Chainsaw Dupont
AUDIO: Click here to listen to Chainsaw Dupont playing Saccharine
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If you can’t go on the Chicago Blues Tour on Saturday, you can try out the Blues Shuttle, which departs from the Congress Hotel on Friday night. It’s a mini-tour version of the Blues Tour, departing from the Congress Hotel Tap, 520 S. Michigan Ave. BLUES WOMEN, GUITAR, & HARMONICA:
3- 1/2 hour Blues Shuttle departs from the Congress Hotel and includes admission & transport to the following shows:
 Blues guitarist Samantha Fish The world-renowned Rosa’s Lounge hosts a special traveling Showcase of Kansas City blues talent, featuring KC’s young sensation, blues guitarist Samantha Fish with special KC guests Lewis Cowdrey (guitar & harmonica), John Drum (harmonica)  Lewis Cowdrey (INCLUDED: admission, your first beer, wine, or well drink)
 Blue Chicago Catfish Corner has hosted live blues every weekend for years, with a cast of performers drawn from all over the west side. Shorty’s West Side All-Stars run the gamut of blues styles, and you can’t beat the catfish flllet or the fried okra there either! JAN. 15 — 3 CLUBS, 3 BANDS, 1 DRINK SOME TIPS ON HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THE BLUES TOUR: 1. If you wait 20 minutes at a club and there’s no music, get on the next bus and come back later. 2. If there’s an empty seat — get on the bus! 3. If the club you’ve arrived at is overcrowded — get on the bus! 4. If your friends couldn’t get tix for the same departure as you, of if they arrived late — meet up later at Rosa’s, Lizzie’s, or Taste, where there are two bands, and which are “hubs” of the shuttle routes 5. Don’t try to outsmart the tour — the bus schedules are intended to move people around, but NOT for point-to-point travel. If you just keep moving, you will get to a lot of clubs, but if you try to “force” going to the clubs in a specific order, you may end up seeing less music and spending more time riding on buses. 6. Around midnight, start figuring out where you want to end the night. You should try to start working you way toward your final destination at midnight. At the end of the night, all buses return downtown, but if everyone is jammed into the same locations, there will be delays while buses shuttle back and forth, so help us out by keeping the crowd distributed. (see #3 and #2 above). WEATHER OUTLOOK We are getting pretty damn lucky for January in Chicago — it’s going to be mid-30s, i.e., above freezing (!), and there is no precipitation in the current forecast. Evening low of mid-20s means all in all, pretty good for this time of year in this latitude.
Fantastic L-Roy VIDEO: AUDIO: Click here to listen to Leave Our Love Alone by Fantastic L-Roy  Travis Feaster Travis Feaster has built a strong following at the Slippery Noodle in Indianapolis by combining fierce guitar skills with strong original songs that feel like a blues-rock take on Southern Soul, and for a young guitarist he shows a lot of poise, rarely overplaying — which is the usual knock on blues-rock. His band sounds something like John Mayer doing SRV, backed by a funky rhythm section, which keeps the set danceable. The easy, Steve Cropper-esque soul guitar of “Out Of Time” would melt your heart all on its own, but coupled with the bittersweet chorus (“Our love done run out of time”), it sounds like nothing less than a forgotten Chicago hard-soul chestnut. He’s part of the “Young Guns of Blues Guitar” double-bill at Lizzie McNeill’s, which also features Noah Wotherspoon, and if you buy tickets from any of the 7:40 to 8:10 PM reserved departures, you’ll get to enjoy at least a portion of his early solo set, stripping down some of his own songs, and almost certainly some blues classics. He’s a formidable young talent, and since a handful of the “Guitar Heroes” will drop in during this period, you never know if some interesting duos might spontaneously occur.
You might also want to click this link to read Frequently Asked Questions, or click this link to see the list of performers and clubs. VIDEO: Travis Feaster on YouTube: WT Feaster Band playing Walk On AUDIO: Listen to Travis Feaster’s “Out of Time”:  Noah Wotherspoon Noah Wotherspoon works the blues idiom in some interesting ways. Imagine T.Rex meets Delta Blues via Beck. Add in some rough ‘n ready guitar crunch, and lyrics that ride the traditional blues themes of lost love, betrayal, and slangy observations, and you’ve got an idea of the potent mix Wotherspoon cooks up. He’s not a traditional blues artist by any means, although he’s fully capable of playing classic Delta songs, and that’s what makes his records so irresistible — there’s something comfortingly familiar about them, but the parts are put together in a way that makes it all fresh. He’s an energetic guitarist who has internalized the blues in a way that allows him to inject it into his songs without the cliche structures that turn so many people away from blues. When a guy can write a lyric like “Detox / I want her out of my body / Like battery acid flowing through my veins / She burns my heart“, you can’t tell me he ain’t a bluesman. He’s part of a “Young Guns of Blues Guitar” double-bill at Lizzie McNeill’s, which also features Travis Feaster. They are just two of many guitarists on this year’s tour, which showcases a wide variety of guitar style, and also includes Toronzo Cannon, Chainsaw Dupont, Vance Kelly, Killer Ray Allison, Samantha Fish, and Lewis Cowdrey. If you buy tickets from any of the 7:40 to 8:10 PM reserved departures, you’ll get to enjoy at least a portion of the early solo set by Travis Feaster as well.
You might also want to click this link to read Frequently Asked Questions, or click this link to see the list of performers and clubs. VIDEO: Noah Wotherspoon on YouTube:  Lewis Cowdrey If you get a ticket for the 8:00 or 8:10 departures, they’ll drop you right at the Taste, the “southside hub” of the tour.
You might also want to click this link to read Frequently Asked Questions, or click this link to see the list of performers and clubs. If you want to get tickets by mail, get ‘em today…Ticketweb’s mail-out deadline is 8PM tonight for phone orders, midnight for orders placed online. Order today to avoid will-call surcharges. The earliest departure available is 7:40 PM to Rosa’s, available at Ticketweb, and those are nearly sold out, so beat the rush and order them now. Call 866-468-3401 before 8PM CST to order, ask for the “Chicago Blues Tour” on January 16. You can also click the button below to order online until midnight and still receive tickets by mail.
 Samantha Fish Twentysomething Samantha Fish, in town with the visiting Kansas City Blues Caravan, packs a surprising double-punch. She’s a powerful vocalist in the Janis Joplin vein (which means, for those with a longer perspective, the Esther Phillips vein), but she’s also a promising blues guitarist, which still has some novelty for blues women today. What’s particularly strong about her talent, though, is that for such a young artist she has a very mature control of performance dynamics, rarely pushing a song outside its boundaries, avoiding the melodramatic pitfalls that many young blues musicians, male and female, have made into a near-cliche over the years. She’s earnest without being cloying, and has a wide range both vocally and as a guitarist, which bodes very well for her future. She performs here on a double-bill altenrating with funk-soulmeister Super Percy, partnering with her fellow KC caravan mate Lewis Cowdrey, a lineup which should mean the night at Taste Entertainment Center will have something to please everyone. (8:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.) If you get a ticket for the 8:00 or 8:10 departures, they’ll drop you right at the Taste, the “southside hub” of the tour.
You might also want to click this link to read Frequently Asked Questions, or click this link to see the list of performers and clubs. AUDIO: Listen to Samantha Fish recorded live
If you get a ticket for the 8:00 or 8:10 departures, they’ll drop you at the Taste, the “southside hub” of the tour, just in time for Super Percy’s first set.
You might also want to click this link to read Frequently Asked Questions, or click this link to see the list of performers and clubs. Super Percy AUDIO: |
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