From: Bottleneck Blues [john_at_bottleneckblues_dot_com]
Sent:
21 March 2007 16:05
Subject: FW: Tues
27th March ~The Roffen
Importance: High
OK folks the next gig looms....with just a few seats
left so please email me if you want a guaranteed seat otherwise you
can just turn up on spec & take pot-luck.
This looks to be a great fun night...quite different
from the last (excellent) gig with Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges but equally
virtuosic.
Richard Studholme's The
Blue Devils don't have a web-site
yet but I assure you his band & sound are superb...he'll be doing numbers
that are a little more "mainstream" than I usually present...there'll be obscure
stuff too & traditional numbers from Jimmy Reed,
Freddy King, T-Bone Walker & Sonny Boy but he's found
some really great, less often played tracks, from the likes of
Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley......so some
"proper" R&B....not that rubbish they play on MTV & call
R&B...featuring semi-naked women with horribly taught bodies covered in
tramp-stamps...sensuously rubbing themselves against a hopelessly muscled guy
dangling anchor chains from his neck (if he's lucky to have one!)....er
sorry...I digress.
And so....onto the opening act....The Groanbox Boys from New York......wonderful
early blues, mountain music, jigs & Americana in the Carter Family
mould. Stuart (for it is he), a kinder, less cynical
& more uncurmudgeonly person you'd be hard put to meet ~ owner of Oranges, Ashford ~ has had these
guys & assures me they blew the joint away.....check out www.groundboxboys.com for a sample
of their music.
As we have two acts to fit in I will be
starting the evening at 8:45pm.....please try to be there in time....I'll keep
tables & chairs until just before the start but unless you text me on
07702 554989 or email me to advise of a later arrival I will release your
table/seat to someone else.
The Bottleneck Blues
Club
The Roffen, Rochester....approaching our
12th year!
Tues 27th March ~ Doors 8pm, waitress
service, non-smoking. pogo-ing area....wine & dine to World Class music
every month!