Last Update 7/12/99
Latest info from Richard Chalk on the Curly Barefoot Miller Memorial
Benefit on Sunday July 18.
"We'll be selling 50 CDs that I
made special of all the tracks we released of Curly over the years,
including Live At The Floz in Berlin.
12 tunes total with only one repeat, Mardi Gras. There is the studio
version as well as the live version of this one.
They'll be numbered (1-50) and that is all there will be. A collectors
item - $15 each. Also a friend is making in 24 comemorative T-shirts of
Curly on the front, place and detail, and a list of most all the
musicians who will perform on the back. $15 for these as well. We need
about $2300 to finish paying for the funeral ($1200 short still)
and $1200 to have a service and inter him in New Orleans. IF we get 200
people at the show, and sell all 50 CDs and 24 T-shirts, we'll raise
$2000. Hopefully we'll get the remaining $300 needed by passing the hat
periodically. If we collect more, great. It will ALL go to Barefoot's
family.
Actually, ANYTHING over the $1200 we need to pay the Sandra Clark
Funeral Home goes to the family." 7/12
Shane Hall will be giving up his Thursday slot on KNON due to a change in his teaching schedule. Ginger will be the new host of Texas Blues Radio's Thursday edition beginning July 15. 7/12
Robert Ealey will be hosting a new jam at The Bluebird in Fort Worth beginning Monday July 19. 7/10
Jake Crawford has self-released his first CD, Livin For the Day. 7/3
The Keys Lounge has a new web address http://www.keyslounge.com 7/3
I've updated the club section and have cleaned out a lot of the "dead wood". 7/1 ------
Gregg Smith's new CD, Stacked in the Back, is due out July 17 on Hometown Records. 6/25
Here is the playlist for my internet blues show #10 from J&J blues bar. 6/25
I ran into Carl "E.G." Caldwell, Tutu Jones' sometimes bass player at R.L.'s on Sunday night and he told me Tutu is hard at work on new material for his next recording session for Bullseye Blues, tentatively scheduled for September.
The Briefcase Blues Band now has their own domain name website at: http://www.briefcaseblues.com 6/17
The Dallas Songwriters Association has announced their 1999 song contest running June 15-August 15. e-mail michelle972@earthlink.net for more info and complete rules and a list of prizes. 6/16
The huge Las Vegas style sign at the Longhorn Ballroom was blown over in a big thunderstorm last week. 6/13
R.L. Griffin has self-released his new CD, Too Hot to Stop. It is also available on cassette. 6/12
Krvblues@aol.com has started an e-mail campaign to get Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets featuring Sam Myers on Austin City Limits. Sounds like a good idea to me! Here's the URL: Click here: Austin Cyber Limits spread the word far and wide! 6/10
B.B. King will be at Starplex October 1. 6/10
Street date for Shawn Pittman's new Cannonball CD, Something's Gotta Give, is June 29. 6/9
Block Magazine in The Netherlands is preparing a feature article on Hash Brown. 6/8
Blue Lisa and the Howling Dogs have a new band hotline number, 214-834-1456. 6/8
Buddy Magazine reports the Curly Barefoot Miller Memorial Benefit has been scheduled for July 18, 2pm to 10 pm at the Sons of Hermann Hall. 6/7
Smokin Joe Kubek and Bnois King have recorded their new CD for Bullseye Blues. The title "Bite Me" is still in the running! 6/5
Jake Crawford will be playing every Wednesday in July at the Lakewood Bar and Grill. 6/5
I have opened a second mirror site for this site at: http://dfwblues.homepage.com/ While this is not a domain name, it is close and I have another 10 free megs. I'm going to rock along with all three for awhile until I (and you) can determine which two are the most reliable. Eventually (30-60 days) I will drop one of these three sites. Those of you who use this site often, please bookmark and check out all three sites occasionally and let me know your preferences. 6/2
