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The Blues AudienceNew England’s only independent Blues newsletter mailing the schedules of our outstanding, hard working Blues Bands and Blues Clubs to dedicated Blues Fans since 1991. © ATB/TBA 2016

April/May 2016 #218

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:Performance schedules and Blues news from the most talented local

New England Blues Bands and swinging Blues Clubs.

Carl Querfurth, very sought after

Blues trombone player, engineer, producer, and general bon vivant

talks to Art Simas

TJ Wheeler talks about the rise of Cigar Box Guitar.

Blues news and points of view

Carl is everywhere top photo is from The Blues Audience Anniversary Party, photo by Diana Shonk, (l) Art Simas took the one at the Gardner Ale House below is from a show with Jimmy Vaughan and with Loaded Dice at the Blue B Que with the late Danny Vitale on vocals. photo by Diana Shonk

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If your son or daughter has long arms, don’t be surprised if they are chosen to play a trombone when it comes time to “pick an instrument day” in elementary school. That’s what happened to Carl Querfurth of Peterborough, NH, on that fateful day that determined his musical destiny. Young Carl really wanted to play trumpet, but, because of his excessive sleeve length, he was handed a trombone, some lip balm and instructed to practice, practice, practice. And he did. Born into a musical family, everyone played one or multiple instruments, Querfurth followed his predestined future playing in the high school band and got together with his friends to fool around with their instruments. “That was when I met Matt McCabe (piano) and Skip Philbrick (guitar), Peter Shonk (harmonica and vocals), Addie Thomas (bass), Bill “Foot” Sandbergen (drums), and Sean Benjamin (guitar). They were nice enough to put up with me because I recently heard some tapes from those days, and man, I was pretty bad.” All of them would go on to pursue professional careers in New England. “We called ourselves the Fat City Blues Band and practiced in a garage in Dublin, NH, and played at the local ski areas and clubs,” Querfurth said. They also ventured down to Providence and played at the original Met Café, which had about 6 bar stools and a total square footage of a typical hotel bathroom. It was a great little joint and it was (not surprisingly) packed every night. Querfurth, McCabe, Phibrick and bass player Addie Thomas eventually moved into an apartment in Providence around 1976-1977. Rent, split between four people, was pretty cheap in those days, so they had the good fortune to go to clubs in the Boston area and see Hound Dog Taylor at Joe’s Place, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Koko Taylor, and many others. This was also the time the youngsters met the late, great David Maxwell (piano) Johnny Nicolas, Kaz Kazanoff (sax), Sister Sarah Brown (bass guitarist and songwriter), and dozens of other musicians who were part of the Boston blues scene. Around 1978 Duke Robillard of Roomful of Blues called Carl and asked him if he’d like to join the crew. Robillard was thinking of beefing up the horn section and Carl was on his

short list as the trombone player. “And of course I accepted,” he said. “During the same timeframe, Doug James, the baritone sax player, was leaving to join the National Lampoon Band, which was going on the road to support the magazine. So I started working with Roomful full time for about a year,” Carl said.In 1979, Roomful wanted to go back to their original lineup,

which meant no trombone in the band. “So I went back to playing with the guys in Providence, the band Blue Lights which had Peter Shonk on harp and vocals, Matt McCabe on keys, Rob Nelson and Skip Philbrick on guitars, Fred Schifino on sax and drummer Jackie Howarth, and either Ken “Doc” Grace or Addie Thomas on bass.” After a few more years of local success in the Providence area, Peter Shonk left the band, so another incarnation was formed. This time it was Loaded Dice with Rob Nelson, Matt McCabe, Bob Soiot on harp and vocals (who also contributed as a songwriter), and a rhythm section with interchangeable parts. In fact, Querfurth played drums for 6 years (1982-1988), after receiving some drum lessons and putting in some long hours of practice on the kit. “At least I could keep a beat – and that’s the

most important thing for a drummer,” he said. During his time with Loaded Dice, Querfurth also was dabbling in sound engineering, a skill that, combined with producing recordings, would come in mighty handy over the next decade. “Greg Piccolo, who had taken over as bandleader of Roomful, when Duke Robillard left, he called to ask me if I could do sound for the second of three gigs they had on one day in 1988,” Querfurth

Photo by Klem Klimeck

photo by Heidi Nelson

Mudcat, Neil, Anthony, Ray, Otis Grand, Doug, Ray Scona, Doug and Carl in Beruit

Best known for his work with Roomful of Blues, Carl is also a producer, composer and arranger.

By Art Simas

Carl Querfurth

a story of swinging,

sliding and surviving.

