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President’s Notes— Liz Walker Hi there. It’s the middle of summer already! What’s up with that? Remember when school let out and summer just stretched out in front of you endlessly? Not anymore…there’s so much going on this summer is flying by!
Board has also adopted new sponsorship levels. You’ll be able to read more about all of these further on in this newsletter. One of the Society’s greatest needs is someone with print and media hook ups to help promote the Blues Society’s goals and events. We also need some help with producing promotional materials for the Society, specifically at this time, a Sacramento Blues Society informational handout. Fundraising remains a priority as well. With the adoption of new sponsorship levels, SBS is in a position to solicit sponsors. We just need people to help inform the community of all the great things SBS is doing.
Between catching as many of the free concerts in the neighborhood parks, the multitude of excellent shows that come to town, rafting, golfing, vacationing, getting my junk food fix at the State Fair, enjoying fresh picked backyard grown tomatoes and Sloughhouse corn, River Cats games and laughing my head off with friends while hanging in the backyard, I haven’t had a chance to catch my breath, let alone crack that great new summer book I’ve got sitting on the shelf. But, as much as has come before there’s more in store. You might have already noticed some of the changes your new Board has made. A big thank you to Board member, Rick Nolan, for setting us up with some outstanding new merchandise. You can see our new logo on bright tee shirts and tanks and a really cool mug. Our International Blues Challenge competition is also taking on a new process and we’re having a really big show in a new venue on Aug 10th. The
Please take a minute to say hello to your Board members when you see them. Let them know what a great job they’re doing. It’s not easy taking on these responsibilities. As always, get out and enjoy some of our region’s live music this summer. There’s nothing like that live experience. Take care. Peace.
The Sacramento Blues Society (SBS) is one of the oldest blues societies in California, founded in1979, and is a 501 ( c ) 3 nonprofit corporation formed to preserve and promote blues music as an art form. SBS has kept the blues tradition alive in the Sacramento area by promoting the local blues music scene and bringing internationally renowned artists to the region. SBS is an affiliate member of The Blues Foundation, and provides educational opportunities for young people with The Blues Foundation’s “Blues In The Schools” Program. SBS produces and mails a newsletter, “Blue Notes” six times a year for our membership . 2012 Board Officers Liz Walker—President Dave Alcock—Vice President Charlene Metzler–Secretary JohnE Sandwich—Treasurer Jan Kelley-Parliamentarian Board Members at Large Kristen Dahl Kim DuVall Tammie Madill Skip Murphy Rick Nolan Zane Toberer
Sacramento Blues Society is a Proud Member of
2012 Committee Chairs
BITS —Cynthia Jaynes, Liz Walker, Co-Chairs BlueNotes! —Vj Anderson, Jan Kelley, Co-Editors CD Reviews—Mindy Giles Events/IBC Competition —Skip Murphy Gene Chambers Musicians Emergency Fund (GCMEF) — Kim Duvall Sacramento Blues Hall of Fame—Sally Katen; Board Liaison— Jan Kelley Membership/Volunteers —Zane Toberer Merchandise/Concessions/Graphics — Rick Nolan Public Relations —Liz Walker SacBlues e-News/Calendar —Willie Brown Web —Kristen Dahl
Board of Directors Meetings 2nd Tuesday of each month; 7:00 PM at the SMUD Building, 6301 S Street, Sacramento, CA. All SBS members in good standing are invited to attend. 2
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Holy Moly!—this is Skip Murphy Your Sacramento Blues Society Events Chair, and has to offer! Thackery’s double here we go again for a new ride. edged guitar dyHoly Moly! Yep, I can’t even express how exnamics allow him Friday, August 10th cited I am for the events we are Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers to fire off some bringing to the table, and I hope you The Blue Goose Events Center hard drivin’ blues will enjoy the ride along with me and $15.00 pre-sale and Members, and with back-up from the Drivers, the rest of the SBS crew. $20.00 at the door so you can expect some explosive We are developing a new process rock/blues! for our Annual Competition to represent SBS at the International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, The Blue Goose Events Center is located in DownTN . It is now in effect, and I hope that it will gain town Loomis at 3550 Taylor Road and is a Historic momentum, but we can’t do this without your sup- Building that has been restored. It is a part of The port. As you can see by the article listed in this edi- South Placer Heritage Foundation, another Non-Profit tion, we want to find all the talent that was not able to devoted to community development, as we are. All handle the cost of travel to Memphis.. So we have profits from this event will be held for expenses of the developed a new procedure to defray those costs. IBC Competition winner and it is designed to get attention to all of our outstanding projects and memNot perfect, but a new start. bers. For the 2012-13 Competition, we plan on paying the expenses of sending the Society’s sponsored band A major player in this area to be recognized is Mary to Memphis. Yes. Pay the expenses. Of course, Carrera of Carrera Productions. She has been a how much of the expenses we pay will depend a lot consistent monetary contributor and guidance counon the size of the band and how much money we selor to the SBS and is personally responsible for raise. We are already actively raising money by many of the great shows the SBS has been so proud holding various fundraisers, shows and soliciting to be