Carolina Downhome Blues Fest kicks off this week!

Carolina Downhome Blues Festival focus of Blues Moon Radio tonight

Blues Moon Radio will continue its focus on the 21st Carolina Downhome Blues Festival in Camden tonight on WUSC-FM Columbia (90.5 or stream at www.wusc.sc.edu) Tuesdays 6-8 p.m. ET/USA.

We will also feature Papa Jazz's Artist of the Month: Jimmy Reed.

Word of Mouth Productions is presenting its Artist of the Week: Freddie Vanderford, who is not only a veteran of their many festival shows in Martin Luther King Park, but a native South Carolinian.

Our South Carolina Artist of the Week, brought to you by South Carolina Blues on Arcadia Press, is Laurence "Luckyman" Beall, who is an adopted Sandlapper, bringing us full circle to the artists who will be appearing live in Camden Oct. 5-7th at the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival, brought to you by the Kershaw Fine Arts Center, who bring so many great cultural experiences to the Midlands.

For the rest of our time, we'll play Blues from A-Z...

Our Blues Festival playlist:

 

This week we preview some of the acts appearing at the 21st Carolina Downhome Blues Festival.

WUSC and Blues Moon Radio are happy to support the 21^st annual Carolina Downhome Blues Festival scheduled Thursday – Saturday October 5-7, with a Sunday 8^th morning performance, in Camden South Carolina –featuring 21 artists appearing in a one-price pub crawl across multiple intimate venues over one very bluesy weekend. Artist and tix info at www.fineartscenter.org or call 803-425-7676

The Fine Arts Center is located at :
810 Lyttleton Street
Camden, SC 29020
or
PO Box 1498
Camden, SC 29021

Telephone: 803-425-7676
Fax: 803-425-7679

We'll play several of the artists each week - then look forward to seeing everyone at the best fall blues concert in the Southeast (perhaps the nation?).

Our special playlist for the 21st CDHBF will cuts 9-14 from:

 

Enjoy the show!

As always we also want to share our gratitude for our long-time underwriters, who help bring great music to the Midlands all year around, because we could not imagine our show without their input and support:  Papa Jazz Record Shoppe and Word of Mouth Productions. You can link to these orgs by clicking on the visuals...

 

 
This blog is brought to you  in part by:

South Carolina Blues
500 years of roots and blues music history in S.C.
by Clair DeLune
on Arcadia Publishing 

Carolina Downhome Blues Festival focus of Blues Moon Radio tonight

Blues Moon Radio will continue its focus on the 21st Carolina Downhome Blues Festival in Camden tonight on WUSC-FM Columbia (90.5 or stream at www.wusc.sc.edu) Tuesdays 6-8 p.m. ET/USA.

We will also feature Papa Jazz's Artist of the Week: NRBQ - in a slight departure from our usual fare, we're doing some rockin' little Blues-based numbers.

Word of Mouth Productions is presenting its Artist of the Week: Toni Spearman, who is not only a veteran of their many festival shows in Martin Luther King Park, but a native South Carolinian.

Our South Carolina Artist of the Week, brought to you by South Carolina Blues on Arcadia Press, is Blues DeLuxe featuring John Hartness and Deej May, who bring us full circle to talking about many of the artists who will be appearing live in Camden Oct. 5-7th at the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival, brought to you by the Kershaw Fine Arts Center, who bring so many great cultural experiences to the Midlands.

 

Enjoy the show!

Our playlists:

 

Last week we kicked off three weeks of support for the 21st Carolina Downhome Blues Festival.

WUSC and Blues Moon Radio are happy to support the 21^st annual Carolina Downhome Blues Festival scheduled Thursday – Saturday October 5-7, with a Sunday 8^th morning performance, in Camden South Carolina –featuring 21 artists appearing in a one-price pub crawl across multiple intimate venues over one very bluesy weekend. Artist and tix info at www.fineartscenter.org or call 803-425-7676

The Fine Arts Center is located at :
810 Lyttleton Street
Camden, SC 29020
or
PO Box 1498
Camden, SC 29021

Telephone: 803-425-7676
Fax: 803-425-7679

We'll kick off with Robert Lighthouse this evening, and play several of the artists each week - then look forward to seeing everyone at the best fall blues concert in the Southeast (perhaps the nation?).