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said. “So I said sure … and on the break a few of us, including trombonist Porky Cohen, were hanging out in my van. And Porky told me he was retiring from Roomful. So he asked me, ‘You want the gig?’ “Porky said, ‘Don’t worry about a thing. I’ll tell the other guys that they should hire you.’ And that’s how I joined Roomful a second time, this time taking over for Porky Cohen.”So on the road he went for a decade-long adventure with Roomful – 10 years of non-stop excursions to just about every state in the union, Europe dozens of times, witnessing different continents and cultures, and a ton of stories of life on the road with a real traveling band. Some of this travel in the early years, at least in the U.S., was done in a windowless Bookmobile, also affectionately called “Das Book,” because it was basically a submarine on wheels. Then the mode of transportation was an airport shuttle bus, and finally a real tour bus in 1995. “It had primitive bunk beds and maybe four or five seats in the back. Man, that was one ugly vehicle to be riding cross-country,” Querfurth recalled, which at that time was about every two or three weeks. Two years into the road odyssey with Roomful, Carl married Tory McCagg. Married or not, the road was his home for the next eight years. During this tenure with Roomful he was executive producer, mixer, and arranger for Dance all night in 1994; executive producer and arranger for turn it On turn it up in 1995; executive producer, composer and mixer for Porky Cohen’s album, rhythm & BOnes in 1996; executive producer and composer for unDer One rOOf in 1997; and executive producer for rOOmful Of christmas, also in 1997. For fans of Porky Cohen, Querfurth said you can hear him soloing on a couple tracks with R&B sax great Big John Greer. Cohen’s record rhythm & BOnes is extremely important because this was the first album where he was the bandleader after decades of playing with many of the jazz giants in the Big Band era. Porky began his career at 18 and played with such luminaries as Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Wynonie Harris, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Lucky

Millinder, Doc Severinsen, the former bandleader for the “Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson,” and even W.C. Handy.(Note: This album is an absolute treasure, not only because of the great music featuring Porky and many Greater Boston musicians, but for its 32 pages of liner notes written by Bob Bell, the longtime manager of Roomful of Blues who spent more than 20 years on the road with Roomful. The historical pictures of a young Porky posing and playing with the greats is a historical record of a bygone era

featuring one of New England’s greatest musicians.) Bell writes, “Porky disdained sleeping in a bunk (in the ‘Das Book’ bookmobile). He’d sit in one of the four bus seats, or in the passenger seat next to the driver. Wherever he sat, if he wasn’t asleep, he’d talk. Stories of gigs with Charlie Barnet (a famous bandleader), stories of the Savoy Ballroom in New York, stories about Lucky Millinder’s band … monologues on Jack Teagarden, the great trombonist whom Porky called ‘The Master Painter,’ Louis Armstrong, the problem with elephants when working the circus … the subject matters were literally

limitless. Needless to say, I got to know Porky very well.” Although rhythm & BOnes was made into a record, Querfurth also has music from Porky Cohen and Harold Betters, a well-respected trombone player from the Cleveland area, which have not yet been mastered into an album. So Porky and Betters played in a studio for Carl. “I have the tapes and it’s all ready to go … and I even put a name to it, smOkin’ BOnes. “I didn’t do anything with it because I didn’t

have the money at the time. I tried to pitch it to Rounder, Fantasy and 3 other labels – Delmark, Blind Pig, but nobody was interested. “If I did it myself, I felt that I wouldn’t do it justice. So it’s one of those things that I have to dig it out of my closet. It’s got Marty Ballou on bass, Marty Richards on drums, Matt McCabe on piano, and Rob Nelson on guitar. It’s really a great little record, a little on the jazzy side but a great little record … and it might be right up Duke’s alley,” (referring to the constantly in-demand producer and phenomenal guitarist). “So after Roomful I worked with Jimmy T-99 Nelson, whom I met in Houston when I was with Roomful on one of our trips. When we were there, I mentioned to someone that one of my favorite Texas guys was Jimmy T99 Nelson… and someone said, ‘Hey, he’s playing tonight across town.’ “So I hopped in a cab and got to the club and sure enough, there’s Nelson with a nice little blues band. I talked to him afterward … told him I always liked his old stuff when he did “t99,” “unlock the lock,” “meet me with your Black Dress On,” and I asked him if he would be interested in doing

Blue Lights Blues band- (l-r) Fred Schifino, Skip Philbrick, Peter Shonk, Jackie Howarth, Carl Querfurth, Rob Nelson, Addie Thomas in 1979

Loaded Dice 1982

continued on page 11

Roomful of Blues (l-r) Doug James, John Rossi, Matt McCabe, CHris Vachon, Sugar Ray, Kenny Grace, Bob Enos, Rich Lataille and Carl.


