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.ask if he or she has CD's to sell.... I hemekia Copeland on April 19.Sit back, smile, foot stomp, applaud, I' Next time you plan to be near Santa Barbenjoy the music. Let the artist work consult the complete Calendar of many localthe crowd. If the artist wants inter- I events at www.SBBlues.org.action, enjoy yourself. Little Arthur i Duncan (and the Back Scratchers) IAustralialoved when females in 'theaudience Iscratched and rubbed his back while IBluesfesthe played harp or danced with them.

Through the years, 1have had 'A l' St 1many experiences at blues bars and II ustra Ian y eclubs that have enriched my life.made me aware how the blues con- I By HILTON FAITnects all of us of various back- I A Easter approaches I wonder what newgrounds, countries, ages and races. ' artists I will discover performing at theThe blues is a common denominator. Eastcoast Blues and Roots Festival in BOne night at Rosa's, between Bay. the mo t easterly town on Australia's cosets, I asked Sugar Blue if he would line. Bluesfest had it's beginnings in 1990 insign his "James Whiting" on a CD 1500 cApacity veuue known as The Piggery ocover. He just stared at me, said, Byron Bay Arts Factory. Since 19 4 this venu"No one but my mama has called a popular slopover for overseas artists who feme James Whiting in years. How i right at home amongst rhe memorabilia anddid you know that was my name?" I facts (he owners and operators, Dan Ooeppel"Because I study the credits of the " Karin Woods and Keven Oxford had outfittedmusic I listen to, noticed James , place with. Keven, having promoted many shWhiting wrote most of the songs you i in the Seventies, was able to attract such artirecord." I Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Albert Collins, THe smiled at me, signed (Sugar I abulous Thunderbirds, Buddy Guy, Lonnie MBlue) on the cover, said, "You are a Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Jeff Healey,true blues fan, aren't you?" make the pit stop to this small venue, whilst"Yep ... and a bit of a blues i ng All tralia,scholar, too," I said. 1handed him a I Keven, after seeing John Lee Hooker andsecond copy of the new CD, asked if , Bobby Blue Bland at a Festival in San Francishe would sign and inscribe it for my soon-to-be l 1988, decided the enthusiastic audience wasborn grandgir], Izzy. ! different from the Australian audiences whoHe smiled, said, "Not even born and you are i pled the acts he had through the Arts Factorymaking her a blues , Pho'o/Shi,ley Mae Owens I Thus, the first Bluesfest was established at E6 fan!" I nodded as he signed ... then he said, I he Year. Primer will be backed by up-and-coming i of 1990. Running off two stages over the four "I have to sign it to Mama, too. Being preg- young guitarist Zack Siovinsky And his adept band I weekend, the headliners included Canned Henant is hard work, especially in the slimmer." from Los Angeles. The birthday cakes already Charlie Musselwhite, The Paladins and Big JaLast week, the now-three-year old Izzy was in i being baked, and velyone is polishing those McNeeley. Considered a success after the salemy living room walling on her Hohner Blues Harp I ancing shoes! 6000 tickets, Keven, Karin and Dan continued(a gift to me from Chicago bluesman Fernando " No reason to wait for March for a party, formula at the Arts Factory for another 2 yeaJones). Her pig tails flail d like dJead locks; her , though. At its annual winter Member !l was time to expand to more stages and monine-month-old sister Kayleigh banged the keys of I Appreciation Show on February 9, the SBBS will acts. In those years 1 marveled at discoveringa toy piano. "Play, Pinechop, play," yelled Izzy. I e treated to the solo keyboard wizardry of Carl den gems such as Bobby Radcliffe, Little ChaYou can never start these blues fans, musicians-to- Sonny Leyland, indisputably One of the best blues i and The Nightcats and Rod Piazza and Thebe, too young. 1 ust hope I live long enougb La I and boogi.e woogie pianists anywhere. If you i Mighty Flyers, Their enthusiasm and showmaexplain to Izzy Lhat Pinechop is really Pinetop (as haven't heard of Carl yet, check him out! 1 ship won many new fans and all became repin Pinerop Perkins), let her hear recordings of At Yolie's restaurant in nearby Ventura, Jan ! fixtures in subsequent Bluesfests.Pinetop's piano playing, take lhese grAndgirls to a and Jer.ry McWorter of Hi liat Entertainment con- I In 1993 the Festival was relocated to ablues bar, Sil stage-side with them. watch the tinue to heat up the joint with quality Friday blues 'I Conference Centre and camp ground althesparks ignite in their eyes as the music touches gigs. Perennial BMA nominee Candye Kane, again Belongil in Byron Bay. The stages were expantheir souls.mn apparenlly triumphant in her ongoing battle with I' to 4, with varying sized camiv(ll tents coverinserious illness, rocked the house on January 4 rIle performers and audience. Tills site continSanta Barbara -1- with her band, featuring Laura Chavez on smok- for four years under varying weatber pallernsing guitar. The following week, the Laurie with most years awash with rain and mud.Allstar Blues IMorvan Band definitively answered the question I Merchants in the area always sold out of rub, posed by Laurie's song, "Where Are the Girls with I boots during this period. Along with the extrI uitars": they are certainly in California, and I facilities came more food stalls and merchandOn The Left Coast . aurie has become a monster blues rocker compa- i Photo/HI rable to the best anywhere. By the time you read 1this, her band and the Alastair Greene Band from jBy STEVE DANIELS Santa Barbara will have completed their competi- 1T he oldest eXisting U.S. blues society, the live appearances allhe International Blues .Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS) was Challenge ill Memphis; high hopes ride wllhfounded in March 1977. Each year its them . A l r e a d ~ 1 scheduled by Hi Hat in the comingspring birthday show is a gala event, and Ihis , months: James Hannan and Doug MacLeod.year's 36th birthday show will be headl1ned by Santa Barbara's own Roach and Byl of Cafeguitar maven John Primer from Chicago . Primer, i R&B will be gracing the stage of the San Lllisone of the many fine six-string virtuosos who I Obispo Blues Society on January 26, and tltegraced the Muddy Waters Band, is currently a i University of California, San ra Barbara branch isnominee for the Blues Foundation's 2013 Blues I osting a tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlin'Music Award (BMA) as Traditional Blues Male , Wolf on March 12. featuring tile PabulousArtist of the Year, and his recent album, "Blues on / Thunderbirds, James Cotton, Jody Williams andSolid Ground," is nominated as Acoustic Album of Bob Margolin, followed by Taj Mahal and44 Big City Rhythm & Blues Feb .-March 2013

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