PG3 (Portland Guitar Three) 2nd Annual Super Show for OMHOF

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Hurray! Buko Magazine’s 2nd annual PG3 line-up has been selected and ready to sooth your blues, rock your soul, and shred you into oblivion!

A full benefit for OMHOF to help benefit dwindling music education programs in schools, each year we select from the absolute best NW guitar players from 3 different genres to play a cream-of-the-crop set of their own material, then duel it out on an all-star jam. Backed by a stellar hand-picked backup band, this year will feature Robbie Laws, Geoff Metts and Eddie Martinez.

Everyone knows Robbie’s steeped devotion to the blues, yet some may not really know the other prowess he possesses. Yes, back in the early 80s he handily won a rock guitar contest, playing Yngwie Malmsteen songs note for note…the dude can seriously shred!

Eddie started as a session man in New York in the late 1970s and ended up playing lead guitar with such names as Mick Jagger, Robert Palmer, Run DMC, Blondie, David Lee Roth and many, many others. Oh yeah, he is also a PDX resident! We found him playing regularly in the heart of the city and captured him. To say he will blow your top is the understatement of the year!

Geoff Metts is the frontman and guitarist for PDX’s most prominent and successful rock band, Western Aerial. Geoff is a powerful riff-master who has a great all around stage presence and amiable nature to connect the dots and bring the show together. Last year’s debut featured shred-Mistress, Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson/ Jeff Beck), bluesman Terry Robb, and PDX’s most prominent rock guitarist Geoff Metts. The incredibly gifted trio blew everyone away with their perspective sets, proving their prowess song after song, all the way through to their all-star finale.

These fine musicians are dedicated to their craft and have agreed to bond for the evening to contribute the very best of their abilities while helping to raise money and awareness for music education.

This is an all-ages show and will include a raffle for one lucky winner to take home a brand new electric guitar played and signed by all 3 stars. Card-carrying CBA members get $1 off the ticket price.

Please come out and help support music education programs, while taking home an evening you’ll never forget! Sunday, August 7th, 6-9pm at Mission Theater, 1624 N.W. Glisan St., Portland. For more information, visit: http://pg3.buko.net/

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"Blues Cures Studio Jam, Vol. 4"

Various Artists

Tony’s Treasures Productions

Sean Carney’s Blues For A Cure concerts have become an annual holiday tradition in Columbus, Ohio with Sean bringing in all-star line-ups every year to raise money to help fight cancer. It has also become routine for many of the performers to gather afterward in a studio to record a jam session that is released on CD to further raise funds for research and to help support The Blues Foundation’s HART Fund to assist aging and in need musicians.

This fourth compilation of the jam sessions includes an impressive array of performers, with annual regulars Sean Carney and Jonn Del Toro Richardson leading the way with brilliant guitar work. Artists offered in this year’s release include harmonica ace Omar Coleman, 2006 International Blues Challenge champion Joey Gilmore, vocalist Long Tall Deb, and guitarists Dave Workman and Ray Fuller among many others.

Songs on the disc are mostly well-known traditional blues standards by song writers such as Willie Dixon, Little Milton, Z.Z. Hill, Elmore James and Don Robey. Original numbers include “Blues Don’t Care (Married To The Blues)” by Long Tall Deb Landolt and “Your Death (Is Killing Me)” by guitar player Hunter Wolfe who is also featured on the recording.

These Blues Cures Jams are outstanding and if you have not heard any of them all are well worth picking up by going to www.bluesforacure.com. Not only do you receive amazing music, you know you’re helping out for a great cause, too.

Total Time: 59:42

Too Late / That’s What Love Will Make You Do / So Many Roads / Every Day I Have The Blues / The Sky Is Crying / Bluesman / Blues Don’t Care (Married To The Blues) / You’re Gonna Make Me Cry / Shake, Rattle & Roll / Your Death (Is Killing Me) / Love The World

Reviewed by Greg Johnson

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