Our special playlist for the 21st CDHBF will be chosen from:

As always we also want to share our gratitude for our long-time underwriters, who help bring great music to the Midlands all year around, because we could not imagine our show without their input and support:  Papa Jazz Record Shoppe and Word of Mouth Productions. You can link to these orgs by clicking on the visuals...

 

 
This blog is brought to you  in part by:

South Carolina Blues
500 years of roots and blues music history in S.C.
by Clair DeLune
on Arcadia Publishing 

Celebrating 21 Years of Carolina Downhome Blues Festival on Blues Moon Radio

Tonight's show - Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 2017, kicks off three weeks of support for the 21st Carolina Downhome Blues Festival.

WUSC and Blues Moon Radio are happy to support the 21^st annual Carolina Downhome Blues Festival scheduled Thursday – Saturday October 5-7, with a Sunday 8^th morning performance, in Camden South Carolina –featuring 21 artists appearing in a one-price pub crawl across multiple intimate venues over one very bluesy weekend. Artist and tix info at www.fineartscenter.org or call 803-425-7676

The Fine Arts Center is located at :
810 Lyttleton Street
Camden, SC 29020
or
PO Box 1498
Camden, SC 29021

Telephone: 803-425-7676
Fax: 803-425-7679

We'll kick off with an interview with talent scout, Gary Erwin, and play several of the artists each week - then look forward to seeing everyone at the best fall blues concert in the Southeast (perhaps the nation?).

Our special playlist for the 21st CDHBF will be chosen from:

Our regular playlist will include:

As always we thank our long-time underwriters, who help bring great music to the Midlands all year around, because we could not imagine our show without their input and support:  Papa Jazz Record Shoppe and Word of Mouth Productions. You can link to these orgs by clicking on the visuals...

 

 
This blog is brought to you  in part by:

South Carolina Blues
500 years of roots and blues music history in S.C.
by Clair DeLune
on Arcadia Publishing 

Blues Moon Radio playlist for Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 - Carolina Downhome Blues Festival lineup and more

Blues Moon Radio playlist
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014

Carolina Downhome Blues Festival lineup and more


Tonight's show will showcase a number of events upcoming in the area - and I've packed far too many songs to fit in the time alloted, but we'll do our best to get all the songs and relevant information in - we can have an end of the month closeout on the songs that didn't fit toward the end of the month (next week?):

Here's what I'll be picking from - so please tune in to hear the music and educational info and concert promos... 6-8 p.m. ET/USA (same as NYC) each Tuesday on WUSC.sc.edu - click listen/stream when you get to the Web site - or tune in like the terrestrials do... at 90.5 FM or HD-1 Columbia (South Carolina/USA).

Main menu for this evening's Blues Moon Radio show:

Tonight's menu of options also includes:

Lightnin’ Hopkins – artist of the month – cuts to be announced.

Blues Moon Radio Interview, Tix giveaway and playlist Sept. 24, 2013

Jim Kweskin Jug Band (early 60s) just "juggin' around."

 

We have a great show lined up for you tonight - we are featuring a great interview with Jim Kweskin, of Jim Kweskin Jug Band during the 50th anniversary year of the band's founding.


Kweskin in 2013; appearing in duo with Geoff Muldaur

We will hear some of the band's old songs to get ready for Kweskin & Muldaur's appearance at the 17th Annual Carolina Downhome Blues Festival brought to us by the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County (click for information and roster of artists).

You will have a chance to win a set of passes to the event ... so listen to the interview and be ready to call in and answer a quiz question about Jim Kweskin after the interview. The station number is 803-576-9872 (WUSC). We'll announce when lines are open!

Later in the show:

We'll also tie in some popular culture of years gone by with today's date. Hint: Fan mail from a flounder!

It's going to be a rip-snorter of a show - not to be missed!

Hope you can tune in or stream - we'll miss you if you are gone!

Best Blues from your Blues buddies,
Clair DeLune and RockyDawg, Blues Defender.

Blues Moon Radio highlights Blues Fests on the horizon in South Carolina

This Saturday! The 17th Annual Columbia (SC) Blues Festival in Martin Luther King Park in Five Points, Columbia SC - FREE!

