Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter Rhythm Room All Stars, Honeyboy Today Show Appearance, Henry Gray honored, Muddy on You tube

December 15, 2009

• Rhythm Room All-Stars appear Friday and Saturday at the Rhythm Room! The Rhythm Room All-Stars feature Big Pete Pearson, Bob Corritore, Chris James, Patrick Rynn, and Brian Fahey. This weekend they appear at their namesake home base. Note that Dave Riley will do a guest set both nights and that Big Pete will only appear on the Friday night of this weekend. The Rhythm Room is located at 1019 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ 85014.
  
• Honeyboy Edwards to appear on NBC Today Show, and to receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award! The 94 year old delta bluesman, Honeyboy Edwards, will appear on national television with an appearance on the Today Show Sunday, December 20th. This was arranged through the efforts of Lynn Orman of Orman Music and Media Group. News has also come down the pike that Honeyboy Edwards is to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Grammy's, in a special private ceremony that will honor musicians and achievers from all aspects of the music industry. Honeyboy is also prominently featured in the documentary film Six Generations Of The Blues, a film by Scott Shuman, which looks at the 30 year history of Chicago's Earwig Music, and it's founder Michael Frank. If in Chicago this Wednesday night, you can see a screening of this film at SPACE in Evanston.
  
• Henry Gray Up For Offbeat Music Award! Andy Cornett reports that Henry Gray has been nominated for the prestigious Louisiana based Offbeat Magazine's "Best Of Beat' Awards in two categories; "Best Male Blues Performer" and "Best Blues CD". These nomination coincide with Henry's recent Blues Music Award nomination for best blues instrumentalist in the piano category. To read more about the Offbeat awards and to vote, click here, and read more about the BMAs click here. Henry Gray, now 84 years old, is still is vibrant and growing piano force on the blues scene. He brings with him all his great Chicago Blues history as a participant in some of the greatest classic recordings by Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Reed, Billy Boy Arnold, and others. Henry represents the blues well. To see a photo page honoring Henry Gray click here.
  
• Bob presents his annual Blues Christmas radio show this Sunday on KJZZ! Each year on the Sunday before Christmas, Bob presents a 5 hour blues Christmas special on his weekly radio show "Those Lowdown Blues" on KJZZ. In addition to Christmas blues classics by Charles Brown, Lowell Fulson, Mabel Scott, and Freddie King, will be Big Maybelle singing "Silent Night", Chief Schabuttie Gilliame's "The Week Before Christmas", Rufus Thomas' "I'll Be Your Santa", and Jessie Mae Hemphill's "Merry Christmas Pretty Baby", just to name a few. Bob's blues Christmas Special can be heard this Sunday, December 20th, from 6 -11pm (Mountain Time) at 91.5 FM in Phoenix. and anywhere in the world at www.kjzz.org.
  
• Classic Muddy Waters on YouTube! Please enjoy this film clip of Muddy Waters performing "You Cant Lose What You Never Had" with his classic 1960s band including James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pee Wee Madison, and SP Leary. Click here to see.
  

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Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter - RIP Sam Carr 4/17/1926-9/21/2009

September 21, 2009

• RIP Sam Carr 4/17/1926-9/21/2009: This terrible news just in from Dave Riley: beloved Mississippi blues drummer and band leader Sam Carr has passed away. He was 83. Sam was born into legend as the son of guitarist/vocalist Robert Nighthawk. Sam is best known for his longtime association with Frank Frost & The Jelly Roll Kings. He was considered one of the greatest blues drummers of all time, and was annually nominated for a Blues Music Award (AKA Handy Award) in the drummer category. He had been struggling with health issues over the last few years, and recently lost his longtime wife Doris, which forced him to live in a nursing facility. For a complete Sam Carr bio by Scott Barretta, click here.

