ALGiA MAE HiNTON

 Algia Mae Hinton @ CDbaby // Music maker Relief Fund // iTunes

THE REAL BAPTiZiNG: A Short Documentary on Willie King and The Liberators

Thx to C.R. Humphrey of Old Gray Mule!

Sick New MiX&DORP track

New MiX&DORP track based on It's Hard by Harrison Kennedy

It's Hard by miX&dorp

MiX&DORP ~ BLUES + BEAT: The Blues Deconstructed & Reimagined

Mix&Dorp online // Facebook // iTunes // Soundcloud

I'm no purist & I just love folks who love to fck sht up challenge me musically. 
As I've said before, music that is not evolving and changing is busy dying.  Which is why i've  always appreciated the art of the remix.  Yes, Virginia it is an art.  It used to be said, eons ago when the 12" remix was first coming to market that a remix is something that wasn't done right in the first place. How boring is that?

    
If anybody should know the score on whether or not it's being done right it'd be Netherlander Jan Mittendorp, boss of Black and Tan Records.  Mittendorp has released a slew of terrific modern blues recordings by the likes of Boo Boo Davis, Billy Jones, Big George Jackson, Roscoe Chenier, Harrison Kennedy, as well as a beautiful (and essential) recording by the late Ernie Payne.  Each of these artists, save Payne, Mittendorp lovingly mines for deep dirty roots, gold, and blue diamonds.  Smelting the raw vibe in the crucible of his Macbook he grinds, twists, and remixes the beats & boom into funkyass grooves that would make most DJs  weep white hot tears of jealousy.
   

    Moby's brilliant 1999 album Play, and the remixes Fat Possum Records did of tracks by T-Model Ford, Asie Payton, and Paul "Wine" Jones, along with their brave yet spotty 2000 release New Beats From The Delta which pitted dirty south hip hop producers against tracks by Fat Possum artists, and perhaps more importantly R.L. Burnside's 1998 album Come On In, drove blues purists out of their ever-lovin' gourds. Those recordings set the stage and pryed open our ears for what MiX&DORP is doing today.

     Mittendorp tells me that his ultimate goal with this music is to form a band to play his mixes (I really should stick to the term reimaginings here as what he does is more than a mix) live, much like the work France's Eric Bling, or Skip "Little Axe" MacDonald (guitarist for Sugarhill Records artists like Grandmaster Flash, Fat Possum alumnusreal worl & now with Peter Gabriel's challenging Real World Records) is doing using samplings of Howlin' Wolf and others.

   Be sure and check MiX&DORP's Soundcloud page for more reimaginings of the likes of John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, and an axe work gang field holler sampled from Lomax's prison recordings.  MiX&DORP - Blues + Beat takes the blues remix to wicked fresh & durrty heights. It's a thrilling & joyous ride forward through the past & future of music.

   

BUY via iTunes!

blues + beat (CD out now !!!) by miX&dorp

  

THE JiM JONES REVUE @ SXSW 2011

JiM JONES REVUE! BUY 'EM!

CUT iN THE HiLL GANG!

Just learned about these dudes from an interview with the mighty James Leg, who said, 

"Cut in the Hill Gang. Do you know that band? They’re from Cincinnati. It’s Johnnie Walker from the Soledad Brothers, Reuben Glaser, who was the frontman of Pearlene, Lance Kaufman, who’s the frontman of this rockabilly band called StarDevils, and then myself. So it was four frontmen, and… when the Soledad Brothers split up, Brian Olive did his own thing, and Johnnie Walker started Cut in the Hill Gang. He’s a doctor of medicine now, so it’s kind of a hobby for him. But anyway, we got four frontmen together, we made a record, it’s on Glitterhouse Records. Specifically, Stag-O-Lee Records, which is to Glitterhouse as Alive is to Bomp. Glitterhouse is the biggest label in, I think maybe Europe, but definitely Germany. So, we made a record called Mean Black Cat in August, and it’s a fucking amazing record. Check it out, Mean Black Cat, Cut in the Hill Gang. And it’s a shame because it’s only in Europe, and nobody in America is going to fucking hear it. Because they don’t have distribution over here, and it’s available online, but nobody’s going to hear it.

An Ohio-based band, I need to hear that!

