Sunday, September 05, 2010

Look out, R&R, here we come! But where is Johnny Gumbo?...

No golf today.  Just hanging around this morning, reading the papers while The Reet catches up on her U.S. Open matches from last night.  We'll be picked up at noon by the Andersons to head down to Ninigret Park for the final day of the 2010 Rhythm & Roots Festival.  This is my first trip back since 2005 and 2006, when I attended with the one and (thankfully) only Johnny Gumbo, who swept many a damsel off her feet in the dance tent.  Gumbo went solo the following year and treated the Pool Hall Studs with his presence at Barry D's place in Newport for the night.  Oh, what a night!  ANYWAY, we're (or at least I am) trying to get there in time for Geoff Muldaur (Maria's ex) and his band, The Texas Sheiks.  From Wikipedia, so it must be true:  In 2009, Muldaur formed a roots super-group for work on a new album. Dubbing themselves Geoff Muldaur And The Texas Sheiks, folk and American music luminary Stephen Bruton, Grammy-winning Dobro player Cindy Cashdollar, fiddle virtuoso Suzy Thompson, guitarist Johnny Nicholas and bassist Bruce Hughes joined Muldaur in the studio for a pair of recording sessions in 2008. Bruton died in May 2009, but the music lives on in the album entitled Texas Sheiks that was released September 22, 2009, on the Tradition & Moderne label.

Today's lineup:
12:00 Danny Barnes Trio
1:15 Horace Trahan & New Ossan Express
2:30 Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks
3:45 CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band
5:00 Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
6:15 Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
7:45 Donna the Buffalo
9:15 Robert Randolph & the Family Band

This has very little connection with the above, but check out this long ago jam with Leon Russell, Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt - here.  Then, check out Leon on Shindig in 1964 below!!!!!!!! -

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