Why Do They Call It Bluesfest?!?!?!?!?!?

Over the weekend a big gust of wind blew over the mainstage at the Ottawa Bluesfest.  It was while Cheap Trick was playing.   According to this article (click HERE) no one was hurt.  I must admit that when I first read Cheap Trick playing at a blues festival I was a little taken aback, then I looked at the whole festival list. I must admit it is huge, but the majority of the performers are not blues.  Take a look here for the full list of performers.  In fact if you read this article about the festival you wouldn't know it was a blues festival.  You wouldn't even know that BUDDY GUY was playing!!!!  I know the blues are hurting, but if you are going to have a blues festival wouldn't you have blues bands?????  If you know the answer to this perplexing question please let me know.

BB King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and Jimmy Vaughn: Rock Me Baby

Talk about a blues summit!  BB, Buddy, Eric, and Jimmy.  NICE!

Buddy Guy: Knock On Wood

Buddy doing some classic soul.

Buddy Guy: Good Morning Little School Girl

Buddy Guy performing old, old, old, school:-)

Earbender Pod Cast: Buddy Guy

Earbender's Black History Month Music Celebration

earbender podcasts: Buddy Guy A true master of the blues, Buddy Guy's guitar sound was born and popularized as soloist in bands with Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and Otis Rush. Later, his own disciples would include Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and most notably, Jimi Hendrix (as well as MILLIONS of others). Travel with Buddy Guy to his beginnings in rural Louisiana, as he describes fashioning his first guitar out of screen wire and a lighter fluid can, and his first encounter with an electric guitar (in the hands of Lightning Slim playing "Boogie Chillun")... "and that just turned my head around." Music included in this podcast: "The First Time I Met the Blues" "One Room Country Shack" Use the links below to include the podcasts on your page: Legacy Podcast Page Legacy RSS Feed New Buddy Guy podcasts produced by Joyride Media are live every Saturday this month. The Legacy Podcast Black History Month series salutes Buddy Guy and other great African-American artists all month with 28 pieces in 28 days. All content is produced by Joyride Media. For promotions, more information and technical assistance, please write to john@earbender.com

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Buddy Guy And Carlos Santana: Guitar Jam

Two great guitar players! Buddy Guy and Carlos Santana jamming away!

Buddy Guy Grammy Nomination, And Earbender Radio

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Buddy Guy's "Skin Deep" Receives Traditional Blues Album Grammy® Nomination Earlier this year, Buddy Guy released Skin Deep, featuring the title cut about racial equality. "Underneath, we're all the same" says Buddy in the chorus, and just a few months after its release, a young Chicagoan was elected as our first black President. Following a bittersweet tour during which his older brother Phil died and at the end of the Experience Hendrix Tour, which saw the demise of Mitch Mitchell, this was welcome news. As Buddy said at the time, "I never dreamed that I would live long enough to see this day." Read/listen/view more

Thanks for your support. Please be on the lookout for the next podcast installments from Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Carlos Santana coming soon. Best wishes for a happy holiday and 2009 if you are leaving for vacation soon. There will be no vacation here. Sincerely,

Buddy Guy: First Time I Met The Blues

Classic blues of Buddy Guy featuring some really old footage of Chicago from the late 60s and early 70s.

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Friends, It is a tumultuous time for the USA, but I hope this email finds you in good health and spirits. I am eagerly awaiting tonight's debate, but wanted to let you know about Buddy Guy's visit to David Letterman tomorrow (W 10/8) and to promote some of the good attention Johnny Cash Remixed has received so far. I hope to help keep all of the above going into 09! John Rosenfelder earbender Radio and Baseball Contest! Name the radio station person who shares a name with a former player of either the Red Sox, Rays, Dodgers or Phillies. They can be either active or retired. The winner will be chosen randomly from correct entries and will receive a year's subscription to Baseball Digest! email entries to earbender@earthlink.net Buddy Guy David Letterman tomorrow and on tour re-channeling Jimi Hendrix "Skin Deep" has been Buddy Guy's most successful album since he began his comeback on Jive/Silvertone in 1999, according to Billboard. Join Buddy tomorrow night on The Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow 10/8. See Buddy Guy live this fall on the Experience Hendrix Tour, sponsored by Gibson Guitars, with Hubert Sumlin, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepard and Jonny Lang this fall. They will be hitting some battleground states! For more info, click here. Johnny Cash Remixed "Sun Records are overrated mon." -- anonymous rasta John Carter Cash asked the question about his father's music, and it was answered in force by The Heavy, Alabama Three, Troublemaker and Pete Rock among others. (The question was "why not?") Thanks the people of KCRW, KFJC, WYCE, WMNF, WBAI, KBCS, KEXP, WTMD, KDHX, WMSE, WHRV, WPRK, KKFI, KZSU, WORT and KFAI, along with all the future supporters of Johnny Cash Remixed. See the making-of documentary here. Vinyl now available. Contact info John Rosenfelder 243 West End Avenue New York, New York 10023 (212) 724-6828 earbender@earthlink.net www.earbender.com Twitter.com YouTube Facebook/earbendermusic iLike linkedin

