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** Movinmusic Newsletter Number 22 January 2006 **
Hello everyone, and welcome to the twenty-second Movinmusic Blues Agency Newsletter. This newsletter contains information about:
Sherman Robertson New CD on MP3 download sites
Ashwyn Smyth Gigs in February
Mike Sanchez gigs in January
Cadillac Kings and Big Joe Louis
James Hunter Band at Southport Arts Centre
** Sherman Robertson New CD on MP3 download sites**
Sherman Robertson's latest CD "Guitar Man - Live" is now up on two MP3 dowload sites - TuneTribe and Karma Download for those of you with iPods and MP3 players and who are into downloading their music.
Check out his TuneTribe page here:
http://www.tunetribe.com/Artist?artist_id=12181
or check out his Karma Download pages here:
http://www.karmadownload.com/artist/?30489
Paul Jones played his first track "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" from the new album last month stating that "Guitar Man - Live is VERY VERY good indeed" - Paul Jones BBC Radio 2 15/12/05 and he continued to say how impressed he was with BluesMove as well.
A new Sherman Robertson and BluesMove studio CD is now being developed.?We'll keep you updated on this project on our site and on this newsletter as the news comes in.
Check him out at:
http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/sherman_robertson.htm
** Ashwyn Smyth Gigs in February **
Our old friend, Ashwyn Smyth has just sent us through the following information about a series of gigs that he’ll be running in February in Essex called - PhoenixFM Blues Nights at Pam’s Bar, Brentwood
To coincide with PhoenixFM, Brentwood & Billericay's local radio station, forthcoming RSL, Ashwyn Smyth, presenter of the station's acclaimed Digital Blues shows which are going out live every Wednesday in February between 8 & 10 p.m. on PhoenixFM, is promoting some top class Blues Nights at Pam’s Bar at the Essex Arms, Warley Hill, Brentwood. These will take place each Friday in February with doors at 08.45 and music from 9.00 p.m. and the line-up has now been confirmed as follows:
Friday 3rd February
The Incredible Blues Puppies
A relatively new band but comprised of four highly experienced musicians with an unmatchable pedigree - Alan Glen (Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero, the Barcodes, Little Axe), Dino Coccia (Larry Garner, James Carr, Tutu Jones, the Barcodes), John O’eilly, (the Blues Engineers, the Big Town Playboys, Sugar Blue) and Jim Mercer (Paul Lamb & the Kingsnakes, the Muddy Waters Band, Pinetop Perkins). With an excellent CD, Puppy Fat? just released on Note-Records, this is the band debut appearance in Essex and promises to be a really great evening.
Friday 10th February
The Sonny Black Band
Sonny Black was one of the sensations of last year’s Digital BluesFest and has been voted guitarist of the year, again & again. Sonny makes a very welcome return to Essex to lead his band - Peter Catlin on guitar, Henk Leerink on bass and Stuart Marshall on drums - through an exquisite set ranging from slow blues to shuffles and rockier numbers without doubt one of the finest blues guitar players in the country, Sonny Black is well known for the subtlety and skill of his approach to blues guitar as well as his fine band.?(Boogaloo Promotions) 'Not only is his technical mastery of both acoustic and electric instruments complete, he also possesses that quality that can only be called blues soul.' Blueprint.
Friday 17th February
Sam Kelly Station House
Sam Kelly Station House are a superb, relatively new band featuring the inimitable Root Jackson on vocals with bass player Spy, TJ Johnson on guitar, the virtuoso young keyboard player Paul Jobson and multi award-winning drummer and band leader Sam Kelly. A knock-out band and a sensational blues experience with Caribbean influences who have just released an excellent CD and are rightly creating quite a stir wherever they play. '... Let's be honest, if you've got Sam Kelly at the back and Root Jackson at the front you can't really go wrong!'? Blues in Britain January 2005.
Friday 24th February
The Essex Delta Blues Revue
To round off this short series of gigs, two of the top bands in Essex
combine for a unique show which is more than the sum of its parts. Described as a seamless musical journey through country, roots, blues, soul, rock & funk, the revue features the multi Digital Blues award winning Rockin?Armadillos and the sensational Swamp Cats there’s never been a blues-roots show quite like this?.don’t miss it!?
Full details can be found at www.digitalblues.co.uk or www.phoenixfm.com
** Mike Sanchez gigs in January **
Yet again Mike Sanchez is out on the road around the UK. Here are his public gigs in January:
Friday 13th - Mike Sanchez & Al Gare (Duo) - Gloucestershire - Painswick Blues Club, Painswick, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire www.painswickblues.co.uk
Saturday 14th - Mike Sanchez and his Band - Gloucestershire - Painswick Blues Club, Painswick, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire www.painswickblues.co.uk
Thursday 19th - Mike Sanchez and the Portions - Swindon - Swindon Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town, Swindon, SN1 4BJ Tel: 01793 614837 email: [email protected] http://www.swindon.gov.uk/artsandculture/arts ...
Saturday 21st - Mike Sanchez and his Band – Co Durham - Mickleton Blues Club, Mickleton, Co Durham Box Office: 01833 640854 email: [email protected]
Monday 23rd - Mike Sanchez (Solo) - Forest Of Dean - The Miners Arms, Whitecroft, Lydney, Glos GL15 4PE 01594-562483 email: [email protected] http://www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/
Click here for more info on Mike Sanchez:
www.movinmusic.co.uk/mike_sanchez.htm or www.mikesanchez.co.uk
** Cadillac Kings and Big Joe Louis **
The Cadillac Kings will be playing a couple of gigs in January on of which features another Movinmusic artist – Big Joe Louis. See them at:
Saturday 21st - Norden Farm Arts Centre, Maidenhead, Berkshire 01628 788 997 http://www.nordenfarm.org/
Tuesday 24th - Charlies, 9 Crosswall, London EC3 (Plus Big Joe Louis!) 020 8363 0948
Click here for more info on the Cadillac Kings:
www.movinmusic.co.uk/cadillac_kings.htm or www.cadillackings.co.uk
Click here for more info on Big Joe Louis:
http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/big_joe_louis.htm
**James Hunter Band at Southport Arts Centre**
The wonderfully soulful James Hunter and his Band are making a rare UK appearance at the Southport Arts Centre on January the 21st. James will be spending much of 2006 in America to support the release on March 7th of his long awaited new album: 'People Gonna Talk' so this is a very rare UK appearance for this year.
Click here for more info on James Hunter:
http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/jameshunt.htm
Click here for more info on the Southport Arts Centre:
http://www.seftonarts.co.uk/
** Next Month's Newsletter **
Next month’s newsletter will contain more info on our forthcoming tours and much more.
Enjoy!
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