My Fortune City mirror site has moved to: http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/blues/740/ please bookmark NOW and kill the old Fortune City link! 6/2
Count Blue's new CD is out and now available at the Key's Lounge. 5/30
Chant now has a website at: http://www.chantblues.com 5/29
Holland K. Smith now has his own domain name website: http://hollandksmith.com 5/28
For those of you wondering where Jim Suhler has been lately, he's off on tour with George Thorogood. 5/20
Hide Masuda, The Samurai Cowboy from Tokyo Japa has moved his DFW blues website to: http://members.xoom.com/sc_hide/ 5/19
Someone asked if I could make Curly Barefoot Miller my photo of the week this week. I decided instead to put up a page with several of my photos and leave it up for awhile. I am still digging out my pix of Curly and will add them as I come across them and get them scanned. I am NOT soliciting photos from others, please do not e-mail me jpeg files!! However I will gladly link photos if you wish to put them up on your own website. Just let me know the link. Curly Barefoot Miller photo and tribute page 5/17
Mike Morgan and the Crawl featuring Lee McBee have released their new CD I Like the Way You Work It on Blacktop Records. 5/14
Holland K. Smith has released his new CD Walking Heart Attack on Topcat Records. 5/14
Services for Curly "Barefoot" Miller were held at 1 pm, Tuesday May 11, at the Sandra Clark Funeral Home. The body will be cremated and returned to New Orleans with Curly's brother. A fund has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses. The fund is at Bank One, 400 Wynnewood Village in Dallas. Contact is Tamesha Lee. Make checks payable to Bank One in memory of George Frank Miller. Joe Jonas reports Curly died with $4.27 in his bank account. 5/8
Bnois King reports from the road that they have just played 4 nights at the House of Blues at Disney World in Florida. They are headed into the studio next to cut their new CD. No word yet on whether they will really title the CD "Bite Me!" 5/8
Johnny Mack Reports he is doing a new blues jam every Tuesday at The Captain's Den in Fort Worth. Johnny says: "This month it's my new band The New Bondage Wranglers featuring: Justin Alverson, Doug Swancy, John Garza, Danny Ross & Yours Truly " Johnny (Lash Lovetoy) Mack. We start at 9:30, & the club is located on Calmont, between Cherry Lane & Las Vegas Trail off of I-30 in lovely, west Ft. Worth." 5/5
Richard Chalk reports Curly Barefoot Miller passed away on Sunday May 2 at 1:30 pm. 5/4
I've just added new interviews to the artist section with Vernon Garrett and R.L. Griffin. The Vernon piece is the current cover story in the May issue of Southwest Blues Magazine. The R.L. piece will run in July. 5/3
Congratulations to local keyboard wiz Linny & his wife Anne-Claude Nance on the birth of their daughter Camille on April 21st! There's a picture up (near the bottom of the page) at The Jazz Room at: http://members.aol.com/jazzroom1/ 5/3
My new internet-only blues show is now up and available for listening at bluestown.com. http://www.bluestown.com/texasbluesroadhouse/ bookmark NOW! 5/1
Blues bands, check out the offer for FREE WEB PAGES at realitymusic.com. See the press release HERE.
Please note my change of e-mail address to: don.o@eudoramail.com My old Chrysalis address has been dead for 3 days. It may come back to life, but may as well make the change now.
Mike Morgan and the Crawl featuring Lee McBee leave for two weeks in Belgium and Germany on April 28. 4/27
Gentle Ben has chosen to give up his Thursday blues show on KNON. He's had some serious back problems lately which have left him in traction, under heavy medication, and unable to drive for almost a month. He has also had to make changes in his job situation which might mean he will no longer be available after he heals up. Shane Hall will be returning to KNON in the Thursday blues slot beginning May 13. Shane previously did a blues show for about 5 years on Wednesday nights on KNON.
