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Published by svensson.ralph (at) telia.com

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The annually Christmas Blues Party

is comin´up in Eslöv Friday December 25 at Eslöv Civic Hall. On stage (as usual) Ralph & the big bang group with friends...

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 Christmas big bang

 Ralph and his big bang are ready for blues party...

First Blues Library in Sweden

In collaboration with the City of Eslöv and the Association of Blues in Eslöv the main library have opend a blues department.

The blues department is designed by decorator/artist Christian Lefévre and contain books, magazines, CD:s, DVD:s etc. The standing exhibition is photos/posters from the festival in Eslöv. There are a room for small concerts, lectures and other suitable (blues) activities. Mon-Thu 10–19, Fri 10–18 and Sat 10–14. Address: Norregatan 9 (Box 255) SE-241 24 Eslöv. Contact: +46(0)413-62600 or e-mail bibinf@eslov.se

Blues library

 The Blues Library in Eslöv

Congratulations

to piano player Georg Schroeter and harmonica player Marc Breitfelder who won the German Blues Challenge/Baltic Blues Challenge 2009 in Eutin, Germany. The competition was held Fri 30 and Sat 31/10 and promoted by the Baltic Blues Association and the American Blues Foundation. The duo won the the first price "German Blues Challenge ", the "Winners Prize of the audience" and the "Baltic Blues Challenge ". Grand slam in other words! German Hootin´ The Blues won the price as the best band. Second price went to Swedish duo Steve Grahn/Mattias Malm. They all will go to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis 2010 in January...

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Marc Breitfelder and Georg Schroeter

Steve Grahn and Mattias Malm

 Marc and Georg and Steve and Mattias will travel to USA

Dr Feelgood live in Eslöv

on You Tube. Happy Days for everybody diggin´ the Doctor´s...

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 Dr Feelgood

 Live in Eslöv!

At You Tube

you can check out Marc Breitfelder and Ralph & the big bang group playing together at Blues festival in Eslöv...

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 Marc & BBG

Pics from

Blues festival in Eslöv 2009 are published on the Archives...

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When it comes to American music

all roads lead to the Deep South. There’s no better way to understand the life of Deep South USA than to take a tour through its musical landscape – soulful blues, brassy jazz, country twang, Cajun accordions, riverboat calliopes and gospel choirs. Check out the The Deep South website offers...

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Photographer Dick Waterman

exhibit his vast catalog created over 45 years of photographing music legends...

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Hooker & Raitt

 John Lee and Raitt 98

M for Mississippi

is a road movie that explore the thriving underbelly of a dying American art form in the land where it began – Mississippi. Planned as a weeklong journey through the birthplace of the blues, M for Mississippi seeks to capture the proverbial “real deal” in its home where it is most comfortable and authentic – the jukes, the front yards, the cotton fields...

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 M for Mississippi

Blues music

in its early days, was often regarded as vulgar and primitive, not worthy of serious attention. Later, the early musicians came to be regarded as creators of folk art who had been exploited by the business.
In recent years, there's been a countercurrent that claimed these musicians were just like any other of their era, folks who played what they did simply because it could earn them money.

Blues scholar/author Paul Oliver doesn't opt for sexy theories or easy explanations. He has spent decades documenting the music, and Barrelhouse Blues, his latest work, is designed as a response to The Negro and His Music, a 1936 work by the noted Harlem Renaissance figure Alain Locke.

Oliver examines how Locke classified music according to style and geography. In an effort to answer questions Locke raised, Oliver focuses on recordings that record-company representatives made on location in the South in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ultimately, Oliver's book serves as a reminder of the strains and disparate personalities that make up the culture of blues music, as well as the hit-or-miss nature of who and what came to be recorded for posterity. (The Phialdelphia Inquirer)

 Barrelhouse blues

A new book by Paul Oliver 

Deep Sea Blues

is a 118-minute film about the January 2007 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise to the Caribbean starring Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Buckwheat Zydeco, Otis Clay, Bobby Rush, Tommy Castro, Tab Benoit, Michael Burks, Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials, Mel Waiters, Deanna Bogart, Ruthie Foster, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Watermelon Slim...

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Deep Sea Blues

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

and Museum and Case Western Reserve University will celebrate Janis Joplin during the 14th annual American Music Masters®series this November.

For one week the story of this unforgettable artist will be exposed during a program titled Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin. In her work as a singer, songwriter, and performer, Joplin combined the experimentation of the counterculture with her roots in folk, blues, and soul music to create some of the most inventive and exciting rock music of her era. She redefined the role of women in rock and roll and continues to inspire countless male and female artists to this day.

The Rock Hall also recently opened a new exhibit highlighting key moments in Joplin’s career...

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Janis Joplin

 Janis will be celebrated

Focusing on an American music tradition

the DuSable Museum and the Chicago Blues Museum join forces to present The Soul of Bronzeville: The Regal, Club DeLisa, and The Blues. Chicago has many legendary blues and R & B musicians including Muddy Waters, ‘Howlin’ Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, and Buddy Guy that have contributed to the Chicago blues sound...

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Lucille

 Chicago Blues Museum