• February 2nd, 2010
This episode features a couple of performances from the 2010 Maple Blues Awards held at Koerner Hall in Toronto, Canada. The first performance is by The Twisters and features a song called “Old Skeena” written by Brandon Isaak. The second song is “Every Temptation” performed by Paul Reddick and the Maple Blues Band. This song was written by Paul Reddick and Colin Linden.
Special Thanks to The Toronto Blues Society, Koerner Hall, The Twisters, Paul Reddick, Northern Blues Records, Adam Dudzinski, Bruce Greenaway, Gary Kendall and everyone in the Maple Blues Band for making this episode possible.
For more information on the Maple Blues Awards - go to www.torontobluessociety.com. Please also check out The Twisters (www.twisters.ca) and Paul Reddick (www.paulreddick.ca).
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• December 30th, 2009
Julian Fauth with Paul Reddick perform “Cobalt” from Julian’s First Electro-Fi CD, “Songs of Vice and Sorrow”. This video was shot at Liquid in Toronto. Paul Reddick appears courtesy of Northern Blues Music.
For more information on Julian, go to: http://www.julianfauth.com.
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• November 27th, 2009
Monkey Junk talks about the International Blues Challenge and perform “Small Time Evil” at the Silver Dollar Room in Toronto, Canada.
For more information on Monkey Junk, go to: www.monkeyjunkband.com
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• October 29th, 2009
Jack de Keyzer performs “II want to love you” at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto with Paul James, Danny Marks, Jordan John, Prakash John and Al Cross.
For more information on Jack, go to: http://www.jackdekeyzer.com.
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• October 5th, 2009
Episode 22 features Curtis Salgaod performing “20 Years of B.B. King” at the 2009 Blues Music Awards in Memphis. This performance also includes Josh Fulero on guitar, Tracy Arrington on bass, Dave Fleschner on keyboards and Russ Kleiner on drums. For more information on Curtis Salgado, please go to http://www.curtissalgado.com.
The Blues Foundation’s annual Blues Music Awards recognize excellence in Blues music. A full DVD of the 30th Blues Music Awards will be available from The Blues Foundation in the fall of 2009. (This video podcast is not part of the Blues Music Award DVD project.) The 2010 Blues Music Awards will be held in Memphis on May 6, 2010. For more information on the Blues Music Awards and to become a member of the Blues Foundation, visit http://www.blues.org.
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• September 15th, 2009
Harry Manx performs “True to youself” at Hugh’s Room in Toronto. This song is off of Harry’s brand new CD, “Bread & Buddha”. For more information on Harry Manx, go to: www.harrymanx.com.
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• August 25th, 2009
Bryan Lee and the Blues Power Band perform “Blues Singer” from the CD “Katrina was her name” at the Silver Dollar Room in Toronto, Canada. The Blues Power Band features Brent Johnson (guitar), Bill Blok (bass) and John Perkins (drums).
For more information on Bryan Lee and the Blues Power Band, go to: http://www.braillebluesdaddy.com.
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• July 23rd, 2009
Episode 19 features Johnny Rawls performing “Hey Baby” at the 2009 Blues Music Awards in Memphis. This performance also includes Bruce Katz on keyboards and John McGee on guitar. For more information on Johnny Rawls, please go to http://www.johnnyrawlsblues.com.
The Blues Foundation’s annual Blues Music Awards recognize excellence in Blues music. A full DVD of the 30th Blues Music Awards will be available from The Blues Foundation in the fall of 2009. (This video podcast is not part of the Blues Music Award DVD project.) The 2010 Blues Music Awards will be held in Memphis on May 6, 2010. For more information on the Blues Music Awards and to become a member of the Blues Foundation, visit http://www.blues.org.
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• July 2nd, 2009
This segment features Harmonica Shah recording his song “Cryin’ won’t help me now” from his latest Electro-Fi Records album, “If all you have is a hammer, Everything looks like a nail”. Also featured in this performance are Jack de Keyzer (guitar), Julian Fauth (piano), Alec Fraser (bass) and Al Cross (drums).
For more information on Harmonica Shah, go to: www.electrofi.com.
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• June 16th, 2009
Paul Reddick performs Colin Linden’s song, “John Lennon in New Orleans” with Colin, Dennis Keldie, John Dymond and Gary Craig at Hugh’s Room in Toronto. This song is available on Paul’s latest album “Sugarbird” and on Colin’s latest album “From The Water”.
For more information, go to: www.paulreddick.ca and/or www.colinlinden.com.
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• May 26th, 2009
Episode 16 features Carlos del Junco with Kevin Breit, Henry Heillig and Jorn Andersen performing “Heaven’s where you’ll dwell” at Hugh’s Room in Toronto. “Heaven’s where you’ll dwell” is a song written by Canadian musician, Kevin Cook.
