Doc’s Juke Joint

7pm Hour – Little Walter/Juke/Best of /Chess Records

Pete Anderson/Stop Me /Even Things Up/Vizztone **Pete will be at Abilene on Friday, August 19th & at the Sportsmen’s Tavern in Buffalo on Aug. 22.

Ana Popovic/Business As Usual/Unconditional/Eclectogrove **NEW Ana will be at the Chenango Blues Festival on August 20th and at the Sportsmen’s Tavern on Aug. 21st.

Joe Louis Walker/Mile High Club/The Best of Mustique Blues/Wolf Records  **NEW compilation of artist performing at the Mustique Blues Festival – Island of Mustique in the West Indies.  www.wolfrec.com

Leon Russell/A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall/Forest Gump Soundtrack  **catch Leon with Bob Dylan this Tuesday at CMAC

Ironing Board Sam/Self Rising Flour/Going Up/MusicMaker   *NEW from New Orleans legend www.musicmaker.org supports aging blues musicians.  You can help them by helping MusicMaker.org

Kenny Neal/Voodoo Mama/Hooked On Your Love/Blind Pig Records   *Kenny will be a the Ramada Inn in Geneva on Wednesday, August 17th.

Johnny Rawls/Blues Woman/Memphis Still Got Soul/Catfood Records    *Johnny Rawls returns to the Dino BBQ on Wed. Aug. 17th.

Rockin’ Robin Blues Band/Steal Away/Rockin’ Robin and A Bucket of Blues/Independent   * catch Rockin’ Robin at the Clarissa Street Reunion – August 20th, downtown Rochester at Clarissa and McRee Way.

Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers/Ain’t Gonna Do It (Dave Bartholomew)/Feel The Heat/Independent    * Jimmy will be at the Sportsmen’s Tavern on Saturday, August 13th.

Yvonne Schmidt/Daddy Is A Rocker/FoolProof/Independent  **NEW

Linsey Alexander/If You Ain’t Got It/If You Ain’t Got It/www.lindseyalexander.com  *NEW

Grand Canyon Rescue Episode/Abilene/Dirt Road Highway/Independent *NEW local release

Chris Thile & Michael Daves/Loneliness and Desperation/Sleep With One Eye Open/Nonesuch Records **NEW (bluegrass)

Mikey Jr/Pocket Full of Money/It Ain’t Hard To Tell/8th Train *NEW

Anthony “Swamp Dog” Clark/One More Mile To Go/Raw/Independent  www.anthonyswampdogclark.com *NEW

Mighty Sam McClain/You Don’t Know Nothing About Love/One Drop Is Plenty/Independent *NEW

David GoGo/I Found A Love (Falcons/Wilson Pickett cover)/Soul-Bender/Cordova Bay *NEW

Ana Popovic/Slideshow (Instrumental with Sonny Landreth)/Unconditional/Eclecto Groove *New

Mike Zito/Motel Blues/Greyhound/Eclecto Groove *NEW

Bill Bourne & the Free Radio Band/Forever Truly Bound/Bluesland/Linus   *NEW from Canada

Detroit Frank DuMont & the Drivin’ Wheels/The Stumble (Instrumental – Freddie King)/Live Blues/Independent *NEW

Thank you for listening to Doc’s Juke Joint – Next Week we will be featuring our Chenango Blues Festival Special.

North Carolina is a hot bed for the blues and blues preservation. The Music Maker Relief Foundation was formed to provide assistance and recognition for struggling and relatively unknown blues musicians. At the of age 79, guitarist/vocalist John Dee Holeman can still pick and jam with the best of them. The new release by John Dee Holeman, entitled “You Got To Lose, You Can’t Win All The Time” (Music Maker), captures the true melodic Piedmont blues sound once covered by Blind Boy Fuller. Holeman demonstrates that he can also capture the Texas blues style of such artists as Lightnin’ Hopkins as he displays on his cover of the Hopkins classic “Mojo Hand.” Other favorites on John Dee’s new recording are: Early Letter Blues, One Black Rat, John Dee Jam and the title track – You Got To Lose, You Can’t Win All The Time.”

Like so many blues artists, it sometimes requires a driving force or younger guiding light to bring out the true essence and talent of a hidden blues treasure. Zeke Hutchins, drummer in Tift Merritt’s alt-country band is the producer, drummer and arranger of this new release. Tift Merrit joins Levon Helm, B.B. King and Bonnie Raitt to name a few as board members of the Music Maker Foundation.

Other musicians influenced by Holeman joined the cast to produce this solid blues recording (Tim Duffy: acoustic guitar, Cool John Ferguson: rhythm electic guitar, Jay Brown: bass & Slewfoot: harmonica). John Dee Holeman was born in Orange County, North Carolina in 1929. As well as being a blues musician he is a storyteller and dancer. Besides this latest release you can also look for “Bull Durham Blues” also on the Music Maker label. Save an artist, support the blues and upgrade your blues collection by bringing home this “winner” today.

Greg “Doc” Lefebre