BLUES: Kent and his trusty Leadbesie at Merry Monk

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- BLUES: Kent and his trusty Leadbesie at Merry Monk
- JUST UT / MUSIC: Encores save lame album
- BAM Presents Guy Davis Trio: Stories and Songs of the Blues
- She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
- Stony Plain Artist Jeff Healey Remembered By Canadian Music …
- Big Easy is still tops for music

BLUES: Kent and his trusty Leadbesie at Merry Monk
Rutland Times UK 
Kent Duchaine arrives at The Merry Monk in Church Street on date two of his latest UK tour in the company of Leadbessie ? his trusty steel guitar. riginally from Minnesota Kent developed a fascination for the blues music of Robert Johnson Muddy Waters Lightening Hopkins and T-Bone Walker. He learned to play the slide guitar and soon developed his own ferocious wild style. In 1979 Kent met up with his beloved and ever faithful Leadbessie. She’s a beat up 1934 National Steel Guitar that wows and astounds audiences when the equally beat up case she travels in is opened and her extra heavy strings are furiously played. Kent linked up with legendary blues man Johnny Shines in 1989 and they performed together and also made recordings over three years.
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JUST UT / MUSIC: Encores save lame album
Atlanta Journal Constitution  USA 
Grade: C For “Working n A Dream” Bruce Springsteen whistles sings the blues plays the glockenspiel and drops an f-bomb as if desperate to disguise the album’s lyrical deficiencies. Springsteen says he wrote these songs quickly and it shows.

BAM Presents Guy Davis Trio: Stories and Songs of the Blues
Brooklyn Daily Eagle NY 
as part of the BAMfamily series and the Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival. USA Today has said of the musician ?What is remarkable about Guy Davis? picking style and easy songwriting grace is that his songs sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel they must predate him.

She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
Lubbocknline.com TX 
“I used to could play that thing (the piano) like it was going out of style but I can’t now” she said. Her favorite religious song is “Precious Jesus Hold My Hand” and her favorite secular music is any type of blues she said. She took after her father who had a good sense of humor and also loved blues music she said. During her teenage years when a boy would come to visit a girl the young couple would sit in the room with the girl’s parents. If they went somewhere a chaperone would accompany them. An oil field worker named Loran Copeland began visiting her when he would come home to visit his parents who lived near her parents. Her father didn’t like him at first and said he was a roughneck.
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Stony Plain Artist Jeff Healey Remembered By Canadian Music …
Top40-Charts.com NY 
Mess of Blues was released by the German company Ruf Records in Europe the United States and other foreign territories. His awards were accepted by his wife. Cristie and his father Bud Healey who thanked the blues community – in Canada and around the world – for their support and cited the guitarist’s passion for all kinds of music. Three of the trusted sidemen with whom Healey toured until his death Alec Fraser Al Webster and Dave Murphy won awards respectively as Bassist Drummer and Keyboard Player of the Year.
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Big Easy is still tops for music
Vancouver Sun  Canada 
We set off on a six-week road trip travelling 14000 kilometres on a quest to experience music in the deep South where the roots of all modern music began. ur journey took us to New rleans the Mississippi Delta region Nashville and Memphis. We sought out musicians playing the music that we love — blues jazz and rock ‘n’ roll. First stop New rleans. “A quaint little drinking town with a hurricane problem” announced the sign in the store window. The first part of this statement was certainly untrue. New rleans proved to be all that we had hoped for and more.

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