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Tom Hambridge - - Blu Ja Vu - Record Release Interview with Jim Carty - http://hambridgetunes.com/ Tom & Jim discuss Tom's latest release, touring with Buddy Guy, Crossroads Guitar Fest 2023, loss of Gary Rossington & working with Lynyrd Skynyrd and many m...

Entrain summer dates for 2023. Please mark your calendar if you'd like to come to any :-)

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Northeast Blues Harmonica Showcase Black-eyed Sally’s brings back one of our HOTTEST SHOWS that you do not want to miss! Get your tickets early and bring your dancing shoes!

Amazing footage of Bo Diddley and analysis by our pal FIL! Watch til the end. Love that Bo had a female guitarist back in the day. This ain't Les Paul and Mary Ford! Bo and the female band members shook their groove thing on camera. Really surprised at how this footage saw the light of day.

British guitarist analyses Bo Diddley's trailblazing performance and music style! Tonight I'm taking a look at Bo Diddley with his Bo Diddley beat! \m/Original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQFor more, check out my other...

RIP Jeff Beck

I’m devastated. People ask me a lot “who’s your favorite living guitarist?” and the answer would always have to be Jeff Beck. So much so that I’ve always made a point of being careful not to listen to him too much for fear of wanting to imitate him. I was lucky, thanks to my older brothers, to have discovered Beck at a very early age, even before I started playing guitar. He was ferocious — not just inventive but totally unique. Nobody played like that. I loved everything he did. All the “guitar heroes” back then were thrust into recording at an early age so we could hear tremendous growth in a lot of cases from album to album, year to year, but with Jeff Beck even more so. Every time he released something new we all waited with anticipation to hear what new direction or directions he would take. It was uncanny. He seemed to not want to define himself with what he had already done so each new venture just added to an already broad scope of not only “influences" but also the uniqueness that was there from the start. No matter what direction he chose he approached it in a way that only he could. As someone who started singing before I started playing guitar I always loved the vocalists that he worked with in addition to the great musicians so I was a bit surprised, as were a lot of people, when Jeff released Blow By Blow in 1975 which turned out to be his first all instrumental album. It came at a good time for me as I had been playing guitar for 3 or 4 years at that point and was just starting to discover a lot of instrumental music but none of us were prepared for the huge stylistic leap we were about to hear in Jeff’s playing. His last studio recording prior was the collaborative Beck, Bogert & Appice which was great like all his previous works but gave no indication as to what doors would be opened up with Blow By Blow. Every guitar player I knew was mesmerized. This changed everything. We were all dropping back the needle incessantly to try to learn anything we could from Blow By Blow. And then along comes Wired, a year later, which took his playing to even greater heights. I think the most remarkable thing about Jeff Beck as a guitarist however is the way he continued to grow and expand his own style year after year, album after album, in a way that I can’t recall anyone else ever doing — EVER! He didn’t record or tour nearly as much for quite a while after the release of Wired but every time he did there was some new chapter that came with the new music. Thankfully in recent years he appeared to have been on a mission and was incredibly prolific. But again the most amazing thing was his playing that somehow continued to get better. I saw him perform quite a few times over the last fifteen years or so and I have to say that every time he played even better than the time before. I’ve never seen anything like it. Jeff Beck changed music in a very profound way but unless you’re a guitar player you may not understand. He changed our lives. He created a style of playing that was instantly recognizable and almost impossible to replicate. I made the decision a long time ago not to try to copy him — what’s the point? Any of us would only wind up sounding like a bad Jeff Beck imitator. For over fifty years however I have studied him and learned from him and a large part of my style and vocabulary came from him. So, now when someone asks me “Who’s your favorite guitarist — living or dead?” I will say what I always say: “I can’t answer that.” But my very short list will include Jeff. There will never be another Jeff Beck.- WH

Larry McCray !https://www.swaves.com/ feature interview by Frank T. Walsh at my birthday party in November. Congratulations to Larry winning best Blues Rock album of the year by Blues Rock Review, the ultimate authority on the idiom! David David L Pottie continues to publish the best music magazine in New England by far! Awesome sound by Daniel Walker who worked super hard on this show. Larry McCray is heading back out in full force in 2023, catch his shows when you can. Much love to Joe Bonamassa & Devon Allman for sharing the stage and studio with Larry to highlight his God given gifts. Peggy Smith , the most supportive and wonderful woman going!

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Time is running out to get advanced tix for Rhythm & Roots Festival this weekend! Amazing line-up, not to be missed. Check out this article to see my interview with Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars! https://patch.com/connecticut/thelymes/rhythm-roots-festival-sept-2-4-charlestown-ri-nodx

Rhythm & Roots Festival Sept. 2-4 in Charlestown, RI One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor News. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)

Hey everyone!

All are invited to...
The James Armstrong Band playing at my house in Old Lyme CT Friday June 24. Doors 5 PM, show about 6-630 til 9 PM. Suggested donation $10-20. Bring a dish to share & beach chair. BYOB. I'm super excited for this show, I love James and his wife as well as their drummer James Carter, formerly of the Joanna Connor Band. I'll make an Event on Facebook with details to be published soon.
Address is 14 Oakridge Dr., Old Lyme, CT. Call 617-721-7587 for info. James Armstrong is an international blues star! He's from California so we don't see him as much as we'd like so take this opportunity to enjoy his immense and unique talents. http://jarmblues.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RznDD0coE6M
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See you soon to kick off the summer right. Feel free to share this info.

Jim Carty

James Armstrong Come see James Armstrong perform in concert! Seen live, Armstrong has a confident stage presence that combines grace with mischief. Few blues artists know how to play the crowd as James can, shifting dynamics from a whisper to a growl. Wherever he travels around the world his magnetism continues to....

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Quinn Sullivan Interview with Jim Carty of the Patch Discussion on June 2022 Tour Dates and new CD, Wide Awake.

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Sue Foley Interview with Jim Carty of The Patch

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Gloucester Blues Festival - Worth the Day Trip

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Beehive Queen Christine Ohlman Creates Buzz at The Kate April 19 Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)

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Blind Boys of Alabama & Marc Cohn Visit The Kate January 7, 2019 Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)

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Merry Christmas Baby by Ronnie Earl Anson Funderburg Paul Rishell & Sam Myers at Johnny Ds cira 2004

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Blind Boys of Alabama Grace Infinity Hall in Hartford December 2 Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)