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THE 2009 BIG LICK BLUES LINE-UP
Delbert McClinton • Reverend Billy C. Wirtz & Victor WainwrightStacy Brooks The Mo’ Hippa Band

2:00 pm
Gates open – vendors open
2:15 pm
Voting begins for U.S. Foods Rib Cook-Off People’s Choice Award
2:30 pm
Mo’ Hippa Band
4:00 pm
Stacy Brooks
5:25 pm
Martin’s Rib Eating Contest
5:45 pm
Rev. Billy C. Wirtz & Victor Wainwright – The Pianist Envy Show
6:00 pm
Voting ends for U.S. Foods Rib Cook-Off People’s Choice Award
7:10 pm
U.S. Foods Rib Cook-Off Awards, Martin’s Rib Eating Contest Awards & 50/50 Winner
7:30 pm
Delbert McClinton
8:30 pm
Last Alcohol Ticket Sold
8:45 pm
Last Alcohol Beverage Served
9:30 pm
'til 2:00 am
After Festival Blues Party @ Blue 5
times indicated are subject to change

Three-time Grammy Winner
Delbert McClinton
Listen to a medley of tunes from his new CD - Acquired Taste

Web Site

Listen to Delbert McClinton:
Medley (Live) (mp3
)
Leap of Faith (mp3)

Watch "Givin' It Up For Your Love"

Watch "Old Weakness"

 

The three-time Grammy® winner’s music has been called, "Breathtaking, hardcore roadhouse rhythm & blues" by Rolling Stone magazine. The L A Times types it as "Smoking, jumping big band blues and gospel rooted 60's soul honed to a razor-sharp edge in the Texas juke joints. Jalapeno hot!" Ask Delbert what kind of music he and his 6-piece band play and he'll say "Fun music".

Texas born and raised, Delbert’s blues credentials really started while playing in The Straightjackets, the house band for an all black blues club south of Ft. Worth, TX. It’s there that Delbert got to meet and play with the legends he had heard on radio. Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Bobby "Blue" Bland, he backed them all. By the late 50's Delbert was making a name for himself around Ft. Worth. He made his first recording in 1960, a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Wake up Baby" and he played harmonica on Bruce Channel's 1962 hit "Hey Baby", which soared to the top of the pop charts and spawned an English tour.

Delbert honed his chops as a songwriter in the 1970's, with his songs recorded by Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and Doug Sahm. "B Movie Boxcar Blues" was used in the Blues Brothers movie. In addition to his Grammy® awards, he's had two #1 Blues Albums with two others charting in the top 10. But, it's as a performing artist that Delbert has really made his mark. He began by playing roadhouses all over Texas and has since made his way around the world and is considered one of the most dynamic performers on the music scene.

Delbert’s thirteenth studio album, Acquired Taste, was just released in August 2009. The album is produced by Grammy® winning producer Don Was (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt). It is the first new studio recording by McClinton in over four years.


Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
And Victor Wainwright

– The Pianist Envy Tour –
“Dueling piano boogie blues with a twist”


Listen to Rev. Billy C. & Victor Wainwright – Pianist Envy Tour (mp3)
Watch the Rev. & Victor - Pianist Envy

Dearest Daddy O's and Cuddly Kittens:

Cop a squat, focus your audio, and let me lace up your boots to the serious dusting of the elephants' teeth that's going down with two gone kats known as Pianist Envy.... They are straight out of the 'fridge cool, and solid as the fence around a convent. Allow me to hip you to the tale of these advocates of the eighty-eights.

It’s the winter of 2007, and Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, the High Holy Prophet of Polyester, has been spreading his gospel of sanctified Shake, Rattle and Roll for the better part of three decades.

Although there was [and still is] plenty agitating of the gravel to be done, the miles were getting no shorter, and his health was coming apart like a Goodwill suitcase. He wasn't headed for Crashville just yet, but he knew the turn-off wasn't too far down the road. The Rev. was beginning to wonder if it wasn't time to pull over to the curb before the dreamboat became a battleship.

The Piana From Savannah.

Just about that time, a young Hepcat from Memphis by way of the Peach State appeared on the Rev's radar, and proceeded to lay down some wig-fryin' boogie woogie, that sent the anointed one into another zip code. They met at a jam session, and shortly thereafter split a gig at a Daytona establishment catering to those with credit ratings in the seven hundreds, and by the end of the night they had the joint rockin' like a roadhouse. Young Mr. Victor Wainwright made those keys jump like a chicken on a hotplate at the county fair. He also had a set of pipes that had the honeys' hiding their wedding rings.

When he and The Rev. played together, and beat it eight-to-the-bar, it was high, fly and too wet too dry, right from Jump street.

Before long, from Daytona to Memphis, the gin mill cowboys and young chicklets were diggin' this duo deeper than a backhoe on Ritalin. With their four hands full of piano, frantic threads, and their stratospheric boogie woogies, the Rev. and Victor decided: "Let's brush it hard, and see where the dandruff falls."