affiliated with. We are very grateful for our association with Carrera Productions. Another show with “Sponsor” donations. Carrera Productions at Three Stages in Folsom is the We are having 4 “preliminary” competitions and then Tommy Castro Legendary Rhythm and Blues Rea “final” competition where we will choose our spon- vue on September 28. This show sold out last year sored band. All of these competitions will be held in when it was here, so get your tickets early, folks! local venues and are also IBC fundraisers toward funding the band we send to the IBC in Memphis. Please be aware, we need your continued help and Also, there is a Guitar being made by Jobe Guitars, assistance in supporting these SBS IBC Competiwith the custom pickups made by 3M products in tions! We want to be represented in Memphis by the Marysville, and believe me the person who wins this best of the best from the Sacramento area. We can’t in our raffle process will be the owner of a one-of-a- do any of this without YOU! You, the devoted Sacrakind high end guitar. I will provide pictures in our later mento Blues Society Members are the heart of the Blue Notes articles. We need your participation in Society, and together we can make this happen. these fundraisers to ensure adequate If you have a media or art specialty or funds and moral support for our particiother talent or ability and want acknowlpating bands. Please spread the word, edgment for what you can contribute to stay tuned to the Sacblues.com website the Society, please contact me, Skip Murand watch for the SacBluesNews email phy at 916-203-4088. We are looking for blasts for up-to-date information. all, and I mean all, of our talented memThe 1st Holy Moly Show featuring bers, photographers, painters, food peoJimmy Thackery and the Drivers at ple, accountants, Web Masters, you name The Blue Goose Events Center in it, we want to know you and your speLoomis on Friday August 10th is our cialty. We, as I’m finding, are some of the first attempt to bring the Sacramento most talented people in Sacramento. Blues Society to a bigger audience and Keep the Dream Alive, and see Ya at the provide our members with some of the Holy Moly Show! best national talent that American Blues 3
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Blues In The Schools is on summer break – we’re busy, venue on the grounds of Folsom colwhat are you doing?? lege. Mary has arranged for a portion of the ticket sales for these reI’m sure the BITS students and musicians are using cent events to be donated to BITS. some of this down time to dig deeper into the blues. We have received over $2,000 in I’ve been keeping up with some of our younger players donations which have been used to and where they’re playing through the Sacramento bring BITS to 5 public schools, one BLUES IN THE SCHOOLS Facebook page. (Find us, academy for special needs students make us your friend!!) Rosemont and West Campus and to the WIND Youth High School for homeless high school students will be performing for the Old teens. Thank you, Mary!! We (the Sacramento Blues Highway 99 Festival on Saturday, July 28, 2012. It’s a Society) enjoy working with you and appreciate your real honor that they have been invited to play and we generous support in bringing blues music into schools would like to thank Skip Murphy for promoting BITS which are facing depleted arts enrichment programs. and arranging for the young bluesmen to have a paying Carrera Productions obviously supports the blues and gig!!! our mission to preserve and promote this music we all enjoy. On August 10th, we are raffling off a Gibson Epiphone guitar donated to Charity Guitars by Joe Bonamassa The BITS Committee will be updating our Strategic and signed by artists in re- Plan (ya gotta have a plan, right?) which will, hopecent SBS shows. The pro- fully, push the program along to better and brighter ceeds will go directly to the places. There is much work still to be done and a logiBITS program. Tickets have cal plan makes things run fairly smooth, and stay on been sold for the past few track. The Blues community – which includes SBS months and we are ready to members and blues lovers in general, will often come pull the winning ticket! Be to BITS with some thoughts on improving our program sure to attend the Jimmie and exciting things we could do. We appreciate all Thackery Show on August these terrific ideas and the energy and the enthusiasm 10, 2012 at the Blue Goose in which they are presented. However, there are only in Loomis to get your ticket!. a handful of people making BITS happen and we can’t Details are listed elsewhere possibly do it all at the same time, and still move in this issue of the Blue ahead. So, we must take some time to carefully conNotes. sider and plan where our few resources should go, to make the most of what we do have. I also want to thank Mary Carrera, of Carrera Productions for the love and support she has shown the Blues If you are interested in helping BITS achieve our goals In the Schools program over the past year. Carrera in the 2012/2013 school year, please contact Cynthia Productions has been presenting fabulously entertain- Jaynes at 916 202-5075 or bits@sacblues.com. ing, intimate blues shows at the beautiful 3 Stages
J Geils Show—by Zane
Torberer; photo by Richard White
I had the opportunity to attend the J. Geils Show, sponsored by the Sacramento Blues Society (SBS) and Carrera Productions on June 20, 2012 at Three Stages in Folsom. To say I was excited at the prospect of seeing a legend such as J. Geils live and in person is an understatement, to say the least! I had never been to a concert at Three Stages and was very pleased wih the facility. It is a beautiful, very well-appointed venue with great acoustics and overall sound quality. Seating is very comfortable and literally, there is not a bad seat in the house.