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Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter - Lucky To Be Living CD Release Party, Tucson, Bisbee Blues Fest, Sep. 11th

September 11, 2009

• Dave Riley & Bob Corritore CD Release Party on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Rhythm Room: The new Dave Riley & Bob Corritore CD Lucky To Be Living was officially released on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. A CD release party happens this Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Rhythm Room, 1019 E. Indian School Road in Phoenix with music by the Dave Riley/Bob Corritore Juke Joint Blues Band (Dave, Bob, Dave Riley, Jr., and Brian Fahey). The CD has been released with much fanfare, and you can see the accumulating reviews the CD has received by clicking here. Come by Saturday night to enjoy the festivities and pick up a CD.
• Tucson CD Release Party for Big Pete Pearson/Finger In Your Eye on Friday, September 18, 2009! Big Pete Pearson's new album Finger In Your Eye will be celebrated on Friday, September 18, 2009 with a CD release party at Old Town Artisans in Tucson as part of Jonathan Holden's famed Rhythm And Roots series. The Rhythm Room All-Stars (Big Pete Pearson, Bob Corritore, Chris James, Patrick Rynn, and Brian Fahey) will perform and CDs will be available. Old Town Artisans is located at 201 N. Court, Tucson , AZ 85701 in the downtown Tucson area. To find out more about this event and the Rhythm And Roots series, click here. Thanks to blues DJ Marty Kool of Tucson 's KXCI for featuring Finger In Your Eye on his radio show.
• Bisbee Blues Festival on Saturday, September 19, 2009! Rhythm Room All-Stars to Perform and Back Up Pinetop Perkins! The small but mighty Bisbee Blues Festival will enjoy its fifth annual addition on Saturday, September 19, 2009. The beautiful and historic border town of Bisbee keeps expanding the festival, and this year they have moved the festival from the downtown area to the Warren Ball field to accommodate the growing popularity of the event. The lineup this year includes The Tommy Castro Band, Pinetop Perkins, The Rhythm Room All-Stars, Train Wreck, The Sugar Thieves (Formerly known as Mikel Lander/Meridith Moore Band), and The King Bees. For more information about the Bisbee Blues Festival and to order tickets, click here.
• Lightnin’ Book Announced! This information from Alan Balfour about a forthcoming book: Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues by Alan Govenar, Chicago Review Press, to be released May 2010. This biography delves into Hopkins' early years, debunking the myths surrounding his meetings with Blind Lemon Jefferson and Texas Alexander, his time on a chain gang, his women, and his life-long appetite for gambling and drinking. Hopkins didn¹t begin recording until 1946, when he was dubbed "Lightnin'" during his first session, and he soon joined Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker on the national charts. But by the time he was "rediscovered" by Mack McCormick and Sam Charters in 1959, his popularity had begun to wane. A second career emerged - now Lightnin' was pitched to white audiences, not black ones, and he became immensely successful, singing about his country roots and the injustices that informed the civil rights era with a searing emotive power. More than a decade in the making, this biography is based on scores of interviews with Lightnin's relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans.
• September 11^th Blues: We take time out on this day to reflect on the tragic events of 8 years ago, and if there ever was a blues moment, September 11^th is it. Louisiana Red wrote and recorded his tribute song, “September 11^th Blues” in memoriam to the loss of life on September 11, 2001. This song appears on Red's CD No No Turn On Red, and can be heard on Red's MySpace by clicking here and then selecting the song.
• Bob's Birthday Party Announced! Bob Corritore will celebrate his 53rd birthday with a blues party on Saturday September 26, 2009 at the Rhythm Room, 1019 E. Indian School Rd. in Phoenix . Appearing that night will be The Rhythm Room All-Stars (Big Pete Pearson, Bob Corritore, Chris James, Patrick Rynn, Brian Fahey), Dave Riley, and some surprise guests! To see the flier for this event, click here.
• Memphis Slim on YouTube! Please enjoy this film clip of blues piano master Memphis Slim playing blues and boogie in a series of 4 songs. Click here to see.