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The most robust event of the last three years. Neltner designs the Third Annual Deep Blues Festival poster. Each year building on the last. Unique ties to the music and a visual tradition spill forth in his visual interpretation and … Continue reading
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The Second Annual Deep Blues Festival was very fortunate to have poster designer, artist, Amy Jo create the 2008 poster. Her artwork and understanding of the music clearly and visually defines the influence of the original music on this new … Continue reading
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The Third Annual Deep Blues Festival sported the largest and most ambitious combination of performers. 2009 spanned several days relocated to The Cabooze, an in-town venue, with indoor and outdoor stages. Many of the 2007 and 2008 performers made a return. Some … Continue reading
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2008 expanded to three days. Black Diamond Heavies, Scott H. Biram, Chris Cotton, John Schooley, Smokestack and the Foothill Fury came back for another year. Friday afternoon, performers from all four points including coastlines and mountains converged on a central destination. With … Continue reading
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Rick Saunders has been listening to, writing, following and researching Deep Blues with a prolific passion. With this lengthy cast, he had something to say about the artists. “I don’t just make a song and say ‘It is good.’ Just … Continue reading
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by Ted Drozdowski, Jan.27 2009 for Gibson Lifestyle “When music fans talk about underground sounds they’re usually referring to indie rock, electronica, crunk or some other cutting edge form. But now blues has become a new force in the international … Continue reading
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Deep Blues Festival 2009 – Gravel Road, Seattle WA “GRAVELROAD emerged from its hidden-in-plain-site womb ‘round 2005. The music that had begun under the influence of modern Dark Blues masters Jr. Kimbrough, RL Burnside, T-Model Ford, and Fred McDowell was … Continue reading
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Deep Blues Festival 2009 – T-Model Ford “T-Model’s credentials are impeccable; if anything he’s over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. T-Model thinks he’s seventy-five but isn’t sure… On … Continue reading
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Festival Preview and Interview: Deep Blues by Ira Brooker, June 1 2009 for Made Loud “…As difficult as it must be for mega-fest organizers to wrangle all of their various stars and stages, their more understated brethren face a different, possibly … Continue reading
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Deep Blues Festival: Making it safe for the blues to be dangerous again, an interview with Chris Johnson by Christopher Bahn, J. Diers, July 14, 2009 for A.V. Club Twin Cities “It’s fitting that the Deep Blues Festival began three years ago … Continue reading
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Minneapolis poster artist Amy Jo has curated a poster series for the the Second Annual Deep Blues Festival. Amy Jo commissioned 10 of her favorite local and national poster artists to design a poster for 10 of the musical acts that … Continue reading
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Posted here, just a tiny, tiny taste of 2008 and 2009. Hezekiah Early and Elmo Williams T- Model Ford and GravelRoad Mark “Porkchop” Holder Black Diamond Heavies and a few old friends Left Lane Cruiser Charlie Parr Robert Cage and … Continue reading