What a great show in a fabulous theatre. The main lineup consisted of J. Geils, Jeff Pitchell and Gerry Beaudoin (left) as well as a most excellent backup band. J. Geils was kind enough to sign the Blues In The Schools (BITS) guitar, pictured, that will soon be raffled off to help raise funds for the BITS program. Richard White, an SBS represented photographer, was permitted backstage and documented the evening with some really great photographs. 4
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Catherine Russell is Coming!- Copyright © 2012 by Gary Chew. All Rights Reserved Jazz and blues vocalist, Catherine Russell came into my “sonic” view late. I'm so much the richer for that now comfortable music connection with this native New Yorker. I know that, after scrutinizing her talent, I'm the poorer for not having heard this woman sooner. But Catherine, as they say, was a late-bloomer, albeit has worked with names that have blinked on marquee lights just like her father, Luis Russell, did. Mr. Russell was Louis Armstrong's music director in the mid -40's and was a pianist, composer/arranger and big band leader.
us love. American Popular Songs, like “I'm In The Mood For Love” and “As Long As I Live,”are given adroit, polished readings by Catherine. On listening to other tracks, her ensemble suggests something very near to greats from back-in-the-day like: Django Rheinhardt, Joe Venuti and a little of the more modern sounding Art Van Damme. And did I hear something akin to Nat Cole's legendary trio? Then there's blues and swing---which her father, in a big -band kind of way, was early into. I noticed the jump, dixieland and straight ahead as well as a little gospel she sings with her mother. Banjo playing sprang from among the instrumentalists on other tracks that spread Russell's music concept on these CDs wide and most American...all performed over the plate and in the pocket.
Catherine Russell sings at Harlow's, 2708 J Street, Friday September 21, showtime 7 PM. Swell Productions and Capital Public Radio (my old stomping grounds) are making it happen. Tickets? www.swell-productions.com
Catherine's voice is a unique mixture of what almost seem contrasting qualities. It's velvety and smoky, yet clean, clear---so confident with the music---and spot-on Whoa! She does nothing not solid, and I think the lady could sing it all backwards and still cut it---and we'd love with intonation. I like that. it. I must even fess-up and say that Catherine does a Coming from a musical family, Catherine's mother, Car- Duke Ellington/Mack David song that I'd not heard: line Ray (a veteran jazz bassist and vocalist), brings it “Long, Strong and Consecutive.” It was just one of those altogether for Catherine with her father's musical experi- things---I missed. ences early in the 20th century in New Orleans, Chicago and New York City. Mr. Russell and Armstrong were Well, as I've said for a long time now, “There's no time almost the same age; born 1902 and 1901, respectively. like the present,” even if the blooming's late. When Russell gets to Sacramento, I hope she'll sing “All The Cats Join In” and Fats Waller's “Inside This Heart Of Mine.” I'll be in the audience in rapt attention.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear how Catherine and the ensembles that back her on two CDs (“Inside This Heart of Mine” and “Strictly Romancin'”) capture the essence of different kinds of great music that so many of
Starry Night—By Bo Ely, photos by Bob Cosman Saturday, June 30, 2012, proved to be another spectacular "Music Under the Stars" night hosted by the Sacramento Blues Society at Po' Boyz Bar and Grill in Folsom. Everyone was treated to an incredible night of music enhanced by the perfect weather. The night started in the Po' Boyz courtyard with Big Earl & The Cryin' Shame delivering Chicago blues with Big Earl's own entertaining twist. The band was stacked with talent that left the crowd begging for an encore.