Notes from the Publisher- Winter Blues YES. YES. YES. We made it to spring without a bunch of horrible snowstorms. It was like living in North Carolina. Now we can get to the hard work of enjoying the spring and summer in style. We have lots of interesting reading in this issue.IN THIS ISSUEArt Simas has written about one of my favorite people in the world, Carl Querfurth, trombone player, record producer and genuinely nice per-son. I don’t think I could find anyone to argue with that. I first met Carl in 1972, he was just out of highschool, living in the nearby town of Peterborough, NH in a family of very talented musicians. His mother was my flute teacher (she told me that kissing is the worst thing for flute players, huh? no wonder I don’t play flute today.) His sister, Mary is a clairinet player, in a few pro-fessional orchestras and Billy, his brother, could play some serious boogie woogie piano. Since then Carl has literally traveled the world as a professional musician. He helped run Roomful of Blues for ten years, and all along he has been sought after by many great musicians to enhance their Blues recordings. Carl produced a record for his idol Porky Cohen that is very sweet and he brought singer Jimmy T-99 Nelson out of re-tirement to create a lasting legacy for him with two recordings, Art will tell you about that.

Ed VAdAS passed away last month and I must admit it was a shock to me, I thought I would get a chance to see him in the spring. “Never wait” is the moral to that story. I couldn’t go to his fundraiser so I missed my last chance to see him. Art Simas went, and I am happy we got an article about Ed into the Feb/March issue. I will never forget Ed. He was a force to be reckoned with. He made me sing with him whenever I went to see him play live. He loved my silly song about the Moo Cow. He encouraged me and helped me keep going when I was in the throws of the deadline, for this newsletter. He always made me laugh, sometimes it was because he was so out there, and now that he is actually out there I wish he would call me up and tell me off.BLUES AWARd NEWS

Sugar Ray & the Bluetones are up for a bunch of Blues Awards... Sugar Ray & The Bluetones for Band, Monster Mike Welch-Instrumentalist-Guitar, Anthony Geraci Pinetop Perkins Piano Player, Mi-chael “Mudcat” Ward- Instrumentalist-BassAnthony’s Cd FiFty ShadeS oF Blue on delta Groove Music Anthony Geraci and the Boston Blues All-Stars are up for Traditional Blues Album, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year “Fifty Shades of Blue.” Also Sugar Ray and the Bluetones were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame on Feb 12. Ceremonies to be held on April 24 at The Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Paw-tucket, RI followed by performances at The Met Cafe, also in Pawtucket.

WELCOME A “NEW” CLUBPITMAN’S FREIGHT ROOMWe are very pleased to bring you Pitman’s sched-ule. Located in the center of the Lakes Region in downtown Laconia, NH. Take a gorgeous drive north to a comfortable location. It’s a bit unas-suming from the outside, but this former freight depot has been completely renovated with mod-ern amenities and a large dance floor. Any occa-sion: weddings, banquets, or musical events will be enhanced by its rustic charm and antique furniture creating a warm comfortable atmosphere. Pitman’s is also rapidly becoming the premier location for arts and entertainment in the Lakes Region. We host live music every week with outstanding musi-cians from all over the country. Seating is general admission and BYOB. We’re saving you a seat.

CANTAB JAMCecil Rednellac relayed this news flash: March 20th The Cantab JAM returns.. That’s good news, another place to go to see and play live music.

TERRY O’REILLY’S JAMO’Reilly’s is at 45 Union Street, Newton, MA they have regular Sunday shows, 5 to 9 PM, Chris Stovall Brown and Bob dallas anchor it on guitar and drums. They line up a special guest headliner every week. It is a nice little neighborhood Pub, always a great time. Live music every weekend. Wednesday is Newton Open Jam sign up at 7pm the jam starts at 8pm.

NEW BLUES COMIC STRIP dEBUTS - ME ANd THE dEVIL BLUES.Grego Anderson has had a long career illustrat-ing the Blues - founder of Mojohand.com, the world’s largest online Blues folk art gallery and apparel store, he has sold over 1000 paintings of Blues legends worldwide since 2001. Grego’s unique folk art illustration style has gotten him work on major magazine covers, concert post-ers, ad campaigns and most recently a series of beer labels with a large east coast Brewery. Now, he has turned his attention to a daily comic strip “Me and the devil Blues” the day to day story of modern day Blues man “Blind Hambone Jefferson” who sold his soul to the Devil in 2015 hoping to become famous... but things aren’t going quite as planned. You can follow the daily strip online at meandthedevilblues.com. Store: www.mojohand.

