Texas Piano Blues

The Blues Caravan rolled again. In 2019 - just like every year since the first trek back in 2005 - you could experience a night of house-rocking live music, as three unique artists hit the stage at clubs across the US and Europe. On this CD + DVD live album you get chance to see and hear the hottest insider tips of the scene again! The concert was recorded on 15th February 2019 at Café Hahn in Koblenz! Here are your favorite musicians from the Blues Caravan 2019. Ina Forsman is no stranger to anyone who's serious about modern blues.

Stunning solo Texas blues and barrelhouse piano by the late pianist. The most amazing material, produced by Mack McCormick in Austin, dates from 1963 - the rhythmically and technically complex "The Cows" is a tour de force, and "The Ma Grinder" and "The Clinton" aren't far behind. Later numbers from 1973 and 1977 prove that Shaw's skills didn't degenerate with time.

Everything about Dave Allen's sole album is slightly off, from the somewhat defensive title (Allen is a blues guitarist who happens to be white) to the naff cover photo and lame graphics, all the way down to the fact that Color Blind is a completely straightforward slice of Texas blues-rock that happens to be on International Artists, the label that was otherwise home to the freaky likes of the 13th Floor Elevators, the Red Krayola, and Endle St. Cloud. Color Blind may be many things – and foremost, it's a surprisingly enjoyable slab of unpretentious Texas blues-rock, the sort of thing one might hear in a roadhouse in San Angelo on any given weekend – but freaky it ain't. T….

An influential singer and pianist of the 1940s, whose smoky voice and commanding keyboard skills had a major influence on the Chicago blues sound.
The thundering 88s of Big Maceo Merriweather helped pave the way for the great Chicago blues pianists of the 1950s - men like Johnny Jones, Otis Spann, and Henry Gray. Unfortunately, Merriweather wouldn't be around to enjoy their innovations - he died a few years after suffering a debilitating stroke in 1946. Major Merriweather was already a seasoned pianist when he arrived in Detroit in 1924. After working around the Motor City scene, he ventured to Chicago in 1941 to make his recording debut for producer Lester Melrose and RCA Victor's Bluebird subsidiary…

This concert was filmed in The Netherlands, in 1988. Joe "Guitar" Hughes & his band, were from Houston, Texas. Joe died from a heart attack during 2003. This is a great, electric blues concert, however, it does not have a running time of 120 minutes, as described in the Amazon Product Description. I'm not sure of the offical running time, its not included in the dvd package, but I'd estimate it to be around 60 minutes, excluding the bonus material.