May | 2014 | Dirty Bourbon River Show

0 with Vapors of MORPHINE!!!

It’s happening, it’s here!!! Finally, after years of talking about it, we’re sharing the stage with members (Vapors) of Morphine!! Honestly, this a post that our wordsmith Sly should be writing up seeing as he introduced us to their music, but I shall do my best to convey how psyched we are about it!!

……….Actually….I won’t……..

Instead here’s this…dig it!! Listen to it and decide for yourselves!!

We love this band and are honored to be sharing the stage tonight with them tonight at D.B.A. on Frenchmen St.

A lot of firsts tonight and we hope you can join us!!

Dirty Bourbon / Vapors of Morphine – @ D.B.A. – 10pm !

– Boots

0 Daytrotting!

If you’ve been sitting around wondering – “Hey, you know I wish those Dirty Bourbs would release some new material already!! It’s not enough they have all that music (on Bandcamp and iTunes)!!”

Well guess what?? We got something for you!!

The good folks over at Daytrotter Studios have posted up our session, as well as a magical illustration of yours truly!!

Magically precious!

Now, if you’re digging those 4 new tracks and are curious as to when the next album is coming out, well guess what?? You can decide – sort of!!

As you may know we are in the middle of raising money for our Kickstarter which will go to producing our next album!! We have the music, a great title and a vision for our cover – all we need is more MONEY (and support and love and kind words)!!

So… While you’re listening to our Daytrotter session, make your way over to our Kickstarter page and put some money in the box-ah (for a sweet prize)!!

Thank you!!

– Boots (and pants)

0 Double Saxophone Goodness

Ladies and gentlemen,

As a saxophonist and improvisational musician, there’s so much to learn! From scale variations to rhythms to vocabulary to chord progressions to flashy extended techniques and on and on and on, any musician worth his/her salt will agree that it’s imperative to always push further and to break through your barriers. Of the flashy little tricks in my personal arsenal, though, one of the biggest crowd pleasers proves over and over to be the double saxophone. I have a hell of a good time doing it, but I’m far from the first!

Some of my biggest saxophone heroes have pulled it off, including Jeff Coffin and the legendary Rahsaan Roland Kirk, but the only other musician I’ve seen pull of the labor-intensive bari-tenor combo is the great Dana Colley of Morphine. Finding that band was a revelation to me as a musician and specifically as a baritone saxophonist, and it looks like we at the Dirty Bourbon River Show will have the honor of sharing the stage with the Vespers of Morphine (original members of Morphine with the slide bass and guitar stylings of the talented and capable Jeremy Lyons) on 5/30 at New Orleans’ own d.b.a!

I’ve seen them live, and it’s the real deal, people. If you’re in the area, do yourselves a favor and come check this show out, because I’m completely stoked for it! Not that you need any convincing, but if you want to see one of the videos that enlightened me to the greatness of the bari-tenor combo, dig this video from one of Morphine’s performances from back in the mid-90s. You’re welcome!

Also, tonight marks the end of our little run out in the Midwest, so if you’re in the area, come party with us in Detroit at one of the classiest of classy jazz joints I’ve ever been to, Cliff Bell’s! We kick off at 9:30 with three full sets of awesome. Be there!

~Slyfox

0 Beautiful Women Playing Tuba pt. 45

Throughout my time in orchestras and wind ensembles, I have noticed that there aren’t enough female low brass players. I am trying to change that, one city at a time…
Without further ado, the most beautiful globe trotting dental hygienist from Grand Rapids, Melinda!

P.S. Show tonight at the fantastic Cliff Bell’s in Detroit, Michigan. Music starts at 9 PM.

– Bassman

0 Give Me Your Eyes! for just a moment…

05/15/2014
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From the collective minds of the Dirty Bourbon River Show comes the next hilarious internet meme to sweep the nation!

if you can manage to still reach your Keyboard during the side splitting laughter you are no doubt in the process of, share this video with all of your friends!

and if your in the great state of Michigan, or anywhere near the city of Grand Rapids, MI come on out to the Tip Top (760 Butterworth St) and Rock your soul New Orleans Style. show starts with the Moon Rays at 9 followed by Dirty Bourbon…and we promise there will be more music than comedy.

