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EDDIE TAYLOR JR. is Larry's brother; only 30, he seems to have inherited the spirit of his father, the late Eddie Taylor Sr. He sings a wide range of songs, playing a wonderful electric guitar that sounds like the early 1950s and goes great with a piano. He has two albums out on Wolf Records. Eddie, and Larry and I have played a few acoustic-style trios. See what Eddie's up to at a neat website designed by drummer and photographer Robert Pasenko: eddietaylorjr.com JOHNNIE MAE DUNSON SMITH bogfire.com/johnnie_music.html is my blues godmother. She's 83 and came to Chicago from Alabama and played drums with Jimmy Reed. She wrote "Goin' Upside Your Head," "She-Wolf", "So Cold," and many other tunes. She is a real fountain of blues songs and lore. SHIRLEY JOHNSON moved to Chicago from Newport News, VA, to sing the blues. She's one of the city's top blues and gospel vocalists, reaching out to the audiences with her sincere, no-nonsense delivery. I played piano behind her on a few gigs at the downtown tourist center Blues Exchange and at a nursing home and a women's conference. If you need a real blues lady, she's the greatest, and a down home wonderful person to boot. shirleyjohnsonblues.com DAVID "CHAINSAW" DUPONT is an up and coming bluesman, whose name comes from his boyhood task of gathering wood in Mississippi. He is the most modern musician of my buddies; his guitar heroes are Stevie Ray Vaughan or Jimi Hendrix-but unlike all their imitators, he that actually makes their music his own. Maybe it's cause he's from Mississippi and really lived it! We did a blues education program at the Evanston Friends (Quaker) meeting one Sunday. Check out my buddy David at chainsawdupont.com MAXWELL STREET-the city , UIC, and developers foolishly tore down the birthplace of Chicago blues. It was an open air market, spearheaded by Jewish merchants with lots of participation by Italians, Germans, Mexicans, African Americans and everybody else. Early blues and gospel musicians played on the street for nickels and dimes and were discovered by record companies at this unique multicultural melting pot. Read this great history at www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html Chicago
Blues Connection Travel Links My Favorite Uppity, Mostly Eastern Blues Women GAYE ADEGBALOLA, the Saffire gal who looks like Queen Nefertiti, is a ferocious singer and songwriter, and my vocal coach at Elkins. She has broken many barriers in her lifetime, and is revered as a teacher and a social observer, a very wise woman. adegbalola.com DORIS FIELDS,
"Lady D" from Beckley WV is a Theatre W.Va.
actress and sings r & b, reggae, and now the blues.
She plays the part of Bessie Smith in a one-woman show
called "Lady and the Empress." Bring
Bessie to your town LEA GILMORE, blues
singer, civil rights worker and historian has won a
Keeping the Blues Alive award for her website focusing on
blues women. I met Lea at Common Ground on the Hill,
an intercultural summer camp workshop CATHY PONTON KING, whose Irish grandfather once played the fiddle, now plays the blues guitar and writes all kinds of songs. She's all heart and a wonderful part of the DC live music scene zptduda.com/cpk PAT PEPIN, the up and coming Sax Lady from Maine, has been a big inspiration to me as she makes friends and climbs the musical ladder. I heard her play in Memphis at the 2003 Blues First competition. patpepin.com ANN RABSON has no
trouble struttin' her stuff; she's got one of the best
left-hand piano chops in the country, and she was my
teacher at Augusta Blues Week in Elkins, WV. One of
the three Uppity Blues Women of Saffire, along with Andra
Faye Hinkle and Gaye Adegbalola, she has learned from the
big guys, including Sunnyland Slim and Pinetop Perkins.
Catch her when she plays near you, and check her site to
learn about some of those old boogie & JUDY LUIS-WATSON, a fine
boogie player and singer, and her husband Paul of
the acoustic group Blues Works, have been coaching
me at Augusta too. Judy, who is originally from
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from Tennessee, blues educators who sing and play
guitar, banjo and harmonica; invite them to your town.
Sparky can explain and perform slave songs, field hollers,
spirituals, minstrel songs. They And of course. the folks at the ARCHIE EDWARDS barbershop in Washington DC, where Barbershop Blues began acousticblues.com The site gives you some history of the Piedmont blues. Most Saturdays they have an open acoustic blues jam. Come and listen or play. Mike Baytop is usually the dude in charge, he's a fine upcoming guitarist and bones-man. For Weekly and Monthly Updates on Blues and other live music in DC, WV and Shenandoah Valley of VA, subscribe to these newsletters: Shari Gallery's email newsletter on area arts events from Hampshire County WV - hampshirearts.org Joy Berghaus of Shenandoah Arts Council has a newsletter based in Winchester VA Eastern Panhandle of W.Va.: Nightlife Digest: nldigest@aol.com DC Area: Right on
Rhythm newsletter at rtonrhythm@boo.net Wayne Kahn has
produced, recorded, chronicled, played and pursued all
forms of roots music in the DC area; see his
comprehensive website and discover DC's brilliant Steve and Lisa O'Brien
of the Groove Quest band and studio, Takoma Park, MD,
have been playing for swing dancers; Steve mixed and
recorded my Barbershop Blues DC sessions. They can
give you the further scoop of DC Links to What's Happening in Music Today YES! There is great music in this country. It's just not on the radio. Find out why, and what you can do to help roots and original music thrive: futureofmusic.com Listen to WWOZ New Orleans, live streamed blues and jazz radio on the web www.wwoz.org/live_broadcast_stream_wm.html MOUNTAIN STAGE, a weekly radio-TV show founded by some hard working musicians in Charleston, the capital of my home state of West Virginia, has brought traditional and original artists to a new audience. mountainstage.com And now there's a NEWSONG FESTIVAL, songwriters festival in Charles Town, at the eastern end of the state, has a songwriters contest and festival. This year's festival and accompanying Mountain Stage show in September 2003 feature blues & roots music creator Corey Harris, and country-Americana singer-songwriter Cathy Mattea, among others.. newsongfestival.com Please join your local
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