The Blues Moon will feature artists from this upcoming fest on Tuesday evening, Oct. 18 (see post above this one for details). Here is the lineup:

FREE concert brought to you by the fine folks at Word of Mouth Productions (WOMP), whom we thank, with a special tip of the Blues fedora to Geoffrey Graves. WOMP is a group of hard-working volunteers who are dedicated to sharing the best possible music at no charge, whenever possible, with the public. The Columbia Blues Festival remains FREE, but please thank a volunteer or two for their hard work and support the festival by purchasing food and drink from the vendors, buying tee-shirts from the Word of Mouth Productions tent, and support the artists who entertain you by purchasing their music and wares.

We hope you enjoy the festival and we thank you for your kind and loyal support.

To help even more: send this link (the Blues Moon Blog and the promoters' links, below) to your friends who enjoy good music. Keep the publicity ball rolling... we cannot bring these events to you without great attendance. And please write a note of thanks and support to the sponsors (City of Columbia; City of Florence - for the Pee Dee Fest - and Kershaw Arts Council for the Downhome Festival in Camden just last weekend) to let them know you care about Blues as a truly American music and appreciate their continued support. We do this all for you... but we truly cannot do it without you!

And, as always, I welcome you to tune in each Tuesday (Tuesday IS Bluesday) on WUSC-FM and HD1 Columbia and streaming at http://wusc.sc.edu from 6-8 p.m. Please follow me here (become a member!) and on Facebook at Blues Moon Radio and on Twitter at bluesmoonradio. I'll keep you updated on music news without flooding your in-box. I welcome your comments and thoughts and thank you for your interest and support as well... since 1990 I have had the BEST listeners in the whole world (imho!) and I appreciate YOU. :)

Clair DeLune and her constant sidekick, RockyDawg...

http://www.wordofmouthproductions.org/

A bit later, but mark your calendars now for the...

4th annual PEE DEE BLUES BASH

Thanks to Gary Erwin for his efforts to bring us another great festival!

Friday-Saturday, November 4-5
Florence, South Carolina
Part of the South Carolina Pecan Festival!


www.peedeebluesbash.com (click on pdf and print your own brochure)

Mostly FREE performances on two outdoor stages, the public library, and several clubs, featuring

THE NIGHTHAWKS www.thenighthawks.com
THE NOUVEAUX HONKIES www.tnhband.com
BISCUIT MILLER & THE MIX www.biscuitmiller.com
DRINK SMALL www.myspace.com/drinksmallblues
LIGHTNIN' WELLS www.lightninwells.com
SHRIMP CITY SLIM www.shrimpcityslim.com
MAC ARNOLD & PLATE FULL O' BLUES www.macarnold.com
LUCKYMAN BEALL www.laurencebeall.com
WANDA JOHNSON www.wandaj.com
NORMAN TAYLOR www.reverbnation.com/normantaylormusic
MARSHALL BALLEW www.reverbnation.com/marshallballew
JUKE JOINT JOHNNY & BAD DREW BALDWIN www.myspace.com/jukeharp

There is something for everybody: acoustic/electric, traditional/contemporary, black/white, solo/duo/band, young/old...

Hope to see you there!

Blues Moon Radio – Oct 4, 2011

The first part of Blues Moon Radio tonight features some of the many artists who were born in the first half of the month of October. We'll commemorate those who are gone and celebrate our friends who are still with us - and wish them MANY more years. Thank you for the joy you give us through your amazing talent!

Leola B. and Kid Wesley Wilson – Uncle Joe
George "Wild Child" Butler - Rent Money Gone Again
James Brewer Gospel Group - When the Saints Go Marching In
Albert Collins - Collins Shuffle
Billy Branch and Junior Wells - Broke and Hungry
Keb' Mo' - Dangerous Mood
Clarence Williams Blue Five with Sippie Wallace - Baby I Can't Use You No More
Wade Walton - Blues Stay Away from Me b/w Interview about paydays b/w Rock Me Mamma
Joe Callicot - Fare you Well Baby Blues
Nappy Brown - That Man b/w Who
Sugar Boy Crawford - What's Wrong
Julia Lee and her Boyfriends - King Size Papa
James "Son" Thomas - Bull Cow Blues
Victoria Spivey - Any-Kind-A-Man
Mickey Baker - I'll Always Be in Love With You


We'll also be tempted by music from some of the 21 great acts who will be appearing this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival <www.bluesbash.com/camden>

Thanks again to our in-studio guest last week, Laurence "Luckyman" Beall, who will thrill you at the festival - and that is a Blues Moon "for sure" assurance! Give him a listen at www.laurencebeall.com - and don't forget these bands who will also be there, among many, many more! Wish we had time to hear from each band playing - don't miss this concert or you will have to take a flexibility class so you can kick your own... (sit-upon).
Comment below and let me know whom you liked best once the festival is over.

