Lettuce [aka Lettuce Funk] is a six-man combo that combines retro-future funk with soul, jazz, rock, and hip-hop, and it works.
Dustin Arbuckle & The Damnations are an eclectic blues band from Wichita, KS, playing a mix of Delta roots blues, honky tonk, Stax soul, and country. (Arbuckle was half of the now defunct team of Moreland & Arbuckle.)
Selwyn Birchwood is an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from Tampa, Florida. He plays what he calls “Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues,” and was the winner of the Blues Foundation’s 2013 International Blues Challenge (band category), as well the winner of the Albert King Guitarist of the Year award. [Wiki]
Max Hightower is a multi-instrumentalist (harmonica, guitar, bass, piano and vocals), writer and producer, and a founding member of Plate Full O’ Blues.He has toured across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, performing alongside greats like Hubert Sumlin and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. Born and raised in Upstate South Carolina, Hightower was inspired by a Muddy Waters cassette when he was 12.
New of the Week: The midterm elections were a wondrous mix of surprises, anomalies and statistical impossibilities. Aside from that, a lot of other stuff went down that I don’t recall.
Remind me tomorrow, on the porch, at Porchtime o’clock. Be there.
