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(Standard Speaker) Alison Briggs didn't want a Woodstock-like concert in her family's backyard, when her husband, Richard, proposed the idea well more than a decade ago. Now, she sees the Briggs Farm Blues Festival as a legacy for her grandchildren - the 11th generation living on the working family farm which dates back to 1760.
Across the road and down the hill from the Briggs' 135-year-old farmhouse, a grassy farm field acts as a natural amphitheater for the legendary performers taking the main stage and introducing a new generation to the blues.
Headlining the 15th anniversary festival July 6 and 7 will be Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater on Friday night and Bernard Allison on Saturday night. Also featured on the main stage will be Moreland & Arbuckle, Rory Block, Linsey "Hoochie Man" Alexander and crowd-favorite, The Alexis P. Suter Band.
Lonnie Shields ~ Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater ~ Alexis P. Suter
The Butterfield Blues Band, featuring original member Sam Lay and Jimmy Vivino of the Conan O'Brien Show, will take the main stage early Saturday evening celebrating the late Paul Butterfield, who died 25 years ago.
Paul's son, Gabriel, handpicked performers coming together in this tribute, which is the first in a series of shows beginning at the Briggs farm and ending in the Catskills of New York, where the Butterfield Blues Band took the stage in front of a half-a-million people at another music festival on Max Yasgur's farm in 1969. "Paul Butterfield created the first integrated band of the 1960s and when the first Butterfield album came out, they bridged the gap bringing white audiences to black music greatly changing the course," Gabriel Butterfield said in an email interview. "All the members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to this day still keep changing history."
He hopes a documentary on his father's life, part of which will be filmed at Briggs, will tell "a story that needs to be told about a musician who played a pinnacle role in music history, including the first electric band that backed Bob Dylan."
...On the Back Porch, the more-intimate, second stage at the festival, performers often chat with the audience, sharing blues-born tales of life on the road.
Lonnie Shields, no stranger to the Briggs festival, will perform on the Back Porch both Friday and Saturday nights as well as cooking up Mississippi Delta-style barbecue the way his family did in his native Arkansas. "The secret is love," Shields said of his family's slow-cooked meat and his own "Lick the Bone" barbecue sauce.
Pulled pork, baby-back ribs, smoked chicken wings, homemade cole slaw and roasted sweet corn are on the menu along with fresh, hot macaroni and cheese - a first this year, Richard Briggs said. But for those with a sweet tooth, desserts such as stacked-high strawberry shortcake and pecan pie will also be included ...
... The festival which attracts more than 4,000 people from around the world and has featured more than 170 regional, national and international blues artists since its inception that almost never materialized.
"In the beginning, he wined and dined me to let me know this was what he was asking," Alison Briggs recalls. "This is our backyard. It took some convincing ... But Richard had a vision." Fifteen years later, that vision has become a family business that the couple is passing onto the next generation of Briggs, their grandchildren.
... "It is a legacy."
Rules: No pets, no kegs, no glass and no chainsaws (happened ... once, Briggs said.)
For more information or to order tickets, visit www.briggsfarm.com.
The guitar of R. L. Burnside, hill country blues boogie master, is now part of our collection.
The Museum has also acquired the guitar of Michael James, "Dr. Mike," who taught in our Arts and Education program.
African instruments were donated by Acoustic Africa.
There were few real surprises among this year's group of Blues Music Award nominees. There were a number of landmark albums in the blues released during 2010, among them Charlie Musselwhite's excellent The Well, Janiva Magness's The Devil Is An Angel Too, Eden Brent's Ain't Got No Troubles, and Buddy Guy's Living Proof, among others, and the aforementioned artists received multiple nominations apiece. Several artists, including Robin Rogers, John Nemeth, Tad Robinson, and Shemekia Copeland, all received one or more well-deserved nominations, and overall this year's crop of talent is pretty dang impressive. Winners are listed in bold type.
Blues Music Award nominees and winnters for 2011:
Acoustic Album of the Year
The Nighthawks - Last Train to Bluesville
Paul Oscher - Bet On The Blues
Eric Bibb - Booker's Guitar
South Memphis String Band - Home Sweet Home
Lucky Peterson - You Can Always Turn Around
Acoustic Artist of the Year
John Hammond
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Guy Davis
Paul Oscher
Album of the Year
Buddy Guy - Living Proof
Eden Brent - Ain't Got No Troubles
The Mannish Boys - Shake for Me
Janiva Magness - The Devil is an Angel Too
Charlie Musselwhite - The Well
B.B King Entertainer of the Year
Buddy Guy
Janiva Magness
Joe Louis Walker
Kenny Neal
Super Chikan
Band of the Year
Derek Trucks Band
Magic Slim & the Teardrops
Nick Moss Band
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats
The Holmes Brothers
The Kilborn Alley Blues Band
The Mannish Boys
Best New Artist Debut
Matt Hill - On the Floor
Chris O'Leary Band - Mr. Used to Be
Claudette King - We're Onto Something
Peter Parcek 3 - The Mathematics of Love
The Vincent Hayes Project - Reclamation
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Buddy Guy - Living Proof
Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King - Have Blues Will Travel
John Nemeth - Name The Day!