There are only 230 Texas Blues Radio Volume 2 CDs left at KNON. The CD will be sold out soon. Info here 4/22
Here's a photo of Sherman Robertson stopping traffic on Commerce Street during his show last Friday 4/16 at the Blue Cat. Sherman stops traffic photo 4/20
We did a dry run of my new internet only blues show last night at J&J. It was a lot of fun. We'll be doing it for real beginning Thursday, April 22 with plans to upload to Bluestown.com after the second show on April 29. Come on out and say "hey" and play harass the DJ. 7 pm to 10 pm on Thursdays at J&J. 4/16
I will soon be doing an internet blues show direct from J&J Blues Bar in Fort Worth. It will be much like my KNON radio show only this is a separate, stand alone show not associated in any way with KNON. Yes, I will still be doing my Friday radio show, also. I'll be playing the latest CDs, old LPs, 45's, and occasionally, live recordings made at J&J Blues Bar. To start with, the show will be recorded each Thursday from 7 to 10 pm and will be uploaded to Bluestown.com. They will tack together two weeks worth of shows to make a 6 hour blues broadcast at Bluestown.com. Eventually, we will add interviews, contests, a chat room, and will be streaming live to Bluestown.com. Those of you in the DFW area are invited to come out and join the fun, LIVE on Thursday nights at J&J from 7 to 10 pm. No cover before 8:30 pm. We are starting THIS Thursday April 15, so come on out and drown your tax day sorrows! The show will probably not be up on Bluestown.com until the weekend of April 24. 4/11
According to Trey Flewellen, Jim Suhler will sign with Bullseye and record a new CD this summer for release next January. The recent live recording with Alan Haynes will be released on Topcat. 4/2
Nothing to do with blues, but I have found a neat FREE dialup internet connection. Check it out at NetZero.com. They bombard you with advertising banners and pop-ups, their set-up is a pain (I had to re-install my dial-up config), you can not currently access newsgroups, but hey, it is FREE! No more $19 a month for internet access! They have several Dallas and Fort Worth connection numbers. Makes for a very nice alternate site when your provider is down (like mine sometimes is) or is busy (like mine sometimes is). So far I have had no access problems, even at peak times, and connections have been fast, 45K or so on my 56 k modem. 3/30
Over 1/3 of the KNON Texas Blues Radio Volume 2 CDs have been sold. Less than 1300 remain. Info here 3/30
The NO Mustang Sally stickers are sold out. No more orders please.
For those of you who have been frustrated by the dead sites for the Lakewood B&G and Greenville B&G (me too) they finally have working sites. Only time will tell if they are updated! Greenville Bar & Grill Website Lakewood Bar and Grill Website 3/22
Over 350 of the Texas Blues Radio Volume 2 CD were sold in the first week. Only 1650 remain. Info here 3/19
Cannonball Records has released Hash Brown's Texas Blues Revue CD featuring Zuzu Bollin, Darrell Nulisch and Sam Myers. This is basically a re-issue of Hash Brown's T is for Texas CD (Parsifal) with an additional track ("Hangin' with Terry") from his Rollin' Blues CD. New title, liner and artwork. It's great to have this fine release widely available again. 3/17
The silvertones website has moved to: Http://www.didesignworld.com/silver.html They also have CD samples on their website. 3/17
The new KNON Texas Blues Radio Volume 2 CD is NOW in the stores. Info here 3/7
Congratulations to Pat Boyack and his wife Yvonne on the birth of their daughter Savannah Caroline Boyack on February 24. 3/5
Randy McAllister reports Tuesday, March 2, was his LAST Tuesday acoustic gig at the Hole in the Wall. The Hole is dropping live music on Tuesday due to poor attendance. Randy also reports he will be back in the studio on March 3 cutting some acoustic tunes (backed by Mighty Paul Young) for his upcoming third CD on JSP. Working title is "Stop Punching Me in the Face!" Really. 3/1
Jim Suhler's Tuesday Acoustic gig at Daddy Jacks is no more. 2/27
Night Shift's web page has moved to: http://home.swbell.net/tcaa/index.html 2/27
Trey Flewellen reports Jim Suhler is in negotiations with Bullseye/Rounder. Jim will also be touring with George Thorogood in April. 2/26