Phil Guy RIP

Sad news, Phil Guy blues singer, guitarist, and brother of Buddy Guy has passed away. Phil was a great blues artist himself, and it was unfortunate that more people didn't know about him. Bob Corritore has more on Phil Guy.

August 20, 2008

• RIP Phil Guy 4/28/1940-8/20/2008: This news form Steve Hecht of Piedmont Talent and Buddy Guy's Legends: Guitarist/vocalist Phil Guy, the younger brother of the legendary Buddy Guy, passed away today at St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, IL, after a battle with kidney and liver cancer. He was 68. Born April 28, 1940 in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Phil learned to play guitar as a child. He followed in Buddy's footsteps, playing after him with Baton Rouge artists Big Poppa and Raful Neal. He recorded as accompanist for his brother in 1957, for Raful Neal around 1958, and for Slim Harpo in the mid-60s. He joined his brother's band in Chicago in 1969, and has been based there ever since. He has worked and recorded with many of the city's leading artists, such as his brother, Junior Wells, Byther Smith, and Jimmy Dawkins. Phil began focusing his efforts on advancing his own musical career during the 80's and he developed a solid reputation as a tough, electrified Chicago blues guitarist. He toured all around the world; and though he never achieved the fame or recognition that his brother did, he was considered a star in his own right. His recordings are numerous and appear on labels such as JSP, Wolf, Isabel, and Red Lightning. Memorial info forthcoming.

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In This Issue Video Links Reviews Tour Dates Friendly Links BuddyGuy.Net Down with Tyranny Today's Chicago Blues VizzTone Records

Video Links A private lesson with the master! Buddy Guy was kind enough to share his thoughts on a few topics, including Muddy Waters, Chicago, Skin Deep's guests, developing an individual style, and why he wears overalls on stage! Of course, they are all available for embedding. Dear Blues People, Buddy Guy's "Skin Deep" finally hits the stores today, and anticipation couldn't be better. Great mentions on the web, radio stations and even a few magazines and newspapers herald the album's release today. Buddy has kicked off the week by accepting the first Illinois Great Performer Award and opening Best Buy's first instrument store in Downer's Grove last Sunday. He commences a national tour in Silverton, Oregon tomorrow 7/23. Thanks to all for your support of this great musician. I hope you enjoy the music and the info herein. And thanks to Buddy Guy for being an inspiration to us all! John Reviews for "Skin Deep" USA Today: "Piercing blues tracks that cut to the bone." Chicago Sun Times: Guy really has something to say on "Skin Deep," with a terrific title track that could make a fine theme song for a fellow South Sider's White House bid. Newsweek (interview): "His Time After a While" Boston Globe: "If he's 71, no one told Buddy Guy." Detroit Free Press (Martin Bandyke!): "He continues to defy age." Philadelphia Daily News: "A - Electric blues heavy on the Jolt... a blast of entertaining tunes." Confessions of a Fan Boy: "Buddy Guy is a national treasure." Tour Dates 07/23/08 Silverton, OR @ Oregon Garden 07/24/08 Tulalip, WA @ Tulalip Amphitheatre 07/25/08 Shelton, WA @ Little Creek Casino 07/26/08 Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Pavilion 07/27/08 Murphy's, CA @ Ironstone Amphitheatre 07/29/08 Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery 07/30/08 San Rafael, CA @ Veteran's Memorial Auditorium 07/31/08 Reno, NV @ Silver Legacy Resort and Casino 08/01/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Amphitheatre 08/02/08 Coachella, CA @ Spotlight 29 Casino 08/03/08 Alpine, CA @ Concerts In The Park 08/06/08 Tucson, AZ @ Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre 08/07/08 Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel 08/08/08 Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Casino & Resort 08/09/08 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 08/12/08 Charlottesville, VA @ Carlottesville Pavilion 08/13/08 Vienna, VA @ The Filene Center 08/14/08 Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for Performing Arts 08/15/08 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom 08/16/08 Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 08/17/08 Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion 08/19/08 Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion 08/20/08 Cincinnati, OH @ National City Pavilion 08/21/08 Rochester, MI @ Meadowbrook Music Festival 08/22/08 Elizabeth, IN @ Caesars Indiana 08/24/08 St. Paul, MN @ Minnestoa State Fair 08/28/08 Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Festival 08/30/08 Milwaukee, WI @ Harley Davidson Celebration 09/12/08 Fredericton, NB, Canada @ Harvest Jazz & Blues Fest - Bud Light Tent 09/19/08 Fort Worth, TX @ Will Rogers Memorial Complex 09/27/08 Avalon, CA @ Catalina Island Blues Festival 10/04/08 Columbia, MO @ BCNB Roots, Blues & BBQ Festival 11/21/08 Virginia Beach, VA @ Sandler Center for Performing Arts 11/22/08 Tarboro, NC @ Edgecombe Community College 11/25/08 Brampton, Ontario @ Rose Theatre Brampton 12/11/08 Maryland Heights, MO @ Harrah's St. Louis 12/13/08 Wichita, KS @ Cotillion Ballroom

