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a mini festival in the works
a mini festival in the works
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waltertore
1400 posts
Jun 15, 2011
9:32 AM
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Hi everyone: I am working on putting on a mini festival in our yard tenatively on the first saturday in august. I had talked with Adam a while back about doing a 1 man band festival in our yard, but it would be too much work for me. What spurred this is a friend, Lewis Cowdrey, is coming to visit, record, and gig a bit with me. There is no stress on this one. Just let the locals know, post it on a few forums, and get down to playing music. It will have me in the 1 man band format, and a full band set up as well. Lewis is one of the original founders of the austin blues scene. His band, Storm, featured a who's who of the austin legends. Hopefully I will have a few other musical luminaries there as well. Our yard is on 3/4 of an acre that is nice grass and surrounded by trees. There will be no charge but I will have a tip bucket out to help Lewis defray his travel costs. More to come as things get more solidified.
Lewis is a world class harp/vocalist/guitarist/band leader. Here is some info on him.
Texas Blues Legend Lewis Cowdrey has been living in Wichita, Kansas for several years and playing locally. The Lewis Cowdrey story will be in an upcoming issue of REAL BLUES. Lewis was based in L.A. in 1968 leading a Black Blues band featuring Pee Wee Crayton. He also worked with Johnny Otis on a belated recording project before returning to Lubbock where he met a young woman who admired his record collection (Angela Strehli). Lewis also was co-founder of STORM, a legendary Austin, Texas Blues band that boasted Denny Freeman, Jimmie Vaughn, Keith Ferguson and W.C. Clark. He has also played with many of the blues greats like jimmy reed, otis rush, eddie taylor, albert collins, lightning hopkins, etc. His 1994 CD on Antone’s, “It’s Lewis,” is probably the Best Texas Blues release of the last 25 years. Unfortunately for Lewis, it was so good that it caused politics/jealousy to work against his career. It’s a topic not too many musicians are willing to talk about but when you have an Artist that’s so Great that he makes others feel/look 'less-than' the ugly side of Human Nature rears its' head...so despite the reluctance of certain people to help us find Lewis, we found him anyway. And, if we can turn the Blues World onto this incredibly talented, charismatic and AUTHENTIC Bluesman then everybody wins, right ?
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,800+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 15, 2011 10:32 AM
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Jim Rumbaugh
518 posts
Jun 15, 2011
9:57 AM
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I have marked my calendar, I hope to be there.
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The WV State Harmonica Championship at The Diamond Teeth Mary Blues Festival Aug 27th & 28th 2011, Huntington,WV
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waltertore
1401 posts
Jun 15, 2011
10:19 AM
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I look forward to meeting you Jim! Getting guys like Lewis up and playing again is something I have done all my life. I am driven to see the ones before me keep playing. I hope a good group of music lovers come out to pump some juice in his viens. I am hoping Sean Carney can make it. He is a guitarist/vocalist and has played with tons of blues guys and is one of the up and coming younger players that has learned the old school way- getting with the old guys. He has played with Christine Kittrell, Hank Marr, Jimmy “T-99” Nelson, Willie Pooch, Big Joe Duskin, Joe Weaver and Johnnie Bassett, charles brown, jimmy witherspoon, hubert sumlin, gene"sax" walker, duke robillard, jim thackery,robert jr. lockwood, and others. His band won the international blues challenge a few years ago. Johnny Roy is another. He is a guitarist/singer that has been playing blues since the 60's and worked with guys like Johnny Copeland, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Son Seals, Jimmy Johnson, Bo Diddley, Roy Buchanan, Lonnie Mack, Koko Taylor. He usually comes up from KY for my parties. Mark Rubinstein hopefully will be on keys, accordian, bass. He has engineered and played on many platinum and grammy projects for Grover Washington, Jr., Shirley Horn, Cher, Liza Minelli, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, 3LW, Judy Collins, Najee, Gerald Levert, Scarface, George Duke, Bobby Womack, Backstreet Boys, and Natalie Cole. I have a few others I hope to entice to the gig! I figure the best way to get a good gig going is do it myself.... I am always moved to tears when such great musicians come to play with me for nothing but the good time. We are located in the Columbus Ohio area. My playing backround is pretty extensive as well- BOB DYLAN, CHARLIE SEXTON (GUITARIST FOR BOB DYLAN, AND ARC ANGELS), WILL SEXTON, ERIC JOHNSON, DAVID GRISSOM (GUITARIST JOHN MELLENCAMP), DAVID HOLT, EVAN JOHNS, MICHAEL BEEN (THE CALL), ROBBIE ROBERTSON (THE BAND), JIMMY CARL BLACK (ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION), BOBBY KEYS ( SAX PLAYER FOR ROLLING STONES), RONNIE LANE (SMALL FACES), TIMBUCK 3, MARK RUBINSTEIN, UNCLE JOHN TURNER (DRUMMER JOHNNY WINTER), JOEY RAMONE, FAST FLOYD, LOU ANN BARTON, LOS LOBOS, DOUG SAHM (SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET), BOB GUCIONNI, JIM RISSMILLER, HARRY DEAN STANTON(MOVIE ACTOR), BOB GUCCIONE(FOUNDER PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE), THE DEAD KENNEDYS, DAVID JOHANSON (NEW YORK DOLLS),
LIGHTNING HOPKINS, SONNY TERRY, LOUISIANA RED, CHAMPION JACK DUPREE, LONNIE BROOKS, ALBERT COLLINS, WILBERT HARRISON (KANSAS CITY), PEE WEE CRAYTON, JOHNNY LITTLEJOHN, JOHNNY COPELAND, KIM WILSON, HUBERT SUMLIN, FRANKIE LEE, COOL PAPA, JOHNNY B GOOD, TROYCE KEYS, MARK NAFTLIN, CLIFFORD ANTONE, IAN MOORE, CHRIS DUARTE, INDIANA SLIM, AUGGIE MYERS, ESTABAN JORDAN, DWIGHT YOAKAM, TOOTS THEILMAN, DAVID SANGER (DRUMMER ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL), TEX THOMAS, MONTE WARDEN, TEXICANA DAMES, RICH MINUS
Sorry for the capital letters- I cut and pasted it from my site. Anyway it should be a great time. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,800+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 15, 2011 1:41 PM
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