The Gramophone

KDHX FM 88.1 welcomes John Mooney (recently featured on Treme!)

Throughout the years John Mooney has developed one of the most distinctive and easily identifiable guitar and vocal signatures of anyone alive today. Part of the original impetus for his interest in music may have filtered down from his grandfather, a musician himself. “He used to play the mandolin and banjo back in the 20’s” says Mooney. “He even cut a couple of 78’s for the Peerless label that I’ve heard. It was really hot stuff, a kind of raggy jazz.“
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Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm

CEDRIC BURNSIDE, grandson of the legendary R.L. Burnside, son of drummer great Calvin Jackson, is widely regarded as one of the best drummers in the world. Growing up at his grandfather’s side, he began touring at age 13, playing drums for “Big Daddy” on stages around the globe. Cedric was born in 1978 and raised around Holly Springs, Miss., and has been playing music all his life, developing a relentless, highly rhythmic charged style with strong hip-hop and funk influences.

http://www.myspace.com/jukejointduo

Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. $10 ($8 advance using link below!), 18+.

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Highway Key Industry Night featuring Albert Castiglia + Treble Clef Palette & Brown Bottle Fever

Albert Castiglia (pronounced “ka-STEEL-ya”) was born on August 12, 1969 in New York. At the age of 5, his family moved to Miami. With a Cuban mother and an Italian father, he is an example of the melting pot of culture that is Miami. He learned to play guitar at the age of 12 and soon realized that the passions in his heart were expressed best by his music. Castiglia has a blues history.
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John Lee Hooker Jr.

Touring relentlessly in support of his debut album, Hooker Jr. and his band have shared the stage with legends such as BB King, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Lucky Peterson, Bo Diddley, Charlie Musselwhite, Koko Taylor, Johnny Johnson, Elvin Bishop, Ron Thompson, and Canned Heat to name a few. Their non-stop touring across the country, and internationally has included countries like Poland, The Netherlands, Austria, Montenegro, Holland and Czechoslovakia as well as Canada, Norway, Germany, Australia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium and more recently, Africa.

A style, he calls “2 parts R&B, 1 part jazz and “down home blues,” Hooker Jr. is carrying on a century-old family musical heritage – that he learned from his father John, Sr. – who in turn learned from his stepfather, Will Moore, a blues singer/guitarist who most influenced his guitar style. The CD pays homage to his dad, with remakes of his blues classics like, “Boom, Boom” and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” along with eight songs penned by Hooker Jr. that extol the trials and woes of the everyday working class. Stand out selections include “Suspicious” a gut-wrenching tale of heartbreak and deceit and the modern “Goin’ Down to Baghdad (Lookin’ for Saddam Hussein), as well as “The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ But a Pimp.” A marriage of old school blues funk mixed with hip-hop sensibility, that song was inspired by John Lee Hooker Sr. who said, “The Blues is a pimp because every time you have ‘em, you go do something or get something to get rid of ‘em.”

www.myspace.com/johnleehookerjunior

Door 8pm / Show 9pm /  $12 door

Rev Km Williams and The Amazing Trainreck w/ Eli Cook

KM Willimas is known as the Texas Country Blues Preacher; An actual ordained Minister that is also a Master of Texas Country Blues/Spirituals and Boogie Music. If you like RL Burnside then you know KM will tear it up

Doors 8pm
Show 9pm
$5 at the door

Cashman w/ Brown Bottle Fever

Not for the faint of heart is Cashman, purveyor of full-frontal downhome blues, as subtle as a tornado funnel or an artillery blast. On Texassippi Stomp, the music arrives courtesy of two guys, Ray Cashman (electric and acoustic guitars, dobro, percussion) and Grant A. Brown (harmonica), with the periodic assistance of the ubiquitous but unfailingly worthy Jimbo Mathus (bass, guitar, snare drum), who also produces. This is rude, raucous Mississippi juke-joint music, much less delta than hill country — the sort of raw approach whose then-surviving (and some since-deceased) native practitioners (including T Model Ford, R.L. Burnside, Paul “Wine” Jones and Robert Belfour) the Oxford, Mississippi, label Fat Possum famously recorded and promoted.
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Tab Benoit

Guitarist-singer Tab Benoit is the real deal. Born and raised on the Louisiana bayou, this self-proclaimed “new kid from the old school” has been the standard bearer for a new generation of Cajun blues musicians – a traditionalist and an innovator at the same time, grafting elements of rock and soul to the indigenous sounds of the bayou. And if dedicating his life to his musical roots weren’t enough, Benoit has also been a tireless crusader in recent years – prior to the devastation of hurricane Katrina but even more so since – for the preservation of the rapidly vanishing wetlands of his native region.
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Everett Thomas CD Release Show (Early Show)

With the lines of the artistry and industry being blurred together more everyday, singer/songwriters seem to get categorized as either full-fledged commercial superstars or pensive underground poets. St. Louis-bred/Wisconsin-based troubadour Everett Thomas certainly falls into that latter category, though he’s quickly ascending beyond a niche in-the-know to become one of the Midwest’s most authentic and accomplished tunesmiths who’s already opened for the lauded likes of Nickel Creek’s Sean and Sara Watkins, G. Love & Special Sauce, Over the Rhine, Lifehouse, The Wood Brothers and Matt Nathanson.

Everett Thomas CD is the early show
Doors 7pm
Show 8pm
$5 at the door

Davina and The Vegabonds

Davina and the Vagabonds are known in The Twin Cities, Minnesota as being the busiest band in town because of their hard-working professionalism, high energy stage performance, and original sound. They have shared the stage with Ruthie Foster, Pinetop Perkins, Aaron Neville, Gary Moore, 10 Years After, The Mannish Boys, Robert Cray, Los Lonely Boys, Scottie “Bones” Miller, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Ana Popovic, Lil Ed’ and The Imperials, Booker T and The MGs, Bobby Rush, Irma Thomas, James Hunter, and many others.

Davina and the Vegabonds Myspace

Doors 8pm
Show 9pm
$5 at the Door

Dave Herrero feat Felix Reyes and Los Carnales

Dave began playing music professionally at the tender age of 20 years old in Jacksonville, FL. Initially, he was largely influenced by Muddy Waters, Albert King and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, which (with the help of friend Seth Walker) prompted his move to Austin, TX.

Dave will be playing with Felix Reyes and members of Los Carnales. This show is the Blues City Deli 5th anniversary street fest pre party. Doors at 8 pm, Show at 9. $5, 21+