Mike Morgan and the Crawl are now online at: http://www.mammothartists.com/mikemorgan/ 2/26
Tommy Tucker reports Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones' website is back up at: Jr. Boy Website 2/22
Dallas blues band The Silvertones have released their first CD titled Cruisin'. 2/21
The Keys Lounge website has moved to: http://homepages.infoseek.com/~keyslounge/index.htm 2/15
Pepperland has moved their store from Irving Mall to Grapevine Mills. They are located just inside entry 1 on the left side in #117. Freddie King's amp case and one of Stevie Ray's guitar cases are in the window. The Pepperland website has also moved to: http://www.srvcatalog.com 2/14
Josh Davis and English Dave have released their new CD, Turnpike Cruiser, on Topcat Records. It's a good 'un, especially if you like T-bone, Pee Wee Crayton style guitar. 2/13
I saw Randy McAllister last night and he corrected me on his studio date. He goes in Thursday, February 11 at Eagle Audio, not March. Robin Syler and Texas Slim will join him on guitar, Chuck Rainey on bass, and Bobby Baranowski on drums. 2/10
Just added, more new photos in the artist section: Blue Lisa, Texas Topcats (Richard Chalk), Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes, & Joey Love. I am also currently compiling a CD discography of Dallas/Fort Worth blues artists for display on this site. 2/7
Here's a new travel log from Ken Peace's blues visit to DFW last
October 2/6
Ken's DFW visit
Here's the new KNON Texas Blues Radio T-shirt (and cap and BBQ apron) design for 1999. Submitted by Aaron Burton. new design 2/6
I've been busy with my new scanner adding more photos to the artist section of this site. New photos of Mitch Palmer, Bob Morris, Mighty Paul Young, Janna Tallant, Lady Pearl Johnson, Andrew Baxter Jr., Sledgehammer, Johnnie Red, Keri LePai & the Shifters, Hal Harris, Renee, Mace Maben, Suzy Q, Alanda Williams, Bryon K. Miller, Dov Christopher, Betty Lewis, Cricket Taylor, Dave Milsap, Lisa Matthews, Harold Walker, Debi Babcock, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Holland K. Smith, Robin Syler, Laz-zar Showband, Bnois King, Tutu Jones, and Vernon Garrett have been added. In addition, here are some photos from the KNON blues benefit last December featuring Gregg Smith, Lucky Peterson, Mike Morgan and Shawn Pittman. 2/5
Hash Brown will be celebrating the 6th anniversary of his Tuesday blues jam at The Bone on February 23. The Bone netcast on 2/2 promised free t-shirts for all who attend the anniversary show. 2/3
Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets featuring Sam Myers have been nominated as blues band of the year for the 1999 W.C. Handy Blues awards. Complete nominations at: http://www.blues.org/bluesnews/handynews/012599.html 2/3
Cookie McGee is just back from a 3 week engagement at Maxwell's in Paris, France. 2/1
Southwest Blues reports a new blues club is opening February 10. The Prohibition Blues Room is at 703 McKinney Avenue, downstairs. 1/30
Joe Kubek and Bnois King were throwing down some great new BLUES tunes in Fort Worth and Dallas the past two weeks. Joe told me: "We got all that other stuff out of our system on the last album. We need to get back and do some shuffles, man!" 1/30
Tutu Jones gave me a call and asked that I pass along info on his new fan club and contact for his fans. He can be reached via: Tutu Jones, Stayin' Power Fan Club. P.O. Box 540624, Dallas, TX 75354-0624. 1/30
The KNON Texas Blues Radio CD Volume 2 went to Crystal Clear Sound for mastering and production on January 19. It should be available in 4 to 6 weeks. 1/28
Gary Primich and Omar and the Howlers both have new CDs coming out on Blacktop in March. 1/23
Shawn Pittman will be finishing up his new album for Cannonball on January 25. Tentative title is Somethin's Got to Give. 1/22
Fort Worth's Johnny Mack reports from the front: "Just wanted to let you know that on Jan.30, James Hinkle, Ted Roddy, & I will be doing a special show at the Satellite Dish in Ft. Worth. On Sun. the 31st, we all three are going into Pantego Studios to start recording our new CD. We are hoping for a late spring release date. Also I will be hosting the Wed. invitational jam at J&J's in Feb. w/ The Hepsters:Chris Zales, Danny Ross, & The Million Dollar Rhythm Section."
