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B.B. King and Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Hollywood Bowl
All photos by Billy Bennight for The Los Angeles Beat With a last minute call I got the opportunity to witness something I thought would not ever happen for me. I would see B. B. King, the...
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One Night with Janis Joplin: Opening Night at the Pasadena Playhouse
Randy Johnson and Mary Bridget Davies. All photos by Billy Bennight for the Los Angeles Beat Out of the hurly-burly cultural revolution of the 1960′s that changed America and manifested itself in...
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Coco Montoya to Headline Ventura County Blues Festival and Bike Run for...
Michael John and Bottom Line. Photo by Ed Simon for The Los Angeles Beat. Michael John is passionate about the blues. “The blues is America’s music. Everything comes from the blues, any of the rock,...
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Coco Montoya Talks About the Blues, His Story and The Upcoming Ventura County...
Blues guitar great Coco Montoya didn’t start out as a great guitarist. In fact, he didn’t start out as a guitarist at all. He instead was a talented drummer whose first major gig was as a drummer with...
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Ventura County Blues Festival Was a Day of Great Music and Great Fun
Coco Montoya and Joey Delgado. Photo by Ed Simon for The Los Angeles Beat. Saturday was a blustery day, but that didn’t stop the crowd at the 10th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival from having a...
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The LA Beat Interview: Hollis Brown
Hollis Brown is a tuneful and bluesy band with an edge. This rootsy Indie Rock band hails from Queens, NY whose name is inspired by Bob Dylan, referring to “The Ballad of Hollis Brown” off of the...
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Canned Heat’s Fito de la Parra Talks about the Blues, Canned Heat, Woodstock...
When Fito de la Parra started playing drums as a child, he had no idea where it would take him. He only knew that he loved playing. Ultimately, his musicianship brought him to Los Angeles, where he...
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Canned Heat Headlined a Great Day of Music in the Hi Desert at the Inaugural...
On a sunny afternoon in the high desert town of Adelanto, an enthusiastic crowd gathered for a full day of music and fun at Mavericks Heritage Field at the inaugural Adelanto New Blues Festival. The...
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Bluespower Brings a Synthesis of Blues, Rock, Funk and R&B to SoCal’s Music...
Bluespower is a recent collaboration of local musician/music teacher/music store owner Kenny “Big Daddy” Williams and Gregory Michael, who left Cincinnati several years ago to bring his...
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Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials to play upcoming show in Camarillo: Ed talks...
Last week, Ed Williams of Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials talked with me about many things. Lil’ Ed spoke from his longtime home in Chicago about music, Chicasgo blues, the band, his recent album Jump...
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This Weekend’s Long Beach Bayou Festival Will Have You Putting on Your Zydeco...
The South is the birthplace of two of the major types of indigenous American music, blues and Zydeco. Both were born and grew in people’s yards, in fields, roadhouses and at family get-togethers. This...
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Jeffrey Halford and the Healers Bring Their Bluesy Rock ‘n’ Roll to Genghis...
The roots of rock and roll stretch back to the rootsy, bluesy Americana music that developed in the cities, fields, shacks and bayous of America. One of the best musicians keeping this bit of...
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Upcoming: Ascencia Urban Blues Festival Featuring Walter Trout/Guitar Shorty
If you’re a lover of The Blues, and you know I am, then you do not want to miss this. On Saturday August 29, Raleigh Studios is hosting the best damn blues-fest this side of the Crossroads festival....
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Upcoming: Booker T. Jones and Black Joe Lewis at UCLA Royce Hall
Photo courtesy of UCLA On Friday, December 4th at 8pm, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA will present Booker T. Jones and Black Joe LewisRoyce Hall. It can be argued that it was Booker T. Jones...
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Win Tickets to See Booker T. Jones and Black Joe Lewis at Royce Hall Friday...
Five lucky LA Beat readers will each win a pair of tickets to the historic Booker T. Jones and Black Joe Lewis concert at Royce Hall – Fri, Dec 4 at 8PM. Just leave a comment below (naming your...
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Joey D Talks About The Upcoming Ventura County Blues Festival, The Delgado...
The 11th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival is coming up on April 30th. Riding high on their 1st Place win at the 2016 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, the Delgado Brothers are this year’s...
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2nd Annual Malibu Guitar Festival Presented by D’Angelico’s Guitars
This weekend starts early in Malibu for music and “guitar” fans! This year’s 2nd Annual Malibu Guitar Festival, presented by D ‘Angelico Guitars will be 4 days of guitar playing mayhem and magic...
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Blind Lemon Peel Talks About the Upcoming Pop-Up Blues Festivals
One of the most dynamic and exciting bands these days is the Blind Lemon Peel All Stars. On June 9th, they will be holding their first ‘Pop-Up Blues Festival’ at Harvelle’s in Long Beach. Blind Lemon...
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2nd Annual Malibu Guitar Fest: 4 Days Of Guitar Worship And Amazing Music!
The Malibu Guitar Festival is in its second year and boasts an impressive list of musical artists, mostly and obviously guitarists, who have been influentially known for their craft or have been...
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Cool Stuff Going On This Weekend – Simi Valley Cajun And Blues Music Festival
Just in case you haven’t made the trip to your local grocery store and succumbed to the long lines of suburbanites vying for that last bag of charcoal, there are lots of things going on in and around...
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