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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS of the FIRST
ANNUAL
"On To Memphis"
BLUES CHALLENGE:
 FOR BAND CATEGORY - 
 
 
SOLO/DUO CATEGORY:
 
  
 
BEST OF LUCK TO BOTH OF THEM
AT THE IBC
IN MEMPHIS, TN JANUARY 2010!

Thursday November 12

AT

 - WILBERT'S - 

A Benefit For The Cleveland Food Bank

With

Celebration of the 15 year Anniversary Of The Release Of

"I Got The Blues In Cleveland"

By Some of The Finest Blues Player In Cleveland

Produced By Craig Patterson

Starring-

Wallace Coleman
Austin "Walkin' Cane" Charanghat
Sweet Willie

Crazy Marvin
COLIN DUSSAULT'S BLUES PROJECT BAND, LLC

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 SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL & NATIONAL BLUES ACTS !
 

 
DISCOUNTED EVENTS
$3.00 OFF PRICE OF ADMISSION
WITH
CBS MEMBERSHIP
 FOR
EITHER SHOW
NON-member $20.00 adv / $22.00 dos
Ballroom | All Ages 

 
- OR -
 
 Special deal where you pay $30.00
and get a ticket for both Lonnie and the Coco/Tommy Castro show
 
 
NOVEMBER 13TH 
AT 7:00 PM

 

Opening Kristine Jackson 
  
  

Lonnie Brooks

Having forged a unique Louisiana/Chicago blues synthesis unlike anyone else's on the competitive Windy City scene, charismatic guitarist Lonnie Brooks has long reigned as one of the town's top bluesmen. A masterful showman, the good-natured Brooks puts on a show equal to his recordings (and that's saying a lot, considering there are four decades of wax to choose from).
Born Lee Baker, Jr. in Louisiana, Brooks took his time when choosing his vocation; he didn't play guitar seriously until he was in his early twenties and living in Port Arthur, TX. Rapidly assimilating the licks of B.B. King and Long John Hunter, he landed a gig with zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier (not a bad way to break into the business) before inaugurating his own recording career in 1957 with the influential swamp pop ballad "Family Rules" for Eddie Shuler's Lake Charles, LA-based Goldband Records. The young rock & roller -- then billed as Guitar Junior -- enjoyed more regional success on Goldband with the rocking dance number "The Crawl" (covered much later by the Fabulous Thunderbirds). Mercury also issued two 45s by Guitar Junior.
When Sam Cooke offered the young rocker a chance to accompany him to Chicago, he gladly accepted. But two problems faced him once he arrived: there was another Guitar Junior in town (precipitating the birth of Lonnie Brooks), and the bayou blues that so enthralled Gulf Coast crowds didn't cut it up north. Scattered session work (he played on Jimmy Reed's Vee-Jay classic "Big Boss Man") and a series of R&B-oriented 45s for Midas, USA, Chirrup, and Chess ensued during the '60s, as Brooks learned a new style of blues. The Guitar Junior sobriquet was briefly dusted off in 1969 for his Capitol album debut, Broke & Hungry, but its lack of success buried the alias for good.
By the late '70s, Brooks was gaining a deserved reputation as an exceptionally dynamic Chicago bluesman with a fresh perspective. He cut four outstanding sides for Alligator's first batch of Living Chicago Blues anthologies in 1978 that quickly led to his own Aligator debut LP, Bayou Lightning, the next year. Five more albums of his own for the firm and extensive touring cemented Brooks' standing as a Chicago blues giant. Son Ronnie Baker Brooks is a chip off the proverbial block, playing rhythm guitar in his old man's band and duetting on "Like Father, Like Son" on Lonnie's 1991 album Satisfaction Guaranteed. Brooks long association with Alligator Records continued into the late '90s with the release of Roadhouse Rules in 1996, which focused more on R&B than down-home blues, and Lone Star Shootout in 1999. The disc featured Brooks with fellow guitar slingers Long John Hunter and Phillip Walker playing together and solo in varied combinations of bluespower. ~ Bill Dahl & Al Campbell, All Music Guide
 
 
ON
NOVEMBER 16TH
at 7:00 PM
 
Tommy Castro Coco Montoya
 
TOMMY CASTRO
 
R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist Tommy Castro is one of the most popular and creative roots artists to emerge in recent years. Castro, winner of the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer Of The Year, is famed not only for his hard-hitting, impassioned vocals, soaring guitar...
 
 
COCO MONTOYA

Over the course of his 30-year career, guitarist and vocalist Coco Montoya's explosive guitar playing and soul-driven voice have propelled him to the upper reaches of the blues-rock world.
 
 
Tickets are 2-FOR-ONE
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Friday November 20

Jimmy Thackery And The Drivers