I’m not sure how long I’ve known James, probably somewhere between 25-30 years. I first met James when Frank Pellegrino hired him to play with us at the Monday night blues jam at the Kingston Mines. He was not particularly…
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James Wheeler
Tagged with: blues, harlan terson, James Wheeler, Otis Rush, Rosa's Lounge
Posted in Thoughts on the State of the Blues
Posted in Thoughts on the State of the Blues
40 Years of Misspent Musicianship (or, I Fool Around With Matches and Dynamite)
I came across this recently. It’s an old article, but I’ve encountered this person’s editorializing before. http://racetraitor.org/blues.html (an interesting concept in itself) Go ahead and check it out. Did you? Are you back? Alright, then. Things have changed in the last…
Tagged with: blues controversy, harlan terson, white blues
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Posted in Thoughts on the State of the Blues
To Hell and Back
Home sweet home. After 14 hours of travel on three planes, I get to finally unwind. Good thing after not sleeping well for four nights in Hell. Hell, Norway, that is, a very lovely little town near Trondheim. Nice blues…
A week in the life of a working musician
I played last night at the Sin City Blues & Soul Revival in Las Vegas with my old friend, singer extraordinaire Tad Robinson. Tad told me this joke once: “How do you get a musician to complain? Give him a…
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Shawn Pittman
I had the pleasure last Thursday of doing a gig with my friend, drummer Jon Hiller, and his friend, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Shawn Pittman. Shawn is from Oklahoma, and currently resides in Austin. The gig was for Friends Of The Blues in…
Harlan Lee Terson 