All you need to know about the blues you can learn July 1-4 at the 2016 Portland Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival. From the deepest roots of blues music, its spread across borders and generations, to the multiple genres that blues has influenced,…
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Mark your calendars now for Friday and Saturday, June 24-25 when Gorge Blues & Brews Festival hits the Skamania County Fairgrounds in Stevenson, Washington. We will celebrate 23 years of musical genius, award-winning offerings from 16…
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Here’s a list of new music received at the CBA office or purchased personally this past month that should be noted:
Cherry & The Lowboys – Naked In Outer Space (Cupcake Vinyl)
Clint Morgan – Scofflaw (Lost Cause Records)
Johnny Rawls…
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Last month’s Blues Music awards in Memphis on May 5, found local musician Lisa Mann once again taking home the big prize for Instrumentalist – Bass for the second consecutive year. Twenty-four awards overall were handed out between musical…
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Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder St., Portland
Wednesday, June 1, 7:00 pm
Members always Free – Non-members $3.00
Opening acoustic set – Froggy
Second electric set – JT Wise Band
Here comes the summer, and we’re all ready for lots of great…
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Greg Johnson / CBA President
As I sit here working on the BluesNotes for the June issue, I recognize that today (May 14) marks the one year anniversary of the passing of BB King. Arguably BB was the most important bluesman of his generation,…
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The award-winning Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival was recently named “Best in Show” as one of the top festivals in Washington to catch this summer. Come see what all the fun is about in Winthrop, WA, July 15-17, 2016.
The lineup so…
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Love Wins Again
Fathead Records
Janiva Magness continues with her tales of love and its power and pain on her latest disc Love Wins Again. Her songwriting is personal and full of imagery that can only be reflected through experience. Happy or…
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Scofflaw
Lost Cause Records
Clint Morgan’s sophomore disc, Scofflaw, follows a theme that portrays the lives of society’s downtrodden, outcast, and outright bad guys. These are people with often very little remorse, living on the edge, and…
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Good Days A Comin/
Right Side Up Records
When you start to listen to Ivas John’s Good Days A Comin’, it’s like a warm summer day sitting on your back porch with a pitcher of fresh-made lemonade and slabs of meat slowly grilling on the…
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2016 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival in Review
23rd Annual Gorge Blues & Brews Festival in Stevenson, Washington: 6/24 & 25
New Music To Note – June 2016
2016 Blues Music Awards — Lisa Mann Wins!
What’s on Tap for June’s General Membership Meeting …
Ramblings On My Mind – June 2016
29th Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival named “Best in Show” by Sunset Magazine
Janiva Magness
Clint Morgan
Ivas John