For more information about Carlos del Junco, go to: www.carlosdeljuncocom
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• May 9th, 2009
Julian Fauth performs his song, “Roll On In” during the recording of his Juno Winning Album (In the Best Blues Album Category) “Ramblin’ Son”. This video was shot at Studio 92 in Toronto. Julian is joined by his band mates, Jay Danley (gtr) and Sam Petite (bass).
For more information on Julian Fauth, go to: http://www.julianfauth.com
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• April 22nd, 2009
2008 Grammy Award Winner for “Best Zydeco/Cajun Music Album”, Terrance Simien provides a brief history of Zydeco Music and performs “Dance Everyday” with his band, The Zydeco Experience. This footage was shot on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise.
For more information on Terrance, go to: http://www.terrancesimien.com.
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• April 5th, 2009
Bill Bourne performs “Open Your Hands” at Hugh’s Room in Toronto.
For more information, go to http://www.billbourne.com
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• March 21st, 2009
Mel Brown performing “Red Cross Store” from his CD, “Blues - A Beautiful Thing”. This piece was shot at Liquid in Toronto for the Mel Brown DVD project. In honour of this wonderful person, I hope you enjoy this video of one of my musical heros, Mr. Mel Brown.
www.melbrownblues.com
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• March 13th, 2009
Al Lerman talks about the origins of the band, Fathead and the band performs “Shame on Ya” recorded at Hugh’s Room in Toronto.
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• February 16th, 2009
Treasa Levasseur talks about her music and performs her song, “Stuck in Soulsville” at the 2009 Maple Blues Awards with The Sojourners and The Maple Blues Revue Band.
Special thanks to Kathy Campbell (and The Sojourners), Gary Kendall (and all the great musicians in the Maple Blues Revue Band), Derek Andrews and The Toronto Blues Society as well as the following people for allowing us to document this performance.
Recording Equipment Supplier: Long & McQuade
Recording Sound Technician: Blair Francey
Live Sound Technician: Rob Boyd
Post Audio: Tom Funasaka
Camera: Bruce Greenaway
For more information on Treasa Levasseur, go to www.treasalevasseur.com.
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• January 31st, 2009
Guitar Shorty talks about his career and performs his song, “Hard Life Blues” at the Silver Dollar Room in Toronto, Ontario.
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• January 16th, 2009
Gary Clark Jr. performs “I Don’t Owe You a Thing” at the Limestone Blues Festival in Kingston, Ontario and talks about one of his musical mentors.
For more information on Gary Clark Jr., go to: www.garyclarkjr. com.
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• January 9th, 2009
Gary Clark Jr. talks about the movie “The Honeydrippers” and performs “When My Train Pulls In” at the Limestone Blues Festival in Kingston, Ontario.
For more information on Gary, go to www.garyclarkjr.com.
For more information on the Limestone Blues Festival, go to: http://www.kingstoneblues.com
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• December 29th, 2008
Sharrie Williams talks about her faith and performs “Big Fall” at the Toronto Waterfront Blues Festival. Sharrie Williams was recently nominated for the Blues Music Awards “Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year” Award. For more information on the 30th Blues Music Awards held in Memphis, Tennessee on May 7, 2009, go to www.blues.org/about/news.php4?Id=698.
For information on Sharrie, go to www.sharriewilliams.com.
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• December 7th, 2008
Cam Penner talks about and performs his Christmas song, “Balsam Fir”. This song can also be downloaded for free from www.campenner.com. “Trouble & Mercy” is the name of Cam’s next album, scheduled for release in early 2009.
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• December 3rd, 2008
Cam Penner’s latest single, “Balsam Fir”. This is the audio file only - check out Talkin’ Blues Video Podcast episode 5 for a video of this song.
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• November 18th, 2008
Harry Manx performs “Nine Summers Lost” from his upcoming CD, “Bread and Buddha”. This song was recorded at Hugh’s Room in Toronto
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• October 30th, 2008
Ruthie Foster talks about and performs her song, “Home” (originally) from the Runaway Soul CD. The interview was shot in Canmore, Alberta during the Canmore Folk Festival and the live footage was shot on board the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise.
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• October 14th, 2008
Watermelon Slim talks about his guitar stand and performs “Dad in the Distance” from his “No Paid Holidays” CD. This episode was shot at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Toronto, Canada. It features Watermelon Slim and his band with Cliff Belcher (bass), Michael Newberry (drums) and Ronnie “Mack” McMullen (guitar).
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• September 9th, 2008
Billy Boy Arnold is featured with Mel Brown, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Bob Stroger and Billy Flynn at Vyner Road Studio in Toronto. This was shot during the recording of the “Billy Boy Sings Sonny Boy” CD from Electro-Fi Records and features the song “Squeeze Me Tight”.
For more information: http://www.talkinblues.com
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