If you “JOIN” The Blues Audience FACEBOOK group page there are lots of gigs posted there as well. Thank you for your continued support.

i have been having a lot of pain in my left knee (for about 5 years) which has kept me “in” lately, but i am getting it replaced in June and hope to be back out there with you all. Please get out and keep the scene going for me while i am healing - diana


C.B. Gitty’s, the Cigar Box instrument super store, one of the the world’s leading manu-facturers, is located in Gonic, NH. Though you rarely see them for sale in mainstream music stores, over the last decade or so there has been quite an underground Cigar Box Guitar revival happening worldwide. I met the mastermind behind the Cigar Box Gitty factory about a year ago when I was taking a lunch break, from a Blues in the School residency I was doing in an alternative school located just across from CB Gitty’s. A gentleman hurrying out of the main entrance of the restored shoe factory approached me (the school is on a different floor of that building). He asked me if I had a few minutes, he introduced himself as Ben “Gitty” Baker, the proud proprietor of Cigar Box Crafter Supplies, instrument fac-tory. Well...so much for lunch. Ben took me on a tour of his store and I was as captivat-ed by the cavalcade of instruments as if I was Charley in the Chocolate Factory, being led around by Willy Wonka. Maybe “Bubba Smith” from Forest Gump would be a more fitting comparison. Just as Bubba had a 100 different shrimp dishes, Ben had funkified Cigar Box rigs, including a wide variety of assorted 3,4 and 6 string Cigar Box guitars, some fretted, some not, some instead of actual cigar boxes had for resonators, bed-pans, shovels, gas cans, mufflers...he also has a few basses, and Cigar Box ukuleles, banjos, Diddley Bows, Canjos, Cigar Box percussion instruments and even fiddles. The next thing he told me, surprised me. I was doing a BITS residency in the same old mill as my school. Ben explained that part of his interest in playing and building Cigar Box instruments came out of being lured into a workshop tent by the strange, whin-ing, and human like, singing sounds of some kind of slide instrument, several years ago, at the White Mt. Blues & Boogie Festival in Thornton, N.H. After entering the tent he saw a guy with a thin board, with an Altoids tin serving as a combined bridge and resonator (which also contained a small pickup) a single tuning peg for the 16 gauge “B” string, and a small wooden “nut” which the sting was secured on with the bridge. The player as it turned out was moi. Ben reminded me how the main stage act was playing so loud that I eventually just had to start playing my Diddly Bow slide guitar (just to those attending my show) on top of their songs. If you can’t beat’em join ‘em. Anyhow, we both got a laugh out of his reflection and I was certainly amazed by this memory of that moment. Ben also conveyed some of his official Cigar Box philosophy “I feel that in to-day’s custom, high end guitar market, the vintage guitar market and even some of the imports are way beyond what a lot of people can afford. The Cigar Box market allows almost anybody a very affordable way to own and be able to learn how to play on an inexpensive instrument without a sacrifice of sound quality. If a customer still can’t afford a pre made guitar they

have the choice to buy a kit and assemble it themselves, or buy the individual parts and build it from scratch.” I have to testify to the accuracy of that statement. I witnessed Ben build a complete 3 string Cigar Box guitar in under 30 minutes at last January’s New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar festival, right in the heart of Frenchmen St.. Ben had a good crowd of Cigar Box guitar novices, other builders, musicians and curious folks watch his nimble fingers put it together right before their eyes and then he played some oh so sweet sounds out of it, as soon as the strings were tuned and stretched. New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar festival The festival was a 3 day affair in January with a very diverse array of styles, includ-ing some very, down home country Blues by the likes of Jontavius Willis; a Folk/Blues mixed gumbo by Amazie Adams, Hot Jazz by the New Orleans Swinging Gypsies; a very polished R&B oriented set by the Stacy Mitchart Band; house rockin’ meets Cigar Box metal from Shane Speal’s Snake Oil Band and many other talented Cigar Box aficionados and musicians. A great time was had by ALL. Ben also is the publisher of the definitive on line Cigar Box group called Cigar Box Na-tion. There you can get some great insights about the history of the instruments, the current Cigar Box revival, links to a wide assortment of other players and builders, tips, listing of other Cigar Box Festivals and concerts. I speculate that Cigar Box Guitars and other Cigar Box stringed instruments (in-cluding their one string cousin the Diddley

Bow) were some of the first heard sounds of the Blues played on a stringed instrument. I first became of aware of Diddley Bow and other Cigar Box guitars after seeing Lon-nie Pitchford at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. There are some great videos of him on YouTube. I started playing them about twenty years ago. It’s over-whelmingly the favorite of most students in my Blues in the School programs. The kids especially like it when the Diddley Bow talks to them. Through my BITS sojourns to Brazil and Ghana I saw players playing a variety of 1 stringed instruments, some that looked almost indentical to some of my Diddley Bows. One player in Brazil had a three string Diddley Bow and played it with three slides on his left hand fingers. In closing, here’s a quote from Lighting Hopkin’s on the subject: “I felt the blues was in me, so I went ahead and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it… and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”