After a quick set change it was time for a master of the 88's, Wendy DeWitt, and her drummer Kirk Harwood to take the stage. The Boogie Woogie Queen immediately had the dance floor filled and proved her well-deserved title. The duo had just driven down from a Portland/Seattle tour and with their unmatched energy levels they captivated the audience with songs from their highly regarded latest CD "Industrial Strength." Wendy and Kirk's humorous interplay between songs added to Wendy's uplifting piano skills and smoky vocals and held everyone's attention. Wendy DeWitt and Kirk Harwood truly made this a night to remember. 5
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Some Past Winners of our IBC Competition that went to Memphis Photos by Bob Cosman
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The IBC Explained — By Jan Kelley The International Blues Challenge (IBC), held annually since 1985 in Memphis by the Blues Foundation, is a prestigious event for the world-wide Blues community. Less than 70 bands competed in 2004, about 95 in 2005, 120 in 2006, and more than 150 in 2007. And with that growth the countries represented and the caliber of the acts has also increased, causing the competition to become even more challenging. In the beginning, artists competed for the pleasure of showcasing their music and sharing with others from various countries. Awards and prizes came later,
in 2009; Have 4 CDs under their name and have been on the cover of Blues Revue, Nominated for Blues Blast Magazine Best Blues Band of the Year in 2012 Lionel Young (solo/duo) 2008—Violinist Lionel Young has won numerous awards including: The Young Artist Award (Pittsburgh Symphony); The Concerto Contest (Carnegie-Mellon); The Passamenic Award (Branchwood String Quartet); and the award for the Best Blues Band in Westword’s Best of Denver. He’s also won a position with The Denver Chamber Orchestra and played on the Legendary Rhythm &Blues Cruise.
Many of the artists competing at this annual event in Memphis, winner or not, go on to further their professional careers and cite the IBC as a huge stepping stone for them. Here are a few first or second place winners at the IBC and the year they won. See how many you recognize.
J.P. Soars Band 2009—Currently nominated for a Blues Music Award for Best Contemporary Blues Male Artist. Prolific songwriter and singer/guitarist, currently has 2 CDs under his name and one jointly with Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers.
Zac Harmon and the Midsouth Blues Revue 2004—Sirius XM Best New Artist Award, 2005; Blues Music Award Winner Best New Artist, 2006. Also included in Zac’s career is an extensive list of CDs (side man and solo), writer, producer, actor, more awards, including the Peavey Award, and tours with Bluesapalooza twice. He is truly an Ambassador of the Blues.
Grady Champion 2010—Blues singer and harmonica player, played on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, in the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, and in the Chicago Blues Festival 3 times. Blues Critic Award for Best Down Home Blues Song for “Make That Monkey Jump”, 2011, Nominated for three Blues Music Awards 2012
Eden Brent (solo/duo) 2006—Appearances at the British Embassy, My South Celebrations, radio shows, many blues festivals as well as frequent appearances on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, where she is a favorite performer. The Blues Revue magazine and other blues magazines have written glowing articles about her. She currently has two CDs to her name as a solo artist.
The Lionel Young Band 2011—First IBC double winner, ever! The prizes that are now being awarded to the winners are incredible! IBC winners receive cash and professional consultations and assistance, gigs at top festivals, and a slot on the 2013 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
Sean Carney (Band) 2007— In addition to winning the band award, also won for Best Guitarist, his 2007 and 2008 Blues For A Cure shows and CDs raised over $50,000 for the cause. His Life of Ease CD was produced on his label, Night Owlz Records, which he founded in 2006. In 2009, his 2007 Canadian recording Live Blues On Whyte was released.
The Band Division is eligible for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards, each of which includes a cash award and other professional services. A 1st and 2nd place prize goes to the Solo/Duo Division. The Best Guitarist in the Band competition is recognized with a custom-built ES-335 guitar, generously donated by Gibson Guitars.
Homemade Jamz Band, runnerup (very close) 2007— Ages 7, 11 and 13 at the time, youngest band to ever compete in the IBC. Played on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise; 2007; Played in the BB King Homecoming in Indianola, MS, 2008. They currently have 2 CDs released
So, all you blues musicians reading this, does this provide you with plenty of incentive? (See Skip Murphy’s column) To learn more about the IBC, please go to www.blues.org, the Blues Foundation’s website, and click on the IBC logo. There is a wealth of information on it.
