This hard-touring quintet from Edmonton released their fourth album here at Fat City on April 14 and went on to play at the Kitchener Blues Festival Launch Party. Their touring schedule only shows Western Canadian dates for now which is most unfortunate as they have one fine new disc.
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John’s Blues Picks May 2017 – Terry Gillespie
Celebrating his 70th birthday and fifty years of performing, Terry Gillespie assembled his various players for a series of concerts last summer at The Granary Beizle in his hometown of Vankleek Hill ON.
John’s Blues Pick May 2017 – Harrison Kennedy
Electro-Fi Records knows how to celebrate anniversaries. This is their 20th year and 2016 JUNO Award winner Harrison Kennedy starts it off in style. He’s brought some famous friends along: Jimmy Bowskill, Jack de Keyzer, Julian Fauth and Alec Fraser.
Loose Blues News – May 2017
Paul Reddick is riding high as his album Ride The One won this year’s JUNO for Blues Album of the Year. He’ll be on festival stages all summer with several plays in this area, the Kitchener Blues Festival, Orangeville Blues and Jazz and the Lighthouse Blues Festival. For Oakvillians, he’ll be at the Moonshine Café on May 27 and locally, he’ll be guesting with Big Groove at the Blue Goose on Sunday afternoon, May 14. Photo by Scott Doubt
Top Blues – April 2017
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail (globeandmail.com and Twitter: bwheelerglobe)
Loose Blues News – April 2017
Paul Nelson, bandmate, producer and protegé of Johnny Winter (and many would say the man who resurrected Johnny Winter’s career) will bring his own band to the newly resurrected Hugh’s Room Live on May 5
John’s Blues Picks April 2017 – Eric Bibb
The prolific Mr. Bibb wanted his new disc to open our minds to the plight of migrants everywhere, whether refugees of today or former sharecroppers leaving Clarksdale for Chicago. Helping out on this timely and worthy disc are our own Michael Jerome Browne and JJ Milteau, on harmonica, along with a couple of guests.
John’s Blues Picks April 2017 – Mainline
McKenna Mendelson Mainline was one our iconic bands, with famous albums like Stink, Canada-Our Home And Native Land and Bump & Grind Revue-Live at The Victory imprinted in our collective memory. There were many personnel changes over their short lifespan but by the final LP, only Joe Mendelson and Mike McKenna remained.
John’s Blues Picks April 2017 – TG Swampbusters
TG is Tim Gibbons, a Hamilton guitarist/singer/songwriter whose second disc is a quite wonderful set of songs in all four of those categories, usually all at once. He is also a groove master. ‘Swampy’ Joe Klienfiltr on bass and ‘Patch’ on drums are the Swampbusters and that’s all TG needs.