NEW GUY AT KMHD, BLUES FESTIVAL STUFF, NEW SCHNEIDERMAN REMIX,, LOTSA STUFF

While listening to a radio station from Port of Spain, Trinidad. It's WACK, the best call letters for a station since I tried to get a rich drug dealer to buy a station in Baltimore so I could re-name it WRAT.

I found it last night and got hooked. I wish there were some Trinidadians in Portland, they throw awesome cabarets. If you hear of any, please let me know. When I lived in Baltimore,I hung out with some guys from Trinidad who had a real steel band. Yes, of course I did a story on them. They let me sit in one night. They were very nice to me. Didn't even laugh.

I found the station here via my friend Art Levine. You can listen to stations from all over the world. Now that's real world music.

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OPB FINDS A COOL GUY TO MANAGE KMHD!

I'm not going to get in trouble and spill all the beans before they make a public statement but I got wind of their choice last week. I visited the site of his current station and did a big WOW!! I thought, this is going to be fun!

If he does the things here that he's doing there, we're in for a great ride. Found out he's heard my show and likes it, too. So I'm hoping The Bar stays open.

He gets to town in three weeks.

Can't wait to meet him. I'll have more to say when they make it official. But maybe I've said too much, haven't said enough.

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BLUES FESTIVAL WEEK!!!!!!!!!

I don't know about you but I've been finding that people are more excited about it this year. Maybe it's the crappy economy, or the Oregon summer, but I'm glad to see it. Spirits seemed to be a little bit down. Not this year.

When I posed the question on FB, Int'l Male's waggish Adam McIsaac said, "More people have the blues this year." Others said things like "totally pumped!!!"

Tip of the hat to KINK and KMHD's Steve Pringle who has the difficult job of assigning the (unpaid) MC's. Everybody wants to MC for their favorites. I am thrilled to get to intro Big Sam's Funky Nation on Sunday.

I'll also be introducing Ken DeRouchie, who will have the spectacular LaRhonda Steele singing with him, also Sonny Hess's all-star NW Blues Women, AND Karl Denson.

If you haven't gone to the Candlelight to see LaRhonda's regular Thursday nights, you're missing out. I mean, where else can you hear somebody sing a Spinners song and mean it!

David Vest axed me to MC the NW Blues Pianorama show at the Marriott on Thursday night at 10….part of the Festival but separate admission. They've got FOUR piano players this year…David, DK Stewart plus Janice Scroggins and Steve Kerrin who lots of people haven't heard yet.

I'm looking forward to seeing Loose Marbles. I wrote abut them in the tabloid the O gives away at the Festival. I've been playing them on the radio….including Postage Stamp from their album The Royal Rousers.



See you there!

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ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU WANT TO KEEP A SECRET SO YOU CAN STILL GET IN THE DOOR

Tony Ozier's Wednesday nightfunk/soul jam at a new (and little) club called Calabash in the 800 block of SW 2nd Ave is absolutely the coolest thing in town. It's like you stepped into a different town. Reminds me of clubs I've been in n the East Coast. Very diverse crowd. That means there are Black folks there. Felt like home. The stage takes up half the space. The whole thing rocks.

I ran into a lot of Portland's best musicians there, who just came to dig it and sit in. Liv Warfield was there. She's about to go back out on the road with Prince…she told me the Montreux Jazz Festival is part of the tour. She had to cancel a gig at Jimmy Mak's to do it. Not that there was any question.

Rod Nightingale was there, too. Just ran across a new video from Madgesdiq and Rod's C4Influenz band performing "Love is The Key" when they opened for K'Naan at Berbati's Pan.



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KEITH SCHREINER AKA AUDITORY SCULPTURE IS BACK AT EAST

…on Thursday nights. He gave me some new stuff he's done and some remixes of the Stephanie Schneiderman album. You can download them on his MySpace page.

Here's the remix of Dangerous Fruit, the title tune. Knocked me out.



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JAZZ AT THE MISSION?
Between sets at Jimmy Mak's the other night, Ben Darwish told me that things are looking good for weekly jazz Tuesday nights at The MissionTheater. How about that? Dinner, music and a movie under one roof! Daters take note.

btw….Drew Shoals is coming back to town! Watch for gigs.

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Nuff for now. OK, one more thing…Dinah Washington singing Bessie Smith.



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