Talkin’ Blues

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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