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Blues concerts

I went to these awsome blues concerts yesterday,
what an experience...
First a guy called Fruitland Jackson sang 3 songs, this was such a cool guy, doing old style blues, just him sitting there with his guitar, because that´s how it all started. Amazing to see the passion in this guy, his songs were not that complicated or spectacular, but with the passion he put into it it became magical.
Next on the stage came three amazing ladies from Chicago, Grana Luise, Zora Young and a woman that has visited Iceland on many occasions Deitra Farr. These women are really big, any really like the steriotype of big moma blues singers... they were so big that they always had to sit between songs and it was such an amazing thing listening to their voices, such a strong voices capable of going to the highest tones down to lower notes than I could ever go to.
They sang gospel blues, which is very lively and fun, playing for them were 4 Icelandic musicians, 4 top guys coming from some of the most famous bands of Iceland... it was so nice to see that the house was full and it must show that there is a huge interest for blues in Iceland, even though we don´t have much of it in our culture. but hopefully that will change.
After the concert I met some guys, at my cousins place and we watched Blues Brothers 2000... a must watch for those who haven´t done so already... The movie it self sucks.... but such a great music, and such an amazing artists performing in that movie, you can see B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Erica Baku and more artists that I have forgotten now, but this should be enough for anyone to go the video rental and see this classical movie.
That´s it for now, long live the blues.

posted by Tomas @ Saturday, April 15, 2006