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!

Lee Blake: Checkin’ In With a Portland Blues Veteran

Attention: open in a new window. PDFPrintE-mail

Friday, 26 June 2009 18:19

by Cheyenne

Lee Blake


“Lee...one of my favorite guys. He is the gravelly-voiced
  history of Portland music and cuts a groove a mile wide.”
                                                                         – Boyd Martin

“He's one of those guys who's been around forever...
he's a salty old dog. He doesn't pull any punches. He'll
tell you the truth. I have always liked him as a person
and appreciated his talent as a player.”
                                                                         – Turtle

 

Read more: Lee Blake: Checkin’ In With a Portland Blues Veteran

 

Lily Wilde

Attention: open in a new window. PDFPrintE-mail

Friday, 26 June 2009 18:45

Visit Lily Wilde's Web Site

BluesNotes Talks With 
Lily Wilde 
of the Jumpin' Jubilee Orchestra

Article Reprint from the October 2000 BluesNotes   
 - Article by LynnAnne Hyde 

Read more: Lily Wilde

 

Lloyd Jones

Attention: open in a new window. PDFPrintE-mail

Friday, 26 June 2009 18:29

Muddy Awards:

  • 1992 Best Male Vocalist
  • 1992 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1993 Best Male Vocalist
  • 1993 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1993 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best Contemporary Blues Act
  • 1994 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1994 Inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame for Best R&B Act
  • 1995 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1996 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1996 "Trouble Monkey" won Best Northwest Recording
  • 1997 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1998 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 1998 Best Male Vocalist (Tied w/ Curtis Salgado)
  • 1999 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 2000 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act
  • 2000 "Love Gotcha" wins Best NW Recording
  • 2000 Lloyd Jones wins Best Male Vocalist
  • 2001 Lloyd Jones Struggle won Best R&B Act

Read more: Lloyd Jones

   

Lynn Ann Hyde

Attention: open in a new window. PDFPrintE-mail

Friday, 26 June 2009 18:27

 

Muddy Awards

  • 2001 Kinzel & Hyde won Best Traditional Blues Act

  • 2001 LynnAnn Hyde won the CBA's Back What You Believe In Award

The Northwest's Only Woman Professional Blues Harp Player!!

Article Reprint from the August 1998 BluesNotes  
by The KT

Read more: Lynn Ann Hyde

 

Mark Lemhouse: Prodigal Son

Attention: open in a new window. PDFPrintE-mail

Friday, 26 June 2009 18:32

by Greg Johnson

Mark Lemhouse

    Mark Lemhouse is no stranger to the Blues music scene here in Oregon, although his absence over the past few years may have been overlooked. When he left the area to seek acceptance in the heart of America's music history, there may have been a slight edge of contempt for the land of his youth. But, such feelings fade over time and the longings for home begin to overtake any other emotions one may have felt. Mark returned to Oregon last fall, and like the biblical prodigal son, he found himself accepted with open arms within a community that just may have the strongest Blues atmosphere in the nation today. Now, not only in Oregon, but throughout the country, the name Mark Lemhouse is about to take its place among the future stars of the Blues.

Read more: Mark Lemhouse: Prodigal Son

   

More Articles...

Page 8 of 12

Copyright © 2009 Cascade Blues Association
The Cascade Blues Association is an Affiliate Organization of The Blues Foundation.