Backalley blues

Supporting the classic Blues and the modern day heros of music. Join me as we go back into time and relive the the era that set the nation and time to what it is today.While we showcase The old time greats and current sounds of today. Join me as we bring the past to the present. http://www.trythemagic.com 1.800.706.0162

The impact of blues on rock music arises from the emotionally honest, timelessly powerful, trance-inducing music of American bluesmen like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Listening to this simple, haunting music has compelled artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Stevie Ray Vaughan, T.S. Mcphee, Buddy Guy, Frank Marino, Johnny Winter and Jimmy Page to unleash their mind expanding music on the world. The Corby Yates Band, a power trio, brings this heavy, guitar-driven, blues-based music back into the present time. Corby won the 18-and-under division of the 1998 international Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition finals in Seattle, WA. Later that evening, Al Hendrix, Jimi's father, personally gave this young guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter the coveted Voodoo Chile award.

Welcome to Joe Desperado and the Uptown Cats music page. This is a new project with veteran guitarsist Joe Desperado. We will be adding music and a lot of details in the next few weeks, so please stop back soon. For those of you not yet framilar with Joe Desperado, you're in for a real treat. Joe is a one of the most soulful guitarist you'll ever listen to. From Delta Blues to Uptown Swing, he squeezes emotion out of every note. Joe and his band have created a refreshing new way to deliver traditional blues and Jump-swing in the same evening. From Jim's dynamic touch on the drums to Jeff's smooth bass lines, you will be captivate from the first note. Expeirence the raw emotion of the blues and the uplifting power of jump music, like no one else can deliver.

Sherry Seiler, an independent Christian artist, living in Port Richey, Florida. I have one CD in stores called You Make Me Smile, and am presently working on a second. My Home Church is Calvary Chapel Worship Center in New Port Richey, FL. I am on a praise team that leads morning worship, and have a kick-boxing ministry for women once a week. I'm involved in the dance ministry as well as the drama, at CCWC. I teach choir for children ages 9-17 at a private school. I have been blessed with a wonderful husband for 22 years, and three lovely children ages 13, 16, and 21. Even though God has blessed me with many gifts, I wait on Him to direct me to a new purpose to serve Him, for his glory and honor.Amen! I know I am truly the happiest when I sing for the Lord. To obey the Lord is my first and only way I know to have peace and joy beyond all understanding. Amen!

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.

I have been playing guitar ever since he was a child growing up. My influences have been Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Al Dimeola, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Roy Buchanon, Jimmy Page and a few others. I may have a taste of each one in my playing style from time to time. Like most musicians I have been though different stages of playing. When younger I played mostly Blues Rock guitar. http://www.myspace.com/jackfalkproject

Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It evolved in the United States in the communities of former enslaved Africans, from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became part of the genres of ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop,and pop songs.

Contemporary blues with a dash of southern rock that might best be described as Bonnie Raitt and ZZ Top crashing an Allman Brothers house party. Ripping guitars, dual lead vocalists, steroid-driven B3, handsome horns and fat pocket groove - Rusty Wright Blues has got it all

THOMAS, HENRY (1874-1950s?). Henry (Ragtime Texas) Thomas, an early exponent of country blues, was born in Big Sandy, Texas, in 1874, one of nine children of former slaves who sharecropped on a cotton plantation in the northeastern part of the state. Thomas learned to hate cotton farming at an early age and left home as soon as he could, around 1890, to pursue a career as an itinerant songster. Derrick Stewart-Barker has commented that for his money Thomas was the best songster that ever recorded. Thomas first taught himself to play the quills, a folk instrument made from cane reeds that sound similar to the quena used by musicians in Peru and Bolivia; later, he picked up the guitar. On the twenty-three recordings made by Thomas from 1927 to 1929, he sings a variety of songs and accompanies himself on guitar and at times on the quills.

