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Blues At The Blue Door Biker Bar — Seven Years Out   Leave a comment

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERABlues at the Blue Door Biker Bar — Seven Years Out — Image by kenne

Biker Bar Blues

Sunday afternoon

at the crossroads,

two wheels

of chrome warriors

rallying

in the piney woods,

longnecks in hand

sweating ruggedness,

white men

sing the blues —

“What good amid these?”

— kenne

Posted January 20, 2014 by kenneturner in Blues, Friends, Life, Music, Photography, Poetry

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Texas Blues Friends At Papa’s Ice House   Leave a comment

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERATexas Blues Friends at Papa’s Ice House in The Woodlands, Texas (June 2002)

Posted September 6, 2013 by kenneturner in Friends, Information, Life, Music, Photography

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Getting A Weekend Blues Fix   4 comments

Wild Horse Pass Resort & Casino in Chandler, AZ — Image by kenne

This past weekend we went to the Wild Horse Pass Resort & Casino to see the Texas blues-rock band, the Fabulous Thunderbirds. This group, which has featured the Vaughn brothers, Stevie Ray and Jimmy Lee in its early days, is lead by one of the best harp players you will find anywhere, Kim Wilson. It was a great evening of rocking blues, which included an impressive display of harp playing by Kim Wilson.

Over the years many great musicians have been in the group. Probably the Vaughn brothers were the best known, but one that my friend, Diunna Greenleaf and I talked about during her recent tour in the Tucson area was Nick Curran — having  just pasted away. A very talented guitar player out of Austin, Diunna had considered Nick to be her lead guitar player some years ago, but she concluded that he was too flamboyant to be a part of her band. (See the related article below.)

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Posted October 30, 2012 by kenneturner in Blues, Information, Music, Photography, video

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Video of the Week — Jonn Richardson & Rich DelGrosso   1 comment

Jonn Richardson & Rich DelGrosso rip it up in Portland!
Thanks Jonn for posting on Facebook.

Posted May 11, 2011 by kenneturner in Video of The Week

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Texas Blues Seminar   2 comments

dalesherman-blogDale Armet and Sherman Robertson

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TEXAS BLUES GUITAR MEN

As part of an American Music Series at Lone Star College, I will be doing a Texas Blues Guitar Men session tomorrow. There is no way to do justice to Texas’s many great Blues musicians. I wasn’t sure where I would start until attending last week’s session conducted by Steve Davis on Sixties Rock-n-Roll, in which he ended with Jimi Hendrix. The door was open to begin my session with Hendrix’s version of Voodoo Child, followed by SRV’s version. After starting with Hendrix and SRV, I will cover Chris Duarte, Albert Collins, Johnny Clyde Copeland, and Sherman Robertson, ending with SRV and Copeland doing Tin Pan Alley. The session will utilize some or all of the following selections on YouTube:

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – Jimi Hendrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1Lvn5g62I

Stevie Ray Vaughan – Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSpbuFSr2o

Soul to soul – Stevie Ray Vaughan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSxP5eRX_IM

Stevie Ray 1975: The Cobra’s, Other Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uv7cv1AzH4christhe-moon62103-iii-blog1_

Stevie Ray Vaughan – Talks about Jimi Hendrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzraV8xn5Y4

Buddy Guy Chris Duarte and Kunimoto Japanese TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QISPVYiACk

Chris Duarte Group – “Watch Out” part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62eixgcgeDE

Chris Duarte-Azul Ezell (Acoustic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHvlWXx9CbU

Guitar Lesson – One Chord Blues Vamp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuCkIFurEjc

Stevie Ray Vaughan B.B. King Albert Collins–Texas Flood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYrfLG670U8

Frosty — SRV & Albert Collins — Live 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PBea_Z4cw

Albert Collins – Iceman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvvf1R_vWo

Johnny Copeland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpxWVJX7qHo

Sherman Robertson – Make it Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQB6ZQLQrdg

srv Tin Pan Alley(with Johnny Copeland) montreux 1985 part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu675E5mB9U

— kenne

Posted February 9, 2009 by kenneturner in Blues

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