Måste bara lägga in lite från Mönsterås Blues & Roots i helgen som var. Denna dam kom ENBART till Sverige och Europa för denna Bluesfestival. Hon sjöng allt möjligt. Svårt att hitta något bra på nätet i hastigheten.
Diunna Greenleaf (born October 6, 1957) is an African American blues singer and songwriter.
Her parents, Ben and Mary Ella Greenleaf (nee Travis), were religiously devout and involved in gospel music. Her early musical influences included Sam Cooke, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Koko Taylor, and Aretha Franklin.
At the 2014 Blues Music Awards, Greenleaf won the Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female), beating fellow nominees Teeny Tucker, Lavelle White, Trudy Lynn, and Zora Young.
She was President of the Houston Blues Society for three years, becoming the first woman to undertake that role. Greenleaf initiated the now annual Houston Blues Society Founders Day, and continues to support the Blues in Schools Program. She was also one of the founders of the Friends of Blues Montgomery County.
Greenleaf has performed at many music festivals. These include the Blues to Bop Festival in Lugano, Switzerland, the Montreal International Jazz Festival (2009), the Bern Jazz Festival, the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival (2007),[11] Boundary Waters Blues Festival, Sarasota Blues Fest (2008), Notodden Blues Festival (2008), Long Beach Blues Festival (2009), the DC Blues Festival (2010), the Tinner Hill Blues Festival (2012), and the proposed Bikes Blues and BBQ (2014) och så den lilla köpingen Mönsterås, Sweden (2014).
Diunna Greenlef & Blue Mercy. Munspel Bob Corritore
Growing Up and Growing old. Inspelad 2012.
Denna fenomenala grupp var för andra gången i Mönsterås, fast vokalisten var i år en underbar sångerska vid namn Diunna Greenleaf istället för Big Pete Pearson. Som skrivet förut uppträdde även de bara på EN plats i Sverige --- på Mönsterås Blues & Roots festivalen (2014).
The Rhytm Room All Stars (Big Pete Pearson : Vocals, Bob Corritore : Harmonica !!!!!
Chris James : Guitar, Patrick Rynn : Bass & Willy Maes: Drums ) Videon är inspelad i maj 2009.
ALLA medlemmarna i bandet har fått utmärkelser av alla möjliga slag, men hittar bara om Bob Corritore. Bob Corritore is considered among the top traditional blues harmonica players on the scene today. Born on September 27, 1956 in Chicago, Bob first heard Muddy Waters on the radio at age 12, an event which changed his life forever. Within a year, he was playing harmonica and collecting blues albums. He would see blues shows in his early teens, including attending a Muddy Waters performance at his high school gymnasium.
Additionally he is the owner of the Rhythm Room, the radio show host of “Those Lowdown Blues” on KJZZ, the founder of Southwest Musical Arts Foundation, the editor and main writer of the Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter, an official endorser of Hohner harmonicas, a Keeping The Blues Alive award recipient, a grammy nominated harmonica player and producer, an honorary member of Collectif Des Radios Blues, and a great fan of, and active participant in blues music in general. His album Bob Corritore & Friends / Harmonica Blues won a 2011 Blues Music Award and in 2012 Bob received a Living Blues Award in their Harmonica category.
2012 brings about the release of Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore / Longtime Friends In The Blues, as well as the Corritore produced Mud Morganfield / Son Of The Seventh Son (the national debut CD of the eldest son of Muddy Waters!) and a guest appearance by Mud and Bob on the Mannish Boys release Double Dynamite. Both The Mud and the Mannish Boys CDs would be showered with awards and nominations.*Also that year, Bob’s photo was featured on the packaging of Hohner’s Blues Harp model harmonica.*2013 saw 2 more highly-celebrated collaboration CDs with John Primer and with Dave Riley, with the Primer awarded “Best Blues Album of 2013″ by Germany’s Blues News Magazine! 2014*saw the release of Bob’s all instrumental CD “Taboo” with Jimmie Vaughan, Junior Watson, Fred Kaplan and Doug James*among the albums guests.*Bob performs regularly across the country and around the world with numerous projects including Dave Riley & Bob Corritore, Tail Dragger, Mud Morganfield Blues Band, The Rhythm Room All-Stars, Henry Gray, Sam Lay, Bob Margolin, Diunna Greenleaf, The Bob Riedy Blues Band, and others. Bob has also become well known for organizing multi-artist showcase sets and events featuring traditional blues revues.
Det fanns som alltid en stor bredd på festivalmusiken. Allt från 50-60-tals låtar, Blues, Country, Rockabilly och Rock. Banden var berömda, mittemellan eller amatörer. De var unga, mittemellan eller gamla. EN sak hade de gemensamt. De tyckte om att spela sin musik.
Här ett smakprov på en musikgrupp i M-ås B&R, 2014.
The Jetaways spelade denna ”Cindy Marie” Finns på You Tube från 2013.
Denna CD – Hold On – köpte jag den 31 maj och fick den signerad av Diunna själv. På CD:n finns även ett spår med hennes då 102-åriga mormor sjungandes en av hennes egna favoritlåtar.
