Buckwheat Zydeco

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In Living Blues #207
May 2010

Dear Friends, I just returned from the 31st annual Blues Music Awards in Memphis, happy and proud that Tommy Castro won in every category in which he was nom...

In Living Blues #206
March 2010

Dear Friends, We won! For the first time since the 1980s, an Alligator release is a Grammy winner. Buckwheat Zydeco’s Lay Your Burden Down won as (what else)...

In Living Blues #203
September 2009

Dear Friends, It’s been a really great festival summer for me; I attended the Pocono Blues Festival, the Deep Blues Festival in Minneapolis and the Paramount...

In Living Blues #201
May 2009

Dear Friends, I just returned from the 2009 Blues Music Awards in Memphis. It was a very exciting night —lots of great music (about six hours of it) and plen...

In Living Blues #200
March 2009

Dear Friends, So far this year is shaping up to be a very difficult one for the world’s economy, and, as you’d imagine, for the blues. Some festivals have al...

In Living Blues #199
January 2009

Dear Friends, Welcome to a new year, hopefully a better one than 2008. But I’m concerned that these tough economic times are really hurting the touring blues...