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Joe Louis Walker Celebrates Alligator Debut with Philadelphia Performances

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 18, 2012

Award-winning guitar slinger, passionate vocalist and gifted songwriter Joe Louis Walker, currently celebrating the release of his Alligator Records debut, Hellfire, will perform at Warmdaddy's in Philadelphia on Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18, 2012. The Wall Street Journal celebrates Hellfire's “appealing immediacy" and says, “Walker's raspy, powerhouse voice is out front while his stinging guitar cuts through the uncluttered arrangements." Walker has been releasing groundbreaking music since 1986 and has toured — and continues to tour — worldwide. ...

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Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform at Sellersville (PA) Theater

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 15, 2012

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr. - along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco - is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Friday, August 3, 2012. Their latest release (and Alligator Records debut) is the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your Burden Down. This is Buckwheat Zydeco's first Grammy win (the band had five previous Grammy nominations). Louisiana vocalist, accordion and organ master Dural recorded Lay Your ...

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Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials Celebrate New Release in Wilmington on August 3

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 14, 2012

Alligator recording artists Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials will celebrate the release of their new Alligator CD, Jump Start, with a live performance at the Riverfront Blues Festival in Wilmington on Friday, August 3, 2012. Mixing smoking slide guitar boogies and raw-boned Chicago shuffles with the deepest slow-burners, Lil' Ed Williams and his rip-roaring Blues Imperials — bassist James Pookie" Young, guitarist Mike Garrett and drummer Kelly Littleton — deliver gloriously riotous, rollicking and intensely emotional blues. Currently celebrating ...

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Rick Estrin & the Nightcats Celebrate New Release in Morrisville, PA

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 14, 2012

Sacramento-based rocking blues masters Rick Estrin & The Nightcats will celebrate the release of their new Alligator CD, One Wrong Turn, with a live performance at the 30th Annual R&B Picnic in Morrisville on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Harmonica icon/vocalist/songwriter Rick Estrin, along with The Nightcats — jaw-dropping guitarist Chris “Kid" Andersen, singing drummer (who plays standing up) J. Hansen and dynamic multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Farrell (electric and acoustic bass, organ and piano) — serve up fresh and modern original blues ...

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Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Camden, NJ

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 13, 2012

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances." — The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr. - along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco - is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform as part of the Sunset Jazz Music Series at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden on Tuesday, July 17, ...

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Brazilian Singer Luisa Maita on Tour

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 13, 2012

Brazilian siren Luisa Maita is returning to North America with her signature mix of samba, alternative pop and downtempo electronica. Hailed by NPR as “The New Voice of Brazil," Luísa Maita will be previewing new material from her forthcoming album to be released in early 2012. Luisa Maita has been busy since the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Lero-Lero on Cumbancha Discovery in 2010. In 2011 Luisa won the Best New Artist award at the Brazilian Music Awards, the ...

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Jazz This Week: Good 4 the Soul, Sandy Weltman, a Benefit for Stacy Johnson, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 13, 2012

Ready to hear some live jazz this weekend in St. Louis? Well, it's been a hectic week here at StLJN HQ, the result being that this post is going to be a rather minimal names-days-and-places kind of thing, without much in the way of additional commentary or recommendation. Since all the touted gigs involve St. Louis musicians, there shouldn't be a whole lot of introductions needed, but as always, links back to the artists' sites are provided whenever available. Now, ...

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Sonny Rollins Reschedules St. Louis Concert to Saturday, June 22, 2013

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 12, 2012

St. Louis jazz fans who are eagerly anticipating another chance to hear the man known as the “Saxophone Colossus" will have to wait a bit longer. Jazz St. Louis has announced that saxophonist Sonny Rollins (pictured) has rescheduled his performance at the Touhill Performing Arts Center from Friday, October 12 of this year to Saturday, June 22, 2013. JSL executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford said that Rollins requested the date change so that he could get a bit more time ...

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