Comin' up on The Blues Show
July 4, 2009Just some plain old good blues for the holiday! Out latest Blues File features Eric Gales, who is presently in jail in Tennessee. Here is a video of him
in jail. His brother Manuel Gales, better known as Little Jimmy King,
died some years ago in his thirties, and our hopes are with Eric to
overcome the problems that landed him in jail. You can subscribe for free to The Blues File Podcast and receive each Blues File on your computer. Listen here to the previous Blues File on One String Blues.
In the midnight hour on The Blues & Beyond (and again Monday night at 10), we'll feature Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings and their new album Renegades.She's a great jazz flute player, and we'll hear a few other jazz flute stars as well. Listen to a remembrance of Koko Taylor and a look at her long career in a Blues File Podcast. • About The Blues Show and Jonny Meister •
It's been said that rock, pop, country, jazz and R&B are just branches of a tree whose roots are buried deep in the mud of the Mississippi Delta. To honor those roots 88.5 WXPN presents The Blues Show with host Jonny Meister every Saturday evening from 7pm to 12 midnight.
Jonny Meister with
Catherine Russell The Blues Show covers the entire history of the blues from 1920 to the present, from the best-known to the most obscure blues, with an eye both on the rich history of this music and its current vitality.
Host Jonny Meister has been playing the blues on WXPN since March 1977. Meister grew up with old blues records in the house. His father played boogie woogie on the piano, which Jonny learned at about the age of 12. Later he played in rock bands and did a few solo gigs as a singer-songwriter. His interest in blues grew and he became especially interested in the history of the music, a history not always revealed by the rock musicians who drew heavily on the blues and their promoters.
Jonny spent a week with the family of the late, great blues musician J. B. Lenoir in 1979, and he was one of the consultants for the Wim Wenders film The Soul Of A Man which featured Lenoir, in the recent PBS film series The Blues. He won the "Keeping The Blues Alive" award for work in Public Radio for The Blues Show in 2000 and a "Best of Philly" award from Philadelphia Magazine in 1996 for "Best Local Radio Show".
• Area Blues Concerts & Events •
For more detailed information please visit our concert calendar or a venue's website.
• • • July • • •Thursday, July 9
" Blue Thursday" w/ Midnight Shift @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Friday, July 10
Briggs Farm Blues Festival (Day 1) Joey Gilmore, Teeny Tucker, Scott Weis BandAlexis P. Suter, Lonnie Shields@ Briggs Farm 88 Old Berwick Highway (just West of the Intersection of Interstate 80 and 81) Nescopeck, PA 570-379-2003
Saturday, July 11
Briggs Farm Blues Festival (Day 2) Louisiana Red, Tom Larsen, Johnny Drummer
BC & Company, Lonnie Shields@ Briggs Farm 88 Old Berwick Highway (just West of the Intersection of Interstate 80 and 81) Nescopeck, PA 570-379-2003 The Nighthawks @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Thursday, July 16
" Blue Thursday" w/ The Buicks @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Friday, July 17
E. G. Kight @ Puck
14 East Court Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
215-348-9000
Saturday, July 18
Bucks County Blues Society R&B Picnic
Michael Burks and many others
@ Snipes Farm
Route 1 South
Morrisville PA
(adjacent to Levittown PA and Trenton NJ)
Gates open 9:30AM. Show 11A - 7P rain or shine
215-946-4794
Thursday, July 23
Cyril Neville @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
" Blue Thursday" @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Friday, July 24
Robert Cray and Shemekia Copeland
First day of XpoNential Music Festival
Presented by Subaru
Wiggins Park, on Camden, NJ waterfront
Pocono Blues Festival - 2009 Opening Night
Eddie Turner
James Armstrong
Paul Oscher
Mick Taylor, with Todd Wolfe @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Saturday, July 25
Pocono Blues Festival - 2009 Day One
James Cotton Band with Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater
Shemekia Copeland
Bernard Allison
The Bonedog Record Review
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm
Terry Evans
Melvin Taylor
Bonedog Record Review
Sunday, July 26
Pocono Blues Festival - 2009 Day Two
Buckwheat Zydeco
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
Ruthie Foster
Chris Cain
Chris Thomas King
Harrison Kennedy & Fruteland Jackson
The Pittsburgh Gospel Lights
Saffire The Uppity Blueswomen
Thursday, July 30
" Blue Thursday" w/ Joe Zook & Blues Deluxe @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
• • • August • • •
Saturday, August 1
Bandana Blues Festival @ Hickory Park
Gilbertsville, PA 610-473-0338
Wednesday, August 5
