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Swiss Summer Tour:
27 June
Buchsi Blues Festival, Herzogenbuchsee
1 July
Hotel Eiger, Grindelwald
3 July (9:30pm)
Fribourg Jazz Parade
10 July
Charlie's Ranch, Giez
11 July
Restaurant du Lac, Vallamand-Dessous
14-18 July
New Orleans Bar, Fribourg
Back in the USA:
August 2
Coyote Joe's, Knoxville TN (Chuck solo, 4pm)
August 8
Brackins, Maryville TN
August 9 (2:30pm)
Chattanooga Market TN (Chuck solo)
August 14, 15
Crown & Goose, Knoxville TN
Sept 5
Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin FL
Sept 11-12
Rockaway, Clearwater Beach FL
Sept 18
Ka-Tiki, Treasure Island FL
Sept 19
Swigwam, St Pete Beach FL
November 7
Woody's, Ellenton FL (2-6pm)
November 14
Saturday Mornin Market, St Pete FL (10am-2pm)
Ten Tall Tales released
The new CD from the Charlie Morris Band is called Ten Tall Tales. Recorded in 2008 with the Swiss band, it is now available for your enjoyment. Ten new original songs, covering the whole menu from straight-ahead Blues to Rockabilly to Zydeco. Come have some! You can order nice clean DRM-free downloads from Amazon
All proceeds from this CD will be immediately spent on liquor and pot, providing an immediate stimulus to the economy. It's downright unpatriotic not to buy one! If you need more convincing, come in here to sample some tracks and read all about how we recorded it.
Swiss tour bites camel
The Ten Tall Camel Toes Tour went great, as always. From the Ten Tall Tales launch party at Dublin's Pub in La Chaux-de-Fonds to the icy wrap party at Charlie's Ranch in Giez, we had great crowds, great fun, and lots of camel toe. The shows were hot (except in Giez, where it was cold) and the camels are still nervous!
Big fun at Brackins
Charlie Morris and Gator Bait (Dave Peeples on bass, Martin Hodge on drums) always have a great time at Brackins Blues Bar. This little spot in Maryville is the best Blues club in East Tennessee. Well actually, it's about the only Blues club east of Nashville, but that doesn't make it any less cool! Mark has a great crew here, and we always have a great time swigging PBR with the local Mervillians!
Summer festival tour
Last summer, Chuck and his boys played four festivals and a couple clubs in Switzerland, including the Fribourg Jazz Parade.
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 with the full band, which will be on the next CD (yeah, yeah, one o these days, right?).
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!
Son of a Gator!
Hot on the tail of their live CD, Live at the Gator n Chips
It was a return to the scene of the crime, as the new live CD was recorded in the UK on the Fall 2005 tour. This time the gator travelled with us in the form of a guitar strap, which was much less dangerous for all concerned (although a couple of people did get bit).
The first leg of the tour was in England, where we played three pubs and a festival. On October 7th, we played to an excellent crowd at the Banbury Festival. The band played a set on the main stage, and Chuck did a solo set on the acoustic stage.
Next we crossed the creek to Switzerland for a return engagement at the Dixie Jazz Club in Sargans, then our first concert in Schaffhausen, at a famous local venue called the Dolder 2.
Crawlin' through the South
Here are some pix from the Crescent City Crawl tours (1998-2004). CMB has been going to sip from that simmering saucepan of sin since 1998. Tallahassee, the Panhandle, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mississippi...pretty bluesy country, man!
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