NW Blues Gallery

Welcome to the Northwest Blues Gallery, where we celebrate some of the most accomplished practitioners of the blues to be found here in Portland and the surrounding areas. Nationally-recognized blues luminaries such as Robert Cray, Curtis Salgado, Paul deLay and Lloyd Jones got their start right here in the Northwest, and their home turf continues to be fertile ground — the soulful, authentic, whip-your-head-around blues artists just keep coming, as you can see by the ever-growing list of notables pictured on these pages. Click on any thumbnail image to read a profile of that artist, usually including additional photos. Don't forget to visit the CBA Muddy Awards Page to see who Portland Blues Fans voted as the BEST in NW Blues!

Chris Carlson

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:21

by Greg Johnson

Photo by Greg Johnson


"My ultimate goal is to know everything that I can about the music that I play."


    "I was born in a tar-paper shack in the Mississippi Delta," guitarist Chris Carlson stated stone-faced as we began our interview. "Nah! Not really," he broke out laughing. "I bet you get a lot of people who say that." It was a eccentric moment sitting across from one another at the dining room table of the Northeast Portland home Chris shares with his musical and life partner, Duffy Bishop. And it was a prophecy of how the afternoon would proceed, full of laughs and fond memories.

Read more: Chris Carlson

 

Curtis Salgado

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:38

Curtis Salgado
(photo by Ross Hamilton
courtesy of Double Tee Productions
c/o Shane Tappendorf
10 NW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
221-0288

Official Website for Curtis

Muddy Awards:

  • 1989 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1990 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1991 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1991 The Stilettos won Best R&B Act

  • 1991 Inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame for Best Male Vocalist

  • 1992 The album "Curtis Salgado & the Stillettos" won Best National Recording (Tied  w/ SRV's "The Sky Is Crying")

  • 1993 Best Blues harp

  • 1994 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1995 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1996 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1997 Best Male Vocalist

  • 1998 Best Male Vocalist (Tied w/ Lloyd Jones)

  • 1999 Best Male Vocalist

    Read more: Curtis Salgado

 

D.K. Stewart

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:42

D.K. Stewart

The Official D.K. Stewart Web Site 

Muddy Awards:

  • 1993 Best Keyboards

  • 1993 D.K. Stewart and the MFB won Best New Act

  • 1994 Best Keyboards

  • 1995 Best Keyboards

  • 1995 Inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame for Best Keyboards

   

Dave Kahl

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:31


Photo by Greg Johnson

Muddy Awards:

  • 1992 The Jim Mesi Band won Best Roots Rock Act

  • 1997 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act

  • 1998 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act

Related Links:

Dave Kahl

Three-Time CBA "Muddy Award" Winner

 by Rick Hall    
Article Reprint from the August 1999 BluesNotes

Read more: Dave Kahl

 

David Jacobs-Strain

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:28

David's Home Page and Schedule

Even Hotter News Flash!!!

    NorthernBlues Music has announced the signing of Eugene, Oregon's, David Jacobs-Strain, one of the best young Blues guitarists in America. His new CD, "Stuck On The War Back" is slated for release in late May of 2002.

Hot News Flash!!!

    The Cascade Blues Association is PROUD to announce that Oregon's foremost fingerpicker under the age of 18 competed in the Blues Foundation's International BluesKids Talent Competition and took

Second Place

    You can read the Blues' Foundation's Press Release here.  Congratulations David!!!

    CBA Music Review: The Longest Road I Know

 

Bio:

    David Jacobs-Strain was born in 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved to Eugene, Oregon, as a youngster. He began accompanying himself on the guitar at age nine. His first influence to play the blues came from live concerts by Walker T. Ryan and Taj Mahal in Eugene, and from listening to recordings of Fred McDowell, Lightning Hopkins, and Bessie Smith. His first stage performances were at the Eugene Saturday Market and the Oregon Country Fair in 1994.

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