Congratulations to KNON blues DJ Big Daddy Hal and his wife Lois on the birth of their son, Jackson Cole Pittman. Hal reports "he was born at 6:03 PM, January 6th,1999. Just in time for TEXAS BLUES RADIO!!!!" Sounds like a new blues fan to me! 1/18
NEW!!! Mirror site! After the recent problems here at Chrysalis.org I have decided to open a mirror site. Basically, that just means a copy of this site at another location. Joey Love turned me on to Xoom.com which offers free 11 meg (!!) sites in return for bothering me (but not the visitors) with e-mail ads. Sounded like a fair deal to me. I will be updating both sites equally. This means you will have two places to see this site which should help avoid the withdrawl symptoms some folks reportedly suffered when Chrysalis went missing for over 7 days. I may just move the whole site there permanently. Please let me know about any problems you have accessing this site on Chrysalis.org or on xoom.com. The mirror is up and running. Please bookmark NOW, just in case Chrysalis takes another unexpected nosedive! Don O.'s Dallas Fort Worth Blues Page mirror site 1/17
The Blue cat is set to move across the street to their new digs on February 5. Lucky Peterson will be the opening act for the new club. 1/16
Bob Kirkpatrick is leaving January 20 for a 30 day tour in Europe. Stops include Madrid, Spain, the U.K., Belgium, and Germany. He'll return February 22. Chances are good he will cut another live CD on this tour. This means Bob will NOT be at his Wednesday night gig at Lakewood B&G. Tha band will be there, but keyboard player Harry James Bright will probably front the combo while Bob's in Europe. 1/16
Southwest Blues has their monthly calendar up and running on their website. A complete local listing rather than just some guy's personal picks. :') 1/14
This is a busy week in the recording studios in DFW. Randy McAllister and Shawn Pittman are working on new, separate projects. Mike Morgan and Jim Suhler are finishing their mixdowns. Holland K. Smith goes into Sumet Studio next week with Anson Funderburgh producing. The KNON Texas Blues Radio Volume 2 CD will also go to the studio for mastering next week. 1/14
The new CD from Anson and the Rockets featuring Sam Myers on Bullseye Blues has been retitled Change in My Pocket and is now expected for release in early March. A record release party is tentatively scheduled for March 20 at Poor David'd Pub. 1/14
Lucky Peterson has been in New York finishing his latest CD for Polygram.
R.L. Griffin is finishing up his new CD called Too Hot to Stop.
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Mike Morgan says they've finished recording their latest CD for Blacktop and are waiting to hear the rough mixes. 12/31
Tower Records has opened their Dallas location at 3707 Lemmon Avenue (at Oak Lawn). Official grand opening will be January 11. Tutu Jones called to say there will be some live music events at the store on January 9 featuring himself and Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones.
Randy McAllister reports he will be back in the studio to cut his third CD for JSP in mid January. He also has several upcoming in-store appearances scheduled at area Walmarts and at several Borders Books and Music outlets beginning in February.
The new Southwest Blues Magazine website is up and running. Not much content yet, just a few CD reviews, jam sessions, and a basic framework, but still worth a bookmark. Once they get the monthly calendar online this will be an extremely important site for the DFW blues community. Southwest Blues web page
Vocalist Roy Murray will be leaving the Texas Slim Blues Band after New Years Eve. His last gig in town is at The Bone on Wednesday, December 30. Lisa Matthews will be the new vocalist for the band.
Sorry the site has been down a couple of days. It only happens a few times each year. When it does, send an e-mail to garry.grosse@chrysalis.org and tell him the chrysalis web pages are down. He's the sysop who fixes it. If you are a DFW blues junkie, put this info somewhere you can find it for the next outtage. It will be back up faster if you go direct to the source rather than sending me an e-mail, which I have to receive, then write to Garry.
We finally received clearance from Blacktop for Mike Morgan's track for the KNON Texas Blues Radio CD Volume 2.
Shawn Pittman will be going in the studio January 4 to cut his second album for Cannonball Records. He will self-produce.
Blue Lisa and the Howling Dogs now have a website at: http://members.aol.com/kayblues/music1/index.htm Blue Lisa and the Howling Dogs web page
R.L. Griffin has just been confirmed for the KNON Texas Blues Radio Vol. 2 CD.
Carrollton blues club Cozy's now has a new website at
http://www.cozysbluescafe.com/
Cozy's web page
A huge THANK YOU to all the musicians and everyone who came out to the big KNON blues and food benefit for Sunday, December 6. The show was a big success and raised over $1700 to support blues programming on KNON. For those of you who were not there you missed some great seafood from Daddy Jack's plus Gregg Smith backed by Pat Boyack, Mark LaRoque, Shawn Ferris, William Hippie Harris, Hal Harris, J.D. Hill, and special surprise guest Lucky Peterson. Then Mike Morgan, Shawn Pittman, and Dirk Cordes threw down some serious Elmore James and Hound Dog Taylor for two hours. Too much fun! We will do it again sometime!
Work is well underway on the KNON Texas Blues Radio, Volume 2, compilation CD. We have signed contracts back from Jake Crawford, Sumter Bruton, Kenny Kay, Cookie McGee, Joe Jonas, Dru Webber, James Hinkle, Randy McAllister, Jim Suhler, Pat Boyack, Mike Morgan, and Joey Love. We are waiting on clearances for a few more tracks before we can master and go to press. Due to very slow sales of the KNON country and Hip Hop CDs, we will probably delay release of the new blues CD to February. Sorry!
