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OK, OK, we know, we know, there's a Big Wide World out there. Occasionally we even go visit parts of it. And there is blues to be had, Blues Beyond the Bay, so here is an EXTREMELY idiosyncratic line-up of blues artists we've heard and liked, liked a lot, like 'em still, and who lay down their grooves far beyond the sheltered environs of our beloved Left Coast.
First, and foremost, our own (formerly) Mike Locke:
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Canadian blues The Twisters Canada blues  www.twisters.ca |
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These guys,
from Vancouver, have to have about the coolest visual on the
bluesweb (above). Twisters Harp man Dave "Hurricane"
Hoerl is a San Francisco native and Bay Area blues veteran (he
learned from Mike Bloomfield and played with Sonny Rhodes too,
and his Mom still lives in the City).
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 new CD from Pippo 'Blues' Antonini covering the Tommy Castro classic, and others, with some righteous originals too
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'Bone' van den Heuvel second from the left at bottom left (and, it follows, all the way at left at top left). He is the BBR Band publicist... |
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Save for Ron Hacker, he was the best we saw at the festival there. |
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 We've seen Toronto-based Jack de Keyzer billed as Canada's best blues guitar player, and we can't argue. 'The Dutchman' plays his '59 Tele with an easy authority and assurance, with songs ranging from Robert Johnson and Otis Rush classics (his All Your Love is smooth and especially wonderful) to his own heavy line-up of often-funky originals. Jack de Keyzer's got at least four CDs, Wild at Heart, Down in the Groove, Hard Working Man and now, Six String Lover. Jack's not without ties (however tenuous, as he says he's never been to the Bay Area, hard as that is to believe) to San Francisco's finest: He got the opening slot in Toronto when our own Tommy Castro didn't make it for one night on the late-summer 2000 B.B. King tour. And Jack de Keyzer won a 1999 award from Real Blues magazine, which this year singled our own local slide ace Ron Hacker. Steve Freund knows Jack too So there. Ol' Dutch is practically one of us! 
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 We had the pleasure of hearing these guys 'way the hell out on Long Island a year or three back and they rocked. Their 'Get Fuzzy' CD is terrific. Check 'em out, they're on the net (click on a pic) ... and yes, they really do play in a luncheonette (or did) |
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We dig some bigger-and-should-be-bigger names too, and they ain't all pure bluesters (but mostly).
Artists we think VERY worth checking out include...
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 indispensable guide to the blues in Great Britain |
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