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As you have noticed (in addition to my spelling and grammar errors), the Cascade Blues Association has redesigned their website. This is a significant change, providing a richer experience for you, the visitors, while simplifying the maintenance for us, the CBA. As with any change, some of you will think this is great and immediately adopt it; others will accept it and make do; and of course there will be a group that think it was a mistake (for various reasons). No matter where you fit, this is our new platform. Here are some of the things that have changed and some of the things that are new.

Changes:

The popular CBA calendar is now one click deeper: Calendar and Events >> Blues Event Calendar. This provided us the capability to expose all our blues events, such as the CBA Sponsored and CD Release Party events. For those that are not real excited about this change, I encourage you to bookmark the Blues Event Calendar page, and use it as your link into the CBA website.
NW and/or Portland titles have changed to Cascade Blues (see the menu link Cascade Blues). This is to better represent our region. We're more than Portland, but we do not cover all the Northwest either.
The Bandstand section is alive again. You'll find it under Cascade Blues >> Bandstand. The first content will appear on August 1st, after the August BluesNotes is delivered.
The Muddy Awards has its own top-level navigation link. This is the top recognition a performer can get from our community, the CBA, and it was a bit lost. By-the-way, if you haven't watched the Muddy Award videos (Muddy Awards >> Muddy Award Videos) captured by Kathy Rankin, check them out, you're in for a real treat!

New:

Several new categories.
1. "Ramblings On My Mind" from our CBA President Greg Johnson
2. CD Reviews (Reviews >> CD Reviews)
3. Venue Reviews (Reviews >> Venue Reviews) -- no content yet
4. Photos and Videos (Cascade Blues >> Photos and Videos)
Easy to adjust font-size control.
Improved search (last menu item)
Several article related improvements
1. Author
2. Post date / time
3. Easy to PDF, print, or email

As you explore, I'm sure you will discover other changes and improvements. In places where we are duplicating content that appears in the BluesNotes, most cases that content will not appear until after the BluesNotes has been delivered to your mailbox. (Join the CBA if you're not getting the BluesNotes in your mailbox.)

I could go on, but let me close with this. In coming on board as the new Webmaster, this redesign was the top priority from the CBA Board. And as you can see, there are still some rough edges to improve upon, but it's here. Further, there have been other request from the community, such as continued improvements to the calendar. I will continue to evaluate and address these as time permits. In the mean time, if so inclined, feel free to send me your ideas, feedback, and comments, as the one thing I know for sure, "I don't have all the best ideas or all the right answers." I wont make any promises that I can address your input, but I can promise that I will listen to it.

Chris, CBA Webmaster

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"Live At The Jolly Roger Roadhouse"

LiveAtTheJollyRogers Various Artists

Criminal Records Northwest

Got to say right off, I’m so glad that Criminal Records is back. One of the premier labels in its time of putting out the very best in blues music in the Northwest. Their first outing was this last summer’s DVD release of Portland Mojo: How Stumptown Got The Blues, telling the story of Portland’s blues tradition. Now they are starting to re-release some of those amazing recordings that have long been out of print; for the first time ever on CD. And how fitting it is that one of the first discs to be revived is Live At The Jolly Roger Roadhouse, a true Northwest classic.

The Jolly Roger Roadhouse was located in Seattle and during its tenure was a home to the very best musicians from the Northwest and beyond. It was the place to hear the blues in Seattle. But alas, it is long gone. Destroyed by a mysterious fire many years ago. But the memories built there will last forever, especially those magical nights in February 1984 when the tracks for this album were laid down.

It is in those five incredible nights that four of the Northwest’s absolute best were captured. One act, In Yo’ Face featured two musicians who still rule the roost in this part of the country today, Curtis Salgado and Lloyd Jones. Two numbers are featured on the album, with each artist taking the vocal lead on one apiece and driving their talent home. The other three acts were all led by legendary local artists unfortunately no longer with us. Seattle’s king of the blues Isaac Scott was always a wonder to behold and earned his title in the Emerald City well. Tom McFarland spent time in a number of cities from Portland to Seattle to San Francisco and Spokane. Tom’s another outstanding guitarist who deserved much more recognition than received. Then there was Paul deLay. If Isaac Scott ruled Seattle, deLay was the master of the entire region. The selections with deLay are all wonderful, with perhaps the old Muddy Waters’ standard “Tiger In Your Tank” really setting fire to the entire album.

Anybody who knows the Northwest blues scene probably has this old album stashed away with their LPs, wishing it were on CD so they can hear it more often. Now it is on CD and it should be considered mandatory for all blues fans. This is history people! And it’s the type you want to relive. Can’t wait for more re-releases from the Criminal Records Northwest archives and those lost treasures they’ll be bringing out that never saw the light of day before. Hurray for blues lovers everywhere!

Total Time: 43:34

Wrapped Up In Love / Same Old Blues / I Don’t Know / Doghouse Blues / I Am A Witness / Nothing To Go On / Tiger In Your Tank / Who’ll Be The Next / Crying Won’t Help You / I Got To Find A Way

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