Article by Kevin Cummings Mid-Nite Bourbon is a three-piece band that came together in December 2021. Brian Olver (guitarist w / Palmer Junction, Boogie Chillin), Sean Peabody (Session bassist LA/Nashville/Muscle Shoals) and Devan Bland (drums [...]
CDs from some of our member bands. https://johnstephanband.bandcamp.com/album/talking-out-loud Joel Astley CD, 'Seattle to Greaseland' https://lnk.to/seattletogreaselandWE Billy Stoops & The Dirt Angels http://www.billystoops.com/ http://www.billystoops.com/music.html CD Woodbury https://www.amazon.com/CDs-Vinyl-CD-Woodbury/s?rh=n%3A5174%2Cp_32%3ACD+Woodbury Daniel [...]
Featured photo by Alex Brikoff The Mark DuFresne Band featuring Billy Stapleton is not your typical blues fare. This spectacular “show band” plays the material like a quintessential Chicago Blues Revue Band. This quartet is [...]
Featured Photo by Dan Hill, Article by Kevin Cummings I recently sat with Stapleton for a couple of hours at his home and it was truly a treat. We know of his guitar skills, but [...]
Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland TBD July 2025 . The Waterfront Blues Festival, long known as the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi River, is a tentpole event on Portland’s summer calendar. [...]
Featured Image by Ilona Berzups Dan Hill photo STEVE BAILEY A multi award winning Harmonica player from Seattle with a long and successful career, whose grounding in the Blues came from sharing first hand experiences [...]
Photo: Miranda Kitchpanich The Blues Foundation expanded its longstanding Blues in the Schools youth education efforts with a new initiative that began in 2010 entitled Generation Blues. Generation Blues was created to provide financial assistance [...]
The Blues is a secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became, by the 1960s, one of the [...]
KIM&BRIAN - GRITTY, SOULFUL, ORIGINAL ROCK These two life-long musicians and honest songwriters capture the spectrum of life in their stories, then deliver them with musical grit and transparent emotion...and it is something addicting. This [...]
Here is a list of SSBA member bands with contact info for info and booking. Special thanks to [...]