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CB Gitty and the Cigar Box Guitar Phenomena by TJ Wheeler

While I was writing my series Back to the future of the Blues, Corey Harris (Blues & related Roots Musician) gave me permission to include some of his writings from his Blog. The comments I selected were beyond the space allotted so here they are.... Some thought provoking comments indeed. - TJ Wheeler

“The blues was the voice of black people’s lives. It still is. It has never stopped evolving and changing. Whatever happened to black people, happened in the music. And since black culture is obsessively fresh, as soon as the new influ-ence became standard, a new standard was applied. Black music is that tree that is always growing. Africa is the root, the blues is the trunk and the other styles from jazz to gospel, rock n’ roll and hip-hop are the branches. Many white blues fanatics and players not only adopt the music, they adopt ‘blues’ ways of dressing and speech in a way that can seem like a trip down a memory lane that they never really knew or understand. Though black culture is fresh and innovative, what white culture is pre-senting as blues is often no more than nostalgia. As one white interviewer once told me, ‘you

recreate the old blues so well. don’t you wish you lived in nineteen thirties Mississippi?’ My answer: HELL NO... There is a tendency among white blues fans to forget that blues was a reac-tion to the brutality black people experienced daily at the hands of the white power structure. People lived and died the blues. Though there were also good times, the music was a tool to overcome oppression and depression. To put it simply, the music existed in Africa and in America long before the white man called it the blues. They just didn’t know what else to call it. In the early days, white colonials and their descendants in the United States wrote of the ‘strange’, ‘eerie’, or ‘wild’ sounds the Africans sung during work, recreation or praise. It frightened them, but they were


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JUNEF-June 3 Black Box Theater- Franklin, MA S-June 4 Theodore’s- Springfield, MA

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THE DOGHOUSE ALLSTARSFeaturing Eddie Scheer, Ricky Russell,

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EDDIE SCHEER’S TUESDAY NIGHT ALL STARSFeaturing the BEST Blues and R&B musicians from all over New England, the U.S. and the World. Every Tue 8-11:30 at The Coribb- Brighton Center, MA Great food, no cover, and you never know WHO might show up. Upcoming guests:4/5 “Last Date” w/Scotty Shetler & Bruce Millard, 4/12 John Colby, Bev Rohlehr & Chris Stovall Brown, 4/19 Big Jack Ward, Jimmy Ryan & Larry Luddecke, 4/26 Johnny Bluehorn & The Doghouse Allstars, 5/3 Cheryl Arena, Danielle Miraglia & Cheryl Aruda, Fri 5/6 Special Friday Show w/The Charles River Reprobates, 5/10 Quenby Iandorio & Friends, 5/17 International Guitar Summit w/Roberto Morbioli & Ricky “King” Russell, 5/24 Willie J. Laws & Mario Perrett, 5/31 Ken Clark, Matt Stubbs & Scotty Shetler

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S-April 2 House Party- Kingston, MASu-April 24 (Bluestones were inducted into the Rhode island Music hall of Fame on Feb 12) Ceremonies to be held on April 24 at The Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket, RI followed by performances at The Met Café.Su-April 10 Tampa Bay Blues Festival- Tampa, Florida

MAYTh-May 5 The Blues Music Awards- Memphis, TNF-May 13 New England Blues Summit- Cape Cod Resort-Hyannis, MAMay 18-20 Hawaii (Islands and venues TBA)Su-May 22 Doheny Blues Festival- Dana Point, CAS-May 28 The Bull Run- Shirley, MA The Boston Blues All-Stars- Sugar Ray & the Bluetones featuring Anthony Geraci and special guests Michelle Willson and Darrell NulishSu-May 29 (12-4) Paradise City Arts Festival- Northampton, MA

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wiLLie J. LAws, JR.S-April 2 (8) The Stomping Ground, Putnam CTSu-April 3 (4) The Villa, W. Warwick RI Willie as guest with VRBEF-April 8 (8:30) Terry O’Reilly’s Irish Pub, Newton MAS-April 9 Theodore’s Springfield MA Willie J with Diane Blue and FriendsF-April 22 (8:30) Terry O’Reilly’s Irish Pub, Newton MAS-April 30 (8) Larcom Theater- Rockin’ Blues Show with Danielle Miraglia, The Delta Generators, & Willie J Laws Band

