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Track of the Cat – Nevada Barr

WooHoo! So after a month plus of slugging through Michael Koryta’s So Cold the River and only getting half through it, although I was enjoying it, I just haven’t had the time to finish it! I did finish a shorter book Track the Cat by Nevada Barr is book 42 for the year. The book is the first Anna Pigeon novel. Anna is a national park ranger and here’s what it says about her on the back cover of the book: “The fascinating hero of Nevada Barr’s award-winning series , park ranger Anna Pigeon has brought an unyielding love of…

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2011 Blues Awards

The Blues Foundation has announced  the 2011 Blues Music Awards . Many of the albums were reviewed here as I explored the Blues this year!! Here are the nominees of course my favorites have the links to my posts! NOMINEES Acoustic Album Eric Bibb Booker’s Guitar Lucky Peterson You Can Always Turn Around Paul Oscher Bet on the Blues South Memphis String Band Home Sweet Home The Nighthawks Last Train to Bluesville Acoustic Artist Doug MacLeod Eric Bibb Guy Davis John Hammond Paul Oscher Album Buddy Guy Living Proof Charlie Musselwhite The Well Eden Brent Ain’t Got No Troubles Janiva…

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Blues Women – Eden Brent and Rita Chiarelli!

So yesterday and today I’ve been listening to a couple of female blues musicians. Eden Brent whose album Ain’t Got No Troubles on Yellow Dog Records is currently number 2 on the Roots Music Blues Charts and Rita Chiarelli whose current release Sweet Paradise is sitting at number 8! Eden Bret aka “Little Boogaloo” a name bestowed upon her by the late blues pioneer Boogaloo Ames after Brant served a 16-year apprenticeship with Ames. Brent is a Mississippi delta jazz musician who plays a mean piano and sings pretty well too! Brant is a three-time Blues Music Award Winner, winning…

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New Blues Rock – Jimmy Bowskill Band Live

So in the last couple of weeks I’ve written about two young women, Amanda Shaw and Sierra Hull who are making some great music at a very young age. Well today I’m writing about a young Canadian blues rocker Jimmy Bowskill, who released his first album Old Soul at the tender age of thirteen and now in 2010 he has released his fourth album “Live”. An album that was designed to capture the set he had been playing on a European Tour with Wishbone Ash. And I for one believe that he succeeded very well. Bowskill is a great guitarist…

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Blues Wednesday Mix – A Vaughan, McCLinton and Kashmar!

So this afternoon I turned on BLuesville on XMRadio on my way home for lunch and I think it was a track by track show of Jimmie Vaughan’s latest album. Anyway Vaughan was talking about the influence of Jimmy Reed and playing harmonica and a few other things so I thought that I’d listen to a little Jimmie Vaughan this afternoon. Now I said last week that The Fabulous Thunderbirds have never been a band that I listened to much but have listened to Kim Wilson’s solo stuff. So the upshot was I put Vaughan’s new album Jimmie VaughanPlays Ballads,…

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New Folk – Brooks Williams – Baby O’

So several years ago, no wait that’s three, no more! Ok it says that Hundred Year Shadow was released in 1999 so I guess about 10 years ago I first discovered Brooks Williams music. WXPN was playing tracks off the aforementioned album and we went to the Main Point to see him. When I first listened to Brooks’ music the thing that stood out was his guitar playing and when I saw him live I was even more impressed and told him so! For which I got a thanks because he said that;s what he loves the most! And he…

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New Blues from the Legendary – Buddy Guy

So playing Rock n’ Roll in your 70’s, playing punk roll in your 80’s doesn’t seem right. But you can keep singing the blues right into your golden years – just listen to Pinetop Perkins who’s about to turn 100!, or Hubert Sumlin who turn 80 next year, or B.B. King who past 80 five years ago. So at 74 years young Buddy Guy‘s one of the young guys! And this youngster has just released a terrific new album Living Proof. I’ve said before that I’ve never been a big Buddy Guy fan but after the release of Skin Game…

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Blues Wednesday – Elmore James,Jr. and Bob Margolin

Today I was out doing field work but on the way there I listened to B B King’s Bluesville on XM Radio to get some ideas for listening one of the first artists I heard this morning was Elmore James. I know James’ name more than his music but the track that I heard was good so I thought , hum maybe I’ll listen to some of his music when I get home! A little while later I heard John Lee Hooker’s son John Lee Hooker, Jr and again a good track. I thought maybe I’ll listen to his Live…

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Book 41 – Moonlight Mile – Dennis Lehane

In the world of Dennis Lehane‘s Kenzie and Gennero, 12 years have past since Patrick found Amanda McCready and returned her to unfit mother (see Gone Baby Gone). Patrick and Angie are now married and the proud parents of a four year four year old daughter. Patrick is hoping to get a full time job at a very affluent security company. One night he gets a call the caller says “You found her before, find her again”. The next morning Patrick runs into Amanda’s Aunt Beatrice who apologizes for the previous night’s late call and then tells Patrick that Amanda,…

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Moonlight Mile – Dennis Lehane

In the world of Dennis Lehane‘s Kenzie and Gennero, 12 years have past since Patrick found Amanda McCready and returned her to unfit mother (see Gone Baby Gone). Patrick and Angie are now married and the proud parents of a four year four year old daughter. Patrick is hoping to get a full time job at a very affluent security company. One night he gets a call the caller says “You found her before, find her again”. The next morning Patrick runs into Amanda’s Aunt Beatrice who apologizes for the previous night’s late call and then tells Patrick that Amanda,…

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