Quando si va nel profundo Sud degli Stati Uniti a percorrere i luoghi del blues, non ci si può improvvisare “turisti per caso,” perchè il rischio di perdre pezzi di storia è molto alto. Bisogna allora affidarsi ad “un compagno di viaggio”, meticoloso e dettagliatissimo, come l’ottimo libro/guida “Blues Traveling/The Holy Sites of Delta Blues” [...]
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Mother’s Best Music Festival
Mother’s Best Music Festival — it’s named after another brand of flour that once sponsored a radio show in Helena, Ark. (King Biscuit Flour was the sponsor of King Biscuit Time, which lent its name to the town’s much bigger and longer-running festival, the King Biscuit Blues Festival, until an unfortunate legal challenge took that [...]
Review of Blues Traveling, third edition
This is from the funny-named but highly respected country-blues website weeniecampbell.com, written by the great guitarist and teacher John Miller:
“Blues Traveling–The Holy Sites of Delta Blues”–Steve Cheseborough, University Press of Mississippi
Author Steve Cheseborough must be very happy at the reception his Delta Blues guidebook, “Blues Traveling”, has received, for it is now in its updated [...]
Say Amen, Somebody!
I enthusiastically recommend Say Amen, Somebody. It is a movie about gospel music but a major part of it is blues singer Georgia Tom, who rechristened himself Thomas A. Dorsey when he became the Father of Gospel Music.
The reasons you, a blues fan, ought to run right out and get it from your library or [...]
Review of Fetch It!
From the fun and and authoritative country-blues website weeniecampbell.com comes this review of my new CD:
Fetch It! - Steve Cheseborough
Written by Andrew Mullins
Fetch It! - Steve Cheseborough
Independent
Portland-based musician and author Steve Cheseborough has put together a strong set of country blues for his latest CD, Fetch It!, which was [...]
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith at Mississippi Studios
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith (L) and Steve Cheseborough at Mississippi Studios, Portland, April 30, 2009. Photo by Greg Johnson.
I was the opening act for Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and his band April 30 at Mississippi Studios in Portland. Unfortunately it was also the night of the Portland Trail Blazers’ final playoff game, so many Portlanders [...]
Fetch It! CD about to be released
The new Steve Cheseborough CD, Fetch It!, is now in production and should be available right around Dec. 30. A CD -release party is scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 23 at Holman’s Bar and Grill (which as of January, like all bars and restaurants in Oregon, will be non-smoking), 15 SE 28th Ave (just south [...]
Was Blind Lemon Jefferson really blind?
Yes, he was really blind. (And his parents really named him “Lemon.”)
Blind Boy Fuller was really blind too. And so were Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Mamie Forehand and all the other blues and gospel artists with “blind” in front of their names.
It’s funny how often people ask me that question.
I don’t know of [...]
Habanero vodka
There’s a hot new drink on the menu at Casa Naranja (4205 N Mississippi Ave, Portland): Spicy Bloody Marys made with vodka that is house-infused with my homegrown hot peppers! Usually habaneros (of two different varieties, so the drink might taste different depending on what’s gone into the bottle that week) but also sometimes some [...]
What happened to the Subway?
A lot of people who enjoyed the movie Last of the Mississippi Jukes ask me, What happened to the Subway? Well, it’s gone. There is a plaque at the site. And, in an even better and living tribute, owner Jimmy King is hosting Subway nights at Schimmel’s restaurant in Jackson, bringing the musicians, the menu [...]
