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Colne Rhythm & Blues Festival 2008
Jim's Acoustic Blues Café
Presented by Mississippi Max Haymes

  Saturday, 23rd August  
  1.30pm - 2.00pm BARRELHOUSE BARBARA THOMAS
Her debut at Jim’s and low-down and classy, and I mean classy, blues from Bessie Smith on down!
 
  2.00pm - 2.30pm DAI THOMAS
Scorchin’ Delta Blues on an old steel gittar. And a whole lot more besides!
 
  2.30pm - 3.00pm LONESOME AL
Mellow an’ easy blues with some real nice finger pickin’ too-don’t you know?
 
  3.00pm - 3.30pm DAVE SPEIGHT
East Texas blues guitar with keening vocals-check ‘im out!
 
  3.30pm - 4.00pm TBA
 
 
  4.00pm - 4.30pm PROFESSOR FRANK
Blues piano an’ boogie to beat the band and hear him holler them old ’44 blues’ –my hook’s in the water!
 
  4.30pm - 5.00pm LYNN BREEZE & THE RADIO RHYTHM RIDERS  
  Mo’ ver’ fine women’s blues with hot fiddle +old string bass. Ah! Beat it out, gal!
 
  5.00pm - 5.30pm WMD
Hellhound Rex and Hoot Owl Robin do Delta blues-hokum-Texas-on down. With guitars, harps, washboards & kazoos.
Also introducing 14-year old
HARPMAN JACK He’s frightnin’ how he can blow that thing. Sure glad I don’t play!
 
  5.30pm - 6.00pm ALLAN JONES
 Oh! Take us away back down that river, boy.
On the Rappahannock- Blind Blake, Ramblin’ Thomas, you name it- he’s got it.  One mean an’ cool axe-swingin’ daddy!
 
       
  Sunday, 24th August  
  12.30pm - 1.00pm J.J.-JUMPIN’ JEFF
Excellent guitar man - a star from The Robert Gillow, Lancaster - I mean this cat is good!
 
  1.00pm - 1.30pm DOUBLE ‘D’
Another debut at Jim’s with twin guitar blues in tradition of Memphis Minnie/Kansas Joe, Garfield Akers/Joe Calicott, Frank Stokes/Dan Sane,
et al. Rare in acoustic blues today.
 
  1.30pm - 2.00pm BLUES EXPERIENCE
Rob and Mark  with bootin’ sax, rolling boogie piano and eldritch guitar!
Now, dig this!
 
  2.00pm - 2.30pm C.D. JAMES
Some strong vocals from Chris and fine slide – where do all these fine cats come from??
 
  2.30pm - 3.00pm CHARLIE MITTON
Fine finger-pickin’ an some tasty slide from a guy who knows the Blues
 
  3.00pm - 3.30pm DAVE KING
Beautiful and sensitive rural blues with his easy rider/box/axe. This is mighty fine I tell you people - just mighty fine I tell you. Mmm-mmm!
 
  3.30pm - 4.00pm WENDY & TERRY
Blues from Memphis Minnie thru Charley Patton & Cab Calloway to boot! These cats have talent + feeling! Have mercy now. I mean just what IS wrong with the Mill??
 
  4.00pm - 4.30pm KEITH DAVIS
A blues slide guitar king from Bristol - nope not Tennessee. Don’t miss this cat!
 
  4.30pm - 5.00pm BANJO SLIM
Blues cats don’t just play guitar, don’t you know.  Nossir! Martin can pick along with the rest but he also plays a steel banjo-mandolin that takes you right back to Third an’ Beal - I mean down in Memphis “Ten with the ‘C’ ” PLUS a stormin’ banjo from Papa Charlie Jackson on down. Like what’s happening? He’s too much!
 
  5.00pm - 5.30pm GRAHAM ROBINSON
They keep on comin’, good blues-diggin’ peoples. Graham dishes out way-down in Bull City (Durham, North Carolina) blues to beat the
band. Have yew got the ‘Thousand Women Blues???
 
  5.30pm - 6.00pm TBA
 
 
       
  Monday, 25th August  
  12.30pm - 1.00pm TBA
 
 
  1.00pm - 1.30pm TBA
 
 
  1.30pm - 2.00pm TBA
 
 
  2.00pm - 2.30pm SPICE ‘N GUMBO
With pie-anner and accordion-ala Walter Rhodes? Shades of Loosey-ana!
We got ‘em all!
 
  2.30pm - 3.00pm TBA
 
 
  3.00pm - 3.30pm GYPSY BILL WILLIAMS AND DEL
One of finest blues singers with wicked guitar an’ throbbing bull-fiddle. Welcome back Bill and Del - it won’t be long now!
 
  3.30pm - 4.00pm TBA
 
 
  4.00pm - 4.30pm PETE RYDER
Swinging ragtime guitar man. I mean cross the Rappahannock - yes!
 
  4.30pm - 5.00pm LUNE VALLEY SKIFFLE GROUP
Remember skiffle? Well it goes back to the Blues in the 1920s.
Wotta lineup:

ROSIE
(vocals, kazoo, various percussion), STEVE (vocals, gtr.,)     LAWRENCE (gtr.), ADRIAN (double bass), ROBIN (washboard).
‘Cos the Blues will make you happy too - yes indeed!
 
  5.00pm - 5.30pm NIX PIXIE
Nicole with some real cool  laid-back blues from Bessie to Julie London - oh! Cry me a river, gal.
 
  5.30pm - 6.00pm DAI THOMAS
Some mo’ heavy Delta blues at its finest and very sensitive stuff from Blind Gary Davis, Luke Jordan, etc.
 
       

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