Acoustic Blues at Jim's Cafe

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John Peel OBE, 1939 - 2004

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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