MAYM-May 2 (7) Time Out Pub, Rockland MEF-May 6 Willie J Laws at The Knickerbocker with the All Stars- Westerly, RIS-May 7 Back Page, Lowell MASu-May 15 (4) The Villa, W. Warwick RI Willie as guest with VRBES-May 21 Theodore’s Springfield MA T-May 21 (8) The Corrib Pub, Brighton MA Willie J with Eddie’s Tuesday Night All StarsS-May 28 (8) The Tarragon Bar, Hotel Providence, Providence RI Willie J with Joe Potenza and friends

The Next Page, Weymouth MA “Therapy Thursday” with the Willie J Laws Band and

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joined by Anthony Geraci on keys Thursdays: Th-April 14 Anthony Geraci on keysTh-April 21 Sam Gentile on guitarTh-April 28 Stephen Todesco on guitar

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JULYTh- July 7 Historical Society Under the Elms- Providence, RI

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Th-April 7 (8) Bethesda Jazz & Blues Supper Club- Bethesda , MD Co-bill with John NemethF-April 8 (8) The State Theatre- Culpeper, VASu-April 10 (8) The Tin Pan- Richmond, VA F-April 22 (7) Regattabar- Cambridge, MA

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Every Sunday Chris Fitz & Steve Peobody host Sunday Funday with a who’s who of great New England guests, Brodie’s Seaport, Salem, MA

4:30-8:00*EVERY THURSDAY Chris Fitz & Steve Dineen host “Fitzy’s Acoustic Hoedown @ Jasper Hill

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attracted to it. Even the most racist slaveowner or overseer was a regular visitors to the Africans’ quarters, to listen to the music and have a ‘good time.’ Africans who could play the fiddle well were fa-vored and hired out by their masters to play for whites. These white people could still comfortably despise black people and be mesmer-ized by their music, all at the same time. This saga of attraction and repulsion, love and hate, desire and disgust, characterizes white main-stream America’s perception of black people, from colonial times to the present day. We are all free to play whatever styles we enjoy playing. Music is truly universal in the sense that all human beings respond to its language. But saying music is universal does not mean that all people feel the same piece of music in the same way. It doesn’t mean that all music is the same. Neither does it mean that anyone can play it, in the same way as those who have a blood connection to the culture. Just as a Chinese man may love to play mariachi music does not mean that it has the same meaning to him as to a Mexican.... No one is losing sleep over white people wanting to play the blues. Playing music is a good thing. Everyone may feel sad in life, but not everyone gets the blues in the same way as black folk. This does not mean that white people can’t play the blues. It simply means that it is not at all the same thing when they sing it. White blues lovers who want to sing and play in the style should stop trying to sound black. Keep it real and sing like who you are. Be true to yourself. Express yourself, not your imitation of someone from another culture. This is what true artists do. We all have a message, according to who we are. No, we are not all the same, and that is a very good thing. A white singer can never sing the same songs as a black singer and have the songs keep the same meaning. The reverse is also true. Why? Culture. Black people in America have inherited a long history of cultural progress in reac-tion to real life shit. That shit still matters. Culture and heritage is the dirt that the blues grows out of. That culture and heritage is black. The blues is black music.

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Classics of Blues Literature

W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

and Fine Clothes to the JewZora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching GodSterling Brown, Southern RoadAlbert Murray, Stomping the Blues James M. Cone, The Spirituals and the BluesDaphne Duval Harrison, Black Pearls:

Blues Queens of the 1920sAngela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism:

Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie HolidaySterling Plumpp, Blues: The Story Always Untold

J. J. Phillips, Mojo Hand: An Orphic TaleJon Michael Spencer, Blues and Evil

Houston A. Baker, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular TheoryArthur Flowers, Another Good Loving BluesSteven C. Tracy, Langston Hughes and the BluesWrite Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues ReaderSherley Anne Williams, Someone Sweet Angel ChileClarence Major, Dirty Bird BluesWalter Mosley, R.L.’s DreamLarry Neal, Visions of a Liberated Future:

