Back from a week away from my Thursday morning Breakfast with the blues show. I’d like to give Chef Gail & Boogie King Steve a big thanks for filling in for me. I’m sure that they did me proud with a marvelous blues show! I was lucky enough to truck it over to Joseph, OR and catch the Bronze, Brews & Blues festival there. It was a great experience in a beautiful setting. Joseph and the surrounding areas are visually stunning. We camped at the Wallowa State campground at the base of Mt Howard and it was a very nice relaxing time. I think anyone who is into blues music and likes living in Oregon should head on over and check out the festival. I wouldn’t recommend driving over just for the festival, because it is 440 miles from Eugene, but you plan it right it can be a lot of fun. We loaded up my 1975 VW bus and headed out on Thursday, made a stop in Hood River for some golf. Stopped in Pendleton and slept in a tee-pee. Got up Friday morning and had a great breakfast buffet at the Wildhorse Casino (yeah we were roughing it), played another round of golf. Then headed on over the hill to Joseph and pulled into camp around 6.
One of the highlights of the festival was getting to see the Ty Curtis Band in that setting. They put on a good show, with a great mix of music and I’m sure that they won over some new fans. Other highlights of the festival was The Strangetones. They stoled the show for me, what a cool band, with great original tunes and a tight choreographed performance. Too Slim and the Taildraggers had to endure a bad sound system experience, but worked their way through that and put on a good show for a waning but very enthusiastic crowd. A very good time!
This morning’s show started off basic enough with Albert Collins tied in with Coco Montoya and Debbie Davis. And as usual I weaved my way through some new stuff, a couple old classics and everything in between. I was happy to play Jimmy Rogers’ classic (one of the best all time blues songs) “That’s all right”, and BB King’s often covered but always good “Rock me baby”, done quite nicely by Mighty Joe Young. Tune in next week and check it out, because it my job to make our community a better place “one song at a time”.
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Albert Collins / Lights are on but nobody’s home
Coco Montoya / Running away from love
Debbie Davies / Room with a view
EG Kight / Roses & Promises
Curtis Salgado / 20 years of BB King
BB King / The thrill is gone
Big bill Broonzy / Ridin’ on down
Eden Brent / Darkness on the delta
Cepas & Wiggins / Mamie
Zora Young / Bus station blues
Otis Span / Green flowers
James Harman / The twins
James Harman / Dirt road
The Strangetones / Kathryn’s style
The Strangetones / That’s how we roll
Ty Curtis / Treat me this way
Chris James & Patrick Ryan / Got to move
Ford Blues Band / One more heartache
Hollywood Blueflames / Jo Angelyn
EG Kight / Sugar
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan / Jimmy Reed Highway
Catherine Russell / Don’t care who knows
Johnny B Moore / Walking the streets
Jimmy Rogers / That’s all right
Mighty Joe Young / Rock me baby
Janiva Magness / Every dog has his day
Too Slim & the Taildraggers / Doghouse
Chris Cain / Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
Canned Heat Stranger Blues
Canned Heat / Terraplane blues
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