Billy Boy Arnold When Bo Diddley died on June 2, you might have heard a story about how that name came to be.

Billy Boy Arnold, the harmonica player and singer who will be performing with Jody Williams at Mississippi Valley Blues Festival (and who will be receiving the RiverRoad Lifetime Achievement Award), says he knows the real story.

Kilborn Alley Blues Band, 5 p.m.

 

Kilborn Alley is Andrew Duncanson (lead vocals, guitar), Joe Asselin (harmonica), Josh Stimmel (guitar), Chris Breen (bass), and Ed O'Hara (drums). They are 2007 Blues Music Award nominees for Best New Artist Debut and 2008 Blues Music Award nominees for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year. They will be opening the Blues Fest on the main stage and will also be the house band for the after-fest showcase.

Little Bobby & the Storm, 2 p.m.

 

Kent Burnside & the New Generation, 2 p.m.

 

Kent Burnside "I do some of my grandfather's stuff, but I up it a notch."

The Chris Avey Band, 2 p.m.

 

The Dodos The Dodos exist at the nexus of world music, country blues, heavy metal, and songcraft, and while it is as strange as it sounds, it's also pretty natural.

Billy Joel - The Stranger One of the most beloved albums of the 1970s, Billy Joel's The Stranger, get a labor-of-love reissue next week from Columbia Records' Legacy imprint. Celebrating 30 years since its original release and double Grammy win, the remastered edition is available in a book-style case boasting a live CD recorded at Carnegie Hall from June 1977, and in a special limited edition featuring a bonus DVD with promotional videos for the album's title track and "Just the Way You Are," and 10 songs filmed for the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test television show from the following March. Also looking back with a "bottle of red, and a bottle of white" is a 30-minute documentary on the DVD with Joel and producer Phil Ramone.

Justin Townes EarleJustin Townes Earle's debut EP, last year's Yuma, was a thrown-together affair, but it was a conscious component of his development.

"The whole point of Yuma was for me to go back to what I felt was the roots of being a singer/songwriter, which was back to Woody Guthrie ... an acoustic guitar and the song," Earle said in a phone interview last week. "That's something I felt like I needed to do to make the musical progression work properly. I'm very deliberate about what I do musically.

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