Karen Lovely - Still The Rain
Janiva Magness - The Devil Is An Angel Too
Contemporary Blues - Female Artist of the Year
Robin Rogers
Candye Kane
Janiva Magness
Karen Lovely
Shemekia Copeland
Contemporary Blues - Male Artist of the Year
Buddy Guy
Joe Louis Walker
John Nemeth
Kenny Neal
Nick Moss
DVD of the Year
Luther Allison - Songs From The Road
Various Artists - The Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Concert
Tail Dragger - Live at Rooster's Place
Watermelon Slim & the Workers - Live at Ground Zero Blues Club
Mac Arnold - Nothing to Prove
Historical Album of the Year
Bob Corritore & Friends - Harmonica Blues
Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop - Chicago Blues Buddies
Various Artists - Jimmy Dawkins Presents the Leric Story
Junior Wells & the Aces - Live in Boston 1966
Luther Allison - Songs From The Road
Best Instrumentalist - Bass
Bob Stroger
Bill Stuve
Larry Taylor
Patrick Rynn
Steve Gomes
Best Instrumentalist - Drums
Cedric Burnside
Jimi Bott
Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith
Robb Stupka
Tony Braunagel
Best Instrumentalist - Guitar
Derek Trucks
Duke Robillard
Joe Louis Walker
Kirk Fletcher
Ronnie Earl
Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica
Charlie Musselwhite
Bob Corritore
James Cotton
Kim Wilson
Paul Oscher
Best Instrumentalist - Horn
Eddie Shaw
Big James Montgomery
Doug James
Keith Crossan
Terry Hanck
Best Instrumentalist - Other
Sonny Rhodes - lap steel guitar
Gerry Hundt - mandolin
Johnny Sansone - accordion
Otis Taylor - banjo
Rich Del Grosso - mandolin
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Dr. John
David Maxwell
Eden Brent
Henry Butler
Mitch Woods
Rock Blues Album of the Year
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band – Live! In Chicago
Steve Miller Band - Bingo
Walter Trout - Common Ground
Nick Moss - Privileged
Derek Trucks - Roadsongs
Song of the Year
Tom Hambridge & Buddy Guy - "Living Proof" (Buddy Guy - Living Proof)
Bruce Iglauer, Wyzard & David Kearney – "Please Mr. President" (Guitar Shorty - Bare Knuckle)
Steve Gomes - "Rained All Night" (Tad Robinson - Back In Style)
Charlie Musselwhite - "Sad and Beautiful World" (Charlie Musselwhite - The Well)
Dennis Walker & Alan Mirikitani - "Still the Rain" (Karen Lovely - Still The Rain)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
Solomon Burke - Nothing's Impossible
Denise LaSalle - 24 Hour Woman
Tad Robinson - Back in Style
The Holmes Brothers - Feed My Soul
Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges - Live In San Antonio
Arthur Adams - Stomp the Floor
Soul Blues - Female Artist of the Year
Irma Thomas
Barbara Carr
Claudette King
Denise LaSalle
Sista Monica Parker
Soul Blues - Male Artist of the Year
Solomon Burke
Bobby Rush
Curtis Salgado
Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges
Tad Robinson
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Joined At The Hip
James Cotton - Giant
Duke Robillard - Passport To The Blues
The Mannish Boys - Shake For Me
Charlie Musselwhite - The Well
Traditional Blues - Male Artist of the Year
Charlie Musselwhite
Alabama Mike
James Cotton
Magic Slim
Super Chikan
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues – Female Artist of the Year)
Ruthie Foster
Eden Brent
Reba Russell
Sue Foley
Teeny Tucker
Zora Young
A 1948 Gibson L-5P sold for $82,960, well above its presale estimate of $20,000 to $30,000. And a replica of a prized Clapton guitar that duplicates the cigarette burns and belt buckle scratches found on the original sold for $30,500 at the auction.
The sale at Bonhams New York included 75 guitars and 55 amps from the British artist's collection and brought in $2.15 million. Proceeds were to benefit a drug and alcohol treatment center Clapton founded in the West Indies.
The 65-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is a recovered addict who established the nonprofit Crossroads Centre in Antigua in 1998.
The replica Fender Stratocaster "Blackie" guitar is inscribed in silver felt pen with "Eric Clapton 2010." The original "Blackie" sold at Christie's in 2004 for $959,500. It was the most expensive guitar ever to be sold at auction, said Bonhams' expert, Carey Wallace. The Los Angeles-based Guitar Center bought it.
Other Clapton guitars sold even better than the "Blackie" replica Wednesday.
An original custom-made black Fender "Eric Clapton" signature Stratocaster sold for $51,240, including the buyer's premium. It had been used during the Cream Reunion Shows in New York and London in 2005. Its presale estimate was $20,000 to $30,000.
The amp with the loudest sale price was a pair of 1997 Fender Twin Amps, estimated at $9,000 to $12,000. They sold for a booming $42,700.