I know. It’s a Cincinnati-based band. And there’s been some talk, like, Jack at Third Man was interested in it, and there’s been some talk about maybe licensing it over here. But nobody in that band – everybody’s go their own thing going on, so nobody’s really motivated, and it’s a shame because it’s a great record. Glitterhouse commissioned us to do this covers record, basically. They wanted blues-punk covers in our version. So there’s a Hound Dog Taylor song into an MC5 song, there’s a John Lee Hooker song. It’s all raw as hell. It’s a good record."

DOUG MACLEOD - The Blues In Me - Trailer

Available HERE.

BROKE and HUNGRY ADMiTS: "MiSTAKES WERE MADE" --> New 2Disc Retrospective w/tons of Unreleased Stuff!

Konkel, what the hell were you thinking? 

BROKE & HUNGRY RECORDS ADMITS: "MISTAKES WERE MADE"

New Two-Disc Retrospective Celebrates Label’s First Five Years!

       

      In April 2006, Jeff Konkel made the nearly 500-mile drive from his home in St. Louis, to the tiny town of Bentonia, Mississippi. There he set up a card table outside of the rural juke joint owned by blues musician Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. Konkel stacked the table high with copies of Back To Bentonia, the debut CD by Holmes and the inaugural release from Konkel’s Broke & Hungry Records. 

      

      Although the entire town of Bentonia showed up that evening for the CD release party, sales were light. At the end of the event, Konkel tallied up the transactions: Four CDs sold. It was an inauspicious label launch, but somehow Konkel and his humble operation have managed to persevere for another five years. 

        

     With a half decade under its belt, Broke & Hungry Records is celebrating the milestone with the release of Mistakes Were Made: Five Years of Raw Blues, Damaged Livers & Questionable Business Decisions, a two-CD retrospective that features 30 tracks from some of the best traditional blues artists living in Mississippi today. Included are 14 never-before-released recordings along with popular favorites from the label’s back catalogue. 

        

     In addition to Holmes, the compilation features contributions from T-Model Ford, Odell Harris, Wesley “Junebug” Jefferson, Terry “Big T” Williams, Pat Thomas, The Mississippi Marvel, L.C. Ulmer, Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Bill Abel. The collection will be available through the label’s web site (www.brokeandhungryrecords.com

beginning Tuesday, March 29, 2011. 

       

    “Honestly, there was never a real ‘game plan’ for Broke & Hungry Records,” Konkel confesses. “I had never owned a business before and I knew nothing about music production. I just felt very passionately that some of these great artists needed to be recorded while they were still among us, so I jumped in with both feet. Somehow, despite my inexperience, the label has managed to capture some incredible music. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past five years.”

The complete track listing for the collection is:

DISC 1
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1. Train I Ride – Odell Harris

 

2. Six Little Puppies – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes (previously unreleased electric version)



3. The Wolves Are Howling – Wesley “Junebug” Jefferson 



4. Pretty Baby – Terry “Harmonica” Bean (previously unreleased)



5. Woke Up This Morning – Pat Thomas (previously unreleased) 



6. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright – The Mississippi Marvel 



7. Taking Chances – Terry “Big T” Williams (previously unreleased) 



8. It’s Over – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes 



9. The Mississippi Diddley (Instrumental) – Bill Abel (previously unreleased)



10. Ain’t It Alright – R.L. Boyce & Lightnin’ Malcolm 



11. All Night Long – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes 



12. Bean’s Boogie – Terry “Harmonica” Bean (previously unreleased) 



13. Big Road Blues – The Mississippi Marvel (previously unreleased) 



14. Beefsteak Blues – Pat Thomas 



15. Cooter Mae – Wesley “Junebug” Jefferson (previously unreleased) 

DISC 2. 

1. Meet Me In The Bottom – Wesley “Junebug” Jefferson



2. I’d Rather Be The Devil – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes



3. Laundromat Blues – Terry “Harmonica” Bean (previously unreleased) 



4. Rosalee – L.C. Ulmer



5. Incarcerated Blues – Terry “Big T” Williams



6. Waterboy, Waterboy – The Mississippi Marvel



7. Boogie Chillen – Pat Thomas (previously unreleased) 



8. Eyesight To The Blind – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes (previously unreleased) 



9. Hill Funk – Odell Harris 



10. No Hard Time (Get You Off My Mind) – Bill Abel (previously unreleased) 



11. Hi Heel Sneakers – T-Model Ford 



12. Rainbow At Midnight – Pat Thomas 



13. Evil – The Mississippi Marvel 



14. Who’s Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I’m Gone – Terry “Harmonica” Bean (previously unreleased) 



15. Take A Trip (Partial) – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes (previously unreleased) 

For more information on this release or on Broke & Hungry Records, contact the label at info@brokeandhungryrecords.com

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THE BARNBURNERS - The Rawboogie Ep Liner Notes

This cover is different from the one I have.