The King Bees - Carolina Bound
Frankie's Blues Mission - Five Long Years
Biscuit Miller - Willie D
Robert Lighthouse - Meet Me in the Bottom
Wanda Johnson - Blue Ain't Nothin' But a Color
Shrimp City Slim - I Forgot
Drink Small - Bishopville is My Hometown
Eddie C. Campbell - King of the Jungle

Blues Moon Radio Interviews, Playlists and promos for Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011

Blues Moon Radio tonight at 6 p.m.  ET Tuesdays
http://wusc.sc.edu

Blues Moon Radio starts with a phone interview with Jon Shain...

Jon Shain - Riding Down the Road with Joe Turner
b/w Give My Regards to Brother Ray / The Kress Sessions

Interview
Ooncha Ooncha Music / The Kress Sessions

Check out his "Jon Shain Trio - The Kress Sessions" at www.jonshain.com


Laurence Luckyman Beall - LIVE IN STUDIO

Check out his "The Huntsville Sessions" at www.laurencebeall.com

Interview:
Live cut 

Recordings from Huntsville Sessions:
Goin' To Brownsville
She Make A Bulldog Break His Chain
Blues Ain't All Blue
Stompin' Like a Zombie

Lucky will be appearing in Camden S.C. for the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival Oct. 6-8, 2011 and you can catch him at the Saluda Shoals Park near Irmo, S.C. this Sunday at 1 p.m.

• Saluda Shoals Park maps
• Saluda Shoals Park Web site
• (803) 731-5208
• 5605 Bush River Rd. 

More artists appearing at The Carolina Downhome Blues Festival

Brad Vickers and his Vestapolitans - Rockabilly Rumble / Low Down Dirty Shame

The King Bees - Natchez Burning / Send Me to the Jailhouse

Frankie's Blues Mission - Who Been Talkin' / McDaniel Street

Biscuit Miller - Sing for the People


We'll finish where we started, with another from Jon Shain...

Jon Shain - If You Believe in What You Do / Kress Sessions

Thanks for tuning in... We'll continue to promote the Camden festival on next week's show with music from Columbia's own Blues treasure, Drink Small and music from a Chicago legend, Eddie C. Campbell - and many more!

So please do tune back in again for more great music you have a chance to hear and see in the Midlands of South Carolina...  www.camden.bluesbash.com and look for my article coming out soon after Friday in the Kershaw County Current - it contains mini-interviews and descriptions of the New Blues (at least new to the CDHBF) at the festival. The Kershaw County Current is on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/TheKCCurrent - let them know you listen to Blues Moon Radio and appreciate their asking me to write for their paper.

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Playlist and promotion for the Carolina Downhome Blues Fest in Camden SC

Blues Moon Radio Show - October 5, 2010

Tonight's show is targeted toward letting Blues fans know about the four-day festival in Camden this weekend...

Tonight's show features interviews with several great entertainers, national and local. Sugar Blue, whose harmonica became a part of the fabric of our musical lives in the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" will be on the show, as will South Carolina's own, Jeff Norwood, who will represent us in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2011 - take your National Steel guitar "national," Jeff!

Starting out tonight's show is an interview with musician Danny Riddick, who has served as technical director of the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival (CDHBF) since its inception - he does the same for the Camden and Cheraw Jazz Festivals (the latter is coming up in two weeks, so mark your calendars). He's going to share some behind-the-scenes stories I guarantee will intrigue you to attend the festival if you are not planning to already.

For tonight's playlist we will be hearing from many of the artists who will be playing at the festival...

