Hello John,

Well like I said, Im'a put everything Buddy says in this newsletter. He continues to blow me, and countless others, away with his showmanship and total Blues music.

Nobody like him these days. But I did see and hear Mr. Sipp in Flag. He's got it going on.

Me and my pal James Becker saw Eric and Robby Friday night at the MIM. I usually see Eric at the RR and the BS'ers at the back always talk all during his set. Th see and hear those guys in a totally different environment was a treat. Great show. ( Oh yeah, did you know Eric won the IBC this year?)

Plenty to do Out & About this week. Go dsee and support!

Have a week!

Jim Crawford

Phoenix Blues Society

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Damn Right

by Jason Landry

J L: That's crazy.

BG: Yeah. . .it's almost like the music we listen to. You know, I'm not jumpin' your questions but B.B. King, Ike & Tina Turner, Muddy Waters, I could go on and on. This country didn't know who and the hell they was until the British started playing the blues and coming back here. It exploded and it was like, The British are Coming, The British are Coming, and they said--no, no no, you wait a minute--you had this--all the time, you just didn't know. There was a television show in the 60's called Shindig and they were trying to get The Rolling Stones because they were getting bigger than bubble gum. And Mick Jagger finally said I'll do it if you let me bring Muddy Waters on and then they asked Mick Jagger who in the hell is that? And he got offended. He said, you mean to tell me that you don't know who Muddy Waters is--we named ourselves after one of his famous records. And that became the first time we saw him on television. We owe those guys a lot of thanks for that.

JL: I want to ask you a question pertaining to your friend, the late B.B. King. What is your most memorable moment with him?

BG: I was playing at a famous club in Chicago called the 708 club. I had watched Guitar Slim before I left Louisiana and I went there with a hundred-foot chord and I just went on the stage and then started jumping off the stage. And one night around 1957/1958 I made enough noise for myself for them to put me in their club. I looked in the audience and he walked in and sat down at a table. I was like, oh my god, I don't know what to play. During a break I tried to avoid him, but he called me over. And he sat down and told me that you were the only one who could play as close to me as anyone that I've ever heard. And I just went home that night and cried. That coming from B.B. King meant a lot. I made a comment to the group Foo Fighters and to Dave Grohl like I did to B.B. King: that I was looking for a dime and found a quarter instead.

JL: There have been a select number of noted musicians who have taken young, aspiring players under their wings and mentored them. Who was the first guitar player that you mentored?

BG: Well I didn't know I was doing it because quite a few people have came to me, but the latest one is Quinn Sullivan. I met him when he was seven years old. When you find someone at seven years old who could play like that kid--and I looked down at him and he started playin' I said I gotta unplug this amplifier because that can't be you, man. When Eric Clapton had his Crossroads Festival at Madison Square Garden, I sneaked him in there. Eric and everyone else was looking at me like, what the hell are you doing? And the first note he hit, Jeff Beck, Eric, and all the rest clapped their hands and asked, where the hell you get him from?

Buddy and Quinn. Photograph by Jason Landry

JL: How has mentoring these musicians changed or personally affected you?

BG: A lot, because you know it takes these kinds of young men and young women to keep this music that we have dedicated our lives to alive. Even before they started playing so much music on your music television shows you didn't see no older fellas with wrinkles on their face--now they look for youth, man--and good looks. It also helps sell records especially with the young women. The older you get--move out the way. Let the young people keep the wheel rollin'.

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OUT & ABOUT

Tuesday, July 5

Carvin Jones, 6 p.m., What the Hell Bar, Mesa

Gypsy & Hooter’s Blues JAM, 6 p.m., Pho Cao, Scottsdale

Wednesday July 6

Carvin Jones, 6:30 p.m., Old Brass Rail, Phoenix

Tool Shed JAM, 7 p.m, Blooze Bar, Phoenix

Johnny Miller JAM, 7 p.m., Hooper’s, Glendale

Thursday, July 7

Hans Olson, 6 p.m., Handlebar Pub, Apache Junction

Friday, July 8

Sugar Thieves, 8p.m., Rhythm Room, Phoenix

Hoodoo Casters, 5 p.m., Mountain view Pub, Cave Creek

JC & The Rockers, 6:30 p.m., Fuego @The Clarendon, Phoenix

Tommy Grills Band, 8 p.m., West Alley BBQ, Chandler

Blues Review Band, 8 p.m., Wandering Donkey, Scottsdale

Carvin Jones, 7 p.m., Fire & Fury, Phoenix

Saturday, July 9

House Party w/Geo Bowman & Friends, 8 p.m., Rhythm Room, Phoenix

Cold Shott & The Hurricane Horns, 7:30 p.m., Westside Blues & Jazz

Sugar Thieves,6 p.m., Kazimierz, Scottsdale

Hoodoo Casters, 6 p.m., American Legion Post 34, Cave Creek

Big Daddy D & The Dynamites, 8 p.m., Montezuma’s Tavern, Prescott

Blues Review Band, 7 p.m., Sound Bites, Prescott

Sunday, July 10

Carvin Jones, 2 p.m., Chilleens On 17, Black Canyon City

Big Daddy D & The Dynamites, 3 p.m., Bird Cage, Prescott

Monday July 11

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