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Thursday, October 19, 2006

American Roots Nooz

American Roots Nooz
Come join the fun TONIGHT!

American Roots Live with Nasty Ned

at The Bluetone Cafe
683 Walnut St.
Easton, PA
(610) 258-5812
http://www.bluetonecafe.com

Tonight's headliner is Tweed Schade & the Sugar Daddies with Cochise, Jim Mosca and JR Bradfield - in addition, a cast of American Roots All Stars featuring Jaimo Flynn, Bernie BB Brauswetter, Billy K, Arlene Schar, Sonny Young and many more... will you be among them?

Don't miss it. They're is no show like American Roots Live anywhere!

Come to the Bluetone early for some great southern fried chicken, cheese mac and corn bread and get yourself a good seat for the show!


...enjoy reading the latest Roots Reviews at http://american-roots.blogspot.com
...view the entire American Roots Live photo gallery at http://www.nastyned.com and leave your email address their to receive your nooz

Remember American Roots Live with Nasty Ned is now in 2 Great Locations!

Every Wednesday night at 9 pm
@Crossroads
78 North Ave.
Garwood, NJ
908-232-5666 http://www.xxroads.com
with guesthost John Powers & Friends; EJ Rice & Josh Gebhardt

And then every Thursday night again at 9 pm at the Bluetone.

We hope to see you tonight.

Attention: Acts wishing to showcase at American Roots Live can email Nasty Ned at nastyned@att.net

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Blues Legend
JAMES COTTON
(PHOTO TAKEN BY ED PAMPANI AT ORHAN ANNIES IN STERLING NJ)

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25th 8:00PM
AT ORPHAN ANNIE'S STIRLING NJ.
908-647-0138 http://oannies.tripod.com/
Limited seating - Only 150 tickets for sale - First come first serve
Once in a life time to see a blues legend in an intimate setting!
Advance tickets on sale at club $40.00
Call club to charge tickets, all credit cards accepted, 908-647-0138


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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Blues greats rock Central Jersey see the courier news for more info

By BOB MAKIN
Staff Writer

Three of living blues legends will perform through the end of the year in Central Jersey:
* Muddy Waters' pianist Pinetop Perkins on Nov. 10 at The Stanhope House, 45 Main St., Stanhope
* Harmonica great James Cotton, Nov. 25, Orphan Annie's, 1255 Valley Road, Stirling section of Long Hill
* Howlin' Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin, Dec. 29, also at Orphan Annie's.

One of Central Jersey's best guitarists, Billy Hector will share the stage with Sumlin,
while Orphan Annie's favorites Dave "Snakeman" Runyan and Bob Lanza will do the same with Cotton.

For ticket info, contact the Stanhope House at (973) 347-0458 or http://www.stanhopehouse.com and Orphan Annie's at (908) 647-0138 or http://www.oannies.com

SEE THE COURIER NEWS FOR MORE INFO THE COURIER NEWS

Monday, October 16, 2006

Roots Review 28 by Nasty Ned















How do you define "spirit"?
As a noun you could say spirit is someone's soul, but when you imply someone "has spirit," then defining spirit includes the measure of a person's positive energy, their will, strength, dedication, determination, humility, ability, motivation, inspiration, good sense, faith, humor, honor, decency, respect, respectability, and myriad other intangible character traits.

John Powers has spirit - and without which, American Roots Live would not be where it is today.

Wednesday night's American Roots Live 28 at Crossroads in Garwood, NJ, was like a cross between an Alan Freed's traveling all stars shows of the 50's and a music festival with 30 names on the bill and continuous music. ARL 28 didn't resemble an open mic, although, it was.

Quality act after quality act showed their spirit on our stage before an appreciative audience in an SRO house. And by the time individual musicians came together to play, they were all notable, accomplished performers that sounded like rehearsed bands.

There really is no other show like American Roots Live.

Getting us started and setting the tone for a great night of music was John Powers, EJ Rice and Josh Gebhardt, then The Wiliamzboy with his rhythmic, well crafted songs.(pic)




















Then Tweed Schade & the Sugar Daddies with Cochise, John, and Gar Francis had us rockin' down that Raritan Line.
Look out Easton, here comes Tweed Schade & the Sugar Daddies.

























Then it was Kelly Caruso's turn to take the stage with Daddy Mike on bass Johnny Charles, guitar, Walter Bordonaro, saxophone, Powers on drums and JR Bradfield, guitar.

Kelly (pic below) displayed strong, disciplined vocals as she performed like a star and looked even better than she does in this pic taken by Ed Pampani back in August.















Then came the ARL right hook, all the way from Athens, Greece via NYC, arriving by car with bassist Margery Peters, was Spiros Soukis - my friend from cyber roots. Spiros tore the house up with authentic, rockin' American blues guitar and Clapton-like vocals. Look out Easton, here comes Spiros.

















With BB in the house and OREO in the dim lit room, Dean Shot made his first visit to ARL and we were honored. Dean ripped it up with Jimmy Somma, Freddie Farrow and Walter Foot then invited Bones Sanford to play a little harp on one. We had the "Newark Hillbilly" Robert Z, Ed Pampani, Monsters of Mojo; Jorge, John & John, Bob Brienza, Brad Sicotte, Screamin' Mimi Nowak, Arlene Schar (pic), Soup Boy and more..."














I am so proud of our American Roots Movement and I'm so proud of you.

Then we Loaded the caravan on Thursday and moved American Roots Live 28 to the Bluetone Cafe in Easton, PA. We tore it up again AND with "more "back to back" awards in order - this time for John Powers, Johnny Charles, Bernie BB Brauswetter and Robert Z - Bluetone was smokin'.

Another good crowd on hand eating Aaron's burgers, southern fried chicken, cheese mac and sweet potato fires served up by Christine and kickin back to listen to the incredible music swirling through the room by John Powers, Keith McGonigle, Hot Pat, Billy K, Jaimo Flynn from Big Daddy and the Wild Cats, Bernie BB Brauswetter, Rob "Rock" Bianco, Vern Mobley from Fussion Jazz Trio, Johnny Charles, Sonny Young, Robert Z, Jeff Bennison, Randall Smith, Ken Barry, Arne Englund, Rob Fraser from Mike Dugan's Blues Mission, Andy McGregor, Nick T, Roman, Paul Berger from Can't Stop Now, Keith Jr... Keith Sr.. we even had WDIY's Stewart Brodian and Arlene Schar in the house.

Thanks to Joe Karam, Lee Frankel, our sponsors, supporters, friends and volunteers and ambassadors Powers, Duane Chez and HoneyBoy Dupree.

We'll look for you at American Roots Live 29 nearest you, or maybe even see you back to back - that's double the fun!

Keeping it real,

Ned

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