New CD And Web Page For Buddy Guy

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Buddy Guy "Skin Deep" ~ the new album out July 22 ~ "Skin Deep" (solo version video) To celebrate the imminent release of his all new album "Skin Deep," Buddy Guy has filmed a great solo version of the song that can now be viewed here. Please embed this excellent performance on your page! ***** Please let me know if you have not received a promo of "Skin Deep," featuring contributions from Eric Clapton, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, and produced by Tom Hambridge. Also available on a limited basis, the 2007 career spanning box set "Can't Quit the Blues" Please visit the all-new www.BuddyGuy.net

Junior Wells, And Buddy Guy: Hoodoo Man

This is a classic recording from the Montreux Jazz Festival of Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. Wells and Guy were the original blues brothers. They performed together in Chicago for years. What is also cool about this concert is that Muddy makes an appearance during the show and plays with Junior and Buddy! Very cool concert!

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Buddy Guy: You Better Leave My Little Girl Alone

Yup, the original was done by Buddy Guy! This one features Buddy at Austin City Limits.

Buddy Guy: Mustang Sally

Bluesman Buddy Guy performing on the David Letterman Show back in 1991! Damn! That just seems like yesterday, but that was 17 years ago! ACK!!!!

Buddy Guy: Mary Had A Little Lamb

Buddy Guy was the first to do this song, years before Stevie Ray had a hit with it. Also check out how young David Letterman is !!!!! Also Paul still had hair:-)

Buddy Guy: Crawling King Snake

Unplugged Buddy Guy.

BB King And Friends: Everyday I Have The Blues

One of BB's signature tunes, plus he has a lot of great help. Buddy Guy, Dr. John, and Kim Wilson. Also if you want a laugh look at Jay Leno! I can't believe how much Jay has aged since 1992! I also can't believe how long Johnny Carson has been gone! EEEKS! I am getting old!

Buddy Guy: Damn Right I Have The Blues

The great Buddy Guy smoking on the guitar!

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Tour Chicago With Buddy Guy!!

I just got this from the city of Chicago about the virtual tour of Chicago with Buddy Guy. A few months back I posted about the tour HERE. To go on the tour click here.

For more information, contact:

Christine Carrino, 312-744-2392

christine.carrino@cityofchicago.org

Joyce Rowe, 312-747-2036

joyce.rowe@cityofchicago.org

BLUES LEGEND BUDDY GUY GIVES TOUR OF CHICAGO MUSIC HISTORY

Multimedia audio tour exploring Chicago’s musical roots

has been downloaded by nearly 100,000 listeners within the first six months

CHICAGO – Exploring the “Home of the Blues,” the Chicago Blues Audio Tour narrated by Chicago-local Buddy Guy has found an astonishing audience in just six months. The podcast has been downloaded more than 97,000 times and is currently averaging over 1,000 downloads per day. The free, 50-minute tour combines an interactive map, tour stop directions, archival photos, video, music clips, and interviews – a true multimedia experience unlike anything else available.

Listeners are able to follow the tour either by downloading to a portable media player or by virtually experiencing Chicago on a home computer. Available in Mandarin Chinese, English, German, Japanese, and Spanish, the tour is able to reach international visitors and devotees of Chicago blues wherever they are.

In September, the podcast was featured on the front page of iTunes, the most popular repository for podcasts in the world. The tour was also awarded a 2007 MUSE Award from the American Association of Museums recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media. According to the judges, “while [the tour] would offer an evocative introduction to a visitor on the streets of Chicago, it is strong enough to be educational and engaging no matter where the listener may be.”

As Buddy Guy explains about Chicago, “This is the place where people just like myself came from the South to create new lives and a new kind of music. The generation just before mine came up here playing folk music. But soon they traded in their acoustic guitars for electric instruments. And when they plugged them in, they created a new, urban sound, that we call Chicago blues.”

