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White, Black & Blues to be released Fall 2010
They Brought The Blues To Rock and Roll
 White, Black &Blues is a feature-length documentary film that chronicles the story of the Chicago teenage musicians who, in the early sixties, cut their teeth in the city’s tough blues neighborhoods, were accepted and treated like sons by the original blues masters, then went on to play a key role in bringing the blues to rock and roll, in what many refer to as the “blues-rock explosion.”
With special appearances by Jack White and Marshall Chess, the film stars Nick Gravenites, Michael Bloomfield, Barry Goldberg, Paul Butterfield, Harvey Mandel, Corky Siegel, Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Steve Miller, Sam Lay, Dave Mason, Marcy Levy and B.B. King.
 White, Black & Blues
They Brought The Blues To Rock and Roll
A Film by John Anderson
Produced by Out The Box Records and Anderson Productions
Executive Producers: Timm Martin, Chris Stewart, Bert Moreno
Producers: Barry Goldberg, John Anderson
Projected Release Date Fall 2010
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Blues Reunion band comes alive
MUSIC REVIEW | Free-form odyssey sets tone for finale of 27th annual festival
June 14, 2010
BY JEFF JOHNSON Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun Times
By Sunday night, the finale of the 27th annual Chicago Blues Festival, everyone was feeling "Buried Alive in the World," so it was fitting that the Chicago Blues Reunion band used that song not only to open its set on the Petrillo Main Stage but also to set the tone for the evening.
And what a great song it is. Written by guitarist-vocalist Nick Gravenites for Janis Joplin, who was set to record it the morning after she died, it propelled the band on a free-form 70-minute blues, rock, jazz and psychedelic odyssey. Gravenites and other soul survivors of the '60s white Chicago blues movement got together at the 2003 blues fest for a one-time reunion gig, then re-formed two years later for a highly successful tour and CD/DVD. This summer, they're a real band. Exit vocalists Tracy Nelson and Marcy Levy; welcome (at least for this Chicago homecoming gig) Charlie Musselwhite, a terrific harpist-vocalist and long-ago Chicago running mate of Gravenites, keyboardist Barry Goldberg, guitarist Harvey Mandel and harpist Corky Siegel.
Among them, they had a couple of centuries of material from which to build their set. Highlights included a Musselwhite-led "Help Me" that he dedicated to Sonny Boy Williamson II, who worked Curly's Twist City on the West Side with a young Musselwhite and Mandel in the audience, and a pair of instrumentals, "Wade in the Water" and Mandel's "Cristo Redentor." For the latter, Musselwhite made his harp gently weep while Mandel squeezed out sparks of ecstasy with his fuzz tone- and feedback-laden guitar, and Goldberg's Hammond B-3 laid the foundation. Sam Lay and James Cotton helped with the encore, "I've Got My Mojo Workin'."
The Reunion band will be seen in a new documentary, "White, Black & Blues," which is being screened privately after the blues festival.
The three-day festival attendance was announced Sunday night at 500,000 -- not bad, given three days of threatening weather, a lack of genre-crossing stars and a reined-in budget. (see the complete article at: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/2389754,CST-FTR-blues14.article
OTB's Chris Stewart performs with Dave Mason
 OTB's Managing Partner, Chirs Stewart, joined Dave Mason at the 2010 Benefit Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum May 1 at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Rock fans enjoyed performances by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason, the Georgia Satellites, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Alan White’s White Sox All-Star Band featuring former members of Yes, Queen and Journey, and a closing performance by power rockers Cheap Trick. Proceeds from the show benefited the Rock Hall's award-winning music education program, as well as the United Way of the Greater Triangle.
Troubled Identity plays at RRHOF
 OTB’s newly signed artists, Troubled Identity joined Professor Louie & The Crowmatix and 94 East at the April 30th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Weekend concert in downtown Raleigh paying tribute to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. Music lovers enjoyed tributes to the legendary musicians of The Band, Prince  and The Revolution, and a foray into alternative rock with the teens of Troubled Identity.
Tagged by some reviewers as the next Jonas Brothers, Troubled Identity, a hot alternative rock band out
of Chicago, is amassing fans with its unheard of riffs, honest lyrics and liveliness. Teenagers Max
Subar, Alex Pomerantz, Shane Stewart and Jake Nankin formed the band in 2006, after meeting at the
Highwood outpost of the performance-based Paul Green School of Rock, where they learned to cover
classic-rock songs. Signed by Out the Box Records, Troubled Identity has just released its first self-
titled EP. Time Out Chicago blogger Lily Hansen reviewed the band’s show at Park West in November and
said, “The band’s vibrant energy and sheer enthusiasm at playing in front of a live audience was
infectious and put a smile on my face. As it played its last song, a cover of ‘Rollover DJ’, it became
evident that the band has at least one identity as an option: Rock stars.” See more on the band at:
The band’s site: http://troubledidentity.tumblr.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/troubledidentity
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Troubled-Identity/62872497982
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMX1o2YvLk&feature=channel |
