April | 2011 | Dirty Bourbon River Show

0 This Friday! Dirty Bourbon & MarchFourth Marching Band!

This Friday Jazz Fest begins. And this is what you’re going to do:

You’re going to go see Wyclef at the fairgrounds. You’re going to have an amazing time. Then, when he’s done at 7, you’re going to step outside the fairgrounds, and you’re going to see these guys causing a ruckus:

Yessir ladies and gentlemen, Marchfourth Marching Band. After a brief show outside the fairgrounds they’ll be leading a march to the Studio 3 Warehouse (3610 Toulouse Street, by the American Can Company) where there’ll be food, booze, and Art Official DJ’s to warm you up and get the party started.

Then, come 9:00pm, Marchfourth will take the stage. Stilt walkers, fire, dancing girls, gigantic brass – you do not want to miss their show.

They will amaze you.

And if that wasn’t enough, to top it all off, Dirty Bourbon will be taking the stage at 10:30pm to finish the night off. We haven’t played in New Orleans since our CD release party at the beginning of this month, so we’re real excited for this one. We’ll have multiple horns and some fire (literally) as well. Don’t miss this night. Here’s your itinerary for this Friday, April 9th:

05:30pm Wyclef John at the Fairgrounds

07:00pm MarchFourth performs at Fairgrounds exit

07:30pm March with MarchFourth to the warehouse

08:00pm Doors open, DJ’s, food & booze, you get comfy

09:00pm MarchFourth Marching Band performs

10:30pm Dirty Bourbon River Show performs

Oh, and did I mention that the show is only Five Dollars!?

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0 Blues you ough’ta know with Big Charlie: T-Bone Walker

04/26/2011
by bigcharliedbrs
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a.k.a. Oak Cliff T-Bone

T-Bone walker is the reason the Blues is what it is today. Legend has it he was the first ever blues performer to use an electric guitar. He roamed the streets of dallas at age 15 opening for national acts and String bands. By the time he was in his twenties he was in Los Angeles headlinging on Central Avenue.

I know you’ve heard this one

Inspiring a generation of Bluesmen

Walker was the childhood hero of many many musicians. B.B. King bought his first electric after he heard “Stormy Monday”, and where do you think Jimi Hendrix learned to play with his teeth? Chuck Berry always listed T-Bone and bandleader Louis Jordan as his first influences.

Albert Collins and Jimmy Vaughn (Stevie’s older brother) talk about T-Bone’s effect on the Texas Blues

– Big Charlie

0 Let’s Grow an Even Bigger Beard: Week Seven

Got a good foundation, time to start layering…

0 Blues you ough’ta know with Big Charlie: Bobby Rush

04/20/2011
by bigcharliedbrs
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Born Emmit Ellis Jr. in 1935

Louisiana’s own Bobby Rush is the son of a guitar playing preacher, and a born Showman. His live show is a captivating mix of storytelling, comedy, and funky soul music. With the help of his beautifully voluptuous dancers Bobby Rush has been thrilling crowds for over 50 years now.

Bobby gives a lesson in the Old School

Good Listenin’

While it may be all about the live show for most, the few recordings Bobby Rush did put out were perfect representations of his style and soul. No one mixes Blues, Soul, Funk, and R&B like Bobby Rush

-Big Charlie

0 Let’s Grow an Even Bigger Beard – Week Six

Beach feels good on the beard bristles…

0 Learn How To Play Flying Piano Like The Dirty Bourbon River Show!

Learn how to play the piano from new orleans gypsy style master Noah Adams

Learn how to play flying piano like the Dirty Bourbon River Show you say? Whaa? Yessir ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Noah was nice enough to make a set of 14 instructional videos explicitly detailing how to become a flying piano master – including the theory, technique, licks, runs, fills, trills and more that make up the unholy style that is the Dirty Bourbon flying piano.

Videos range from absolute beginner-level, like “How To Play a C Major Scale”:

And go all the way up to advanced technique, like polyrhythms at extremely fast BPM, like this video:

Check out the rest of our videos on the DirtyBourbonRiverTV Youtube Channel. There’s a lot of interesting stuff, like how to play New Orleans-style, rag time, boogie woogie, improvisations & more.

0 Jimmie Was A Bum Leader

Started With Three Girls to Cemetery and All Got Lost.

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Three little black-eyed girls, who could not have been over 6 years old, all garbed in white dresses, in harmony with Easter, were found near Twelfth and Washington streets yesterday afternoon by Sergeant James Jadwin. The officer’s attention was first attracted when he noticed that the fourth member of the company, a boy about 8 years old, was crying.

“We’re all lost,” he managed to tell the officer.

“Yes, we are lost,” said the older of the three girls. “We live way over by Fifth and Harrison streets. We were going to the graveyard to put flowers on the graves, but Jimmie don’t know the way.”

Sergeant Jadwin surmised at once that they were Italian children, though it would have been impossible to have told by their manner of speech. Jimmie cried until the quartette reached the station, where he recognized the locality. The children were soon surrounded by the officers, who were more than amused by the oldest girl’s plain English, and her denunciation of Jimmie.

“He told us he would take us to the graveyard,” she said, her black eyes snapping. “Then he took us away and away,” and she dramatized the description by motioning with the hands the direction which they had taken. “Then, he’s a cry-baby, too,” she continued, “for as soon as he saw he was lost, he began to cry.”

“Can you write your name?” asked James Cummings, the telephone man.

In answer, the child took the officer’s pencil, and, with childish scrawl which was perfectly legible, she wrote the names of the three others, as well as her own name.

“Maggie Saoa” was her own name, she said, as she showed her skill to the officer. Her two companions, she said, were her cousins, Marie and Josie Saoa, who all lived in the same flat at 532 Harrison street. The boy was identified as James Scarcello, who lives at 536 Harrison street. Thee children were taken home by the wagon driver.

~ Kansas City Journal, April 12, 1909

0 Late Night Piano/Kazoo Improvisations

Yeah, it gets pretty wild from here on out…

1 Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

The Bonzo Dog Doo Wha? Band… yes, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ~ It’ll spin you round ladies and gents, put a real dent in your sensibilities. Step right up, sip on this silly juice:

Was tipped off to these wild folk by Bob Boilen of NPR’s All Songs Considered, and they have had a smile on my face for the last few hours now. Friends of Sgt. Pepper and the Flying Circus, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band are all about The Show. Feeling down? This’ll spike up that frown: