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Gigs Coming Up:
May 18
Rapscallion's, Land O Lakes (7-10pm)
May 19
Sam's on the Beach, Hudson (1-4pm)
May 25
Stump Pass Grille, Englewood (6-10pm)
June 2
Herb's Limestone Country Club, Ona (12:30-4pm)
June 8
Sam's on the Beach, Hudson (8pm)
June 15
Rapscallion's, Land O Lakes (7-10pm)
July 6
Jollimon's, Dunedin (7:30pm)
Swiss Summer Tour:
27 July
Seminar Hotel, Aegerisee
28 July
Restaurant Weinberg, Rüti (2pm)
28 July
Landhaus, Jenaz (8:30pm)
18 August
Amphi Blues & Jazz Festival, Hüntwangen (7pm)
24 August
Swing in the Wind Festival, Estavayer
Back in the USA:
Sept 14
Cortez Clam Factory, Bradenton (8pm)
Sept 28
Jollimon's, Dunedin (7:30pm)
October 27
Oak Ridge Blues Festival, Oak Ridge TN
Still kickin' in Switzerland
We had a splendid little tour of Switzerland in February/March. Still kicking, thank you very much! Great outings at a bunch of our favorite venues. The Florida gator lap steel enjoyed his first trip to the Continent.
The Charlie Morris Band's new live concert video
The new DVD/CD set from the Charlie Morris Band is here. Live in Fribourg features an hour-long concert video that we shot at the Fribourg Jazz Parade. CMB plays their original Blues tunes on a big stage, with full-scale production and a crowd of 6,000. There are also 4 home movies of our antics on the road, and an audio CD with all the numbers from the Fribourg show, plus a bonus track.
Blowin some Blues on the beach
Charlie and the boys had a great time headlining the Treasure Island Sanding Ovations festival, with special guests TC Carr and Lori Cherry.
They'll be back on TI beach to do another big show in April - the Bikini Blues Bash, with Lucky Peterson and Sarasota Slim.
New CD, The Forest
The Forest is here. The new CD from Charlie Morris includes 13 new songs in Americana style. It ain't blues. Charlie's acoustic guitar and Dobro are featured on all the songs. Dennis Wallace and Cornfused are just a few of the guest artists who lend their voices to these woodsy stories. Charlie and his acoustic trio, the Bowl o' Granola, played two CD release shows in September. Order the new disc with all deliberate speed.
Gator or Croc?
Charlie plays the gator (or is it a croc?) at Sunset Beach in Tarpon Springs in August
Another Red Hot European Tour
Last June and July, it was a tour of Spain and Switzerland. Two festivals, three clubs, a wedding and lots of good times.
Oil fouls our beaches, and it fouls our lungs
Cars kill our dogs and our teenage sons
Now they're off to war, and we all know why
But maybe they wouldn't have had to die
If we hadn't Got Greedy
We've released Got Greedy as an online single. All earnings from this song in 2010 were donated to environmental organizations working to end offshore oil drilling.
Damon Fowler hits the Bluescoast
Blind Pig recording artist Damon Fowler was the latest luminary to join us for the Bluescoast Sessions. This is a series of all-star jams that will be released on CD some fine day...real soon, we promise. With Tim Hedding (James Brown, Greg Allman, Delaney and Bonnie) on the B-3 and Tom Bell and Mike Chavers in the engine room, we laid down five (or was it six?) tunes and had a splendid time. Damon's huge talent on guitars both slide and otherwise added some horseradish to Chuck's cocktail sauce (or something like that), and all agreed it was the best Bluescoast Session yet!
Tall Tales in Tennessee
When Charlie gets tired of the flatlands, he heads for the hills of East Tennessee. Here are some photos from Charlie's gigs in Knoxville, Nashville and Chattanooga.
Charlie backs up
Darrell Nulisch in FL
Blues and soul master Darrell Nulisch blew down to Florida for a couple of dates, and your favorite local boy was tapped to back him up and open the show. Darrell lays down some rootsy harp-driven blues and sings his ass off on some great soul ballads. Right up Charlie's alley, and he was tickled pink to be a part of it.
Friday night we did a gig at the Bradfordville Blues Club in Tallahassee, an excellent old-Florida venue where Chuck has played a couple of times before. Saturday it was the Suncoast Blues Society's anniversary bash at good old Skipper's. A fantastic party - kudos aplenty to the SBS - and the best turnout this smoked gator has seen at Skipper's in a long time. Darrell had the crowd in the palm of his hand from the downbeat to the encore.
Bluescoast Sessions welcome
Lucky Peterson, Sauce Boss
The Bluescoast Sessions, a series of informal jams with the greatest blues musicians from Florida and beyond, continued in April 2008.
Lucky Peterson is simply one of the greatest bluesmen alive. This man lives and breathes the blues, and it was a great honor to trade licks with him. Lucky stopped in on his way to the Tampa Bay Blues Festival. His set later on at the Ringside was one of the best blues shows I've seen in my life (and I have seen quite a few!), with a nonstop barrage of magical guitar lines holding the audience spellbound.
Bill Wharton, aka the Sauce Boss, is a real Florida bluesman, a mean steel guitar player and a super guy. We had a ball making up a crazy song about Fly Gumbo. This night was exactly what the Bluescoast Sessions was meant to capture.
Some fine day, the pick of the Bluescoast Sessions will be released on a big fat CD.
CMB kills at the
Montreux Jazz Festival
In July 2007, the Charlie Morris Band had a weeklong stand at the Montreux Jazz Festival. We had an absolute blast! Standing-room-only crowds plied us with champagne and whiskey, and all sorts of great musicians, including Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, came by and sat in with us.
Power to the People!
BAAMO and WMNF released a CD, Power to the People, with 15 songs of protest and political punditry by various artists. One of Charlie's new songs, I Don't Know My Neighbors Anymore, was selected for the disc. It's an acoustic version, recorded during Charlie's appearance on WMNF's Live Music Showcase. Later, Charlie recorded an electric version of the song, which ended up on The Forest.
Chuck and the band also played at the Power to the People concert at Skipper's Smokehouse, which featured 30 bands! They played Neighbors along with a tune by Iris Dement and one by John Prine.
Charlie's been a big fan and supporter of WMNF for many years, and has appeared live on several different shows, including the Florida Folk Show and the Afternoon Blues Show. It was an honor to be a part of the Power to the People CD and concert!
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