Too Slim and the Taildraggers formed in 1986 in Spokane, Washington, United States. The band currently consists of Tim “Too Slim” Langford (lead vocals, guitar), Polly O’Keary (bass, vocals) and Tommy Cook (drums). Tom Brimm (bass) and John Cage (drums) were both early members of the group To date, Too Slim and the Taildraggers have released 11 studio […]
Eric Clapton & Friends “The Breeze – An Appreciation of JJ Cale” www.Surfdog.com www.EricClapton.com Starting with Eric Clapton’s 1970 self-titled debut solo album, Clapton started a decade’s long affection for JJ Cale. They also recorded together on the ’06 “The Road to Escondido.” Last year Cale passed-away so it was not a stretch (but a […]
State of the Blues In Feb of 2013, John Taffer from Bar Rescue made over the blues bar “The Sand Dollar” in Las Vegas proclaiming that Blues Music is only listened to by 3% of the population and it was not viable music for a successful bar. At that moment I began to fume. How […]
Creating your own Internet Radio Station! All throughout the world there are blues societies, Folk Music Societies, Indie music groups, etc, some big and some small. Each is working within their areas to support and expand their genre in their communities. If you are part of a blues society, a Folk Music Society or any […]
Jaco Pastorius “Modern American Music … Period! The Criteria Sessions” Omnivore Recordings Jaco Pastorius’ major solo debut appeared in 1976 on Epic Records, many of the tracks had their beginning two years earlier when a twenty-two year-old Pastorius booked time at Criteria Studios to work out songs and jam. Eventually six of those session tracks […]
Facebook Friends by Location for Events! We all know how powerful creating a Facebook event and inviting all your friends can be, but what if you have Facebook friends that are spread out all over the country. Facebook inviter (See our article on it HERE) is great if you have a global even, such as […]
An Exclusive Interview with Alexis P Suter Website www.alexispsuter.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alexis.p.suter.3?fref=ts LIVE from the Midnight Circus Talks with Alexis P Suter! by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud International Recording Artist’s The Alexis P Suter is a vocalist who transcends styles and genres. When the great Bluesman B.B. King first heard Alexis P. Suter sing, he was visibly impressed […]
Cannonball Adderley “The Black Messiah” Live at the Troubador – 1972 – 2 CD’s www.RealGoneMusic.com The year was 1972 when Cannonball Adderley’s quintet (there were more than five musicians) took the stage with Cannonball’s alto and soprano saxes, brother Nat’s cornet, a rhythm section of Roy McCurdy’s drums, Walter Booker’s bass, and direct from a […]
An Exclusive Interview with JP Soars LIVE from the Midnight Circus Talks with JP Soars by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud This week we talk to the one and only JPSOARS! With his new CD just hitting the radio airways “Full Moon NIght in Memphis” JP is out touring to support this great new Blues CD. […]
Like thousands before me, I moved to NYC in 1994 on a Greyhound Bus in pursuit of THE DREAM, a record deal, and a mansion. After a decade of odd jobs and waitressing , I got signed and briefly appeared on MTV Buzzworthy. Like 99.9 percent of those who came before me, however, I never quite […]
2014 Tremblant Blues Fest – First Class Blues! July 4th – July 6th This is my sixth consecutive Festival International Du Blues De Tremblant Festival. For twenty-one years the Festival International Du Blues De Tremblant has been assembling Blues festivals that are one the best Blues Fests in world. This year’s most known event headliners […]
Jam bands are musical groups whose live albums and concerts relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with The Grateful Dead, and continued in the 1990s with bands like Phish. The performances of these bands typically feature extended musical improvisation (“jams”) over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music that can often cross genre boundaries. While the seminal […]
Making a Scene is proud to be interviewing Blues Guitarist DAVE SPECTER!! www.davespecter.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dave.specter?fref=ts Click Below to hear the Interview! LIVE From the Midnight Circus Talks with Dave Specter by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud Blues guitarist, bandleader and producer Dave Specter has earned an international reputation as one of the premier young talents on the Chicago […]
Last night on Music on The Couch… First my friend, Mick Kolassa came by to give us a final update on the Oxford Blues Festival happening later this week Then Bob Eike came out of his basement to talk to us about his career and the new album “happy little songs of futility & despair” […]
The RMR (Roots Music Report) are probably the most important chart for the independent musician. They track radio airplay for a wide variety of genres. The list of reporting radio stations that we are providing to you today is for the genre of Blues. The information we are providing is the results of years of […]
Living Blues is a bi-monthly magazine focused on covering the blues tradition, and its America’s oldest blues periodical. The magazine was founded as a quarterly in Chicago in 1970 by Jim O’Neal and Amy van Singel. Alligator Records owner and founder Bruce Iglauer was also one of the magazine’s early editors. Howlin’ Wolf was featured on the cover of the first issue. In 1983, O’Neal and van […]
