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Blues Review of the week! Yeah We Got Blues!
Hey Blues fans,
Illinois Blues offers free reviews of local, regional and nationals acts on our website. Each week the Blues Blast will feature a review of a blues performance or recording. This week we feature a sample of our review series by James “Skyy Dobro” Walker , noted Blues writer and IllinoisBlues.com contributor. James reviews the new Ruf Records release by Candye Kane - Guitar'd and Feathered.
Candye
Kane - Guitar’d and Feathered
Ruf Records 13 songs; 40:04 minutes
www.candyekane.com
www.rufrecords.de
We are approaching the day when the “professional studio” recording will be the exception instead of the norm. With digital recording systems meaning virtually anyone can record a CD, many albums that reviewers encounter sound exactly like they were recorded “at home.” Candye Kane’s latest release since White Trash Girl in 2005, also on Ruf Records, is fully competent with professional recording, mixing, mastering, and co-production by Bob Margolin.
Guitar'd & Feathered is a treasure chest of varied guitar, soulful music, and torch blues. There is a wide variety of styles, tempos, and guests, but Candye sings with such depth and power that she is always the central focus. Known for her exciting and entertaining - and sometimes adult-oriented - stage show, Candye is a natural-born, supremely-gifted vocalist who can sing her humanity and touch ours.
Kane’s vocal acumen is complimented by featured guest guitar players: Junior Watson, Dave Alvin, Bob Margolin, Sue Foley, Jeff (Jeffrey P.) Ross, Kid Ramos, Ana Popovic, Bob Brozman, and Popa Chubby. Bob Brozman’s guitars are pictured on the cover along with the curvaceous Candye adorned in feathers.
Guitar'd & Feathered begins with the retro swing of Junior Watson’s guitar, Bill Stuve popping on bass, and Kane’s eldest son, Evan Caleb, on drums. “My Country Man” kicks the party off in style. Next up, Dave Alvin slides into the atmosphere on a National Steel-bodied Guitar to make it clear: the listener is in for wonderfully different styles.
Other highlights are Candye’s convincing rendition of Guitar Slim’s “I Done Got Over It,” mutual laments from “Jesus and Mohammed” over today’s misguided religious violence, Ana Popovic’s playing on Kane original “I’m Lucky,” and the closing break-neck-speed Rock and Roller, “Crazy Little Thing” propelled by Popa Chubby. What’s not to love when there is something for everybody?
By James “Skyy Dobro” Walker Recommended To purchase this CD Click Here
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Featured Blues Festivals
Miller Lite
Spoon River
Blues Festival
JULY 28, 2007 - NOON TO MOON
INGERSOLL COUNTRY MANOR
Route 78 N. Just North Of Canton, IL
Featuring:
Steve the Harp & the Blues Deacons
Jack Daniels & Beamish Irish Stout presents...
MARK HUMMEL'S BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT
Friday June 29th, 2007
Location:
Best Western Ashland House
201 Ashland Ave, Morton, IL
309 266-6919
Featuring:
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Blue Bella
Recording Artist's
Kilborn Alley Blues Band
Russell Miller & 6V6
Chicago Blues Festival
2007 June 7-10, 2007
Grant Park in Downtown Chicago
Free Admission
11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.Six Stages of Blues Each day
Click see schedule - Thursday June 7 Friday June 8 Saturday June 9 Sunday June 10
Fest Website: http://www.chicagobluesfestival.us/
2007 IH Mississippi Valley Blues
Festival
CLICK HERE
for complete schedule with performance times
Friday June 29th
Damon Fowler
Group
Albert
Cummings
Chubby
Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
Robert
Randolph & the Family Band
Robert Belfour
Paul Oscher
Big
Bill Morganfield
Nappy Brown Bob Margolin
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
Mookie Brill
Saturday June 30th
Kelly Richey
Jason Ricci
and New Blood Big James & the
Chicago Playboys
The Jackie
Payne and Steve Edmonson Band Blues harp blowout featuring
Mark Hummel James Harman
Paul Oscher
Bad Luck
City featuring Matt Woods and Michael Swanger
Jimmy
“Duck” Holmes
Alberta Adams & RJ’s Rhythm Rockers with CeeCee Collins
Ari Brown Quartet
Watermelon
Slim
Trudy Lynn with
The Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings
Sunday July 1st
Dona Oxford
Tom
Principato
Ruby Wilson
Little
Charlie & the Nightcats
Drink Small “The Blues Doctor”
Dave
MacKenzie
Bruce Katz Henry Gray &
the Cats
Festival website http://www.mvbs.org
The only Blues festival in the Midwest
held on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River!
July 27th & 28th, 2007
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on St. Feriole Island
Click HERE for Complete Schedule
Friday, July 27, 2007
The Tom Hunter Band -
Shannon Curfman
-
Alvin Jett &
Phat noiZ -
Tab
Benoit
Plus Big Daddy Cade & The Blues
Masters
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Everett Smithson Band -
Kevin "B.F." Burt & the Instigators
-
Mark Sallings & the Famous Unknowns
Steve Arvey & The Saxtelles -
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
Anthony Gomes
Plus
Pete Cornelius
(from
Australia)
Festival Website http://www.prairiedogblues.com/
Featured Blues Artist:
You GOTTA check out the new CD From
South Side Cindy
Visit South Side Cindy & The Slip Tones'
website
http://www.thesliptones.com
Best Blues Links of the Week
Blues Glossary - Language of the Blues
Cop the groovy lingo!
American Blues has established a colorful language to go with the
heartfelt music. Most terms come from the rural African-American
experience or the melting pot of New Orleans. Here is a glossary of
those terms.
Click
HERE for Glossary
WORTH REPEATING - The link above mentions Stagger Lee
Click HERE for the legend of
Stagger Lee
information.
A very interesting blues-oriented website which explores the meaning and
significance of the legend of Stagger Lee. (The song has also been
called Billy Lyons and Stackalee; Mrs. Delion's Lament; Stagger Lee;
Stack O'Lee Blues; Stagolee; Stackerlee; Stack O Lee; Stagolee Was a
Bully)
Click HERE to visit our Blues Links Page
Blues Radio - Streaming Link of the Week
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Blues Society News
This Thursday , May 24, Friends of the Blues
from the Kankakee area is presenting NICK MOSS AND THE FLIP TOPS, 7:00 pm,
Brandon Casey's, 235 N Kinzie Ave (Route 50), Bradley IL 60915 (Kankakee metro
area). Cover $5.00
Nominated for 4 Blues Music Awards in 2007 including Band of the Year and
Guitarist of the Year, Nick Moss and the Flip Tops tour nationally and
internationally and are recognized as the best "younger band" playing real deal
Chicago Blues. Visit:
www.nickmoss.com
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