R.L. Griffin is now doing the 7-10 pm slot and Ernie Johnson is now in the 10 pm to midnight slot, Monday through Friday, on KKDA 730 AM. They are both doing great shows with lots of good blues (about 50%). Check 'em out!
Andrew Baxter Sr., father of young guitarist Andrew Baxter Jr., passed away from cancer on 11/14.
I've added a link to the Texas Music WebRing in the media/contacts/links section. Some good blues links there.
I've heard Casino Blues has reopened. More info when I have it. They don't seem to be advertising anywhere.
I found a website for Shawn Pittman at: http://members.xoom.com/ShawnPittman/main.html Shawn Pittman Website It doesn't appear to be updated very often as the last booking dates listed were from October.
The Lakewood Bar and Grill and Greenville Bar and Grill have new websites. GBG Website LBG Website
It was reported on the blues-L newsgroup that Bugs Henderson's wife, Duchess, passed away from pneumonia on November 12. Patti Coghill of Southwest Blues reports: There is a fund set up at Security Bank Garland: Duchess Henderson Family Fund, PO Box 459401, Garland TX 75045-9401, Attn: James Miller.
The Greenville Bar and Grill and the Lakewood Bar and Grill have fixed their problems with the TABC and are open again. Apparantly, they forgot to pay for their liquor license. :')
The Keys Lounge in Southwest Fort Worth now has a website at: http://members.theglobe.com/thomore/default.html The Keys Website
Marc Wilson will be leaving Mike Morgan and the Crawl in January. No problems between the band members, it's just that Marc has been in the band for 9 years and is ready to do something different. He actually has the most seniority in the current band, which has survived a hiatus by both Morgan and McBee. They'll have a tough time finding a drummer as good as Marc Wilson. Marc did say, whoever he ends up playing with, he will be staying in Dallas. They've just bought a house.
Josh Davis reports John Garza is now playing with his band. He has a new CD in the can and they are just waiting for Hash Brown to finish the liner notes.
Holland K. Smith now has a website at http://24.4.17.37/rocknblues/
R.L. Griffin tells me he has a new CD in the can that should be mixed soon. He hopes to finalize a date soon for Latimore at Blues Palace #2.
The Blue Cat will move across the street to a larger building in February.
The Hash Brown Band took over the Greenville Bar and Grill Monday jam on Monday, October 26.
Shame Shame's guitarist Randy Ellis will be leaving the band to move back to New Orleans at the end of October. Look for a new line-up in November.
Correction: Bobby Patterson's radio show is now airing on KKDA 730 AM from 10 am to noon, Monday through Saturday. Cindy B still has Noon to 3 pm and Millie Jackson is on 3 to 6 pm. R.L. Griffin, Ernie Johnson, and Johnnie Taylor are still "coming soon".
Randy McAllister's new CD for JSP, "Grease, Grit, Dirt, and Spit," is out and it's a good 'un. Randy, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, and Cookie McGee have just returned from a month long tour in Europe.
Jim Suhler and Alan Haynes recorded a live album at Blue Cat Blues on Friday November 27.
Jonny Lang is scheduled at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on January 8. Tickets go on sale Nov. 7 at the Caravan of Dreams ticket office.
Johnny Mack reports: "I've been working on a new project with a young group of kids, the Taylor Williams band. Taylor,16,on guitar, Josh Clark (Jerry Clark's son),16,on drums,& Adam Robbins(Roy Robbins' son) on bass. They played their first gig at Robert Ealey's Ft. Worth blues fest. We all had a blast."
Mark Pieczynski reports that Topcat, the funky little seafood joint that featured lunchtime blues on Wednesdays, has closed.
Rumor is KKDA 730 AM will soon drop their mostly talk format between 6 pm and 10 pm and replace it with celebrity DJs Johnnie Taylor, Ernie Johnson and Millie Jackson. That will definitely mean some blues will get played!
Dallas Blues Society Records is working on a new all blues release from Johnny Moeller.
Gatemouth Brown's One Foot in Da Bayou club (which opened April 10) has closed.
Daddio's DFW blues website has moved to http://24.4.17.37/blues/
Susan Tedeschi showed up and jammed at Shawn Pittman's gig at Muddy Waters on 9/25. She had opened for B.B. King & Dr. John at Starplex that same evening.
