King Kom Beaux
Article by Billy Barner, edit by Kevin Cummings The King Kom Beaux band is a rockin’ band that performs an awesome mix of Blues with Rock, Jazz, Funk, and a Cajun flare mixed in. The [...]
Band Speak: Mid-Nite Bourbon
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 [...]
Selected SSBA member bands new recording projects.
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 [...]
SSBA Member Band Spotlight, Mark DuFresne
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 [...]
SSBA Member Band Spotlight – Billy Stapleton
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 [...]
Northwest Blues and music festival list
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. [...]
SSBA Member Band Spotlight: Steve Bailey
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 [...]
CD Woodbury Band
Featured image by Ricki Peto "Booty-shaking contemporary blues with wit and extraordinary substance" says Dave Rubin, a Keeping the Blues Alive Award recipient in Journalism. The CD Woodbury Trio have been performing in the Pacific [...]
Generation Blues Program
Photo: Blues Foundation promotional 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 [...]
An Encyclopaedia Britannica look at Blues History
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 [...]