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Kaati: Kaati@BluesFestivalGuide.com a veritable smorgasbord of the blues. We’re hungry
EDITOR
Michele Lundeen: Michele@BluesFestivalGuide.com enough for the blues to fi nd the best “recipes” to appease
SALES mANAGER/mARKETING DIRECTOR our musical palate and we invite you to join us… right
Cheryl O’Grady-Yearnshaw: cogblues@att.net here, right now! Pull up a lawn chair… go ahead… gorge
EDITORIAL SUPPORT yourself on the pages within that are simply brimming with
Irene Weaver all the blues your lil’ heart could desire …
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Talk about fl avor! We are so darn excited about our
Ted Drozdowski, Larry Garner, GreyRose, John “Blueshammer” Hammer, James
“Fuzzhead” Jones, Preston Lauterbach, Pierre-Alexandre Legault, William “Big Bill” cover art to honor the “Father of Modern Chicago Blues,”
Morganfi eld, Larry “Mud” Morganfi eld, Marva Morganfi eld, Mercy Morganfi eld, the late Muddy Waters, on his 100th birthday. We
Lloyd Peterson, Wendy Schumer, William J. Toll discovered this powerful, earthy painting and loved the
PHOTO & ART CONTRIBUTORS story behind it depicting how far Muddy had come from
Courtesy Ryan Baer, Marsha Fabiano, Suzanne Foschino, Joachim Geiger, GreyRose,
© Ikonstudio | Dreamstime.com, © Jef Jaisun Photography, Lennie Jones, Sax Kari, his young days working the fi elds on Stovall Plantation.
Preston Lauterbach, Courtesy Middle Tennessee University/John Work Collection, We are pleased to include family quotes and photos, and
Courtesy Mildred McGee and Mud Morganfi eld, Courtesy Lloyd Peterson, Kathy
L. Rankin, Matthew Schlenker, © Marilyn Stringer Photography, Courtesy Tremblant in collecting, discovered a gentle, gracious family that
Resort Association, William Toll obviously still misses him dearly.
ADVERTISING SALES There’s more cookin’… Next Easter
Cheryl O’Grady-Yearnshaw, Diana Shonk, Robyn O’Grady, Tracey Heyman, we invite you to travel with us to the Byron
Terry Walsh Bay Blues Festival in Australia. Yes, we’re
ADVERTISING TRAFFIC COORDINATOR
Florencia Mariona-Raynor going downunder and crikey… we can
ADmINISTRATIVE hardly wait! You can read about Byron
Tracey Heyman, Florencia Mariona-Raynor, Irene Weaver, Samantha Hernandez Bay and other Aussie blues destinations
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION/WEBSITE in this issue. If you’d like to experience
Goran Petko, Aqua Design this with us, contact our offi ce to receive
ACCOUNTING info on group rates for air/hotel.
Debbie Swartz Well, you know we can just go on and on, but we get
SOCIAL mEDIA mANAGER/DISTRIBUTION
Tracey Heyman so excited about all the blues opportunities out there that
CONSULTANTS we can’t help but share. As a sponsor of the Legendary
Nancy Edwards, Tom Yearnshaw Rhythm & Blues Cruise, we would be remiss if we did
not express to you that this is a journey of a lifetime that
The opinions of the contributors are not necessarily the views of RBA Publishing Inc.
you must put on your menu. Don’t be discouraged about
sellouts… you can join a wait-list and believe us, they’re
FRONT COVER ART planning more cruises as you read this.
Meet Cover Artist www.bluescruise.com
Lennie Jones We are also a Media Sponsor of the Blues Foundation
Lennie Jones is an acclaimed, self- and are pleased to be able to help with the Raise the Roof
taught, primitive American folk artist
living in the rural Everglades of SW campaign to make the Blues Hall of Fame become a reality.
Florida. “My paintin’ shows Muddy We’ve been doing an outreach to festivals encouraging
in his late 60s’ ‘Electric Mud’ period,”
says Lennie. “Behind him is a cotton them to help raise awareness and funds, and festivals are
fi eld and an actual cotton shack from rising up to meet the call. All efforts are welcome. Would
Stovall Plantation, near Clarksdale, MS you like to get involved? It can be as simple an effort as
(where he was raised by his grandma).
I wanted to show just how far this passing out brochures at the next festival you go to. Visit
amazing bluesman had come in his www.Blues.org or call our home offi ce, 775-337-8344.
career and life journey. I shook his
hand in 1976 – Have Mercy!” Early each summer, we are also Media Sponsors for
Lennie Jones two weekends of the Elwood Blues/BluesMobile syndicated
www.folkartblues.com Primitive American folk artist Lennie Jones, radio show. We are using our airtime to bring awareness
shown here with one of his paintings

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