INSIDE THIS ISSUE A long time ago and not so far away I was summoned by the fates to move into an apartment with two male musicians on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, MA. I was going to school at Mass College of Art in Boston and I needed a part time job. There was this…
Mary Rosenblatt had taken lots of pictures inside the Speakeasy waaaaay back, and when Peter Ward wrote the article Mary and Rosy provided them for the article. So many didn’t make it into the newsletter. They are so cool I want to share them with you now that we have this gallery and a place…
By Diana Shonk (first appeared in #182 The Blues Audience newsletter, August/September 2010 I am never surprised, but always amazed by the amount of talent there is in our New England area. When I go to the North Atlantic Blues Festival, I love to see the acts that they bring to the stage that are…
Profile and photos by Diana Shonk Published in February/March 2011 #185 Award winning Roomful of Blues has a wonderful new record. It is a cooperative effort from the band, deciding on the tunes and executing them the way only these veteran musicians can. Chris Vachon is the lead guitarist and leader of the band. He…
C.B. Gitty’s, the Cigar Box instrument super store, one of the the world’s leading manufacturers, is located in Gonic, NH. Though you rarely see them for sale in mainstream music stores, over the last decade or so there has been quite an underground Cigar Box Guitar revival happening worldwide. https://www.cbgitty.com/ I met the mastermind behind…
Toni Lynn Washington: One of the best in the music world! Local vocalist swings, scolds and exudes Soul ‘with a capital S’ by Art Simas With apologies to Tower of Power, the group that performs “Soul with a Capital S,” this is the essence of Toni Lynn Washington. For the better part of seven decades,…
Call it what you want – deep-Mississippi-Hillbilly-Country-Roots-down-and-dirty-in-your-face-Punk Blues – it all fits for the Ten Foot Polecats… by Art Simas This trio of talented musicians, who take their inspiration from Junior Kimbrough, Robert Burnside, the North Mississippi All Stars, John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf, don’t care what you call them – just enjoy it….