      So yeah, Dan Auerbach used to have a tightly wicked and raw boogiefied three-piece back around 2001 called The Barnburners. The put out a terrific disc called The Raw Boogie Ep. Even got a cease and desist over the band name from some olde school rock farts (and where are those dudes today?)

     Dan and I got to be acquainted via a Yahoo group called Too Bad Jim (which still lives but due to over-spamulation was moved and the name changed to Real Punk Blues). 

      Back in the olden days I had a website called Rick Saunders World, and part of that world was an early version of this Deep Blues page (which still lives as a ghost thanks to Archive.org).  Dan had a cool website called Raw Boogie, where he posted Barnburners info etc (that page also lives on in ghost form thanks to Archive.org).  

     So blahblahblahdeblah, Dan suggested that he liked what I scrawled on my Deep Blues page and asked me to write some liner notes for his bands Ep. I thought his band was frkn great and I was delighted and honored to do it. The band was happy with my spiel and that was that. Next thing ya know and a gazillion gigs and a Grammy later, Dan's a household name. Couldn't have happened to a better dude.

      A couple of friends wanted to read what I wrote about The Barnburners so many super moons ago. You'll find a scan of the cover and the notes below. Dan doesn't want the Ep spread around, and I can respect that. If you look hard enough you might find it lodged in one of the interwebs tubes somewheres. Snag it if you can find it. You'll be glad you did. I think it's kind of cool that what I wrote about Dan ten years ago still holds true today.

Interesting note: I saw the Ep mentioned on a blog recently and it listed the following tracks: Back to Georgia, Big Road Blues, Things I Used To Do, Train I Ride, Meet Me In The City, and Take Five. 

My copy has Train I Ride, Back to Georgia, Big Road Blues, Your Cheating Heart, Last Fair Deal, and Meet Me In The City but not Things I used to Do or Take Five.

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THE DEEP BLUES FESTiVAL iS BACK!

 The Deep Blues Festival is back.

After a year of rest and a change in handlers, America's Only Blues Festival That Matters, steps back into the light.  Original boss of the DBF,  Chris "Wisconsin" Johnson has turned his artistic vision to the craft of BBQ by opening his Minneapolis by way of Texas-style' Bayport BBQ  - A Deep Blues Joint. With the blessing and advice of Mr. Johnson, musicians Jim Chilson of Boston's Ten Foot Pole Cats, and Ted Drozdowski of Nashville's (via Boston) Scissormen have picked up the reins and booked the night of Saturday, July 16th at Cleveland, Ohio's world famous Beachland Ballroom for a night that promises to rock blues infected forward into the past.

For more info, contact Ted Drozdowski at 615-730-7916 or dbf2011@gmail.com

DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2011 AT  CLEVELAND’S BEACHLAND BALLROOM on SATURDAY, JULY 16 – AND ON TOUR

BAND DRIVEN FESTIVAL INCLUDES DIRTY ROOTS MUSIC BANDS FROM ACROSS AMERICA

 

www.dbf2011.com  

 

Deep Blues Festival 2011will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, at the historic Beachland Ballroom on Saturday, July 16, featuring dirty roots music bands from across the country’s rising underground. Bands will play continuously on two stages from 5 p.m. until closing. The Beachland Ballroom is at 15711 Waterloo Road, Cleveland. Call 216-383-1124. Tickets are $20 and available in advance at http://www.beachlandballroom.com.

ABOUT THE DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL

         The Deep Blues Festival was started in 2007 outside of Minneapolis by Chris Johnson, a fan of dirty blues based and influenced music of all kinds. He based its name on a term coined by the late, great musicologist Robert Palmer, who used the phrase “Deep Blues” to describe the gritty, artful sound of music rooted in the Mississippi Delta and hill country — both electric and acoustic blues that bridges the traditional and the modern. Palmer published a book of the same title in 1982 and collaborated with director Robert Mugge to make a film of the same name in 1990.

