
music publisher, heard his first Delta Blues as
he dozed while waiting for a train? I recall
something about that from when I visited
the W.C. Handy Museum on Beale Street, but
here it is in his own words:
“A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I
slept. His clothes were rags, his feet peeped
out of his shoes. His face had on it some of
the sadness of the ages. As he played, he
pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in
a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists
who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. His song, too, struck me instantly:
“Goin’ where the Southern cross the Dog.”
The singer repeated the line three times, accompanying himself on the guitar with the
weirdest music I had ever heard. The tune
stayed in my mind.” And the rest is history.
If you really love Blues, get this book. It
takes you back in time by someone who was
there—and even earlier as Handy recounts
stories from his slave-born parents. None of
that music from the 1800s has ever been
recorded. At one point, Handy describes
meeting with Thomas Edison himself for a
recording, but Edison hated the music. He
preferred classical. The book has all kinds of
expressions we’ve all heard but didn’t know
what they meant, along with stories about
places we’ve been.
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OK, back to the
present.
There’s some
bittersweet news
about the Bostonbased band Juke
Joint Five.
Singer and cofounder Gretchen
Bostrom has decided to ease out of the band over the next
few months. Her place will be taken by
Lisa Marie.
Gretchen said on
Facebook (what would
we do without FB?)
that the split, after eight
years, is amicable. She
wants to move on, perform and do different
things under her own
name. Her final show
with the JJ5 will be in
June, so catch that if
you want to see the last
performance of a great band. Gretchen asks
that those who want to keep up to date
with her shows should “like” her FB music
page and sign up for her email list at facebook.com/gretchenbostrommusic.
John Bunszell, the band’s bass player is also
leaving, to travel his own path.
Not to worry, says Dick “The Poet” Lourie,
the band’s sax man. “The band is changing,
growing, and still intent on bringing you
our music,” he said.
(Very poetic.)
Classics of Blues Literature
W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
and Fine Clothes to the Jew
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sterling Brown, Southern Road
Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues
James M. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues
Daphne Duval Harrison, Black Pearls:
Blues Queens of the 1920s
Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism:
Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Sterling Plumpp, Blues: The Story Always Untold
J. J. Phillips, Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale
Jon Michael Spencer, Blues and Evil
Houston A. Baker, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American
Literature: A Vernacular Theory
Arthur Flowers, Another Good Loving Blues
Steven C. Tracy, Langston Hughes and the Blues
Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader
Sherley Anne Williams, Someone Sweet Angel Chile
Clarence Major, Dirty Bird Blues
Walter Mosley, R.L.’s Dream
Larry Neal, Visions of a Liberated Future:
Black Arts Movement Writings
Carl Q... by Art Simas
continued from page 3
a record. “He said, ‘Oh,
Suuure,’ probably thinking
that nothing was going
to come out of it. “So I
got working on it and
got Rounder Records (of
Cambridge, MA) to agree
to put it out.”
The band included
drummer Neil Gouvin,
bassist Marty Ballou,
Rob Nelson on guitar,
(l-r) Sugar Ray, Gordon Beadle, Jimmy
myself, Rich Lataille from T-99 Nelson and Carl
Roomful, “Sax”Gordon
Beadle, Doug James on sax , the late Bob Enos of Roomful on
trumpet, Matt McCabe on piano and Carl on trombone. Jimmy had
written a few tunes for the record, and he also brought Clarence
Hollimon to the sessions because they had been working together
for a few years. “Clarence was such a wonderful guy. He took care of
Jimmy (he had diabetes and wasn’t really taking care of himself), and
they were quite a pair to be seen together. Clarence was a little skinny
guy and Jimmy was about 6’ and about 250 pounds. Clarence might
have been in his early 70s and Jimmy was 5 or 6 years older. Clarence
had been a session guitarist for Peacock Records in Houston in the
late ‘50s early ‘60s and played with all the greats including Bobby
“Blue” Bland and Little Junior Parker.
“We ended up doing a 3 records with Jimmy Rockin’ and
Shoutin’the Blues,Take Your Pick, and The Legend
and he was excited to be recording again. Unfortunately, Clarence died
between the first and the second albums,” Querfurth said. The third
record was recorded at Duke’s Mood Room Studio with Duke on
guitar and Sugar Ray on harp.
Querfurth said, “After the T-99 records, I sort of kept floating
doing local gigs with with Sugar Ray or Rob Nelson and Loaded
Dice or Roger Ceresi’s All Stars and some recording. Then Doug
(James) gave me a call and asked me if I wanted to come out and do
some gigs with Jimmie Vaughan in about 2012. “At the same time,
a friend of mine who is a sax player in R.I., (Klem Klimeck who
was playing with NRBQ), said NRBQ also wanted me. So I went
to rehearsal with Terry Adams and started working with them and
J.V. Well after nearly a year of working on both coasts with Vaughan
and NRBQ I realized I was back on the road, which was not where
I wanted to be, Querfurth said. “I’d do 2 nights in Canada, then fly
home and do 2 to 3 nights with NRBQ, plus doing some other local
stuff … then fly back again to do more gigs with Jimmie … I was
totally exhausted and it was driving me insane. “So I told Jimmie I had
to let it go… and I told Terry that I could only do New England dates.
And that was OK with him.
“And that brings us up to date. I’ve been recording a lot and
subbing with Roomful off an on with the Mystic Horns and that’s
been great. I’m hoping that I can keep that balance going for a while.
It’s a juggling act but it’s working for me,”
“I moved up here to Jaffrey, New Hampshire and my wife and I
have some land. So I want to do some farming… planting apple trees,
growing vegetables, and planting some hops for beer… and trying to
live off the grid. “Ultimately, I’ll just drop out altogether, grow my
own food, and live like a hermit.”
Hardly. Sooner or later Carl, that lyrical road will beckon you
to do what you do best. Plus, you’ve got some unfinished business to
attend to with those dusty tapes in your root cellar.
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Kansas City Red 1926
8 Robert Johnson 1911
Willie J. Laws
9 A.C. Reed 1920
Bob Margolin 1949
Jon Ross 1955
10 Maurice John Vaughn
Greg Piccolo 1951
11 Mudcat Ward 1954
12 Donald Kinsey 1953
James Montgomery
13 Magic Dick 1945
14 Grady Gaines 1934
17 Taj Mahal 1940
16 Cleveland Chenier 1921
Johnny Nicholas 1948
Doug Woolverton 1981
18 Big Joe Turner 1911
MAY
B. A. Hedin 1948
Ada Brown 1890
19 Jimmy Thachery 1953
Big Maybell 1924
21 John Allgood 1955
Little Walter Jacobs
Phil Monica 1947
Doug Aborn 1956
25 Rusty Corson 1972
Eddie Campbell 1939 28 T-Bone Walker 1910
Blind Willie McTell 1901 Karen Nugent
Sonny Parker 1925
Papa John Creach 1917
Diane Blue
Peter M. Shonk, Jr. 1954
Homer Harris 1916
29 Ron Levy 1951
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