Interview with Danny Riddick, Technical Director, CDHBF
Interview with Jeff Norwood
Jeff Norwood - Save My Wicked Soul b/w Walking Catfish Blues
Interview with Sugar Blue
Sugar Blue - One More Mile to Go
Drink Small - I Really Don't Wanna Know
New Legacy Duo (Freddie Vanderford and Brandon Turner) - Chickens
NOTE: Freddie Vanderford is the leader of the Shades, who are also playing
Jeff Liberty and Mike Nazarenko - Lightnin' Man
Marv Ward - It Ain't About You
Naz and the Falsehoods (they roared at the Columbia Blues Festival this past weekend!) - That Ain't Right
Wanda Johnson - Just Tell Me
Shrimp City Slim (aka Gary Erwin, booking and talent for CDHBF) - She Got Papers
NOTE: that cut features Charleston based harp-slinger Juke Joint Johnny, who will make a fest appearance.
Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials - Pride and Joy (Lil' Ed is the nephew of JB Hutto (and the Hawks) of Edgefield, S.C., so we are pleased to welcome him for one show only Thursday night.

Price breaks for weekend passes end Thursday... I suggest you get a weekend pass - even if you don't use it each night, it supports great Blues in our region and amounts to about 75 cents per act. Really! Amazing, huh? Hope to see you all there!

For more information, the Kershaw County Current has a large spread on the concert, or click on: www.camden.bluesbash.com.

The article I wrote for the Current about the CDHBF is appended below...

Camden is renowned for horse racing, its role in the Revolutionary War, for the charm and gentility of the Old South, and, during the past decade and a half, for being the home of one of the best music festivals in the country.


South Carolina's Downhome Blues Festival (SCDHBF) will be rollicking and rolling through the streets, pubs and fine dining establishments of Camden from Thursday Oct. 7 through Saturday Oct. 9, bringing with it the best in local, national and international Blues acts.

"South Carolina sure does have a lot of great Blues acts performing there for such a small state," said Mary Roby, of Mary4Music, a leading Internet resource site for Blues music.

The festival’s success can be attributed to several factors: Roadhouse Blues, acoustic Blues, Jazzy Blues offered across a wide array of venues including a theatre show at the Fine Arts Center. Most venues are located within a short jaunt of each other, facilitating quick transfers on foot between acts and locations; a vast assortment of talented players to choose from; and a generous breadth of dates.

The Blues is a truly American art form and is made up of many genres and subgenres of styles, much like the fabrics in a patchwork quilt. It is the very nature of Blues that many talented artists are not household names but should be. What makes this festival unique is the broad span of talented artists who comprise the fabric of South Carolina's Downhome Blues Festival. The festival features artists who have influenced nearly every type of music heard today as well as younger players who are working diligently to help carry on the Blues.

In previous years, attendees enjoyed gourmet fare while listening to Statesville’s Matt Walsh, whose gravelly voice puts a picture of the late great Howlin' Wolf in one’s mind. Columbia's world-class talent performed as well: Perennial favorite, South Carolina's own "Blues Doctor," Drink Small growled out tunes, while around the corner Mike Nazarenko and Jeff Liberty provided fans a treat with their coffee and dessert and Congaree belted out throaty acoustic Blues with a harmonica chaser on the down the block.

Memories from the SCDHBF last long after the performances are over and the artists have gone. Perhaps the most poignant performance of the past 15 years was the last time Carolina’s own Blues Shouter, Nappy Brown, performed at the SCDHBF. Despite failing health, he was in excellent form when he used his deep, gospel-honed baritone voice to belt out his original composition, “Night Time is the Right Time,” which Ray Charles made famous. Before Brown slipped into the infectious rhythms of the song, which had the whole house on their feet, he stood on the large wooden stage jingling the money in his pocket, sweetly crooning, “Ra-a-a-y Charles, you’ve been s-o-o-o good to me!” while beaming the audience his thousand-watt smile.

When asked, as host of the Blues Moon Radio Show, which acts not to miss, it is most common to hear me answer: "Don’t miss a thing. Try to see and hear them all." Even if you have never heard of an act, you'll be talking about them for years and years to come. The SCDHBF is truly a compilation of artists you didn’t know you needed to see.


Clair DeLune is a music writer, professor and historian. She has hosted the weekly Blues Moon with Clair DeLune radio show since 1990, which is heard on WUSC-FM and via the Internet. Tuesday is Bluesday - get your Blues licks at 6 p.m.

Blues Moon Radio playlist for Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010

Good evening...

Tonight's show will feature live interviews in studio with the lovely and talented Elaine Townsend and the lovely and talented Marv Ward (The REV'rend).

