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Miss Mandy Lemons left a comment for Bob Long
Man, that looks like fun!! They have "real pig racing", and tiny monkeys riding dogs - for God's sake!! HAHAHA! Hopefully, next year I'll get to catch that festival. Have a blast!!
Miss Mandy Lemons left a comment for Bob Long
Thanks, Bob! I'm from Texas originally, and do make it back down south every now and then. We should be travelling soon, and the south is Definitely on the map. Maybe you'll be around - would love to play a bill together!
Bob Long commented on Miss Mandy Lemons's blog post 'Listen to 2 sneak preview songs @ http://mandylemons.com from the up-and-coming CD, "Low Society"!!'
Hey Mandy
I listened to your songs. Lovely!
Bob Long left a comment for Miss Mandy Lemons
Hi Mandy. Good to "meet" you here. I live in UK but visit Mississippi quite often. Do you ever get down there?
Bob
Miss Mandy Lemons left a comment for Bob Long
Sounds great, man!
Tony Lee King left a comment for Bob Long
HELLO THERE...You can promote your act on reverbnation too...
God Bless You and your work....
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- About Me:
- Bob Long is a British blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player specializing in "the old stuff". Most of what he plays is his interpretations of pre-world war II blues, jug band and ragtime material particularly music from the Mississippi delta.
Bob's love of the blues started in the 1960s, listening to The Rolling Stones who were then playing numbers from Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and Jimmy Reed. He bought the records of these old bluesmen and began a musical odyssey back in time through the 50s, 40s and 30s to the early blues and jug band recordings of the 20s.
During the 70s and early 80s Bob appeared at folk clubs and pubs, sometimes solo, more often with a harmonica player - notably his schoolfriend, Keith Miller. His musical pursuits were then pushed aside due to the pressures of running his own business from the mid-80s until 1999 when he returned to playing the blues and recorded an album Cow Pie - The First Thirty Years with Keith Miller and Richard Bolton. Bob sold his business, a wastes management consultancy, in February 2005 and since then has been able to spend more time enjoying the blues; both listening and playing.
These days he is a frequent visitor to the Mississippi Delta and the surrounding area, enjoying the blues heritage, the southern hospitality and the present day music scene. During recent trips Bob has played at The Ground Zero Blues Club, Hopson's , The Delta Amusement Cafe and Red's in Clarksdale, at Po Monkey's in Merigold, at The Walnut Street Blues Bar in Greenville and on the KFFA Radio Station in Helena on Sonny Payne's legendary King Biscuit Time show. He was also one of many blues musicians playing open-air during the 2005 Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival and again in 2006 and 2007.
In October 2006 Bob appeared in The Tommy Johnson Blues Festival in Crystal Springs, Mississippi and played at The Mardi Gras and 930 Blues clubs in Jackson. In 2007 he returned to Crystal Springs for The Second Tommy Johnson Festival and played in Hal & Mal's and Schimmel's in Jackson.
When at home in Hampshire, England, his gigs are mostly in pubs. He is a frequent performer at Sway Acoustic Blues in The New Forest and he runs a monthly blues jam at The Platform Tavern in Southampton, Hampshire.
- Favorite Blues Artists and Bands
- Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Charley Patton
Tommy Johnson
Scrapper Blackwell
Bukka White
Leroy Carr
Tampa Red
Leadbelly
Memphis Minnie
Fred McDowell
Rev. Gary Davis
Big Bill Broonzy
Memphis Slim
Washboard Sam
Curtis Jones
Muddy Waters
Champion Jack Dupree
John Lee Hooker
Howlin’ Wolf
Elmore James
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
And some Europeans, Past and present, including
Graham Bond
Zoot Money
Gerry Lockran
Giles Hedley
Steve Phillips
Peter McGlade
Michel Crichton
Jo-Ann and Dave Kelly
Dave Peabody and
Michael Messer
- Your Website Address
- http://bobalong.co.uk
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New Album Release
“Originally inspired to take up playing the blues in our teens, we have both been playing ever since – in bands, jams, solos, duos – and sometimes just the two of us together. Living at opposite ends of the country, we don’t get to play together as often as we would like, but when we do, the result is the kind of thing you hear on this album – a mixture of old favourites and new… Continue
Posted on September 22, 2008 at 1:13pm
Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 11:25am on February 16, 2010,
Miss Mandy Lemons said… - Man, that looks like fun!! They have "real pig racing", and tiny monkeys riding dogs - for God's sake!! HAHAHA! Hopefully, next year I'll get to catch that festival. Have a blast!!
- At 4:39pm on February 11, 2010,
Bob Long said… - That would be fun! I'll be in mississippi for The Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival in April. Look at this http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=juke+joint+festival+2010&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GZEZ_en-GB
- At 4:07pm on February 11, 2010,
Miss Mandy Lemons said…
- Thanks, Bob! I'm from Texas originally, and do make it back down south every now and then. We should be travelling soon, and the south is Definitely on the map. Maybe you'll be around - would love to play a bill together!
- At 12:58pm on February 6, 2010,
Miss Mandy Lemons said…
- Sounds great, man!
- At 1:39pm on September 6, 2009,
Tony Lee King said… - HELLO THERE...You can promote your act on reverbnation too...
God Bless You and your work....
- At 3:15am on December 29, 2008,
billy jones bluez said… - Hi Bob,
Here is my wish for the very best to you and all my LiveBluesWorld friends as we take the music of our heritage into 2009 and the 21st century.
It's an honor to be on this journey with you. ..and a pleasure to be your friend. Thank you for allowing me to be a member of the community.
..."true greats" ...are not those born with "golden spoons" in their mouths. ...but those who through "hard work" turn their own "wooden spoons" into "gold".
"...the re-emergence of blues music as serious social commentary."
http://myspace.com/billyjonesbluez
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http://www.americansongspace.com/billyjonesbluez/
- At 5:24am on November 18, 2008,
Poe said… - Bob:
How are things going? I still play the show that you and Vera did with me shortly after the Juke Joint Festival 2008. We have since relocated the station in the middle of the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. Check us out online. Just click on the link and say "yes."
http://www.mainstreamnetwork.com/listen/dynamicasx.asp?station=wabg-am
Poe
- At 4:54pm on October 26, 2008,
Robert Stanley said… - Glad to be friends, Bob. Enjoyed listening to your music! Keep rockin'!
Peace, Love, Rockabluesic,
Robert Stanley - The Roadman
www.roadmanshammer.com
http://cdbaby.com/cd/robertstanley
- At 11:53am on October 25, 2008,
Papa Leg Acoustic Duo said… - Hi Bob, how are you? nice to meet you again...
Papa Leg
- At 8:25am on August 31, 2008,
Kevin Gregory said… - Hello, Bob! I didn't realize you did an acoustic festival. That's really cool! I wouldn't expect you to remember, but we were introduced last year in Helena by Roger Stole. We were all hanging around the acoustic stage and I think you were actually with Tommy Johnson's daughter at the time.
Anyway, thanks for adding me and I hope to see you again soon. If you're ever here around the end of February (and near Ohio), drop me a line. I think you would like our festival!
Later...
Kevin
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