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band rocked the Blues world by coming in second in the 2007 International Blues Challenge in Memphis- competing against 100 other bands.
The Youngest Blues Band in America with Kyle (aged 14 on Bass guitar), Taya (aged 10 on drums) and Ryan (aged 16 on lead guitar and vocals)!
Youngest band to ever be nominated for a Blues Music Award.
"Saya bermain musik tidak peduli apa," kata Guy, saat ia menoleh ke belakang pada masa mudanya. "Tapi aku tidak melihat karir dari itu, karena saya tidak berpikir saya cukup baik. Saya bermain gitar karena cinta musik. Saya tidak melihat saya membuat kehidupan yang layak keluar dari bermain gitar. Aku tujuh puluh empat-tahun-dari sekarang. Ketika aku berusia lima belas tahun-tahun, Anda tidak bisa mencapai di luar sana dan menemukan pemain gitar berbuat baik seperti sekarang ini, di mana beberapa pemain gitar membuat jutaan dolar. Apakah tidak ada hal seperti itu. "
Ia melanjutkan, "Anda melihat Arthur Crudup dan Lightnin’ Hopkins dan mereka fellas seperti T-Bone Walker: mereka adalah orang-orang yang sedang bermain musik blues itu, dan aku membayangkan mereka akan membuat cukup untuk membeli sebotol anggur atau mungkin mendapatkan hamburger atau sesuatu seperti itu, tapi mereka tidak akan seperti itu. Saya merasa senang pertemuan Lonnie Johnson - Aku tidak bertemu Robert Johnson - tapi aku bertemu Fred McDowell, Son House dan orang-orang seperti itu, dan aku bertemu mereka sebelum mereka meninggal dunia, dan mereka hanya turun di Mississippi bermain untuk minum pada akhir pekan - apa yang mereka sebut Goreng Ikan Sabtu Malam. Aku seperti mengatakan aku ingin melakukan itu, karena itulah yang ingin saya lakukan. Aku tidak mengatakan suatu hari aku akan berbicara dengan Anda dan membuat kehidupan yang layak keluar dari bermain gitarku. "
Guy ingat yang memerintah dari gaya liar bermain dengan pendiri Chess Records Leonard Catur - sampai Chess mulai mendengar musik yang sama yang dimainkan oleh seniman Inggris tahun 1960-an.
"Mereka tidak akan memberi saya kesempatan sampai orang-orang Inggris meledak, kemudian Leonard [Chess] kembali - saya pikir itu mungkin empat atau enam bulan sebelum ia meninggal dunia - dan ia dikirim Willie Dixon ke rumah saya. Dia berkata, 'Pergi mendapatkan [sumpah serapah]' - jika Anda tahu apa yang saya maksud - Dan aku turun dan dia berkata, "Man, kau sudah berusaha untuk memberikan hal ini sejak Anda dan membawa dia." datang ke sini dan kami itu [sumpah serapah] terlalu bodoh untuk mengerti. Dan itu menjual, dan itu panas, karena orang-orang Inggris bermain itu.
"Dan ia mengenakan rekaman, saya pikir oleh Hendrix atau Cream, dan kemudian dia berkata," Kau datang ke sini sekarang dan melakukan apa yang Anda inginkan. "Dia tidak tinggal terlalu lama setelah itu. Tapi aku masuk ke sana melakukan itu, karena saya disalin bahwa barang-barang dari Guitar Slim akhir dan T-Bone - mereka sedang memakai sebuah acara dengan gitar. Aku tidak sebaik pemain gitar seperti beberapa orang-orang seperti Wayne Bennett, Matt Murphy, Earl Hooker - aku bisa terus - tapi aku masih menganggap diriku di sekolah. Ketika saya melihat Muddy dan BB dan mereka bermain, aku bahkan tidak ingin mereka tahu aku di rumah setelah mereka harus tahu saya, karena saya ingin menyelinap masuk dan menonton mereka dan belajar sesuatu. "
Bohren akan menyajikan dokumenter pemenang penghargaannya kinerja untuk Down the Dirt Road Blues di Sekolah Dasar dan Sekolah Menengah Merritt pada Kamis, 13 Januari 2011, serta Moorhead Middle School dan Indianola Akademi pada Jumat, Januari 14.
Museum akan menjadi tuan rumah, kinerja dan penerimaan dengan Spencer Bohren pada Kamis, Januari 13 pukul 19.00 WIB untuk acara ini akan tersedia malam - $ 5 untuk anggota, $ 10 untuk non-anggota.
Atau masuk GRATIS dengan menghadirkan tanda terima tanggal setiap saat pada 2011/01/13 dari restoran Indianola. Bohren adalah penerima 2010 dari The Blues Foundation Menjaga penghargaan Blues Alive yang mengakui individu atau organisasi yang telah memberikan kontribusi signifikan terhadap dunia Blues.
Untuk mempelajari lebih lanjut tentang Spencer Bohren, kunjungi situs resminya. Untuk daftar lengkap acara mendatang BB King Museum, download PDF kita Winter / Spring Kalender Peristiwa 2011.
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