Iowa Blues Showcase

Tonight we listen to Jono Smith's current band Opus Taylor.  This is  a show they did last month at the Prairie Meadows Casino and Racetrack.  They are a fun band that plays mostly rock, and some blues.  The band features Phil Porter on vocals and acoustic guitar, Scott White on drums, Ted Heggen on bass and vocal, Bill Mogolov on acousic and electric guitar, Dr. Lori Ancona on keys and vocals, and  Jono Smith on guitar and vocal.   

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Tonight we listen to the Blue Band live at studio 3 sometime in the mid to late 90s.  This is a recording off a VHS tape, so there is a slight warble at the begining, but it ok ten seconds in.  The show features Bob Dorr on vocal and harmonica, Molly Nova on bass, violin, and vocal, Jeff Petersen on guitar and vocal, Dan Magarrell on sax, guitar and vocal, Ellery Temple on Keys, bass, and vocal, Bryce Loshman on drums.   

The show was originally produced for TV by IPTV.

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Tonights studio guest is the great Tom Buckmiller another college professor by day and bluesman by night!!   We play some blues and talk about a lot of cool stuff and John Krantz rocks out on the drums.  

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Tonight we listen to part of the first set of the Bad Boys of the Blues at the Whiskey House in Ankeny Iowa, from Thursday Night (August 23 2018).  

The band features Jon East on guitar, Tom Gary on piano, Norman Sue on bass, and Scotty Hartung on drums.  

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Our guest tonight is Curry Harter.  Curry tells us about his days busking the blues in the 1960s and plays some harmonica and guitar.  

Our show is produced by Tom Gary, with Jono Smith and John Krantz.  

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Tonight we introduce the newest member of the crew.  John Krantz drummer extrodinaire!  Tom and Jono play some tunes talk some blues, and yes the return of letters!  If you would like to be on the show email us at [email protected]

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Tonight we have a discussion of Blues its history, as well as how politics and religion are intangled in the blues.  We also cover the blues and how its influenced popular music and culture.  

My guest is the Rev. Tim Hammet.  This is a great discussion that I would love for any of my history students to listen to.  Granted in an hour it is hard to cover everything.  so I look forward to having a couple more of these discussions in the future. 

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Tonight we listen to Taz Brian Grant and his band the Taz Band live on IPTV's Studio Three.  I am not sure of the date, but I would put it in the  mid 90s.  It features Taz on guitar and vocals with Ed Eaves on bass, Missy DeYoung on saxaphone, Jeff Ward on trumpet, and an unknown Neil Redding on drums and Bryan Martens on keys.   This show features Taz's feel good hit of the Summer of 94 You Take My Blues Away as well as many others.  

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 This is our 9th installment of our semi monthly series. Tonight we listen to Rob Lumbard, the Soul Searchers, Madam Jules, Matt Woods, Catfish Keith, Jimmy Pryor, Dennis McMurrin, David Zollo, Heath Allen, Bob Dorr, and the Bad Boys of the Blues featuring Jon East.  

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Another oldie!  Tonight we listen to a recording of John Paul and the HellHounds from around 1988-1990 at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City Misssouri.  This show was the original Hellhounds led by John Paul Drum on vocal and harmonica, with Tony Anderson on guitar, Tom Gary on piano, Joe Whitfield on bass, and John Hobbs on drums.  John Paul was opening for the great blues legend Junior Wells.  It was a great night and meeting Junior wells was amazing. 

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