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!

Jesse Samsel

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:39

Jesse Samsel's Web Site

Muddy Awards

  • 1997 The Jesse Samsel Band won Best New Act

Related Links

A True Gentleman of the Blues

Article Reprint from the August 1997 BluesNotes   
Article by Rick Hall   

    Jesse Samsel is one of the Pacific Northwest's best kept secrets! This extraordinary musician is no newcomer to the local scene, however. He has been playin' music around here for well over 25 years now.

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Jim Mesi

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Photo by Reed Anderson

Jim Mesi's Web Site 

Muddy Awards:

  • 1991 Best Electric Guitar

  • 1992 The Jim Mesi Band won Best Roots Rock Act

  • 1993 Best Electric Guitar

  • 1994 Best Electric Guitar

  • 1995 Best Electric Guitar

  • 1995 Inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame for Best Electric Guitar

  • 2000 CBA Muddy Award for Lifetime Achievement

  • 2001 Jim Mesi Band at the Waterfront Blues Festival won Performance of the Year

  • 2001 "Blues, Cars, & Electric Guitars" won Best Northwest Recording

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Jim Wallace

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Muddy Awards:

  • 1992 The Channel Cats won Best New Act

  • 1996 The Lucky Devils won Best New Act

Links:

An Interview with Veteran Bluesman Jim Wallace

Article Reprint from the January 2000 BluesNotes   
Article by: Joey Scruggs

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Jimi Bott

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Friday, 26 June 2009 18:19

Photo by Greg Johnson
Jimi Bott Blues Band with Ken Bott at the Waterfront Blues Festival
Photo by the CBA Webmaster

Muddy Awards

  • 2001 Best Drums

Related Links:

Article Reprint from the July 2000 BluesNotes   

Well Traveled and Playing at the Top of his Game!!!

"He is one of the best damn drummers I've ever worked with.  He knows how to fit in a situation, add to it an never take from it.  One of my favorites, and I don't have many."

- Doug MacLeod

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Jimmy Lloyd Rea & The Switchmasters

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Photo by Valarie Davis, courtesy of the Switchmasters

PO Box 984
Baker City, OR 97814
(503) 894-2367

 

"Old, fat and cripplingly loud..."

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