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• Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up

• Buddy Guy – Live At Legends

• Bettye Lavette – Thoughtful n’ Thankful

• Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials – Jump Start

• Milton Hopkins & Jewel Brown – Self Titled

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Murali Coryell

Interview & Performance At Don Odell’s Legends

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Murali Coryell Interview on Don Odells Legends w/Bob Kester – Part One

Bob Kesters interview with Murali Coryell on Don Odells Legends – Part Two

Softly Let Me Kiss Your Lips – Murali Coryell

Murali Coryell – Standing The Test of Time

Murali Coryell – I Could’ve Had You

I’m Calling From Another Phone – Murali Coryell

That Makes Me Happy – Murali Coryell

Murali Coryell – Please Please Baby

Murali Coryell – I Was In The Room With Jimi

Sugar Lips – Murali Coryell

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The 7th Annual Bonita Blues Festival
March 8 & 9, 2013

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Listed below are videos of some of the bands performing next week:

Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials

Jimmy Thackery

Reba Russell Band

Southern Hospitality

Biscuit Miller and the MIx

Deb and The Dynamics

Lil’ Ronnie Owens

The Certified Band

Big Buck and the Biscuit Boys

Another Bad Boy Done Gone…

The following was released on Thursday, February 21. We reprint it here in its entirety.

It is with great sorrow that I inform you that Magic Slim a.k.a. Morris Holt, of Grenada, Mississippi, passed away Thursday, February 21, 2013. He will be missed by his family, friends, and blues fans all over the world. Funeral arrangements and a memorial service will be announced later this week. The family wishes to thank everyone for their kind words and prayers.

Marty Salzman – Manager, Magic Slim
Linda Cunningham – Public Relations, Magic Slim
Mike Blakemore – Tour Manager, Magic Slim

Magic Slim was a blues legend who migrated from the South to Chicago during the 1940s and ’50s.  Slim played raw, intense blues, a style that used no pedals down, just him.  Slim  paved the way for rock as well as modern blues. Slim and The Teardrops performances  became legendary, and they played the blues with an undeniable intensity that left one out of breath on the floor and in need for more.

This big man of the blues was born Morris Holt in Torrence, Mississippi on August 7, 1937.  His mother and father were sharecroppers; they lived on a farm and they all would get up early in the mornings and slop the hogs, feed the chickens, catch the mule, and go out into the fields. “I still had to go to the field until I got age enough to leave home.

MAGIC SLIM and THE TEARDROPS “Mamma Talk to Your Daughter”

“I got little jobs around there when I was 13 and that was when I got my hand hurt.  I hurt it in a cotton gin. I was at the gin and my hand got caught on a piece of wire going up in there, and I grabbed it and before I could turn it loose, I lost my little pinky finger.”  Slim showed his musical talents early, singing in his church choir and playing piano.

After his accident he couldn’t play the piano anymore because he didn’t have that little pinkie finger so he picked up the guitar.  He made his first guitar out of bailing wire from a broom, which he nailed to a wall.  “My Mama whopped me when I tore up her broom,” he said, “but she let me keep on using it.  My Mama said later that if she had known what I’d be into later, she wouldn’t have given me a whopping.”

Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Vienna 1991

It was in 1955 when Slim made his first trip to Chicago, to play for Magic Sam, a friend of his from home.  Magic Sam also gave Slim tips on playing the guitar, and it was Sam who called his bass player “Magic Slim,” because back then Slim was lean and tall and he learned from Sam quickly.  Sam told Slim to develop his own guitar style.

“Magic Sam told me, don’t try to play like him, and don’t try to play like no one else; he said get a sound of your own.”  Slim did get a sound of his own; his guitar tone is tough and cutting, united with a vibrato formed by his fingers against the strings to reproduce the sound of a slide guitar while still being able to bend the note. Slim said, “I slide with my finger.  I use nothing on my finger, a lot of players try to get a sound like me and I play the same guitar everybody else plays.”

Magic Slim “Bad Boy- Gambling Blues – Someone Else Is Steppin’ In”

Slim’s take on writing songs.  “I just think of some words and write them down, think of some more and write them down, and then when I get enough words together I take out some and put some in there and make them rhyme together and then I learn them, then I put music to them.”  “My songs are either telling a story or asking a question.  It’s just a feelin’.”

Magic Slim is a man that came from the country; he was slim and tall trying to play the blues, now he can play the blues.  And like Slim says, ”If you want to play the blues, play the blues, if you don’t feel the blues, leave it alone, cause you can’t be playin’ it if you don’t feel it.”

Reprinted with permission. Written By Linda Cunningham

Magic Slim & the Teardrops – I’m a Bluesman

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Moreland & Arbuckle

Interview & Performance At Don Odell’s Legends

Moreland & Arbuckle interviewed by Art Tipaldi on Don Odells Legends Part 1

Moreland & Arbuckle interviewed by Art Tipaldi on Don Odells Legends Part 2

Tall Boogie – Moreland & Arbuckle

Hey Mona – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Juke – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Drinking Muddy Water – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Quivira – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Don’t Wake Me – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Purgatory – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Thought Train – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

Good Love – Moreland & Arbuckle – Don Odells Legends

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Featuring The Artist Performing At

Clearwater – Sea Blues Festival

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The Lee Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jLoIUehwg

Sugar Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EmDnJHAKqc

Kenny Wayne Shepard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-72KavxHQ

Selwyn Birchwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Q4ia8ZWhE

Moreland & Arbuckle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVGLq7gb86M

Ruthie Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEXCCRckLvM

Coco Montoya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atr73gUUn5Q

Hamilton Loomis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0gpLcz6IA

Sandy Atkinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mscF2jUv-AI

#20

Aboard the MS Nieuw Amsterdam

In the Caribbean

January 20 – 27, 2013

Photographs by Joseph A. Rosen

Award-winning blues photographer Joseph A. Rosen is one of the official photographers of the twentieth version of the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, which is sailing through the Caribbean this week. He has sent in some photographs of the musical craziness that is a Blues Cruise to share with you.

As always, our photographers share their work with you for your enjoyment. If you wish to share them or use them for any other purpose, please contact the photographer or our offices.

“BLUZAPALOOZA might just be the most important undertaking of the Blues. The idea is to simply take some of the genre’s most exciting performers to where our troops are to entertain them.  For this small amount of time, these young men and women can forget that they are so far from home and enjoy a rocking Blues concert.  Whether the performers visit a hospital or a base, they are highly successful in bringing a touch of home to these troops”.  Art Tipaldi, Editor, Blues Revue Magazine

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Blues Revue members are considered by many to be the most knowledgeable and informed blues music fans around the world, not to mention passionate. They are also the most rabid blues music fans on the planet, devouring every track presented to them and discussing with their friends, family, co-workers, and, hey, even people they don’t know. Our members have introduced, converted, cajoled, and instructed the masses on what they are missing out by not being a part of The Tribe at Blues Revue and the community that is The Blues.

Over the last ten years our Blues Music CD sampler has been raved about to us by thousands of fans around the globe and they have consistently begged for more. It is very expensive to produce three samplers each year and insert them into our magazine for our subscriber/members to enjoy, but it is sadder still that we can only do three although we receive hundreds of song submissions for each sampler of only twelve or thirteen songs. So we’ve decided to take another giant leap into the ever-changing future of the music business and continue our quest to be the innovators.

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