Black Arts Movement Writings

For years, I have depended on an old dog-eared paperback I got back in the 1980s. It is called “Blues Who’s Who” by Sheldon Harris. More than two inches thick, this Blues Bible has every tidbit of informa-tion you’d ever need: Bios and photos of everyone (with real names), every song, and who wrote it, where and when the musicians performed, including television and radio, and more. It has vast indexes by song, author, club – you name it. So I was pleased to see this book and its author included in the list of 2015 in-ductees into the new Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis. It’s in a category called “Classics of Blues Literature” (who knew, right?) and there are 40 titles listed. Some are famil-iar: “Deep Blues” by Robert Palmer, “Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters” by Robert Gordon and “The Land Where the Blues Began” by Alan Lomax. Of course, one can’t have a list of “best” or “hall of famers” in Blues (or many other things, for that matter) without controversy – especially involving the Blues Foundation and the Hall of Fame, and this was no ex-ception. The list sparked some heated social media discussion. It began with a Facebook essay by Adam Gussow, a harp player formerly of Satan (Mississippi-born Sterling Magee) and Adam, a really great duo who for years busked on the streets of Harlem. Now, Adam is a pro-fessor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and he teaches a course called “The Blues Tradition in Ameri-can Literature.” He is a darn good writer.Well, Adam and Sistah had the same reac-tion to the list of classic Blues literature, but he put it in much nicer words than mine. Here’s part of Adam’s essay: “My problem isn’t with who is on the list—although one might argue, perhaps, that (Peter) Guralnick, with four books, and (Paul) Oliver, with three, are over-represent-ed. My problem is with who and what, is not there. The moment I began meditating on that question, the list began to look not just creaky and quirky, but intellectually dis-honest and profoundly unjust. But perhaps the phrase “intellectually dishonest” is too harsh. Perhaps the various Blues Founda-tion committee members who have voted on Classics of Blues Literature for the past

33 years just don’t know the full extent of the Blues literary tradition, and therefore have no idea how unrepresentative and inadequate their list looks to somebody who does.” Adam then wrote two or three lists of his own on what Blues books he recommends, taken from his course syllabuses. So, I took a look at his first list, and did not recognize any of them except Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” which I read years ago with great difficulty as it is written in dialect. (The list is in a separate sidebar.) I decided to start from the top with W.C. Handy’s autobiography, “Father of the Blues,” published in 1941. It was not easy to find, but OMG what a wealth of information from a primary source. Handy was performing and writing music at the turn of the last century and practically witnessed firsthand the beginnings of what we know as Blues, although when I listen to his music, including the famous “St. Louis Blues,” it sure don’t sound like what I call Blues. (It reminds me of background music to early Mickey Mouse cartoons...Ragtime.) Ever hear that story about how Handy, a trumpet player, bandleader, songwriter, and music publisher, heard his first Delta Blues as he dozed while waiting for a train? I recall something about that from when I visited the W.C. Handy Museum on Beale Street, but here it is in his own words: “A lean, loose-jointed Negro had com-menced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags, his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unfor-gettable. His song, too, struck me instantly: “Goin’ where the Southern cross the Dog.”The singer repeated the line three times, ac-companying himself on the guitar with the weirdest music I had ever heard. The tune stayed in my mind.” And the rest is history. If you really love Blues, get this book. It takes you back in time by someone who was there—and even earlier as Handy recounts stories from his slave-born parents. None of that music from the 1800s has ever been recorded. At one point, Handy describes meeting with Thomas Edison himself for a recording, but Edison hated the music. He preferred classical. The book has all kinds of expressions we’ve all heard but didn’t know what they meant, along with stories about places we’ve been.

OK, back to the present. There’s some bittersweet news about the Boston-based band Juke Joint Five.Singer and co-founder Gretchen Bostrom has de-cided to ease out of the band over the next few months. Her place will be taken by Lisa Marie. Gretchen said on Facebook (what would we do without FB?) that the split, after eight years, is amicable. She wants to move on, per-form and do different things under her own name. Her final show with the JJ5 will be in June, so catch that if you want to see the last performance of a great band. Gretchen asks that those who want to keep up to date with her shows should “like” her FB music page and sign up for her email list at face-book.com/gretchenbostrommusic. John Bunszell, the band’s bass player is also leaving, to travel his own path.Not to worry, says Dick “The Poet” Lourie, the band’s sax man. “The band is changing, growing, and still intent on bringing you our music,” he said. (Very poetic.)


