McKeesport Blues Extravaganza

Great long night of the blues last Saturday night, starring Piney Brown, now in his seventh decade singing the blues.

That's James Hilton, a great guitar player whom I had never heard before, on the left, and Jeff "Head Bone Daddy" Ingersoll playing bass on the right. Don't know the drummer.

Here's me with Bobby Wayne, who sounded great singing a couple of Bobby Bland songs that I used to do: Black Night and Don't Cry No More.

I sang "Aretha, Play One For Me" solo with Jimmy Britton, who was on stage most of the night with all the artists who appeared--in additon to Piney Brown and Bobby Wayne, Annie Sutton, Jimmy Adler, and the crowd pleaser of the evening, young Guitar Zack Weisinger, formerly with Jill West & Blues Attack, recently back from the W.C. Handy Awards where he won the Alber King award for most promising guitarist, and poised to rule the world.

The high point of the night for me was Annie Sutton's amazing version of the Jerry Ragovoy song "You Don't Know Nothing About Love." I had never heard Annie before, but she is amazing (she did at least one LP with Felix Cavaliere and the Young Rascals). One of these days, after I stop monopolizing all the time at the studio, maybe Jeff will finish a CD with Annie--I guarantee you it will be good.

We'll be in Altoona on Saturday night at Burgi's Roundhouse at 9:30, playing all the songs from the new CD and lots of the old faves too. Central Pennsylvanians: be there!

Thanks to Rebecca for the photos.

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