Hey, hello there everybody and welcome to another BluzNdaBlood Show! I appreciate you listening
once again to the show! This is Show #112 and behind the mic once again is your Brutha Dave Harrison
beaming the blues to you from the Star City of Virginia!

Well….. Get ready for another great show! Show #112 is called “Blind Raccoon Blues” and is highlighting
the upcoming “Roots & Blues Showcase” taking in place in Memphis TN coinciding with the International
Blues Challenge! Betsie from Blind Raccoon has put together a super lineup and I’ve decided to give
everyone a little sneak preview of the great music that youll hear if you attend! If you can’t attend, well I’ve
have hyperlinks on the BluzNdaBlood web site so you can go out and buy this great music! The “Roots and
Blues Showcase” is Thursday February 3^rd and 4^th and is happening at two great blues venues,
The Rum Boogie Café and King’s Palace! Both are right on Beale Street! We’ll be hearing a tune from
every single artist that’s on the lineup and you’re in for a real treat for a great variety of blues….

We started off our show with the one of those artists. That was David Gerald with his tune called “Postman”
off of his Hell and Back CD!  We’ll hear another tune from David again! That was just to get ya started!

 

 

So who else is gonna be providing us some great Blind Raccoon Blues & Roots music on
today’s show? Well I’ve 11 more great tunes for ya! We’ll hear from Grand Marquis, David Gerald,
the Delta Flyers, Kirsten Thien, Paul Thorn, Tas Cru, Levee Town, John-Alex Mason, the
Jason King Band, Joe Pitts, and wrapping up the show with Phil Gates! So…. Are you ready
from some “Blind Raccoon Blues”? Well, I hope so! Crank it up my friends, we’re off and running!

 Our first set started off with a band called Grand Marquis. They’ve got that great jumpin’ blues
and swinging jazz sound! That was “Good Rockin’ Tonight” from their brand new CD called
Hold On To Me.  They also are the 2010 Topeka Blues Society winner of their IBC challenge
winner! They’ll start the Blind Raccoon Roots & Blues Showcase at The Rum Boogie on Thursday
February 3^rd and will be playing from 11:45 am until 12:30 pm. Following Grand Marquis, you heard
David Gerald again with his cover of “I’ll Play The Blues For You” once again from his Hell and Back
CD. David will start cranking his tunes out from 12:45 pm until 1:30 pm. At 1:45 pm, The Delta Flyers
will be jamming their butts with their original acoustic Delta blues music! We were just treated to
their tune “Baby Jane” off of their Soulbilly Records CD, Sixteen Bars. Alright, let’s start off our
second set with Kirsten Thien singing “Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues”…

 

That two song second set hopefully is giving you a great idea of how good the Blind Raccoon Roots & Blues Showcase is gonna be! The attractive New Yorker Kirsten Thien opened that set with the Ida Cox tune “Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues” from her Screen Door Record CD Delicious! She’ll be at Rum Boogie on Thursday from 2:45 pm until 3:30 pm. The very humorous Paul Thorn will be playing and story telling as the last show on Thursday at Rum Boogie. He plays from 3:45 pm until 4:30 pm. The song I played “Turnip Greens” is one that I played a few years ago when I promoted him being at a local festival that was near. I liked the tune and thought it gave a little insight into Paul. But make sure to listen to his Pimps and Preachers CD that’s the Perpetual Obscurity Record label…. And that wraps up a very busy and full Thursday of Blind Raccoon Roots & Blues! Let’s listen to the artist that’ll start things off on Friday, Tas Cru!
Our third full set is also a great one! The third set started with the song “Eau De Nother Man”, a very creative story and song by the “master of the triple entendre” from up-state New York, Tas Cru, from the Crustee Tees Label CD, Jus’ Desserts. He starts off Friday at Rum Boogie from 12:45 pm until 1:30 pm. From 1:45 pm until 2:30 pm Levee Town will be rocking the house! We heard a sample of their Kansas City house rockin’ Americana blues called “KC Killa” off their self titled CD, Levee Town. Wrapping up the Friday performances at the Rum Boogie is gonna be John-Alex Mason playing from 2:45 until 3:30 pm. You heard his tune “My Old Lonesome Home” that can be found on his Naked Jailbird Music CD called Jook Joint Thunderclap. Our final set will provide samples from three other artists that will be playing Friday afternoon, but not at the Rum Boogie! These great artists will be playing at the same time Friday but at King’s Palace on Beale! So hopefully, if you’re going you can compare these folks and decide which direction to go! Let’s start off with The Jason King Band!
The last set of this Blind Raccoon’s Blues show started off with the Jason King Band playing “My Little Baby” which can be found on the Hip Rox Music CD called Blue Skies & Black Shoes. They will be starting up the Friday show at King’s Palace. Following them, we heard “Crosseyed Cat” from Joe Pitts. It’s just one great tune off his Kijam Records Cd called Ten Shades of Blue. He made a special note of making sure all of his music was recorded analog. No computer manipulation was done to the music. And I quote, “Like all of our stuff, this album is better than perfect… because it’s real.” And wrapping up the show is Phil Gates playing a great instrumental called “Road Shufflin’” off of his Addicted To The Blues CD. He plays from 2:45 until 3:30 pm on Friday! Just to let you know there will be two Masters of Ceremonies for this event, James “The Blues Hound” Nagel from KPFT in Houston and my friend Brett Fleming from WEVL in Memphis. Thanks, guys!

Special thanks to Betsie at Blind Raccoon for the Blues & Roots Showcase and for making this
show possible!

Well, that wraps up Show #112!! Please show your support by following the hyperlinks here and
buy this great music. Or go out and see them live and tell them that you heard their music on the
BluzNdaBlood Show, Your first stop for the best of the blues!

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Finally, the International Blues Challenge is coming up soon! It’s being held all over
Beale Street in Memphis on February 1^st through the 5^th!  Join me in the fun but if you’re
not a member yet, consider becoming a member of The Blues Foundation! Go on out to
http://blues.org and become a member today! And tell them you were referred to by the
BluzNdaBlood Show!

So until next time, this is your Brutha Dave Harrrison reminding you to keep the blues alive
and keep the blues in the blood!

Dave