Things Have Changed Verve Bettye LaVette has one of the most distinctive voices in music today. Anything she sings is going to come out sounding as if it’s dripping in pure soul. Now, you’d never think of the Bob Dylan’s music, with its complex lyrics and patterns, to be something that a vocalist like LaVette […]
Greg Johnson, President Wendy Schumer, Vice President Merry Larson, Treasurer Brenda Docken, Secretary Fred and JoAnn Morgan, Membership Secretaries James Kosek, Shelley Garrett and Randy Murphy, Board At-Large
It is hard to believe that at 36 years old Jonny Lang has already enjoyed a two-decades long career. Since the release of his debut album, Lie To Me, at age 15, Grammy Award winning Jonny Lang has built a reputation as one of the best live performers and guitarists of his generation. Lang’s musical […]
The Lake Theater & Café will present an intimate evening with Doug MacLeod, a true blues master and storyteller, on Monday, April 16. MacLeod is a perennial Blues Music Award nominee, having recently won the Acoustic Artist of the Year in 2017, he is nominated again this year for the same award as well as […]
Local music legend, Turtle VanDemarr, has performed in many influential bands over the years. As lead guitarist for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, The Fly By Nite Jass Band, The Freak Mountain Ramblers, and Anita Margarita and the Rattlesnakes, VanDemarr has been a regular in the Portland Music scene since the late 60s and […]
Three time Grammy nominee Bettye LaVette is not a mere, songwriter, or “cover” artist. She is an musical interpreter of the highest order. Her gift is that ability to take a song, whether well-known or obscure, from any genre and making it completely her own. Now, at 72-year-old, she is still performing with the ferocity […]
Rock ‘n’ Roll ain’t pretty and neither is Scott Biram. The self-proclaimed ‘Dirty Old One Man Band’ successfully and sometimes violently lashes together blues, hillbilly, country, raucous punk, and godless metal into a potent array that assaults the senses. Biram ain’t no candy-ass singer/songwriter either, sweetly strumming songs about dusty highways and girls with big […]
Portland’s guitar legend Big Monti Amundson moved to Nashville a few months back and it’s always a pleasure to see him return to town for performances, no matter how rare they may be. He will be hooking up with his former bandmates Allen Hunter on bass and Cory Burden on drums for a trio of […]
The 7th Annual Inner City Blues Festival, “Healing the Healthcare Blues,” returns April 21 to the North Portland Eagles Lodge, 7611 N. Exeter & Lombard. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and music runs until midnight. The event is a fundraiser for Health Care for All-Oregon, an advocacy organization working to bring an equitable, affordable, […]
Lloyd “Have Mercy” Breaking News! Lucky as can be this month, and honored to returning to Denmark, I will play a series of concerts with good friends “Shaky Ground”!! (see website for details) Last time we toured together in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Luxemburg in 2016. The last concert was with Robert Cray Band […]