26 Jul 2005

Ed Polcer: Improvising His Way to Fame

By Mike Schulz
For Ed Polcer, bandleader and performer with the much-loved swing ensemble Ed Polcer's All Stars, a musical career shouldn't have come as a surprise. He hails from a horn-playing family - his father performed weekends at the Majestic Theatre in Patterson, New Jersey, and his uncle was a jazz musician who toured with Benny Goodman's orchestra.
26 Jul 2005

Evolver

By Jeff Ignatius
What started as a joke isn't so funny any more. For one thing, the threat of legal action hangs over Michael Tierney and his band. For another, his four-piece outfit is successful - and notorious - beyond what anybody could have expected based on its roots.
28 Jun 2005

Festival Performers from the Past

By No Author
A.C. Reed: 1989 Aaron Moore: 1997 Albert Collins: 1993 Algia Mae Hinton: 2001 Alley Gaiters: 1986 Alvin "Little Pink" Anderson: 2002 Alvin Youngblood Hart: 1998, 2002 Andy Bush: 1993 Ann Peebles: 1992 Ann Rabson: 1999, 2004 Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets Featuring Sam Meyers: 1988, 1995 Anthony Gomes: 2001 Archie Edwards: 1993 Armstrong, Bogan, & Armstrong: 1989 Aron Burton & Jack Johnson: 1995 Audrey & The Blue Kats: 1991 B.
28 Jun 2005

Undeterred and Aiming to Please

By Jeff Ignatius
Magic Slim is somebody who refuses to be denied. He started out playing piano, but in a cotton-gin accident he lost a finger on his right hand - "the main finger," he said - and couldn't manage the instrument. Also when he was a child, he built a guitar with baling wire from a broom, and "my momma beat my ass," Magic Slim said in a recent phone interview.
28 Jun 2005

Saturday, July 2, Tent

By No Author
Deacon Burton & the Victory Travelers - 2 p.m. Starting in 1991 with the Blind Boys of Alabama, top-notch gospel choirs have been featured at Mississippi Valley Blues Festivals. The Mississippi Valley Blues Society learned about the Victory Travelers thanks to Otis Clay.
28 Jun 2005

Recipients of the Mississippi Valley Blues Society's RiverRoad Lifetime Achievement Awards

By Administrator
The purpose of the RiverRoad Award (as the Mississippi Valley Blues Society [MVBS] "a river runs through it" guitar logo attests) is to honor those artists who have devoted their lives to bringing what we call "river" blues - music that runs deep with emotion, like a river of the soul - to anyone they meet on life's highways.
28 Jun 2005

Friday, July 1, Tent

By No Author
Joe Price - 5 p.m. Joe Price comes from Waterloo, where he first began to play slide guitar using a slide he sawed from the handlebars of a neighbor's bike. Pretty old-school for an Iowa boy. He found his way to Iowa City, where he managed to solidify his craft when blues legends such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Honey Boy Edwards, and Hound Dog Taylor passed through town on their Midwest tours.
28 Jun 2005

Saturday, July 2, Bandshell

By No Author
The Mercury Brothers - 2 p.m. The Mercury Brothers are Memphis-bound in early 2006 to compete in the International Blues Challenge after winning the local blues challenge and the Iowa Blues Challenge.
28 Jun 2005

Sunday, July 3, Tent

By No Author
Daniel Burnside - 2 p.m. Opening on the tent stage at 2 p.m. on Sunday will be Blue Grass, Iowa's own Daniel Burnside. Originally from Como, Mississippi, Daniel is the son of legendary bluesman R.
28 Jun 2005

Friday, July 1, Bandshell

By No Author
The Tablerockers - 5 p.m. The current band is based in northwest Arkansas and premiered in December of 2001. It features Jason Davis on guitar and vocals, Texas native David Watson on drums, and Larry Boehmer on bass.

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