The Cowboy, the Punk and the Queens of Funk For all you NME babies and blues fans out there, Charles Shaar Murray’s new band, Crosstown Lightnin’, features the Cowboy, the Punk and the Queens of Funk: CSM on guitar and vocals, Buffalo Bill Smith on harmonica, the sublime Max Doray on bass and JoJo Ruocco […]
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What happens when a white man sings the blues? Here’s the first of my videos of the St Ives Literary Festival that ends tonight (Saturday). Rod Bullimore performs How To Write A Blues Song, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith at the St Ives Arts Club on Thursday. More about the St
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More John Sinclair … John Sinclair performs “The Crossroads”, his poem about Tommy Johnson (not Robert) who is said to have acquired his mojo when he met a dark stranger at the Crossroads at midnight. John was the visionary manager of the MC5 who founded the White Panthers when the Black Panthers called for support
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Guest appearance by John Sinclair with Charles Shaar Murray & Buffalo Bill Smith: The Delta Sound at the Oval Tavern, 14.03.09. Video recorded by Anna Chen
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The third batch of photos from the St Ives Arts Festival, September 2008 Charles Shaar Murray and Julian at the Salthouse Gallery Charles Shaar Murray and Bill Smith at Charles’s Salthouse Gallery talk, Everything I Know About Rock and Roll Charles Shaar Murray and Bill Smith at Charles’s Salthouse Gallery talk, Everything I Know About
Madam Miaow at the St Ives Arts Festival 2008: Photos 3 Read More »
So another St Ives Arts Festival draws to a close. And what a festival it was, taking place over the two weeks between Saturdays 6th – 20th September. As with the Edinburgh Festival, there’s a plethora of events around the official one, and it’s here that I like to hang out. I got to play
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