Well rats. My scanner has gone ptui, so the photo of the week feature will be stuck with Sam and Rod for awhile. For those of you looking for a scanner, I would recommend NOT purchasing anything by UMAX.
Here's a PHOTO of Keb' Mo' at the Bedford Blues Festival on 9/4/98.
Here's a PHOTO of Ray Sharpe at the Texas International Bluesfest at the Sons of Hermann Hall on August 30.
If anyone out there taped my radio show on 8/28 please let me know. I need a tape of the second hour! Thanks.
Manager Holly Bullamore is setting up a website for Smokin Joe Kubek and Bnois King at: http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Bayou/4017/ Right now it's just a calendar link but there will soon be bio, photos and more.
John Garza and Doug Swancy, collectivelly known as the "Million Dollar Rhythm Section" are no longer with Holland K. Smith.
Here's a review of the Denton Blues fest on 8/22 complete with pictures!
Shawn Pittman has just returned from a big festival gig in Duluth Minnesota. He was on the front page of the local paper.
Arlington club Stumpys has moved their website to: http://members.aol.com/stumpysbar/
Holland K. Smith and band have just returned from a tour in Brazil. The smallest crowd they played for was over 400.
The Greenville Bar and Grill has been doing some renovating. They have moved the stairs over by the grill and changed it to a spiral staircase. The stage has also been enlarged by about 2 feet (taking in the space of the old stairs) and raised by about 2 feet. Plus, there is now actual working air conditioning! Gasp!
Wes Williams reports by e-mail:
Some of us in town have put together a
Blues Jam for players 18 years old and younger. This is open to guitar,
bass,
keyboard (we have a Hammond B-3 set-up), horn players and drummers.
There are
many good young players in the area that do not have a place to 'hone'
their
skills.
We were fortunate enough to obtain the Southside Preservation Hall
which has a
great room and stage. We are charging a $5.00 cover of which 100% goes
to
further restoration of the Preservation Hall. All of our work is
voluntary,
including the rhythm section.
The show is Friday, August 21st from 7-11 pm and our plan is to have
one the
third Friday of every month. We had a trial run last month that went
quite
well. The address is: 1519 Lipscomb Street, Fort Worth, 76104. Lipscomb
Street is near historic Magnolia Street which is south of downtown.
Ample
parking is in the rear of the building. If anyone needs information,
they may
call 817-924-9565, ext. 3.
Shame Shame now has their own website with calendar at: http://www.weblace.com/shameshame
Kelly Hatcher now has a website at: http://visualideas.com/kth/index.html,
Bnois King dropped me a note to say he and Smokin' Joe Kubek are heading to Montevideo, Uruguay in December!
Bob Kirkpatrick has a new self-released CD. Apparantly, on his last tour of Europe, someone taped one of the live shows then had some CDs pressed for sale. The inserts are poor photocopies. Obviously produced on the cheap. The music is a good representation of Bob's live show. 14 tracks, 72 minutes, with a mix of blues, ballads, originals, and covers. Bob is selling these locally at his gigs for $10.
Pat Boyack called to say he has not changed the name of his band. I can't imagine what threw me off, the fact he has repainted his amp case with "Pat Boyack's R&B Revue" or the fact they were announcing themselves from the stage with that name. Silly me. My apologies, Pat. Anyway, Boyack says he has more or less shut down The Prowlers and he is going to be working for awhile in a rock band to generate a more steady income. His wife is pregnant with their first child and he is going to be trying to maximize income for awhile. Spencer Thomas has departed to try his own thing.
Patrik Urbansson has been kind enough to loan me some significant web space (in Sweden!) to archive my photo of the week. Thanks Patrik! It's now linked from the Photo of the Week page. Archiving will begin this week (7/30).
I've heard some of the rough mixes on Cookie McGee's new CD for JSP and it is some pretty awesome stuff. She's going in to complete things August 7 at Audio Dallas.
Chuck Nevitt reports there's an interview with Jimmie Vaughan in the Dallas Observer at: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1998/070998/music1.html
Jim Colegrove e-mailed to tell me the Juke Jumpers have a website at: http://www.dfw.net/~coolg/jukes.html
Joey Love and the Blues Xpress have moved their website to: http://www.jlbx.com
Bobby Patterson has released his new CD, I'd Rather Eat Soup. It's a mix of original R&B,soul, and blues tunes. The blues cuts include Talk Show Blues and Money is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
There's an article on local 11 year old blues wonder Andrew Baxter Jr. in the Dallas Observer. On the web at: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1998/070298/music1.html
Kelly Hatcher has self-released his first, self titled, CD. Recorded live to two track.
