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Baton Rouge Blues Week
Baton Rouge Blues Week is April 19-26, 2008. Check out this amazing line-up we have coming.
Friday, April 19: Chris Thomas King
Monday, April 21: Chicago Al and the Backburners
Wednesday, April 23: The Mike Foster Project
Friday, April 25: The Legendary Eddie Bo
Saturday, April 26: Henry Gray
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Deke Dickerson: Monday, April 28
Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King (Wikipedia)
Grammy-winning New Orleans musician and actor Chris Thomas King, who lost his Uptown New Orleans home and studio to Katrina did what any blues artist would do, he wrote a song about it asking the question “What Would Jesus Do?” He wrote and recorded the song which leads off his […]
Papa Grows Funk
Papa Grows Funk
Idle Monday nights led to a full-time gig for John “Papa” Gros.
In 2000, the keyboardist worked steadily as a member of George Porter Jr.’s band, co-leader of the rock band MuleBone and as a solo act on Bourbon Street. To fill his open Monday nights he launched an informal New Orleans funk project, […]
Dumpstaphunk w/ Grimy Styles
Dumpstaphunk
“…some of the nastiest, most serial crushing funk ever to come out of New Orleans and beyond.”
Featuring Ivan Neville, Nick Daniels, Tony Hall, Raymond Webber and Ian Neville.
Grimy Styles
Following the Jamaican “dub” tradition of remixing reggae tracks into effects-laden instrumentals, Grimy Styles set out to employ this notion to all their beloved genres of music. […]
Mike Foster Project
The Michael Foster Project has been a long standing group in the Baton Rouge area. The group, led by bassist Michael Foster, has featured some of the most talented musicians in and around the Baton Rouge area. Starting at Southern University in the late 80’s, Foster envisioned a group that would showcase the talent of […]
6 Pack Deep
Six Pack Deep MySpace page
The band 6 Pack Deep hails from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 6PD has a unique mixture of musical styles that would delight the senses of any true music lover. Its roots are derived from a bevy of local defunct bands, the major ones being The Krewe and Rye. The horn section of […]
Alan West Brockman w/ The Moonhangers
Alan West Brockman
Born in a goat sack in Katmandu in the mid-70s, Alan West Brockman is just now coming of age in north Louisiana. Nestled in the Haight / Ashbury district of Monroe, LA, he can’t help but find himself surrounded in an idealistic songwriting haven.
“Pure, raw, unadulterated shit kicking music”, Rolling Stone, January 2007.
“Have […]
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, a big man with an impeccable urban fashion sense, who blows the funk out of his trombone and refuses to let the audience sit still. Between solos and trombone riffs, Big Sam second-lines (a uniquely New Orleans style of street-dance) and gets the crowd […]
Mike Foster Project
The Michael Foster Project has been a long standing group in the Baton Rouge area. The group, led by bassist Michael Foster, has featured some of the most talented musicians in and around the Baton Rouge area. Starting at Southern University in the late 80’s, Foster envisioned a group that would showcase the talent of […]