In 1958 BillBoard Magazine reported a claim that tuning in Rock and Roll Music in the car costs the driver money.  The report warned drivers that the rhythm caused the driver to unconsciously jiggle the gas pedal, wasting gas, and…Read more

OK..  I’m confessin’.  For the last 140 years I’ve been around the local and beyond Blues world here in Sacramento–  (..and yes, my 130th birthday is coming up– thank you for remembering..) I’ve yet to run into Quinn Hedges.  I…Read more

It’s hot ass in this city.  I’m jus sayin’. BUT, on the other side of that, Sacramento also is home to the stinking best Blues joint this side of Memphis … an’ I just come back from there so I…Read more

I just found out my share– everybody’s share, actually– of the deficit is $46, 540.  I dunno–  is someone waiting for me to write that check, or … what?  Because, at last count I got the price of a No…Read more

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Today in 1935 Tampa Red recorded I’m Betting on You for the BlueBird label.  One of the ‘cheap’ offshoot labels, part of the “three records for a dollar” market scheme started by another company.  Yea.  I gotta think three records…Read more

I just got the VERY first of a looooooong list of Featured Artists for this years Blues For Life …. and Mercy ME!  No–  I mean, that’s part of the incredible lineup–  Mercy Me!  also Nibblers, Bone MacDonald…  Kaye Bohler!!??…Read more

… drinks are served in pints and quarts. In old England, bartenders would advise troublemakers to mind their own pints and quarts. It’s the origin of “mind your P’s and Q’s.”

Special Deal for a Friday with a No Cover Happy Hour with Torch Club favorites Pailer & Fratis, then at 9pm Blind Pig artist Hamilton Loomis comes in from Texas and brings us a “mixed bag of modern blues, modern…Read more

too late, right?  When launching a weekend?  Yes, it is Thursday, and if you’re like me you’ve been at it since Monday.  4 DAYS?  Primitive.  Let’s put a stop to this with Chingus tonight, Hamilton Loomis Friday night, Saturday afternoon…Read more