Each of them will be appearing at a Blues Festival near you in the next several weeks... more to come on that, but keep Oct. 1 and 2 and 7-9 open on your calendar if you want to be happy, happy, happy about all the Blues Blues Blues in the Midlands of South Carolina. Yes, indeed... it promises to fill you up, but not out.

Tonight's playlist is not firm because the interviews will lead the way and we don't know what we'll have time to play, but here is the list of cuts (non-interviewee cuts) we'll choose from.

I know two people who died this past weekend so we will start on a more sombre note than usual - our hearts go out to those who have suffered the loss of a loved one.

Bull City Red - I Feel Like Shoutin'
Charley Patton - Prayer of Death, Pt. 1
Lowell Fulson - Tollin' Bells
Louise Johnson - Long Ways from Home

Charlie Musselwhite - Where Hwy 61 Runs
Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues
Clifton Chenier - My Soul
Otis Spann - This is the Blues
Jimmy McCracklin, Johnny Otis - Taste of the Blues

The Tune Weavers - Your Skies of Blue
Slim Saunders - Let's Have Some Fun (Honey)
Mitzi Mars - Roll 'Em
Clarence Samuels - Boogie Woogie Blues
The Five Blazes - Chicago Boogie
Rod Bernard - Pardon Mr. Gordon
Sugar Boy Crawford - Ooh Wee Sugar
Doctor Ross - Numbers Boogie
Mary "B" - Something for You Baby
Lil' Ed and the Blues Impreials - Golden Rule
Sonny Terry - Sonny's Woopin' the Doo
Insomniacs - Description Blues
Lonnie Brooks - You Know What My Body Need

Playlist for Blues Moon radio show Sept. 22, 2009

Tonight's show is called Moanin' all the Way. Had a request for some Howlin' Wolf last week during the Rockabilly show, so I am using that as the inspiration for this week's show.

Hope you enjoy it... Tune in at 6 p.m.! And there might be some additions, so refresh your screen often during the show for any updates.

And be sure to check today's earlier posts for information about Blues concerts in the area - and we'll be giving away two sets of tix on next week's show (Sept. 29) for B.B. King's concert at the Fillmore on Oct. 6.

Allen Shaw - Moanin' the Blues
Alfred Lewis - Mississippi Swamp Moan
Big Walter Horton - Good Moanin' Blues
David Honeyboy Edwards - Wind Howlin' Blues
Big Joe Turner - Howlin' Winds
Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' for my Darlin'
J.T. Funnypaper Smith - Howling Wolf Blues [No.1]
Hound Dog Taylor - The Dog Meets the Wolf
Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Wolf Call Boogie
Junior Watson - Wolf Pack
Big Bill Broonzy - Lone Wolf Blues
Magic Slim & the Teardrops - Cryin' Won't Let you Stay
Billy Biser - Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night
Robin Rogers - Nobody Stays
Roomful of Blues - The Love You Lost Along the Way
Walter "Wolfman" Washington - One Way or Another
Joe Carter & His Chicago Broomdusters - Treat Me the Way You Do
Floyd McDaniel & his Blues Swingers - Why's Life Got to Be This Way
Dave Spector - West Side Stroll
Lurrie Bell - West Side Woman
Dinah Washington - West Side Baby

Missing: Blues Moon radio show tonight

Sorry I had to miss the show, folks... had an accident earlier in the week that I'm recovering from.

Should be back in the DJ seat next Tuesday... in the meantime, if you have the chance to support the Bull Durham Blues Festival this coming weekend, please do... it promises to be a good one.

The Web site is up for the Downhome Blues Festival in Camden, SC (USA) the first Th/F/Sat of October, so check it out at www.bluesbash.com/camden.

If you are in Columbia SC on Friday, check out Doc's BBQ down by the stadium for the Flat Out Strangers early performance (starting about six p.m.). Entertaining AND great musicianship.

