It's like I don't waste enough time on the www... I gotta get onto a new message board!
But blues... well that's a passion I can connect on.
Came up in Phila, PA and been around long enough to have dug John Hurt, Sleepy John, Jesse Fuller, Skippy and Bukka while they were still alive, and spent some time as a teenager with Son House in a parking lot at the Philly Folk festival...and it changed my life.
Live on and off in N'wahlins over the years and chased around after Professor Longhair in his heyday along with Snooks Eaglin, gatemouth Brown, James Booker and Art neville... not to forget the great Earl King, Jessie Hill and irma Thomas and Johnny Adams...
But now live way up in Northern Vermont, and venture out to places like Boston, Montreal, Hartford, and NYC... but more often down to Lafayette & Opelousas, Louisiana and Houston, Texas to get it on with the zydeco scene... a branch of the blues tree that is still very much alive!
Down there it's all about J paul Jr., Brian jack, Keith Frank, Step Rideau... the heirs of Clifton Chenier & Boozoo Chavis' legacy (both of whom I had many opportunities to hear and meet)... and if you think that black folks have totally jumped ship on the blues you have not checked out these great players and the great club scene attached to them.
BTW--- I am a (retired) player ---keyboards--- and have played with my ol pal Michael Hurley, and played in a band called Gidget & ghandi that opened for the neville brothers and finished in second place to Phish... they won their first 10 hours of studio time and we won some gear.
That's long-winded enough. Just hoping that i can jam w' y'all.
Hound
But blues... well that's a passion I can connect on.
Came up in Phila, PA and been around long enough to have dug John Hurt, Sleepy John, Jesse Fuller, Skippy and Bukka while they were still alive, and spent some time as a teenager with Son House in a parking lot at the Philly Folk festival...and it changed my life.
Live on and off in N'wahlins over the years and chased around after Professor Longhair in his heyday along with Snooks Eaglin, gatemouth Brown, James Booker and Art neville... not to forget the great Earl King, Jessie Hill and irma Thomas and Johnny Adams...
But now live way up in Northern Vermont, and venture out to places like Boston, Montreal, Hartford, and NYC... but more often down to Lafayette & Opelousas, Louisiana and Houston, Texas to get it on with the zydeco scene... a branch of the blues tree that is still very much alive!
Down there it's all about J paul Jr., Brian jack, Keith Frank, Step Rideau... the heirs of Clifton Chenier & Boozoo Chavis' legacy (both of whom I had many opportunities to hear and meet)... and if you think that black folks have totally jumped ship on the blues you have not checked out these great players and the great club scene attached to them.
BTW--- I am a (retired) player ---keyboards--- and have played with my ol pal Michael Hurley, and played in a band called Gidget & ghandi that opened for the neville brothers and finished in second place to Phish... they won their first 10 hours of studio time and we won some gear.
That's long-winded enough. Just hoping that i can jam w' y'all.
Hound