2014 Montreal Jazz Fest – 35th Edition July 2nd – 4th, 2014 The Legacy Continues This is/was my sixteenth consecutive Montreal Jazz Fest, and it began at Club Soda within the funky neighborhood that also borders Chinatown on Saint-Laurent Boulevard where the relative newcomer to the Blues Matt Andersen and his band took to the […]
Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Eighteen” 2/3 & 2/5/78 (3 CD’s) www.RealGoneMusic.com This Dick’s Picks edition is somewhat unique in that disc one is taken from two shows that are combined to “create” a first set of performances. Disc two contains the entire second set from 2/3, and disc three is the entire second set from […]
Making a Scene has an exclusive interview with Jill Siegel! Listen below as we talk with a powerhouse in public relations. [audio:JillSeigel.mp3] Jill Siegel is now the handling the Public relations in the US for Ruf Records. Ruf records has put together an impressive list of up and coming and established blues artists. No matter […]
LIVE from the Midnight Circus is honored to have interviewed UK blues artist and Walter Trout protégé, Danny Bryant! Listen to the Interview Below LIVE from the Midnight Circus Talks with Danny Bryant by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud He will hit the road this summer to front Walter’s band while the legendary Blues icon recovers from […]
Making a Scene has an exclusive interview with Rachelle Coba about her Debut release “Mother Blues”. LIVE from the Midnight Circus Talks with Rachelle Coba by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud www.rachkellecoba.com Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/rachellecoba?fref=ts&ref=br_tf Rachelle represented the Topeka Blues Society as a solo performer at the International Blues Challenge in 2013 making it to the semifinal round […]
Bobby Womack ” BluesWax Sittin’ In With Bobby Womack By Bob Putignano Robert Putignano does interviews like most people eat potato chips during Super Bowl. It’s almost second nature. In reality that’s what makes his stuff so good. He makes it look easy. But even I was shocked at how much he got out of […]
B.B. King “The Life of Riley” DVD www.MVDVisual.com “The Life of Riley” is a very appropriate documentary about the monumental life of B.B. King. Riley B King born on 25th September 1925 will soon be eighty-nine; so it’s about time. This DVD release is approximately two hours in length, produced and directed by Jon Brewer. […]
NRBQ “Brass Tacks” www.NRBQ.com Clang! Big Notes www.TerryAdams.com Terry Adams has been at the helm of NRBQ (New Rhythm & Blues Quartet) for forty-five years. But even though the Q has gone through several band-member revisions, this latest bunch has been with Adams for several albums now. What’s interesting is that these new members (while […]
LIVE from the Midnight Circus is proud to Talk to “Little Toby Walker”! www.littletobywalker.com Listen to the Interview Below!! [audio:toby.mp3] Internationally and nationally acclaimed Toby Walker has been hailed as a roots music finger-style guitar wizard who has toured the US, England, Wales, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland. Walker has been featured in the New York Times, […]
Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Volume 10” Thelma, Los Angeles, CA 12/12/69 www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com Dave’s Picks, Vol. 10: Thelma, Los Angeles, CA 12/12/69 is a snapshot of the band just prior to when they would enter the studio to record “Workingman’s Dead,” and they’re hitting on seven of the eight tracks (“New Speedway Boogie” was […]
Interview with Michael “Hurly” Hurwitz from Freddys Finest! [audio:mhurly.mp3] Live from the Midnight Circus talks with Michael Hurwitz Bassist and front man of Freddys Finest! Michael also has film credits as the bass player in the movie Joyful Noise with Queen Latifah and Dolly Pardon. Tune in and hear about his new project and listen to what he is […]
2014 -25th Anniversary Crawfish Fest www.CrawfishFest.com May 30th-June 1st: New Orleans music, food, crafts, all very children friendly, Sussex County Fairgrounds Augusta, NJ. Michael Arnone’s twenty-fifth annual Crawfish Fest was held at its regular Sussex County Fairgrounds spot in Augusta, NJ. This year’s edition featured another robust lineup of (mostly) Louisiana musicians featuring: Terrance Simien, […]
Interview with Jeffrey Halford – An American Songwriter Website – https://www.jeffreyhalford.com Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.w.halford?fref=ts San Francisco singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeffrey Whitmore Halford was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the early 1960s listening to Roger Miller on a $2 transistor radio. In 1963, the year JFK was shot, his parents, Colin and Effie Lou, headed west […]
We are honored to be talking with Blues sinter Annika Chambers about her new CD and where she came from and where she is going!! This is a great interview!!The beautiful and talented Annika Chambers hails from Houston, Texas. As a child, she always wanted to sing, but her dreams of enlisting in the Army […]
The New York Post reported that this NY singer was being sued for 10 Million Dollars because she was not talented enough and not good looking enough to front a Pink Tribute band. (Read the Article in the NY POST Here). But to be more specific, the real story is a bit more involved. It […]
UltraChannel™ is Eventide’s new 64-bit native channel strip plug-in for AU, VST, and AAX64 for Mac and PC featuring micro pitch functionality from our flagship H8000, stereo delays with variable feedback paths, plus two stages of compression, gating, and five bands of parametric EQ. UltraChannel is available as a free download through midnight July 8, […]