The Lakewood Bar and Grill no longer has live music on Monday night. They make more money with a pool tournament.
Just added: New photos in the artist section of Bob Kirkpatrick, Kirby Kelly, Lil Nikki, Paul Harrington, Dempsey Crenshaw of Shame Shame, Lady Lotion, Bobby Patterson, James Butler, Tommy Hill, Butch Bonner, Jimmie "Preacher" Ellis, Mr. D, Andy Scheirer, Perry Jones, and John Moscione.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd stopped by the Blue Cat on June 18 and jammed with Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat. PHOTOS
R.L. Griffin was scheduled to be in the studio the week of June 21 recording for the first time in many years. Yay!!
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Tutu Jones is the cover feature on a New England music magazine called Sound Waves. The article can be found on the web at: http://www.swaves.com
There's a nice article on Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones in the June 18-24 Dallas Observer on the web at: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1998/061898/streetbeat1.html
Bass player Carleton Powell has rejoined Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat. Welcome back CP!
Check out the revised interview with Cookie McGee in the artist section. Also included, incredible vintage photos, courtesy of Cookie! Thanks, Cookie! That article was published in the July edition of Southwest Blues.
Hash Brown reports Mike Morgan suffered a badly broken leg in a motorcycle accident. Get well soon Mikey!
The Dallas based Stevie Ray Vaughan Fan Club now has a website at: http://www.srvfanclub.com SRV fan club web page
Carrollton club Cozy's has been running blues off and on for several months and is now advertising their schedule. I've finally added their listing to the clubs section.
Lisa Dupre's Blue Monday Jam at Poor David's Pub in Dallas is no more.
Tutu Jones' new CD Staying Power and Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones' new CD Watch What You Say have both been released by Bullseye Blues.
Homer Henderson has a new CD in the works for Honey Records. This one will be a collection of his old 45's plus a couple of new tunes. Probably not much blues but certainly a lot of wackiness! Let's all have a drink.
A new blues club has opened at Greenville and Lovers Lane in Dallas called Casino Blues.
U.P. Wilson and drummer Steve Meek are off on a 5 week tour of France, Belgium and the U.K.
Anson Funderburgh has recently cut a new CD together with Debbie Davies and London guitar ace Otis Grand. Probable release this fall. (5/30)
When you see the band name The Browntones, be aware that is Hash Brown sitting in on harp with Shawn Pittman's band. If you love tough, early T-Birds style blues, check them out. Shuffle-city. I love this stuff!
Austin Blues man Alan Haynes, who often plays around here with Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat, was assaulted outside of Antones in Austin on May 21. His left arm and shoulder were broken in the attack and he will not be able to play for 6-8 weeks. (5/29)
Lee McBee is scheduled to re-join Mike Morgan and the Crawl next weekend, June 7. Until then, Randy McAllister will continue his fill-in duties. He sounds very good with the band!
Big Daddy Hal will be returning to the Tuesday night 6 to 8 pm slot on Texas Blues Radio, KNON 89.3 FM, on May 26. Shane will still be around as a substitute DJ.
Scott Ferman reports the Cajun Blues Cafe has closed.
Dallas soul blues man Ernie Johnson's new CD, Hot and Steamy, is now out on Malaco's Waldoxy label. Mostly R&B/soul with a lot of synthesizers. Look for a record release party soon.
The billboard at Hurst club Jubilation now says No Blues.
Forever Young Records has opened their new location in far south Arlington (actually, Grand Prarie). It's on the east side of 360 just north of I-20. Their old Arlington location is now closed.
R.L. Griffin's new club, Blues Palace #2, had its grand opening Friday May 15. The club is just across the street from the current Blues Palace on Meadow. (5/15)
The KNON blues t-shirt contest winner is Marc Hernandez. His cool new design will be on KNON's blues t-shirts through 1998. NEW KNON blues t-shirt design
Henry Qualls' CD, Blues From Elmo, Texas is now back in print on Dallas Blues Society Records.
A very nice photo of Anson Funderburgh graces the cover of the new
Northeast Tarrant County phonebook from Southwestern Bell. The photo is
from the third annual Bedford Blues festival. phone
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