Trampled Under Foot 2008—In addition to Best Band, Nick won the Albert King Award for guitarist. Played on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise 7
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CD Reviews Late in The Lonely Night,
is made up of solid veterans of the blues circuit: Ken Saydak keys, Marty Binder drums, Harlan Terson bass, and Mark Wydra guitar. John Brumbach contributes sax on two cuts, Pete Benson plays organ on two.
Tommy McCoy (Earwig Music)
You are treated to fifteen tracks with only three covers. The touchstones for many blues/ These three are inspired: a Duke Ellington “Good Gal blues-rock lovers over the last several decades have Blues,” ”I’ve Got No Strings” an instrumental that seemed been The Allman Brothers (whether led by each genera- familiar, but I have to admit I had to read it was from the tional slide maestro Duane/Warren/Derek) and Stevie Disney movie "Pinocchio." A harsh trill opens “Gimme Ray Vaughan. So when you hear the well-travelled Dat Harp Boy” before melding into the raw driving riff and singer/songwriter and guitarist/band leader Tommy vocal of the Captain Beefheart tune. The originals don’t stray from familiar frameworks of harmonica blues idiom McCoy, that acknowledgement comes through. but new twists on old riffs abound in Sorin’s masterful The title track, “Late in The Lonely Night “ is a strong playing. minor key alliterative treat that shows off his guitar prowess without getting in the way of the song—he is lyrical Sorin’s chops are firmly based in a foundation of Little and his playing supports the lyrics. That might be an ob- Walter, and like Charlie Musselwhite, Sorin will transition vious gimme, but too many players have a hard time re- from a muscular bass riff to a sinewy shower of single membering to do this. In eleven songs, McCoy never notes and jazzy flourishes. For any fan of Chicago blues over plays, rather his playing shines with taste and harmonica, this disc is a spectacular discovery. knowledge. Hammond B-3 player Tim Heding has the -Bob Coffeygoods too and he co-propels this and six other tracks. ‘Never Shoulda Listened,” is a cheeky musical ménage à trois with singer Karyn Denham and barrelhouse piano woman Liz Pennock. I hope this is their You Tube choice. Two left field favorites for me are his great versions of juke box ditties from my high school days –both by McCoy’s famous fellow Floridians—the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose! “It’s Too Late to Turn Back Now” and “Treat Her Like a Lady.” These dual hippie R&B hits were funky then and they still are on this disc. McCoy’s big bold vibrato baritone and his chunky rhythm playing are lots of fun and when he rips off those blistering leads, you can just feel the Florida sun grinning.
-Mindy GilesRon Sorin and the Blue Coast Band Lake City (Big Lake Records) This one just keeps getting stronger with each listen. Sorin is a born-in-Chicago harp player and longtime side -man, but this is his first solo recording. Since Sorin apparently doesn’t sing, he’s done us the favor of drafting vocalist extraordinaire Tad Robinson for seven cuts. Robinson has become known more as a soul-man but here he showcases his splendid blues chops. The band 8
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Out and About—by Lizzie
Can't Be Satisfied; The Life & Times of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon.
On Tuesday, July 3rd I had the immense pleasure of hearing James Hunter at Harlow’s. Thank you to SWELL Productions for constantly reminding us of the wealth of talent in the world of blues. This band brought to mind the early British invasion and reminded me of the resurgence, or birth, of modern blues in America.
Phillip Davis is a fan of the Blues and ”plays a bit of guitar but is an a m a t e u r ”. H e jo in e d t h e Sacramento Blues Society many years ago, about the time he saw Muddy at the Blues Festival in Land Park, ”maybe '80 or '81, a couple years before he died”. After reading this book, he was inspired to write a review to encourage others to read it, also.
With two saxes, key board, stand-up bass teamed with a smooth, smooth drummer, the guitar just danced over the top. Hips are swaying; toes are tappin’ and baby, sing to me. Nothing fancy here, just solid rhythm, delightful lyrics and good ole’ fashion feel-good blues. When the band has smiles from here to there you know they’re got a groove on. Of course, I could only understand every other word when James broke for a story (the Brit accent, you know.)
