F ree Liv e Music Schedule - Blues Devils Band

3rd Annual Costa Rica Blues Fest, 2010
Texas Johnny Brown & The Quality
Blues Band, Houston, Texas
Robie Clark & The Live Wire Blues
Band, Austin, Texas
Electric Storm, Uruguay
Blues Devils
Calacas Blues
3 for Blues
The Known Associates
Autómata
Saturday February 27th, 11 am
Club Cubano, Guachipelín de Escazú
Tickets for sale on January 9th at:
Bar Motorpsychos, Santa Ana
Rock and Roll Bar & Grill, Santa Ana
The New York Bar, San José
Brad´s Grille, Santa Ana
Chi-Chi´s , Escazú
Bansbach, San José y Multiplaza
Mac´s American Bar
Bar Poás, San José
Chicharronera Rancho Alegre, San
José
El Club Cubano, Guachipelín de Escazú
Advanced tickets 13.000 colones,
16.000 at the door
The Costa Rica Blues Fest, now on its 3rd year is
back. The Festival is an annual event that follows
the tradition of the blues festivals that take place
during the summer in various locations throughout
the U.S. and Europe, characterized by being
Texas Johnny Brown
event for all ages, outdoors in a pleasant climate,
in which families and friends can enjoy a good
BBQ, drinks and of course music.
Texas Johnny Brown is truly one of the legendary
figures of the American blues scene. Johnny began
his professional musical career in Houston
in the mid-1940s with Amos Milburn's "Aladdin
Chickenshackers". Johnny played guitar on many
of Milburn's recordings on Aladdin Records, and
Milburn and other members of his band backed
Johnny during his Atlantic Records recording
session in 1949. Johnny also appeared on Ruth
Brown's first Atlantic Records recordings which
were cut during those sessions.
Johnny toured with Bobby "Blue" Bland and Junior
Parker in the 1950s and 1960s as guitarist
and band leader and was a studio musician for
Houston's Duke/Peacock Records. He recorded
a number of his own compositions for Duke/Peacock,
including Snakehips and Suspense, and
his distinctive guitar style graced the recordings
of numerous other Duke/Peacock blues
artists, including Bland, Parker, Lightnin'
Hopkins, Larry Davis, Lavelle White, Buddy
Ace and Joe Hinton. Johnny also
wrote the beautiful blues classic, Two
Steps from the Blues, which was one of
Bland's biggest hits.
Three of Johnny's original songs from his
Atlantic recording session, There Goes
the Blues, Bongo Boogie and Blues
Rock, were included on an Atlantic compilation
of blues guitarists in 1986. Johnny
recut There Goes the Blues for Nothin'
But the Truth, his debut full-length CD,
which was released in 1998 by Choctaw Creek
Records. Nothin' But the Truth also marked the
first time that Johnny recorded Two Steps from
the Blues himself. Nothin' But the Truth was nominated
for a W.C. Handy Blues Award (1999)
for Comeback Album of the Year and received
Real Blues Magazine's Real Blues Award as Best
Texas Blues CD (New) and Best Independently
Released Blues CD for 1998.
Choctaw Creek Records released Blues Defender,
Johnny's critically-acclaimed second CD,
November 2, 2001. Blues Defender contains ten
original compositions by Johnny and a beautiful
rendition of Lil Green's In the Dark.
Since Johnny returned to music full-time in 1991,
he and his Quality Blues Band have performed in
the United States, Canada and Europe, and have
played many prestigious festivals, including the
Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington, D.C.;
the Chicago Blues Festival; the Pocono Blues
Festival; the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival;
the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival; the
Lucerne Blues Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland; the
King Biscuit Blues Festival; the Telluride Blues
and Brews Festival; the Blues Estafette, Vredenburg,
Utrecht, The Netherlands (Johnny only);
the W.C. Handy Blues Awards Festival, Memphis,
TN; the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival;
the Cincy Blues Fest; the Blues Masters at the
Crossroads Festival, Salina, KS; the Hayward/
Russell City (CA) Blues Festival; the Baltimore
Blues Festival; the Bluestock Festival, Memphis,
TN; the Molde Blues Festival, Molde, Norway; the
Long Beach Blues Festival; the Charles Brown
Day of Remembrance Blues Festival, Texas City,
TX; the Bowie Street Blues Festival, San Antonio,
TX; the Houston International Festival; the Houston
Juneteenth Blues Festival; SXSW, Austin, TX;
the Bluebonnet Blues & Fine Arts Festival, Marble
Falls, TX: and the Mardi Gras Galveston Festival.
Johnny was honored as Blues Artist of the Year
at the Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton Blues
Festival September 22, 2001 in Houston, TX,
and September 22, 2001 was declared Texas Johnny
Brown Day in Houston. He has also been
featured on the cover of Juke Blues magazine
(England) and Southwest Blues magazine, in
Soul Bag magazine (France) and several times
in Living Blues Magazine. Johnny has won numerous
Houston Press Music Awards for Best Blues,
Best Guitarist and Best Male Vocalist. Johnny is
still touring, recording and going strong, or as he
would say, he's still "defending the blues".
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