http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/ Minnesota Blues Music Forum Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:00:14 GMT Pete Shipley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6341 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6341 Liz and I went down on Friday. I'd venture a guess that most of the crowd was the 50+ bunch re-living their childhood. From: BluesMN@yahoogroups.com Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:05:11 GMT http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6340 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6340 Reminder from: BluesMN Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/cal Cruise For Blues Jam @ Narrows Tuesday January 5, 2010 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (This Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:01:35 GMT ralphcox2 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6339 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6339 Yup! The Checkerboard lounge in the southside of Chicago comes to mind. They frisked everyone at the door for knives and guns when I played there with Luther Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:53:25 GMT Pete Shipley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6338 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6338 C'mon Bingham, where is your sense of adventure??? Besides, I'll bet you've been in/played in far scarier places than the Blues Saloon. From: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:51:34 GMT ralphcox2 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6337 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6337 I'll go there after I get my carry concealed permit. Bob Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:00:08 GMT Pete Shipley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6336 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6336 The Blues Saloon is open again. Have you been there yet? What did you think? Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:57:14 GMT Pete Shipley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6335 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6335 From: Greater Twin Cities Blues Music Society [mailto:info@...] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 5:01 PM To: Greater Twin Cities Blues Music Society Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:54:48 GMT ralphcox2 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6334 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6334 As Pat Donohue once aptly put it.. "In Minnesota musicians can actually die of exposure." Prof Cox Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:28:52 GMT http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6333 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6333 Reminder from: BluesMN Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/cal Open Blues Jam @ Shaws Monday January 4, 2010 8:30 pm - 12:30 am (This event Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:32:12 GMT curtiskick@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6332 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6332 There is only one, true, reason to want to go to Memphis for the IBC. The artist(s) gets a crack at being judged by a somewhat "universal" panel of people who, Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:00:32 GMT Pete Shipley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6331 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6331 These contests are going to happen. Societies are encouraged to send to the IBC an entrant to compete in each of a couple categories. I don't have a problem Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:09:04 GMT ralphcox2 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6330 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6330 Here's my last word on the subject. I think that contests between musicians are demeaning and pointless and reliant on the subjectivity of the uninformed. Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:47:16 GMT Nancy Jacobson http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6329 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6329 That made great sense to me, too. So let's keep looking for them...and keep learning. To: BluesMN@yahoogroups.com From: ralphcox2@... Date: Mon, 4 Jan Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:39:58 GMT Nancy Jacobson http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6328 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6328 Yes, I guess I did. It's led to some good discussion tho, I think. To: BluesMN@yahoogroups.com From: peteshipley@... Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:17:37 -0600 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:36:39 GMT ralphcox2 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6327 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BluesMN/message/6327 "I think most people think of the blues as an electric (Chicago) type music. I think there is far too little attention paid to acoustic or semi acoustic