Through Buddy Guy’s insider perspective and interviews with blues musicians and historians, visitors experience the Chicago blues historic and societal relevance, the worldwide impact on music and culture, and the city’s contemporary scene. Incorporating archival photos, music clips, and video, the tour highlights ten historic locations including Maxwell Street, Chess Records, and Muddy Water’s former home. Listeners, from blues club aficionados to those less familiar with the Chicago blues sound, will discover something new from the explanation of Chicago blues and profiles of five Chicago blues innovators: Jimmy Yancey, Tampa Red, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Koko Taylor.

In addition, the tour illustrates how Chicago continues to influence the international blues sound. Visitors can experience “Sweet Home Chicago” at the city’s many music clubs, including Buddy Guy’s Legends. Celebrating its 25^th anniversary this June 5-8, 2008, the annual Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free blues festival in the world and draws over 800,000 visitors. Also, the Chicago Blues Archives at the city’s Harold Washington Library preserves archival recordings of performances unavailable anywhere else.

The Chicago Office of Tourism produced the audio tour with the award-winning Acoustiguide, Inc. “We are pleased to have had the opportunity to work with the Chicago Office of Tourism on this project and are extremely happy with the results,” said Kathryn Glass, Acoustiguide vice president. “By the end of the first year, more than 150,000 people will have had the pleasure of hearing Buddy Guy talk about Chicago’s place in the history of the Blues, and that is something we are all very proud of.”

The Chicago Blues Tour is free and can be downloaded at www.downloadchicagotours.com or Apple’s iTunes. Media can find an electronic press kit for the tour at http://www.downloadchicagotours.com/bluesmedia/.

For information about the Chicago Blues Festival, the world’s largest free blues festival, visitors can call 312.744.3315 or visit www.chicagobluesfestival.us. Visitors and Chicagoans planning to entertain out-of-town guests can receive Chicago brochures, reserve hotel accommodations, and receive trip-planning assistance by calling 1.877.CHICAGO (1.877.244.2246) or visiting www.cityofchicago.org/tourism. Brochures and information on Chicago’s exciting events and activities are also available at the Visitor Information Centers. The centers are located at Chicago Water Works, 163 E. Pearson Street at Michigan Avenue, and the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street.

CHICAGO BLUES TOUR DESTINATIONS

1. Buddy Guy’s Legends – When Buddy Guy opened this club in 1989, he wanted it to have the feel of a dark, authentic storefront music joint, an experience like going to a club when the Chicago blues were born.

2. The Illinois Central Depot – Once Chicago’s largest train station, the Illinois Central Station became known as the Black Ellis Island, where many southern African American’s introduction to Chicago.

3. Maxwell Street – Alive with business in the Maxwell Street market, musicians congregated here and played the music that defined several eras of the Chicago blues.

4. Vee-Jay Records – Before Motown there was Vee-Jay Records, the largest and most powerful black-owned record label in America, recording the greats of R& B, doo-wop, and jazz in their studio on what was then known as ‘record row’ on Michigan Avenue.

5. Chess Records, Michigan Avenue – Generations of musicians have come to pay homage at the place where all the greats of the Chicago blues tradition – Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Koko Taylor, to name a few – recorded their hits. Today, the building is home to the Blues Heaven Foundation started by blues legend Willie Dixon, whose mission is to promote and document the blues, educate children about its history, and to support working musicians

6. The State Street Stroll – In the 1920s and 30s, people would dress their best and stroll down the street while music poured from the theaters, cafes, and “black and tan” nightclubs that lined the strip, notably the Pekin Theater, the Plantation Club, and the Apex Club.

7. 47^th Street – Now known as the ‘Chicago Blues District,’ this was the location of the famous 708 Club, one of the creative incubators responsible for transforming a kind of rural country blues into the highly-charged electrified blues unique to Chicago.

8. The Blues Brothers Mural – Created for the well-known movie, “The Blues Brothers,” this site was the home of “Ray’s Music Exchange,” run by none other than Ray Charles in the film. The mural is an homage to the neighborhood’s musical heritage.

9. Chess Records, Cottage Grove Street – The Chess brothers built their company in several storefront locations, including this one where Chuck Berry cut his demo for “Maybelline.”

10. The Original ‘House of Blues’ – Muddy Waters’ house was a community center for the blues. Muddy often took in struggling musicians and would stage impromptu jam sessions on the front steps.

For more information, contact:

Christine Carrino, 312-744-2392

christine.carrino@cityofchicago.org

Joyce Rowe, 312-747-2036

joyce.rowe@cityofchicago.org