The heart of this band is singer/songwriter Blue Fox, a string bending wildman with the subtlety and sensitivity of a true blues artist. Add one rock solid, swinging, funky, tongue in groove (emphasis on groove) rhythm section you've got something to write home about!

A guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, he is meticulous, whether it is perfecting a guitar riff or working on a lyric.But then again, its always been that way. Ever since he first saw The Beatles on television, Deziel has been involved in music, whether playing, writing or admiring. He grew to love vocal harmonies and layered guitars, and used them in his own compositions as well as those he has written with other artists. In 1991, Deziel met Jeff Carlisi of .38 Special through a meeting arranged by a friend. After that initial meeting, Carlisi became Deziel's mentor, and Deziel began sending him tapes of his own compositions to critique and judge. Carlisi would respond by phone or by mail with his compliments and comments. This is something that to this day Deziel claims to be an invaluable asset to his work. However, Deziel doesn't do everything solo. In 1993, Deziel founded the Connecticut band Sundance. As a guitarist/vocalist, he is one of the principal songwriters in the band. Sundance released its first full-length album, Pearls of Wisdom in November 1995. The band was a popular draw throughout the Northeast, and could be heard on many radio stations. With the group Deziel was also the subject of a television special called Behind the Scenes With Sundance.

Barbeque Bob is a seasoned veteran harmonica virtuoso and vocalist from the Boston, MA with nearly 30 years of experience in the business and has worked and toured wth many different blues legends, including Jimmy Rogers, Louisiana Red, Sunnyland Slim, and Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson. After nearly three years of being forced to take things very slow due to being on kidney dialysis, Bob recieved a kidney transplant on May 1, 2003, and he is now back on the scene with a vengeance. Former Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton harp legend Jerry Portnoys says,"Barbeque Bob is not just one of the best around the Boston area, but one of the very best anywhere, period!" The late, great West Coast blues harmonica giant and Alligator recording artist William Clarke called his playing "powerful and well focused." http://www.barbequebob.com

If youre moved by the classic sounds of Chicago, West coast swing and jump blues, the authentic tone of s guitar, cool rhythms and Fat tone amplified harmonica in the style of the greats such as T.Bone Walker, Robert Lockwood Jnr, Fred Below, George Harmonica Smith, Little Walter and William Clarke, then Smokehouse Blues are the real deal. Smokehouse have a deep passion for this music, and their live performancs around the country are evidence of their energy and style. influenced by the blues greats of the 1940s & 50s, Smokehouse Blues work hard to carry on this great music adding there own special touches along the w

Rebel Storm’s music has been described as a “jazzy, blues-rock fusion, with a southern drawl�, incorporating elements of all these genres and more. Rebel Storm has performed to rave reviews in both the US and Europe. Scorching, double harmony lead guitars. Tight, solid rhythms. Soulful piano and organ. Thumping, rock-solid back beats. It’s a show that starts out rockin’, goes for hours, and just doesn’t stop! Their show was nominated for “Best Live-Act of 2002� by the readers at www.rocktip.de in Germany, and their debut CD “Stormin’ South� was voted #4 album of the year for 2002, by the readers of Bands of Dixie magazine in France! Rebel Storm is a proud recipient of the 2002 GRITZ Southern Music Hall of Fame Horizon Award. They are internationally recognized as a powerful new force in the world of guitar driven rock-’n-roll. In May of 2003, the band released their second CD “The Hard Way�. Reviews have been extraordinary, calling it “a Southern Rock masterpiece.�, and cementing Rebel Storm’s position as a band, whose time has come

Hi...Im 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 isnt 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 heros and be noticed and appreciated by these great artists. 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 Im 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

