Support our IBC challengers in Memphis!
If you’re in Memphis at the IBC, we’ll list all the shows here for our challengers, Mark Montgomery and Coyote Bill and The Brood, as well as events by other Kansas City musicians.
Visit this page for regular updates! Represent KC!
Mark Montgomery, Solo/Duo Challenger
Coyote Bill and The Brood, Band Challenger
All times are approximate
2022 Accomplishments Report
2022 was a successful year for the Kansas City Blues Society; we have even bigger plans to expand on those successes in 2023.
The Blues is Everywhere Word search – January 2023
It’s a new year and a new word search puzzle! How many bluesy words or phrases can you find? Click below to play the word search! (A popup will load.)
Pinetop Perkins Masterclass Workshop 2023
If you’d like to join us for the June 13-17, 2023 Pinetop Perkins Masterclass session in Clarksdale, MS, please set your alarms to register NOW!
Hendrix’s Roots in the blues
…I never realized how deeply Hendrix’s music was rooted in the blues. I’d always thought of him as a terrific rock music performer but I never really thought …
Save the Date for the Kansas City Blues Festival!
At last, the Kansas City Blues Society will be bringing back a sorely missed tradition!
KCBS 2023 Election Notice
The Kansas City Blues Society (KCBS) will hold its annual membership meeting to elect the Board of Directors on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at The Hideout Bar …
Congratulations!
Patricia Page of Canandaigua, NY!
She won the Blues Cruise Raffle and is on her way to a blues-filled week in the Carribean!
Ms. Page is an avid LRBC cruiser; in fact, she was already booked on the January 2023 cruise. She regularly purchases cabins for musicians to go on the cruise and plans to use her winning ticket to invite Damon Fowler and his wife on the cruise. We appreciate her support and applaud her generosity in support of blues music!
Thanks to everyone who bought tickets and supported this important fundraiser for the Kansas City Blues Society. We will start selling cruise raffle tickets for LRBC #40 in April 2023.
Album Reviews
Album Review: The Strongman Blues Remedy
Steve Strongman was shut down by Covid. Don’t let the name fool you, he’s not with the circus, he’s a musician.
Album Review: Good Trouble
Here’s a couple of blues artists that have both recorded and performed as solo acts and in support of others. Annika may be described as soul/gospel, Paul as blues/rock.
Album Review: Everybody Let’s Roll
There ain’t no sitting still when this is playing, you feel the energy from the horns.
Album Review: May Be The Last Time
Elvin Bishop and his trio are backing John up, as well as Kid Anderson and Alabama Mike, and they recorded at Kid’s Greaseland Studio… some of the best blues today come from Greaseland.
Check out Yesterday’s Blues
- Buddy Moss
By Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the May 1994 Blues News With the focus so often on the Mississippi Delta area as the “cradle of the blues,” other places where the blues were nurtured are sometimes slighted. One such place is Atlanta, Georgia. In … - Johnny Shines
By Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the FMarch 1994 Blues News Johnny Shines was a highly gifted guitar player and a literate and poetic composer of blues lyrics. He was, as well, one of our greatest bluesmen. However, through unfortunate circumstances, he never attained the … - Professor Longhair
By Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the February 1994 Blues News In October of 1993, New Orleans premier music club, Tipitina’s, officially changed its name to Professor Longhair’s Tipitina to honor the legendary piano player, singer, and composer who made the club his home base … - Speckled Red & the Dirty Dozens
By Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the April 1994 Blues News “Playing at the Dozens” or “Putting in the Dozens” is a folk game in which two or more participants hurl insults and boasts at one another. These highly imaginative and metaphorical comments are … - Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton
By Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the February 1995 Blues News In 1952, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton recorded a robust and raunchy number with a lot of innuendo and double entendre about a fed-up female who is telling a no-account, libidinous sporting man … - Walter “Furry” Lewis
By Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the December 1990 Blues News Beale Street, for the first quarter of this century, was one of the roughest and toughest, most rocking and swinging, wide-open streets in the country. It was a close counterpart of Kansas City’s Eighteenth and …