More soon... clair delune

CONCERT: Thirteenth Annual Carolina Downhome Blues Festival

Gary Erwin sent me an e-mail about this great Blues festival. I highly recommend you attend this festival - all three days, if possible. It is one of the highlights of my Blues year, and it is only a little more than a month away, so I hope you will get your plans set to attend!

clair delune

Here's what he's got going on:


Thirteenth Annual Carolina Downhome Blues Festival
in Camden, S.C. from Thursday - Saturday, October 1-3, 2009


Historic Camden, SC (25 miles outside of Columbia, 1 hour from Charlotte)
Performances day & night at 16 different venues
www.bluesbash.com/camden (being updated soon)
Tix & info: (803) 425 7676
Daily tix and weekend passes avail (prices $10-$40)

A great little pub crawl with many venues clustered on several
downtown streets - walk from gig to gig!

Featured artists include:

HILTON VALENTINE (of The Animals) & SKIFFLEDOG
http://www.hiltonvalentine.com/
The legendary guitarist of The Animals returns to his acoustic skiffle roots with his new group. Hilton is the man who inspired many of us to go back and discover the blues. That was him on "House of the Rising Sun", "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", and so many other groundbreaking platters. A member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and one of THE influential guitarists of the last forty years, HILTON VALENTINE cannot be missed.

"SOUTHERN SOUL EXTRAVAGANZA" featuring
BARBARA CARR, ROY ROBERTS, and the AJ DIGGS BAND
http://www.royrobertsblues.com/
www.cdsrecords.com/barbaracarr.htm
For you soul/blues lovers! Barbara Carr recorded for Chess in the 1960s, Roy Roberts worked with Otis Redding and others, AJ Diggs played with (Harold Melvin's) Blue Notes in Philly...an avalanche of Southern Soul!

ANDREW JR. BOY JONES
www.myspace.com/andrewjrboyjones
This monster Texas blues guitarist played in Freddy King's band in his early years. Charlie Musselwhite employed him as guitarist in the 1980s ("the best band I've ever had," said Charlie). John Street (ex-Anson Funderburgh) on keyboards and a massive rhythm section make this a Lone Star act you have to hear.

JOHN DEE HOLEMAN & ANDY COATS
www.myspace.com/johndeeholemanblues
80 year-old John Dee Holeman is one of the last great North Carolina bluesmen. His acclaimed work with Fris Holloway and Algia Mae Hinton took him on State Department tours around the world. A bit of Lightnin' Hopkins, a touch of Blind Boy Fuller and a whole lotta John Dee Holeman...talk about "downhome"!

LIL DAVE THOMPSON
http://www.lildavethompson.com/
Representing the hottest blues out of Mississippi these days...torrid guitar workouts and anguished vocals...one of the best bands on the scene today.

VERONIKA JACKSON
http://www.veronikajackson.com/
An artist to watch..."some folk, some blues, sometime" describes this charismatic singer/guitarist whose influences include Odetta, Joan Baez, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Sam Cooke. Sweet!

OTHER ARTISTS on the CAROLINA DOWNHOME BLUES FESTIVAL:
LIGHTNIN' WELLS http://www.lightninwells.com/ (acoustic blues master)
POP FERGUSON DUO http://www.popferguson.com/ (octagenarian downhome blues)
DRINK SMALL http://www.drinksmallblues.com/ (SC legend)
REV. MARV WARD http://www.marvward.com/ (great new CD just out!)
DR. PICKUP http://www.drpickup.com/ (French blues guitarist/singer returns)
WSNB http://www.wsnbmusic.com/ (Southern fried blues)
WANDA JOHNSON http://www.wandaj.com/ (original blues & soul chanteuse)
JEFF BEASLEY DUO http://www.jeffbeasleyband.com/ (Savannah's blues/roots bard)
SHRIMP CITY SLIM http://www.shrimpcityslim.com/ (blues on the beach)
SKYE PAIGE & THE ORIGINAL RECIPE www.myspace.com/skyepaigeandtheoriginalrecipe (rockabilly vixen)
JEFF NORWOOD http://www.jeffnorwoodblues.com/ (Midlands blues expert)
MY BUDDY TODD http://www.mybuddtodd.com/ (hot duo from the coast)
MOTHERLESS CHILLIN' http://www.nazharp.com/ (guitar/harmonica musclemen)
LIL JIMMY FROST DUO (spunky harp & guitar combo)
RUSTY DAVIS & FLOYD CALLEN (two guitarists entangled in the blues)
ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE http://www.robertlighthouse.com/ (Delta blues specialist)
COTTON BLUE http://www.cottonblueband.com/ (coastal swamp blues & rock)