California Simi Valley 25th Anniversary Cajun & Blues Music Festival May 24th & 25th, 2014 www.SimiCajun.org/2014/index.html Saturday’s headliners included the British blues godfather: John Mayall, surviving members of blues-rock heroes Canned Heat, and Guitar Shorty. Appearing on Saturday and Sunday was C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band. Sunday closes with the soulfulness of Swamp […]
LIVE from the Midnight Circus Talks to Harpdog Brown by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud Harpdog Brown’s Facebook page! Harpdog Brown has a new CD out and it is climbing both the Living Blues and the RMR Charts. Publisher Richard L’Hommedieu Talks to Harpdog on his radio show LIVE from the Midnight Circus (every tuesday 2pm-5pm […]
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band “Goin’ Home” www.ConcordMusicGroup.com – www.KennyWayneShepherd.com The Kenny Wayne Shepherd band moves to Concord Records using a “Louisiana Entertainment” moniker which is appropriate as Shepherd really does go back to his blues and (at times) Louisiana roots on the appropriately titled “Goin’ Home.” No band member changes, plus there are some […]
Publisher Richard L’Hommedieu spoke with Geoff Achison on his show LIVE from the Midnight Circus. Geoff is an old friend of the Show. He is an amazing musician and brings a fresh perspective to the blues from Down Under. www.geoffachison.com Geoff Achison is an independent Australian musician who has forged his own path to a […]
Battle of the Blues Hall of Fames With the Blues Foundation new Push to open a Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis (www.blues.org) there has been a growing rift between them and the owners of www.blueshalloffame.com . Legal proceedings concerning the trademark “Blues Hall of Fame” and general distrust between the two parties, have led […]
Sonar X3 Lets face it, once you find a DAW that you like and you have gone through the learning curve it’s pretty hard to change. But, if you are looking to get your first full DAW or you feel your DAW is not giving you what you want, you might want to consider Cakewalks […]
Publisher Richard L’Hommedieu Interviews Lefty Williams from Atlanta on his radio show “LIVE From the Midnight Circus” On www.peachtreeradiofm.com which airs every Tuesday from 2pm-5pm Eastern Time. Listen to Lefty’s Music and listen as he talks about his career and how he got to where he is today! At the end of the interview you […]
An Interview With Organist Extraordinaire John Ginty Hammond B-3 organist John Ginty’s recent album release Bad New Travels (American Showplace Music) has received critical acclaim and has charted highly on Roots Music Report, among others. John has toured and recorded with artists such as Jewel, Citizen Cope, Santana, Dixie Chicks, Matthew Sweet, Court Yard Hounds, […]
I think the one thing that I would stress to anyone who complains that there is no music scene in their area is to get involved. As much as we would like it to be, a good music scene does not just happen. Sometimes the music fans need to get involved to help […]
Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks 19” 10/19/73 www.RealGoneMusic.com Here we go again making our way onto the way-back machine. Set your controls to 10/19/73, destination the Farigrounds Arena in Oklahoma City. This CD set includes three discs – all from the same show. The sound quality and the bands performance are initially shaky, but as recording […]
We are Honored to have interviewed “Mud” Morganfield, the oldest Son of Muddy Waters . We talked about the efforts he and his brother are making to secure Muddy Waters home in Chicago and about his new CD and life on the road .. this is a great interview and one well worth hearing!! https://www.morganfieldfoundation.org https://www.mudmorganfieldblues.com/ […]
The Vince Guaraldi Trio “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” Fantasy – www.ConcordMusicGroup.com The background storyline here is almost as fascinating as the music contained. “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” was written for a 1964 TV program, but it never saw the light and never aired on television. Equally fascinating that very same year of 1964 […]
PLEASE EMAIL THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE ON BEHALF OF THE MUDDY WATERS HOME!! Amy Martin Director Amy.Martin@illinois.gov Illinois State Historic Preservation Office Both the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago knew that the Muddy Waters home was in danger and they have done nothing to protect this valuable historic building The Muddy […]
EDITOR NOTE: About halfway through the interview the online signal dropped and we lost about 20secs of the Interview. But it is still an interesting and informative look at a great artist on the scene today. Bassist for ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD, BONERAMA and Bandleader/Bassist for CHARLIE WOOTON PROJECT and ZYDEFUNK.Like many of the artists born […]
A Celebration of Blues and Soul – The 1989 Presidential Inaugural Concert” On January 21, 1989, the day after the Presidential Inauguration some of the principal names in classic rhythm and blues, soul and blues performed at the Presidential Inaugural Concert. This celebration features (in order of appearance) Chuck Jackson, Percy Sledge, Dr. John, Joe […]
Thank you for taking time from your schedule to answer a few questions for me. The Orange County Blues Society is dedicated to making California a great home for the blues! -Jeff (Papa J) Hudson You first started in the music business in St. Louis in the 60’s. How different is it from today’s music […]