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a record. “He said, ‘Oh, Suuure,’ probably thinking that nothing was going to come out of it. “So I got working on it and got Rounder Records (of Cambridge, MA) to agree to put it out.” The band included drummer Neil Gouvin, bassist Marty Ballou, Rob Nelson on guitar, myself, Rich Lataille from Roomful, “Sax”Gordon Beadle, Doug James on sax , the late Bob Enos of Roomful on trumpet, Matt McCabe on piano and Carl on trombone. Jimmy had written a few tunes for the record, and he also brought Clarence Hollimon to the sessions because they had been working together for a few years. “Clarence was such a wonderful guy. He took care of Jimmy (he had diabetes and wasn’t really taking care of himself), and they were quite a pair to be seen together. Clarence was a little skinny guy and Jimmy was about 6’ and about 250 pounds. Clarence might have been in his early 70s and Jimmy was 5 or 6 years older. Clarence had been a session guitarist for Peacock Records in Houston in the late ‘50s early ‘60s and played with all the greats including Bobby “Blue” Bland and Little Junior Parker. “We ended up doing a 3 records with Jimmy rOckin’ anD shOutin’ the Blues, take yOur pick, and the legenD and he was excited to be recording again. Unfortunately, Clarence died between the first and the second albums,” Querfurth said. The third record was recorded at Duke’s Mood Room Studio with Duke on guitar and Sugar Ray on harp. Querfurth said, “After the T-99 records, I sort of kept floating doing local gigs with with Sugar Ray or Rob Nelson and Loaded Dice or Roger Ceresi’s All Stars and some recording. Then Doug (James) gave me a call and asked me if I wanted to come out and do some gigs with Jimmie Vaughan in about 2012. “At the same time, a friend of mine who is a sax player in R.I., (Klem Klimeck who was playing with NRBQ), said NRBQ also wanted me. So I went to rehearsal with Terry Adams and started working with them and J.V. Well after nearly a year of working on both coasts with Vaughan and NRBQ I realized I was back on the road, which was not where I wanted to be, Querfurth said. “I’d do 2 nights in Canada, then fly home and do 2 to 3 nights with NRBQ, plus doing some other local stuff … then fly back again to do more gigs with Jimmie … I was totally exhausted and it was driving me insane. “So I told Jimmie I had to let it go… and I told Terry that I could only do New England dates. And that was OK with him. “And that brings us up to date. I’ve been recording a lot and subbing with Roomful off an on with the Mystic Horns and that’s been great. I’m hoping that I can keep that balance going for a while. It’s a juggling act but it’s working for me,” “I moved up here to Jaffrey, New Hampshire and my wife and I have some land. So I want to do some farming… planting apple trees, growing vegetables, and planting some hops for beer… and trying to live off the grid. “Ultimately, I’ll just drop out altogether, grow my own food, and live like a hermit.” Hardly. Sooner or later Carl, that lyrical road will beckon you to do what you do best. Plus, you’ve got some unfinished business to attend to with those dusty tapes in your root cellar.


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B L u e s B i r t h d a y s

1 Charlie Patton 1891 Alberta Hunter 18954 Muddy Waters 19155 Doug Fulton 1928 Paul Benjamin 19536 Big Walter Horton 19177 Billie Holiday 19158 Lil’ Ed Williams 195510 John Brim 1922 Tom Sanders 1953 Bitty McLellan 198011 Mrs. Lucy C. Shonk Luther “Gtr. Jr.” Johnson Nadine Inez Purdy12 Hound Dog Taylor 1917 Markita Johnson 1986 Max Rosenblatt 198815 Bessie Smith 1894 Mighty Sam McClain 1943 Skip Philbrick 1953 Frank Frost 193616 Johnny Littlejohn 1931 Memphis Piano Red 1905 TJ Wheeler 1952 Steve Jacobs 195417 Shemekia Copeland 197918 Clarence Gatemouth Brown Poor Howard Stith Robert Otis Doncaster

Steve Ramsay 195420 Gary Primich 195821 Paul Geremia 194424 Miss Honey 195125 Albert King 192326 Ma Rainey 1886 J.B. Hutto 1929 Johnny Shines 1915 Maggie McLellan 198627 Hop Wilson28 Buddy Guy 194129 Lefty Diz 1937 Otis Rush 1934 Scotty Monette Bronson Shonk 199030 Rev Gary Davis 1896 Homesick James 1910 Lonnie Shields 1956

MAY1 Ada Brown 1890 Big Maybell 1924 Little Walter Jacobs2 Doug Aborn 19564 Eddie Campbell 19395 Blind Willie McTell 1901 Sonny Parker 1925 Diane Blue6 Homer Harris 1916

7 Bumble Bee Slim 1905 Kansas City Red 19268 Robert Johnson 1911 Willie J. Laws9 A.C. Reed 1920 Bob Margolin 1949 Jon Ross 195510 Maurice John Vaughn Greg Piccolo 195111 Mudcat Ward 195412 Donald Kinsey 1953 James Montgomery13 Magic Dick 194514 Grady Gaines 193417 Taj Mahal 194016 Cleveland Chenier 1921 Johnny Nicholas 1948 Doug Woolverton 198118 Big Joe Turner 1911 B. A. Hedin 194819 Jimmy Thachery 195321 John Allgood 1955 Phil Monica 194725 Rusty Corson 197228 T-Bone Walker 1910 Karen Nugent Papa John Creach 1917 Peter M. Shonk, Jr. 195429 Ron Levy 1951

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