Like the other great album to come out of post-Katrina New Orleans, Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello?s The River in Reverse, the Radiators? latest consists mainly of songs written before the deluge. But the long-running Crescent City band catch a definite sense of time and place on this disc, which was recorded in the studio during the first post-hurricane Mardi Gras. Many of the lyrics sound too appropriate to be accidental, especially the opening ?Ace in the Hole? (?When the big wind blows chilly and cold, the wise fool flies south?) and the closing ?Shine Tonight? (?We?re all in the same boat, it sunk without a trace?). It also makes sense that the band sound even more New Orleans?ish than usual, adding sax on the ?50s-style jukebox rocker ?Rollercoaster? and banjo on the Preservation Hall homage ?Desdemona.? The overall mood is more intense than usual for these guys, notably on the Richard Thompson?esque ?Don?t Pray for Me? and the sexy/swampy ?Rub It In? ? the first time the standout track on a Radiators disc has been a love song. Their trademark two-guitar workouts are kept tight enough to serve the songs, and the mood is muted but still celebratory. The chanted choruses that close ?Shine Tonight? attest to a city ? or at least a few individual souls ? slowly coming back to life.

Truth is, there really is no story’s end yet, and Little Feat have indeed led a storied life ever since they formed in 1969. From then on, their unconventional signature of earthy, organic appeal and polished, first-rate musicianship wrapped around eclectic and memorable songs--clearly delivered as an authentic labor of love--has been a lasting fixture on the musical landscape. As American as apple pie--and rock ‘n roll itself--Feat’s music transcends boundaries, a freewheeling fusion of California rock and Dixie-inflected funk-boogie. In the mix as well are strains of folk, blues, rockabilly, country and jazz, inventing a hybrid sound that is truly Little Feat’s own.

A musical project from far up north in Sweden. Started as a test recording and is now a still on-going project. Texas Boogie is based on the interchange between the songwriter Roger Enquist and the sound engineer/producer Lars kastberg. At the moment we are working with our second album which is scheduled to be relased later this year. We are still a unsigned band, but record companies has shown interest

Like the other great album to come out of post-Katrina New Orleans, Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello’s The River in Reverse, the Radiators’ latest consists mainly of songs written before the deluge. But the long-running Crescent City band catch a definite sense of time and place on this disc, which was recorded in the studio during the first post-hurricane Mardi Gras. Many of the lyrics sound too appropriate to be accidental, especially the opening “Ace in the Hole� (“When the big wind blows chilly and cold, the wise fool flies south�) and the closing “Shine Tonight� (“We’re all in the same boat, it sunk without a trace�). It also makes sense that the band sound even more New Orleans–ish than usual, adding sax on the ’50s-style jukebox rocker “Rollercoaster� and banjo on the Preservation Hall homage “Desdemona.� The overall mood is more intense than usual for these guys, notably on the Richard Thompson–esque “Don’t Pray for Me� and the sexy/swampy “Rub It In� — the first time the standout track on a Radiators disc has been a love song. Their trademark two-guitar workouts are kept tight enough to serve the songs, and the mood is muted but still celebratory. The chanted choruses that close “Shine Tonight� attest to a city — or at least a few individual souls — slowly coming back to life.

A guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, he is meticulous, whether it is perfecting a guitar riff or working on a lyric.But then again, its always been that way. Ever since he first saw The Beatles on television, Deziel has been involved in music, whether playing, writing or admiring. He grew to love vocal harmonies and layered guitars, and used them in his own compositions as well as those he has written with other artists. In 1991, Deziel met Jeff Carlisi of .38 Special through a meeting arranged by a friend. After that initial meeting, Carlisi became Deziel's mentor, and Deziel began sending him tapes of his own compositions to critique and judge. Carlisi would respond by phone or by mail with his compliments and comments. This is something that to this day Deziel claims to be an invaluable asset to his work. However, Deziel doesn't do everything solo. In 1993, Deziel founded the Connecticut band Sundance. As a guitarist/vocalist, he is one of the principal songwriters in the band. Sundance released its first full-length album, "Pearls of Wisdom" in November 1995. The band was a popular draw throughout the Northeast, and could be heard on many radio stations. With the group Deziel was also the subject of a television special called "Behind the Scenes With Sundance".