The following is reprinted from a CNN interview with Wynton Marsalis. We found it fascinating. Wynton Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus New York (CNN) — Jazz master Wynton Marsalis says the blues is the true American music — the heartbeat and unifying principle of jazz, country, R&B, gospel [...]

Thanks to everyone who made the trek to Indy to see us at the Noodle…..and there was a bunch of you! The weekend was a great success and it looks like we’ll be playing there on a regular basis. Here are just a few of the comments we received: “I didn’t realize that blues could [...]

As if I haven’t told you enough in the last couple weeks, Dicky James and the Blue Flames will be at the Slippery Noodle Inn in downtown Indy this Friday and Saturday, October 9 & 10. We’ll be starting at 9:45pm each night. From what I understand the joint will be packed so get there [...]

We’re not playing out this weekend. Fingers Beeson, our keyboard player and owner of the Music Shoppe (shameless plug) will be out of town on one of his never ending guitar hunts. However we will be in rehearsal working on some new tunes. In addition to some rough ideas we have a couple new songs [...]