"I'm not sure there's an owner's manual to this business that can truly enlighten one," says blues musician Kelly Richey, "but I did know that I was the type of artist that wasn't gonna be happy if I couldn't do it my own way."
The guitarist and singer/songwriter is explaining her decision to form her own label - Sweet Lucy Records - and build what she calls "a very high-end studio" in her Cincinnati home. But she may as well be describing her career as a whole, as Richey has insisted on doing things her way ever since she picked up her first guitar - an electric one, no less - as a teenager.
"You
got a minute?" Drink Small asked me during our phone interview.
It's
only a slight overstatement to say that blues piano legend Henry Gray
has played with everybody who's anybody.
We
at the IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival are proud to open the
2007 Tent Stage performances with Memphis' own Robert "Wolfman"
Belfour.
If
you want to hear some of the best, most energetic boogie-woogie and
barrel-house blues piano around, make sure you get to the Fest site
early on Sunday for Doña Oxford. As Blues
Revue says, her work on the
ivories is "stunning."
