Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

Good day to everyone. This is the official announcement of Burlap and Blues contest X. This is our tenth on line contest (hence the name) and we again will be offering a prize.

The topic for this contest is play the blues to a shred track (tracks from Guitarmageddon 2005):

Here is an explanation of the topic. During KOTB every year we have several shredders playing to the blues tracks. During a discussion at BAB we decided if Guitar Center holds Guitarmagedon we will all enter and play blues to the shred tracks... LOL...

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The purpose of The Willie Brown Blues Benefit is to raise money to purchase Willie Brown a headstone. Mr. Brown is currently buried in an unmarked grave in Tunica County, MS. Willie Brown, who not only recorded for Paramount and used to play with Robert Johnson and Charley Patton, is buried in an unmarked grave in Tunica, MS. In order to have a headstone created and placed at the Good Shepherd Church in Tunica, we need to raise $2100. Every single cent raised from this benefit will go directly to the purchase and placement of the headstone.

The Willie Brown Blues Benefit is a FREE SHOW. There will be raffles, live auctions, and a donation bucket to raise funds for this worthy cause.

For more information please check out http://www.tdblues.com/?page_id=834

For how long did we envision a player who never got tired..

Some one who could jam forever

and then some

well here he is...

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Burlap and Blues has updated it's forums to include more services for it's members, including simple music posting in our forum. We allow our users to upload and link to basically an unlimited amount of music that they have rights too. If you are a blues player, join our forum and share some of your tunes with us!

Last year I blogged about a musician band scam

http://burlapandblues.com/bluesblog/blog1.php/2009/04/23/musician-and-band-scam

Basically, this venue prowls myspace looking for musicians with the keyword "Wisconsin". Then what they do is send a canned message "I really like your music, our patrons will be amazed, open for this nationally known artist." This venue gets nationally known artists on a regular basis, but they get 4 or 5 people to open for them real early and they effectively get no view. they ask the opening acts to fork over a large sum of money to be "an opening act on the billing."

Amazingly the bi-weekly email that I have gotten since telling this guy he is out of his mind.

"Hey everyone, our email server has been down forever, and it just got back up. So I am letting you know we still have openings to open for Dragonforce, etc.etc."

The email server up just once every time you send a message? What an excuse to not answer the emails that you don't like calling you on your scam or psudoscam..

For music to succeed we need a venue to play. Patrons should be paying the musicians for good music, not the other way around.