1 Reach Out (I’ll Be There)

Not too long ago I was reading an interview piece in Offbeat magazine, which is a local music magazine in New Orleans, and one of the questions the interviewer asked was, “what was the first tune you heard as a child?” Now I can’t recall the answer in the article, but I can tell you what my answer would’ve been. I sat there at our table and remembered the first time I recognized music and how it affected me.

My mother is the reason for my rhythm. She introduced me to Motown and Cuban music and Rock n Roll and the “Cha-Cha.” She may not know it, but the day she put on The Four Tops – Reach Out (I’ll Be There), she changed my world.

As a kid I had never heard anything so epic. That haunting opening line that gallops and snaps into a perfectly paced rockin’ groove, the melodies working within the instruments, and of course the voices – I thought Levi Stubbs was singing to me. I remember listening over and over again and getting chills each time the song started and every time they snapped into the chorus and their harmonies rang out over the instruments.

It was unreal. That song changed me. It was my catalyst, that and Gloria Estefan, but that’s a different story… TONIGHT we’re in South Haven, MI at Foundry Hall! Show time is 7:30pm!! See y’all tonight!

Boots!

0 The Secret Wu-Tang Album

Y’all hear about this one yet? A new top secret Wu-Tang album has surfaced… And get this… They will only be selling one copy of it to the highest bidder…

Apparently the RZA has already been offered 5 mil for it. You can already peep a 51 second sample of the album (which oddly enough, features Cher) on Forbes.com. It was produced over a 6 year period by Cilvaringz under “the tutelage of the RZA”, and is currently being held in a vault in the Grand Mansour in Marrakesh.

Not making this up.

DBRS at CSPS in Cedar Rapids, IA tonight at 7pm.

Wu-Tang.

2 Happy Mother’s Day from DBRS!

05/11/2014
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I feel it’s important to wake up every morning and try to be grateful for something, and today is no exception. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but I tell you it takes a veritable army of support to raise a band, and our mothers (both literal and adopted band parents) are the generals! Over the years on the road, they’ve encouraged us, come to our shows (even though they’re often way past their bedtimes), thrown a little extra cash in our pockets in a pinch, fed us when we were hungry, given us beds to sleep in after weeks of couches and floors, and watched us grow as a band from day one. If not for the support we’ve gotten from our very extended family, we wouldn’t be here doing what we do today.

So everyone, take a second today and think about it… no mothers, no Dirty Bourbon River Show! Ladies and gentlemen, go find your mothers, your grandmothers, your great grandmothers, your adopted mothers, and your fairy band mothers and thank them! Thank them for raising you and getting you on your feet, for looking out for you when nobody else will, for being Mom even though you’re a grown-ass man goddamnit, and for the Dirty Bourbon River Show. Pay them a visit or make a phone call or Skype with them on the computer and tell them how grateful you are… it’s worth it.

Now to celebrate this glorious day through the words and song of West Virginia legend, Terry Jackness. Happy Mother’s Day!

~Slyfox

0 Flaming Tubas Around the World pt. 1

Tuba players are an interesting bunch. We play the biggest, heaviest, most badass instrument known to man. Few outside the tuba world realize this fundamental fact. There is nothing more heavy metal than a tuba, unless of course, that tuba is also on fire. Here are some badasses that decided to educate the masses on the pure majesty of tuba.

David Silverman aka Tubatron

The impeccably dressed, Flaming Tuba Man

And of course, me and my firetuba.

Early show tonight at the Riviera Theatre in Three Rivers, Michigan! Show starts at 8 PM.

– Bassman

0 Blues you Oughta’ Know

Hello good people of Earth! Big Charlie Skinner here with some more Rhythm & Blues you should be aware of. This time it’s coming straight outa New Orleans in 1961.

Alvin Robinson is of whom I speak, I been listening to this song non stop for weeks!

The Man has got Soul.

So next time your at your local record shop, do yourself a solid, pick up some of New Orleans’ own soul man Al Robinson.

Speaking of bands from New Orleans! The Dirty Bourbon River Show will be tearing up the Philmore TONIGHT at 9:00PM in Ft. Wayne Indiana. So If you need some New Orleans Flavor for your Friday, come on down to 2441 Broadway.
– Big Charlie