         After the 2009 Deep Blues Festival, founder Johnson chose not to continue the event — but in the two years since the last Deep Blues Festival an underground movement has continued to grow. Today the Deep Blues scene has a community of bands and fan throughout the world and Deep Blues Festival 2011 provides a gathering place for that community to once again come together and enjoy a living blend of some of the most deeply rooted and cutting edge sounds in blues-based music today.

         Deep Blues Festival 2011 is unique because it is an entirely band driven event. It is being organized by the participating bands and the Beachland. Johnson remains the event’s spiritual father and a volunteer advisor.

         As the festival nears, more announcements will be made about special packages for travelers, a potential film festival tie-in, Deep Blues Festival Tour and other events.

THE BANDS

• Boom Chick: Frank Hoier and drummer Moselle comprise this electric guitar and drums rock ‘n’ roll duo out of Brooklyn, NY, who mix surf music, ’50s ballads and slide guitar blues to make good on all the things rock ‘n’ roll promised us so long ago. www.boomchickboomchick.com

• Cashman: Led by Houston raised singer-guitarist Ray Cashman, the Nashville-based group that bears his name weaves the sound of Mississippi hill country juke joint blues ala R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough into a powerful stew captured on two riveting, raucous albums. www.reverbnation.com/cashman

• Javier & the Innocent Sons: This potent roots music trio from Minneapolis play timeless barrel housing music — with echoes from Appalachian dance parties and Delta fish fries, but projected from the contemporary perspective of songwriter Javier Matos. Their new album is Lost in Loretto. www.myspace.com/hudblues

• Left Lane Cruiser: The pride of Fort Wayne, Indiana’s garage roots scene, this duo blend the authority and soul of Muddy Waters and R.L. Burnside into their own bone-crunching sound. As their name implies, they are road warriors extraordinaire, touring widely in the U.S. and Europe. Their music appeared in the 2010 season of TV’s Breaking Bad. Their fourth and latest album Junkyard Speedball has just been released. www.myspace.com/leftlanecruiser

• Mark “Porkchop” Holder: One of the true pioneers of the modern Deep Blues scene thanks to his earlier role as guitarist in the Black Diamond Heavies, Chattanooga, Tennessee’s Mark Holder puts his own spin on country blues, writing songs and delivering them in a solo performing style that’s an perfect mix of truth and virtuosity. His latest disc is Fry Pharmacy. www.myspace.com/markholdermusic

• Misery Jackals: This Akron, OH, quintet bust out their special blend of old school punk rock on acoustic instruments. They wail on banjo, accordion, guitar, bass, drums and whatever else they can find to produce a one of a kind experience of “Pillbilly Browngrass.”  One time a patron at a music venue asked “The Misery Jackals?  What kind of music do they play?”  The bartender replied “I don’t know man, they’re just f$<#ing awesome!”  

www.themiseryjackals.com

• “Mississippi” Gabe Carter: Solo dirty blues with a Mississippi regional flavor is this Chicagoan’s specialty, reminiscent of the MS hill country’s Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, and his Bentonia mentors Jack Owens and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. His latest album is LIVE At Duke’s With Uncle Walt. www.myspace.com/mississippigabecarter

• Molly Gene One Whoaman Band: True to her name, Warrensburg, Missouri’s Molly Gene cuts her music to the bone, playing guitar, harmonica and foot drum while singing like a ghost from the Delta flatlands out for vengeance. She tours extensively and had a wildly successful tour with Bob Log III in 2010. Molly Gene is rapidly earning a reputation for her high-powered performances.

Her latest album is Hillbilly Love. www.mollygene.org 

• Old Gray Mule featuring C.W. Ayon: Juke joint blues is this Austin band’s specialty — once again echoing, in particular, the electric blues sounds of the Mississippi hills as minted by the Burnside and Kimbrough families. For the Deep Blues Festival 2011 they’ll be joined by Las Cruses, New Mexico’s C.W. Ayon, who usually performs as a foot stompin’, guitar slingin’ one-man band. 

www.oldgraymule.wordpress.com

www.reverbnation.com/cwayon

• Scissormen: This Nashville-based guitar and drums duo carry a style straddling the oldest blues traditions and modernist turns like daring improvisation and sonic experimentation, without betraying the music’s lowdown, dirty roots. With four albums and a new Robert Mugge directed movie starring Scissormen called BIG SHOES: Walking and Talking the Blues now playing at festivals, they are earning a reputation for high-energy live concerts in the US and Europe. www.scissormen.com

• Ten Foot Polecats: This blazing trio is from the Boston-area, but they sound like hard-bred juke joint dogs from the Mississippi hills. Nonetheless, their appeal is wide and their churning, psychedelic-yet-downhome sound is gaining them fans in the rock, punk and psychobilly circuits along with the traditional blues scene. Their latest album is I Get Blamed For Everything I Do. www.tenfootpolecats.com

SEASiCK STEVE @ SXSW w/Jack White

Our man Seasick Steve has signed a one record deal w/Jack White's Third Man Records. Evidently signed Mr. White's desk in his rolling record store (unless Jack is pullin' our third man leg). You can skip right past Jack White (tho do stop and take a look at his gorgeous guitar) and go right to Seasick Steve at the 5:30 mark.

Watch:: Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World :: Documentary

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World from Joey Tosi on Vimeo.

stolen from the ever stupendous Dangerous Minds

LiTTLE AXE - Bought For A Dollar Sold For A Dime

I've been listening the hell out of the newest Little Axe album. What a thriller! Who's Little Axe? Dude played guitar with Doug Wimbish (bass) and Keith LeBlanc (drums) on may of the early SugarHill Records classics like Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's The Message as well White Lines. He also played on many of the Tommy Boy Records releases. From there he went to London to work with ON-U Sounds recordings with Adrian Sherwood, working on releases by Tackhead, Dub Syndivate, and African Head Charge. Take all those vibes and meld them into blues and you begin to get the Little Axe sound. Dig it:

Little Axe @ Facebook // MySpace // iTunes

From previous Little Axe albums, all highly worthy of your ducats:

This is a live version of probably my fave Little Axe track:

MiKE HENDERSON ~ When I Get Drunk

Bygawd if this ain't how it's done!

Mike Henderson @ site // MySpace

 Stolen from the always brill Rubber City Review

JiM JONES REVUE ~ DiSHONEST JOHN

Farewell to JJR's piano man Elliott Mortimer!

Buy Jim Jones Revue

1st album // Here To Save Your Soul // Burning Your House Down

MiKE DeSTEFANO - Franny's Last Ride

This is an unusual post. It's not music but it doesn't get much deeper than this and it certainly doesn't get any more blue. 

I'd suggest having a handkerchief near by.  

RIP Mike DeStefano.

THE TOOT TOOT TOOTS - Band with dorky name will kill you!

The Toot Toot Toots @ Facebook // MySpace // Download via iTunes // Deluxe 10" Vinyl version ViA

I stumbled across this outfit outta Victoria, Australia. Silly name but hell, I'm not about to let that stop me. Part Tom Waitsian cabaret party time, part sweaty Nick Cave creeper poetry fest, part Mudlow pub tussle, part psychedelic blues/Roma country/folk freak-out with a horn section, they bring a wild and burly brand of joy to my ears that I havn't felt in a while. I would provide a song to DL but dammit just spend the six bucks ye cheap bastards and thank me later. The vidoes don't come near justice but it's a taste:

iMiDiWAN:: Podcast :: L'actualité des musiques du Sahara (Touaregs, Sahraouis, Maures,

My pal Stacy just turned me on to this terrific french podcast that covers the music of the Sahara. Dig the music of Tinariwen, Bombino, and Terakaft? 
You will love this podcast. Available online and by free subscription via iTunes.

T-MODEL FORD & GRAVELROAD :: TALEDRAGGER

Good Lord! Some men don't quit.
I swear in the end times it's gonna be Cher, cockroaches and T-Model Ford, who survive us all.  Mr. Ford, age allegedly somewheres in the nineties, has just released his eighth album. It's called Taledragger. This is his second album made with the punkass blues triumvirate Gravelroad, his back-up band of young (compared to T-Model) Seattle dudes. Verdict? It's a monster, baby. Heavy, grinding, weird and thick,  Taledragger features the raw Greenville, Mississippi primal simplicity we expect but it's inverted, expanded, and exploded into a shiny new swamp beast...like some kind of T-Mo-Zilla. Production is huge on this release. Something that was hinted at on last years The Ladies Man but it's fully realized this time around, as if they just decided "Fuck it. Let's blow this thing up and wreck some speakers and take out some minds, too!" It's thoroughly post-modern primitive and pure beautiful. Get it. Blast it.

Super Special unreleased live track from Long Beach,CA 2010 - Hip-Shakin' Woman - mp3

T-Model Ford- Taledragger ::
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