This book has been out a long time; I'm not sure why I never read it before. It's terrific. It starts with Muddy's life as a sharecropper on Stovall's Plantation on the Mississippi Delta; a life not much better than a slave's. Robert Johnson & Son House are his inspiration, and, in the person of Son House, his teacher.
And then I stopped into da’Torch where Howell DeVine was picking on the back porch. I only wished it was my back porch because I just wasn’t sure how much more I could take in one night! Washboards, stand up, harp, pricking, crying blues. This trio really took you to school. Fabulous!
Muddy’s move to Chicago is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the blues. There are many great artists, but Muddy was the 1st to play an electric guitar (not an acoustic with an added pickup). He literally converted the Delta blues to electrified Chicago blues, creating an entirely new genre. Because of this he is, in my humble opinion, the greatest bluesman ever.
Over and over I say the same thing…we are incredibly blessed in this town with blues talent. Every night all over the region someone is dipping into that river of soul, blood and guts known as the blues. Does that sound too preachy? Maybe, but true.
For good listening after reading the book; try Muddy’s The Plantation Recordings, 1942, when Alan Lomax travelled to Stovall's for the 1st recordings. And my favorites are Hard Again, I'm Ready and The Woodstock Album .
Thanks to our Business Members (listed below and next page) for supporting our efforts to entertain and educate the community with blues events and music programs.
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New Member Bands receive a Free Business card copy in the first Blue Notes Following your membership date and follow-up listings while a Band Member, a link from our website to yours and any announcements and offers to Musicians received on our website .
Thanks to our Band Members for supporting our efforts to
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community with blues events and music programs. Andy Keene & Kinda Blue 916-799-1544 ajkeane3@aol.com
Dave Croall & the Soothers 916-455-6349 rightdave@hotmail.com
Bad Catz Zane Toberer 530-391-8089 http://badcatz.webs.com/
Diamond Bob & the Alley Sneakers 408-313-7194 www.diamondbobsblues.com
Big Earl and the Cryin\' Shame 209-450-4141 bigearl@gmail.com Blues Vandals 916-384-7457 bluesvandals.com
Gary Mendoza Band 916-599-9947 www.garymendozaband.com Kyle Roland Band kyle.rowland@yahoo.com www.kylerockinrowland.com/
Bobby Blues Ray 916-422-5830
O Street Jumps Dan 916 -944-7292 Cari 916-725-4889
Chicken & Dumpling www.chickenanddumpling.net 530-753-5265 or 530-902-7209
Randy Carey randrock@prodigy.net 916-607-0695
Coyote Slim 408-838-0456 bluesman@coyoteslim.com www.coyoteslim.com
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Spotted Dog Rockin’ Blues Revue Greg Gartrell—916-332-5417 raulduke52@sbcglobal.net www,spotteddogmusic.com Steve Foster Band 916-276-9170 Stevefosterband @comcast.net Used Blues Band Sean McGroarty 916-204-9800 Sean@myifp.com Val Starr & the Blues Rocket Val Starr 916-765-0162 JohnE Sandwich 916-225-0209 www.bluesrocket.biz
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Blues-rocker Jimmy Thackery was born in Pittsburg, PA in 1953. His interest in music began in high school. Listening to the music at the time, he found himself drawn to both blues and rock musicians, and was intrigued by the artists that combined both. He has been busy, both touring on his own and with bands. He joined the Nighthawks from the early 1970’s until the middle of the 1980’s, when he joined and led the Assassins. Since 1991 he has been leading the Drivers, and now you have a chance to catch him in the area.
Enter Your BAND In the SBS Competition for entrance to SBS’ 2013 International Blues Challenge! The Sacramento Blues Society holds an annual competition to choose a band to sponsor for the yearly International Blues Competition held in Memphis TN. SBS will hold 4 “preliminary” competitions, one per month, beginning in July and continuing through October. Preliminary winners will advance to a Final Competition in early November. The Final Competition will judge the preliminary winners and determine the winning band to represent SBS in Memphis. . During the Competition, the SBS Events Committee will promote fundraisers and related activities to pay all reasonable travel expenses for our winning band. including transportation, food, lodging and related expenses. For eligibility, entry forms and more specific information, please visit the SBS website, www.sacblues.com. Official IBC information and rules can be obtained by visiting http:// www.blues.org. 12
Friday, August 10th Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers The Blue Goose Events Center 3550 Taylor Road, Loomis Doors Open 6:30 PM $15.00 pre-sale and Members, $20.00 at the door