THE 2011
BIG LICK BLUES LINE-UP
2:00pm |
Gates Open |
2:00 - 2:15pm |
Food Vendors & Beverage & Merchandise Sales open |
2:15 - 3:15pm |
Skinny Velvet (Blue Ridge Blues Society Competition Winner) |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
The Fat Daddy Band |
5:10pm |
Martins Rib Eating Contest |
5:30 - 7:00pm |
Bernard Allison |
7:05pm |
Rib Cook-Off Awards, Trophies for Rib Eating Contest & 50/50 winner |
7:30 - 9:00pm |
Delbert McClinton |
8:45 pm |
Last Call for Alcohol |
10:00pm - 2:00am |
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All times shown are approximate and subject to change |
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Three-Time Grammy Winner!
Delbert McClinton
He’s back – by popular demand! Delbert tells us he and the band had such a great time in 2009, he wanted to come back. We couldn’t be more thrilled!
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Videos:
“Delbert on Austin City Limits”
"Somebody To Love”
”Standing on Shaky Ground”
“Every Time I Roll The Dice”
Delbert at the ’09 SunTrust Big Lick Blues Festival
Delbert McClinton is a legend among Texas roots music aficionados, not only for his amazing longevity, but for his ability to combine country, blues, soul, and rock & roll as if there were no distinctions between any of them in the best time-honored Texas tradition. A formidable harmonica player long before he recorded as a singer, McClinton's career began in the late '50s, yet it took him nearly two decades to evolve into a bona fide solo artist.
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Bernard Allison
The son of legendary bluesman Luther Allison, Bernard has scheduled a few rare U.S. shows this year's – including the SunTrust Big Lick Blues Festival!
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Videos
- Voodoo Child
- As Simple as That
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Help Me Through the Day
Bernard Allison totes the same smokin' six string shooter that his late father Luther Allison assaulted the blues with. And he is blessed with his father's soulful voice, spiritual devotion, and a musical freedom which experiments with the blues. Born in Chicago on November 26th, 1965, the youngest of nine children Bernard was first introduced to the roots of black music and the art of the electric guitar by his father, the late great Luther Allison. Like Ken Griffey Jr. hanging out in baseball locker rooms as a youth, Luther's son was the kid running on-stage throughout the band's set. Experiences like that profoundly effect one's aspirations. “That's when I decided I wanted to be up there like him. I think I was seven.”
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The Fat Daddy Band
The Fat Daddy Band's success has allowed them to open for such national acts as The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Train, Susan Tedeschi, and the legendary Nighthawks!
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Since 1995, The Fat Daddy Band, from Roanoke, VA has been delivering what many call exceptional Blue Ridge Blues to the Roanoke Valley and beyond. Members Include Kerry Hurley (vocals);
Hoppie Vaughan (guitar & vocals);
Greg Desaulniers (bass & vocals);and
Tom Hearn (drums). The latest rendition of the band is the effect of many strange twists and circumstances that can only happen to a "Real Deal" Blues band. This current line-up has remained solid for the last 6 years. Kerry "Big Hurl" Hurley - Vocals, Hoppie "The Minister of Soul" Vaughan - Guitar & Vocals, Tom "The Hit Man" Hearn - Drums & Greg "Fat Daddy" Desaulniers - Bass & Vocals.
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Skinny Velvet
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Who is Skinny Velvet? That's a great question that is not easily answered. As a man, Skinny is an enigma….a dark, southern, musical mystery. As a band, Skinny Velvet is the brainchild of four of the Carolina's most talented and determined troubadours!
Skinny Velvet was conceived from several of North Carolina's finest groups. These boys have toured the U.S. in their well respected bands for years and now come together to make one of the strongest line-ups around! From early funk, blues, rock and soul, Skinny Velvet will have on your feet groovin'!
 Skinny Velvet is:
Mike Huffman - Hammond B-3 Organ, Piano, Keyboards and Vocals
Phillip Barry – Drums and Vocals
Jim Bolt – Bass Guitar and Vocals
Hank Shell – Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar and Vocal.
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