Mick Taylor @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Thursday, August 6
The Fabulous Thunderbirds @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
" Blue Thursday" w/ Sister Blue @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Friday, August 7
Riverfront Blues Festival
Opening Night: Ronnie Baker Brooks, Curtis Salgado, Walter Trout
Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park
Wilmington DE
Saturday, August 8
Riverfront Blues Festival in Wilmington DE (Day One)
Charlie Musselwhite, Trudy Lynn, Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues
Long John Hunter, The Kinsey Report, Roger Girke Band
@ Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park
Wilmington DE
"BonTaj Roulet" Summer Tour:
Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal, alone and together
@ Mann Center for the Performing Arts5201 Parkside Avenue
Philadelphia PA
Sunday, August 9
Riverfront Blues Festival in Wilmington DE (Day Two)
Andrew Junior Boy Jones, Phillip Walker & Sherman Robertson, Tad Robinson
@ Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park Wilmington DE
Thursday, August 13
Satan & Adam Reunion Show @ World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-222-1400
"Blue Thursday" w/ Studebaker John & The Hawks @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Friday, August 14
Robben Ford @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Saturday, August 15
Walter Trout @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Thursday, August 20
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops with Lurrie Bell @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
" Blue Thursday" w/ Todd Wolfe @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Saturday, August 22Shemekia Copeland @ Longwood Gardens
1001 Longwood Road
Kennett Square, PA 19348
1-800-737-5500
Tuesday, August 25
Neville Bros/Dr John @ Keswick Theater
291 North Keswick Avenue
Glenside PA 19038
215-572-7650
Thursday, August 27
" Blue Thursday" w/ Porkroll Project @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
• • • September • • •
Thursday, September 3
" Blue Thursday" @ McStew's Irish Sports Pub
5316 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
215-949-9570
Thursday, September 17
Sonny Landreth @ World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA
215-222-1400
Sunday, September 27
Delaware River Bluesfest
@ The Stockton Inn
Stockton NJ
Johnny Winter and others
• • • October • • •
Thursday, October 1
Shemekia Copeland @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Friday, October 2
Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowout
with Rusty Zinn featuring
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Billy Branch, and
Lee Oskar (of WAR) @ Sellersville Theater
24 West Temple Avenue
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
• • • November • • •
Tuesday, November 17
Keb Mo @ Keswick Theater
291 North Keswick Avenue
Glenside PA 19038
215-572-7650
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Blues Links:Visit these links to explore the Blues, learn about live events and to take part in the culture of this american art form.
Alligator Records
One of the leading Chicago blues labels. Alligator is Koko Taylor's label and also home for Lonnie Brooks, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, and many more. Recent releases include albums from Eddy Clearwater, Michael Burks, and Janiva Magness.
Delmark Records
A venerable Chicago blues & jazz label now celebrating 50 years in the business. Many of the blues greats of the past, like Junior Wells and Big Joe Williams, have recorded for Delmark. One of their finest recent releases is Byther Smith's Blues On The Moon. Another is Hattiesburg Blues from Mississippi Heat.
Blind Pig Records
This label is home to Kenny Neal, Magic Slim, Hamilton Loomis, and others and has put out albums by E. C. Scott, Elvin Bishop, Nappy Brown, Big Bill Morganfield, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and plenty more... plus classics from Buddy Guy, Johnny Shines, Snooky Pryor, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Allison... many others!
Pristine Audio
This French reissue company has done wonderful restorations of the audio from old records. Their blues releases include Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, and Tampa Red.
Diamond State Blues Society sponsors many blues events, notably regular day-long shows at Gators in New Castle, DE and summer events in Wilmington.
Bucks County Blues Society is america's oldest blues society. among the performers they have presented are folks like Willie Dixon and Albert Collins. They have regular events and a big Blues/R&B picnic every summer, and they sponsor "Blue Thursdays"; every Thursday night at A. J.'s in Levittown, PA.
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