BackAlleyBlues

Hi...I'm Robbie King, blues guitarist and song writer.My music is both retro and modern..sort of Ottis Redding meets Robert Cray meets Stevie Ray Vaughan! This isn't by copying someones style either...I was born in Witchita FallsTexas and grew up listening to some of the greatist R&B and Blues artist there were at the time..artist such as Ray Charles to BB King and everyone in between. As I grew into the Blues, my sights were set high. I wanted to play on stage with the likes of Eric Clapton ,BB King,Jeff Beck and others...I felt that one day I would have the maturity as a Blues guitar player, to be able to stand on the same stage with my hero's and be noticed and appreciated by these great artist's. My wish to play with these wonderful people seem to be coming true.. To date I have played on stage with Bonnie Riatt ,Johnny Neel once a song writer and keyboard player for the Allman Brothers Band, just to name a few... My music is no doubt Blues, but with a very original twist I'm sure will please blues fans everywhere!! So be on the look out for Robbie King... My first solo album (Classic Case Of The Blues), is my calling card...I hope that those of you who have a chance to listen it,will enjoy it. These songs are both yours and mine! All from the heart and all real! All the best to yah! ....... Robbie King

Started out like everyone else scrambling for gigs. Hosting mid-week jam nights. Playing every chance we got sometimes for the "exposure". We lost our (at the time) female lead singer,which definately was a set back! Now this was with "Delta 88" with Rhonda Monge (Frenchy) one of the finest vocalists I've, in my 35 years of playing,had the chance to play with. Well when she left I thought what the hell I'm horny to play so I'm putting together a new band and I'm gonna sing till I find someone better. This tune has my buddy DC Black on vocals and harmonica,Crash on drums Ramero on bass with me the writer and lead guitar, Philvis Jackson!

TITLE: Country Woman Blues

MATRIX NO.: 13718-1

SINGER: Will Batts V, with prob Jack Kelly, prob Dan Sain (Dan Sane, Dan Sing), g/sp

COMPOSER(S):

DATE OF REC.: New York, 2 August 1933

ORIGINAL ISSUE(S): Vocalion 02531

REISSUE(S): Yazoo 2008, Blues Documents BDCD-6005

The year 1999 will mark what is believed to be the 125th anniversary of the birth of Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas. When Thomas first recorded for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s, he was already over 50 years old and most assuredly was the eldest African-American performer ever to lay down tracks considered Blues music at the time.

Thought to have been born in 1874 in Big Sandy, Texas, Henry was one of nine children by parents who were former slaves and sharecroppers raising cotton. Having a strong dislike for farming, Henry Thomas ran away from home as a teenager and struck upon the life of a hobo and street musician. He traveled by foot with his guitar slung over his shoulder or by the rails throughout most of Eastern Texas, occasionally making his way as far as Chicago. He was also believed to have performed at two World's Fairs crossing over the centuries, the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Public domain music

Phil Lesh & Friends featuring Joan Osborne, Jimmy Herring, Barry Sless, Rob

Barraco and Jeff Sipe along with the John Mayer Trio will be performing on

December 29 at The Fillmore, December 30 at The Warfield Theater, and on

December 31 at the Bill Graham Civic Center. We are planning a New Year's

Eve show that would make Bill Graham proud including a special midnight set

featuring Phil and John Mayer.

Born William Samuel McTell in 1901, Blind Willie lost his sight in late childhood, yet earned the status as one of the most accomplished guitarists and lyrical storytellers in Blues history.

Blind Willie became an accomplished musical theorist, able to both read and write music in Braille, through an encouraging family and strong faith.

While few of his recordings ever earned mainstream popularity, his influence on the modern music and art scene is widely known. His songs (Statesboro Blues, Broke Down Engine Blues, etc...) have been recorded by famous artists such as the Allman Brothers, Taj Mahal and others.

He left the music scene for the pulpit in later life and the details of Blind Willie's death remain nebulous; nonetheless, his legacy grows exponentially each year.

You have to maintain a certain tolerance for ambiguity to understand how a disabled African American from central Georgia in the early part of the 20th century could inspire the likes of the most successful and influential Blues, Jazz and Rock musicians of our time.

THE BEGINNER — Bob Walkenhorst

When a great rock n’roll band comes to an end, where does the music go?

Bob Walkenhorst, lead singer and songwriter of The Rainmakers, answers that question on his first solo CD, The Beginner.

“I didn’t want to make a record where I set out to prove that I could single-handedly make up for the absence of the Rainmakers. Instead, I wanted this to be a discovery of what I truly sounded like without them.”

In thirteen new (and very short) songs, Walkenhorst has pared his already elemental approach to song arrangements down to a skeletal acoustic guitar, bass, and drums, most often played by his one-man-band. Harmonica is the lead instrument of choice, with the notable exception of a honking sax solo by Johnny Reno on “Jan Vermeer,” a Chuck Berry-style rocker about the great Dutch painter. The only lead guitar solo on the CD is played by Kansas City guitarist Jack W. Hayhow, Jr., on another retro-rocker, “J-Walkers,” about the first band Walkenhorst ever heard. Vocal harmonies appear on only one song, “Just Leaving.” From the sparse instrumentation to the early-’60s-style extreme-stereo production, the overall sound of The Beginner is as much about what has not been recorded as it is about what you do hear.

All songs Public domain

Paul Barrere plays guitar and slide guitar, and sings lead and background vocals for Little Feat.

Paul Barrere joined Little Feat for the band's third album Dixie Chicken, and has been with the band since. During Little Feat's early 80's hiatus, Paul led the group Chicken Legs. Since Little Feat's return with "Let it Roll", Paul has stepped more into the spotlight.