BLUES FESTIVALS in the April/May 2012
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The Ten Foot Polecats

(rollover image for a little
Jim Chillson action)

I was delighted to see the
Ten Foot Polecats at Memphis BBQ and Blues in Milford, NH. They play a driving, mesemerizing form of Blues! Their heros are
T-Model Ford, RL Burnside and the Hill Country Blues artists.
They are a cross between North Mississippi Hill Country Blues and Punk Blues. Hillgrass Bluebilly is the record label they are on from Austin Texas.
It is easier to understand when you see a video clip, check them out on their web page:

click here:Ten Foot Polecats

The 2011 Readers Poll
winners are announced!!!
The Readers have spoken
click on this link

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The Blues Audience radio show is on
Thursdays 4-6pm
at Keene State College-Keene, NH
with your host,
Diana Shonk
on air phone:
603-358-8863
on WKNH 91.3FM click here

Live events calendar from
The Blues Audience newsletter

Want me to play
your Blues cd?
I'll give it a listen.

Send it to me.
See the play list 2009
play list 2006-2007
play list 2005

The Blues Audience,
a nominating
and voting member
of The Blues Foundation.

Want some cool
Blues club gear?
A tiny Lady Honer harmonica, on a rope necklace with some lovely beads to adorn itclick on the image to order.

SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC
call your friends, get out of the house
go to a club near you and
enjoy some live Blues music
it is good for your soul!!!

Congratulations to the musicians who were voted Outstanding in their fields by the readers of The Blues Audience newsletter December 2011!
(Click to go to the readers poll page)

Nostalgia, The Speakeasy (article link)

BBQ Bob Maglinte, Rosy and Peter Goff in the Speakeasy.
Photos by Mary Rosenblatt.

Photo above is Jack, the door man. I remember thinking that he was so much older than me. One night he lent me TOM LEHRER record and when I was walking home that night (I lived right up the street from the Speakeasy) I got chased by a young man in the dark of night and I remember thinking I HAD to outrun him because the only thing I had to defend myself with was that record and Jack had just lent it to me. I ran as fast as I could and took an unanitcipated right and flew up the stairs to my apartment and had my key in the door and was in so dam fast, he just kept running past. Phew!

The Speakeasy on Norfolk St., Cambridge, MA.
Rosy Rosenblatt's wife Mary sent me
pictures from the late 1970s. It was a great issue,
Peter Ward wrote the article.
This picture is Pau,l T-Blade and Billy Mather Remember that photo in the background of "Cleopatra?"

Click on the t-shirt
to see more detail.