The Blues

Sure check out The Big Easy, on Kirby, and listen on Sunday to KPFT 90.1FM for a Blues calendar of other live events, it's probably posted on the website as "Blueshound" James Nagle and his wife are old buddies of mine.

The Shakespear's Pub out on Memorial drive is the other live venue that constantly books live blues artists.

Sometimes my buds at the Continental Club on South Main, also.

There's a Houston Blues Society, find that website...they meet monthly at the Big Easy!

Alan Haynes
Texas Johnny Brown
Pete Mays
Luther and the Healers
Earl Gillium
Lil' Joe Washington
Carolyn Wonderland

Any of those would be good local acts to catch!

Oh, also Rice University Radio 91.7FM has a KICKIN' show on Wednesday nights "Blues in Hi-Fi"....find out the time. 8PM????
Whoever is programming that is most excellent, and reaches WAY back for some vintage stuff...Classic!

KTSU 90.9FM from Texas Southern University campus will sometimes mix some blues artists in to the mainly Jazz programming.

Or just come by my house we'll spin some stuff!

 

Aren't we suppose to be getting a House of Blues?

 

http://www.hob.com/venues/clubvenues/houston/pr/

I would have thought it opened some time ago but i guess not, the Dallas HoB opened for business last year & went up quite fast.

 

Nope, nothing yet..you know how construction goes.

They closed the Blues Club on Richmond but the big DaddyO Wade saxophone is still there!

 

Always lots of stuff going on in Austin. You can see Alan Haynes here too. Or chill at the Continental Club. Just check out www.auschron.com when the date comes up.

 

we need a trip to new orleans ... i remember sitting in the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon watching this blind guy tear it up .... this was back in 1990 and the guy is STILL around doing it..

check him out... he actually comes to Conroe a few times a year for some reason.. i just saw him about a month ago there.
http://www.braillebluesdaddy.com/schedule_dates.html

 

Jay...you are in luck...

Texas Johnny Brown is Friday at the Big Easy. One of Houston's finest gentlemen of the Blues on his big hollow bodied Gibson.

Then Saturday is Alan Haynes.........probably one of the finest we have left playing the Stratocaster since SRV went down...he can do a crowd walk thru the dancers', sit down next to your girlfriend.....say "how ya'll doin'???" and never miss a beat. Then he'll grab an empty long neck from the table and use it for the next slide passage! LOL!

I forgot to mention Anson Funderburg out of Fort Worth. He lost Sam Meyers as his vocalist sadly but he's smokin' on the Strat as well.

I heard on KTSU yesterday Calvin Owens passed??? He was a GIANT in the Houston scene...RIP.

 

Yep, he died yesterday.....that's a shame...Google the Chronicle obit for a great story of a blues/jazz giant from Houston.

 

Sorry I missed it I was commited to the Billy Joe Shaver show at the Firehouse...ended up a big catfight with me and Lady Valeria and the folks that's freeloading on her, what was she THINKING, putting them at our table???

Long story short, I was THIS CLOSE the whole night to heading over to catch Alan Haynes, but made it thru to the end.

After I left, the whole family went over for photos and autographs and her Mom fell off the table bench, crashing to the ground.
At least at the Firehouse you know there's always a good EMT close by...LOL!

She's fine, but not the kind of thing you want in a 72 y.o. with a brand new $$$$$$ knee replacement....