Sunday Evening 31st July 2011
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Dennis Locorriere  -  Mike Sanchez and his Band
 

The surprise of the day and a fish out of water, or as he said a cheese at a cholesterol convention, Dennis Locorriere the former Dr Hook singer. Dennis said that he was surprised to be booked at a blues festival, but in true professional manner he delivered the goods and held the audience for all of his one hour set. Dennis accompanying himself on guitar performed a range of songs from his solo career and of his time with Dr Hook. He related how good it was to work with the great song writer Shel Silverstein. Songs included “Unchain My Heart”, “Freakers Ball”, “The Right To Walk Away”, “My Lazy Day” a song about whinging, “Penicillin Penny” including the riff from “Norwegian Wood”, “Yesterdays Blues” and a song written for his son “Shine Son”. Dr Hook songs featured were “I’ve Got A Couple More Years Baby”, “Lucy Gordon” and “Queen Of The Silver Dollar”. The deserved encore consisted of two Dr Hook songs “Cover Of The Rolling Stone” and the one everyone was waiting for “Sylvia’s Mother”.  

The festival was closed by the UK’s own Mike Sanchez and His Band featuring Mike on piano supported by guitar, bass, drums and a horn section. The band delivered a great set of rhythm and blues, rock’n’roll and good time boogie. Material was from a broad church of R&B related music ranging from Fats Domino, Nappy Brown, Slim Harpo, Jerry Lee Lewis and Howlin' Wolf. Songs included “Monday Morning”, “What’s In Your Frying Pan”, “Come On”, “The Symphonia B”, “Down The Road Apiece”, “Ready Willing And Able”, “I’m A Coal Miner”, “Everybody’s Got A Buick”, “Hip Shaking Baby”, “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”, “How Many More Years”, “ The Wild One” and “Yamma, Yamma Pretty Mamma”. The show finished with an encore which included “Tallahassee Lassie”.  It was good to have a closing performance which didn’t feature overly long guitar solos which seemed to dominate most of the festival on Saturday.  

All in all this year’s line up was not as strong as previous festivals, however the Sunday session lifted the festival which up to then had been very mediocre. Attendance at the Marquee was greatly reduced from previous years mainly due to the lesser line up. 
 

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