The result? A combination of barroom boogie, gut-bustin' chuckles, tore down blues, tear-jerkin' hillbilly, and original compositions guaranteed to knock the polish off your toes. Dig the downloaded tunes, snag a glance at the video, and see if you don't find certain portions of your anatomy moving involuntarily. Check our schedule, and put your face in the place when we land in your metropolis for the evening. As the Rev says: "If we don't turn you on, you ain't got a switch!"

Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

Web Site
Reverand Billy's MySpace

Listen Rev. Billy perform "Female Problems" (mp3)

From the moment he sits down at the piano and lights into his Southern old-time gospel and blues with a twist, the six-foot-five-inch, goateed, tattooed tongue-in-cheek "Rev." commands the stage and spreads the "gospel" like nobody's business. With puns flying as fast as his fingers, the Rev. plays masterly boogie-woogie and barrelhouse riffs while holding forth on subjects as diverse as W.W.E.D.? (What Would Elvis Do?), Mennonite Surf Parties, and dubious relationships between people you are terrified that you may actually know.

While widely recognized as a humorist, music is his forte. In the early 80s, he shared a walk-up with the late blues legend Sunnyland Slim, learning to appreciate the Blues and to perform it with fervor. A recognized musicologist, Billy has written about music, legendary performers and life on the road for Musician, Keyboard and BluesWax. His workshops and shows on Blues and/or Gospel Music at festivals and universities have left audiences clamoring for more.

 

Victor Wainwright

Victor's MySpace • Victor's Facebook

Wainwright is an MTV-weened twenty something who’s sold his soul to blues roots rock R&B. He effortlessly pays frequent homage to past music greats, while simultaneously adding his own youthful excitement. He's a raucous high-octane boogie-billy crowd pleaser. The Reverend Billy C. Wirtz and Victor Wainwright have been busy spreading the good word across the states!

In addition to his gigs with the good Reverend Billy C., Victor is also extremely busy as a solo act and with his two bands – his Florida based band, Victor Wainwright and the WildRoots, is releasing their new CD “Beale Street at the Bayou” in September. And his Memphis-based band, The Victor Wainwright Boogie and Blues Revue, is one of the most sought-after club bands in Memphis. There is no doubt your life will not be the same after seeing the Reverend and Victor at this year’s Big Lick Blues Festival!

 


Stacy Brooks



Web Site

MySpace

Listen to Stacy’s live, jazzy medley (mp3)

Listen to "Rock Me Baby" (mp3)

Listen to "Hound Dog" (mp3)

Stacy's musical career began at the age of five, in Zweibruken, Germany. Her mother sung in a Gospel Choir and decided to have Stacy open for them that evening. Her solos were "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Jesus Loves Me". After receiving her first standing ovation that night on an Army Recreation Center stage, there was no turning back. She had been bitten by the music bug.

She wrote her first song at the age of 6 (a Broadway type tune) performed in her parents living room on the coffee table for company. She performed at every musical opportunity anyone had to offer. Recognizing her energy as a child, her parents kept her enrolled in Tap and Jazz dance classes. Returning back from Germany her passion for music continued to grow. She performed with a Sweet Adeline Group (female barbershop quartet), Jazz Choir, High School Concert Choirs, and her Youth and Young adult choir at Patuxent United Methodist Church in Calvert County, MD. Her sophomore, junior and senior years she competed and won a position with one of the Tri-County Chorus' in Maryland. Her senior year she competed, and receive the opportunity to perform with The Maryland All-State Chorus.

She also was awarded The National School Choral Award that year, which is given to one student per school per year. Her senior year her peers voted her "Most Talented". After school she relocated to the DC Metro area and immediately started singing local radio jingles, singing with various Go-Go Bands, doing R&B tracks for LaFace records, and providing voice-overs. She also performed at the Apollo in Harlem, NYC with Reggae Artist Culture Ranks.

Fast forward to the present... with her diverse background she continues to give you toe tapping, head bobbing feel good music that crosses all barriers. After forming The Stacy Brooks Band in February 2007, she was nominated for "New Artist of the Year" by The Washington Area Music Association. Since she began her quest of the blues she has been working non-stop up and down the east coast bridging the age gap on the blues circuit and importing fans from other genres. She has shared the stage with blues greats like Kenny Neal, Bobby Parker, Memphis Gold, Randy Lippincott, Lonie Shields, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, just to name a few. Her arrangements keep the integrity of traditional Chicago & Delta blues while adding a spruce of rejuvenation. The musicians in her band have played with many other great artists worldwide and bring with them fans of their own. The music they make together with Stacy's dynamic vocals, will have you wanting more and hooked on their groove.


The Mo’Hippa Band
Waynesboro, VA


Winner of the 2009 Blue Ridge Blues Society Competition!

Website

Watch The Mo’Hippa Band at the Blue Ridge Blues’ Society Competition




 

 

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