Showing posts with label Laura Chavez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Chavez. Show all posts

Saturday, August 12, 2023

#628: Chickenbone Slim - Damn Good and Ready (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)

 


2023 – Vizztone Label Group

By Phillip Smith; Aug. 12, 2023

 Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

 

San Diego-based musician Larry Teves aka Chickenbone Slim has returned to Greaseland Studios to record his fifth release Damn Good and Ready.  The album is a cocktail of all-original blues and rockabilly with a cool-as-hell vintage sound.   It is quite obvious why he was awarded the 2022 San Diego Music Award for “Best Jazz/Blues Recording”.  With Christoffer Kid” Anderson engineering, mixing, and mastering this twelve-track recording, Chickenbone Slim is joined by Laura Chavez (2023 Blues Music Award winner for Best Blues Guitarist) on guitar, Marty Dodson on drums/percussion, Justice Guevara on electric and stand-up bass, and Kid Anderson on everything else.

Loaded with a fistful of musical badassery and a searing blues riff, Teves’ homage to the wonderous lifeforce H2O has me hooked with “Drink Me”.  “Rather Be Up” follows up with sweet twangy tones and a western delivery.  It’s a beautiful song, and draws me in tight.  From the first smokin’ guitar lick Chavez drops, title-track “Damn Good and Ready” is pure unadulterated blues, and sounds absolutely wonderful.  With a fearless vocal delivery, Slim belts out “Ice in My Whiskey”.  Chavez truly shines on this favorite track.  It is songs like “Ty Cobb’s Chiclets” which put a spotlight on Teves’ songwriting mastery.  This suspenseful tale of a baseball legend and his false teeth unfolds with a splash of surf guitar, and I dig it immensely.

Chickenbone Slim’s Damn Good and Ready is a one-of-a-kind album and I highly recommend it. 

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Note: 

I caught Chickenbone Slim live in Memphis this past May performing at Rum Boogie CafĂ© on Beale Street for the Vizztone Blues Music Award Showcase, and had the opportunity to speak with him a bit while we were waiting for Uber rides at the end of the evening.  That was very cool.  The next evening, I attended the Blues Music Awards where Laura Chavez was awarded Guitarist of the Year.  Being the first female to be honored with that prestigious award in the forty-four years they have been held, will hopefully begin a new trend.  It was a special moment, and I am very happy she won.   

         


Visit Chickenbone Slim’s webpage at https//chickenboneslim.com to purchase Damn Good and Ready.

Monday, May 29, 2023

#616 : Blues Music Awards Showcase - May 10, 2023 (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)



Blues Music Awards Showcase

Presented by BratGirlmedia

Rum Boogie Cafe

Memphis, Tennessee

May 10, 2023

 

Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

 

For many years, I've been wanting to visit Memphis for the Blues Music Awards.  I finally made it down for that this year on May 11.  It was an amazing experience. 

On May 10th, the evening before the BMA's, I attended a music showcase presented by BratgirlMedia at Rum Boogie Cafe on Beale Street.  The event featured a prestigious lineup of blues musicians.  It served as a fund-raiser to benefit John Nemeth who underwent surgery last year to have a tumor removed from his lower jaw.  It was an extraordinary event to say the least.  If heaven has a juke-joint, I imagine it would be a lot like this.

Without camera in tow, I still captured a few photos of this fabulous event on my iPhone.  

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* all photos by Phillip Smith



Jon Hay & Ben Levin

Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin, Rodd Bland, Jon Hay,
Richard Rosenblatt, Ben Levin

Rodd Bland, Jon Hay,
Richard Rosenblatt, Ben Levin

Bob Margolin, Rodd Bland


Lil' Jimmy Reed, Ben Levin

Rodd Bland, Jon Hay, Lil' Jimmy Reed

Dylan Triplett, Bernard Terry

Sean McDonal

Dylan Triplett and band


Sugaray Rayford

Sugaray Rayford

Sugaray Rayford

Sugaray Rayford, Dylan Triplett


Dylan Triplett

Stephen Hull

Dylan Triplett

Dylan Triplett

Dylan Triplett

Nick Savage, Dylan Triplett,
Sean McDonal, Ryan Marquis


John Primer

John Primer


John Nemeth

John Nemeth

John Nemeth

John Nemeth

John Nemeth

Matthew Wilson,Gaye Adegbalola,
Richard Rosenblatt

Bob Margolin

Gaye Adegbalola, Richard Rosenblatt

Gaye Adegbalola, Richard Rosenblatt

Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola, Richard Rosenblatt

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson

Laura Chavez

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson

Laura Chavez

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson

Jason Ricci, Kaitlin Dibble, Matthew Wilson

Jason Ricci, Kaitlin Dibble, Matthew Wilson



Paul DesLauriers, Annika Chambers

Gary Davenport

Paul DesLauriers, Annika Chambers

Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Bob Margolin, Matthew Wilson, Jason Ricci,
Dennis Gruenling

Bob Margolin, Jason Ricci, Billly Branch,
Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling


Bob Margolin, Jason Ricci, Billly Branch,
Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Billly Branch,
Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Laura Chavez, Chickenbone Slim,
Matthew Wilson

Matthew Wilson