DC
MINNER, SELBY and BLUES ON THE MOVE |
| DC Minner song list: Love and
Happiness, Hideaway, Pretty Girls, Take Me to the River, She
Caught the Katy, Standing on Shaky Ground, Jelly Jelly, My Girl,
Blue Suede Shoes, I'll Play the Blues For You, Crosscut Saw,
California Dreaming, Mustang Sally, Blue Eyes Cryin' in the
Rain, Things I Used to Do... Selby Song list: Rt 66, Let's Get
Married, Piece of My Heart, Worried Life Blues, Miss You So,
Under the Boardwalk, Lonely Nights, Give me One Reason to Stay
Here, Sweet Home Chicago etc... |
| Peace love and Happiness 2006
TOUR --- Schedule
BELOW! |
D.C. MINNER
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DC & SELBY
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FOR Blues Inc.
(918) 473-2411
Down Homes Blues Club
701 DC Minner Street
Rentiesville OK 74459
dcminner@uslogon.com
www.dcminnerblues.com
Selby Minner
Legendary
Blues man D. C. Minner returned in 1998 after 25 years
on the road to his birthplace in Rentiesville
OK and brought a wealth of music with him. He
re-opened his grandmother’s corn-whiskey house The
Cozy Corner as the DOWN HOME BLUES CLUB, which ran as an
after hours club for 7 years …this evolved into the
ongoing internationally respected DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES
FESTIVAL, founded in 1991. Minner’s band was added to
the OK Arts Council Rosters in 1990.
DC
and his wife-bassist Selby play firmly in the OK-TX
style of T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, and Lowell Fulson,
with singing that is relaxed and ingratiating, funky and
LIVE! Their ‘true-juke-joint-for-the-nineties’
continues to his day as a Festival Site, Preservation
Hall and Blues Hall of Fame.
The pair has won an international KBA from the
Handy People (Blues Foundation in Memphis) for their
BITS (Blues in the Schools) work with kids. DC was
inducted into the OK Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999, had the
street next to the Blues Club named after him the same
year; in 2003 he was inducted into the OK Music Hall of
Fame and (by popular vote) the Payne County Hall of
Fame!
The Friends of Rentiesville Blues Inc. aka “F.O.R. Blues” is a 501 © (3) non-profit
formed to evolve past the “mom-and-pop” into the
future. The couple’s friends have come on board to help keep the
Festival alive, grow the site as a music Education
Center, develop the OK Blues Hall of Fame and
more. Fun!

DC at Dusk til Dawn Blues
Fest
Photo by WGB 'Got the Blues"
Another version of the bio:
D.C.Minner
was born in January 28, 1935 D.C was raised by his
grand mother (LURA DRENNAN) who ran a corn whiskey house
while D.C. grew up. "There was no electricity
anywhere around , So she would have the guys come over
with their Acoustic Guitars - that was my first time hearing LIVE MUSIC."
D. C. says. D. C.
moved away when he joined the service. When he returned he took up bass,
and worked out of OKC with Larry Johnson and the New Breeds. It was with
this band that he performed behind O. V. Wright, Freddie King, Chuck Berry, Eddie
Floyd, Bo Diddley and many more. He moved to California in the late
60's. Had a band with Tony Mathews in Hollywood. Then he moved to the
Bay Area, retired from bass, studied Yoga nda, took up guitar and ran
into Selby. She was working the clubs in Berkeley and San Francisco with
Jim Donovan playing and singing acoustic blues. Selby had bought an
electric bass, and was
looking to learn how to play it... the couple got together, with the encouragement of
friends, Selby as D. C.'s bass apprentice and left the bay area together
in 1977.
D.
C., Selby and Blues on the Move toured non-stop for 12 years, and then
returned to D. C.'s home place and re-opened the Cozy Corner as the Down
Home Blues Club in 1988. It quickly became an after hours club. The Dusk
til Dawn Blues Festival was founded in 1991 as a way to bring their fans
and musician friends together from across the country, among other
things. The couple has won the Handy in Blues Education for their Blues
in the Schools work; the Keeping the Blues Alive Award, and D. C. was
inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, His proudest
accomplishment to date has been having his hometown rename part of the
Texas Road that runs alongside the club in his honor. The pair now lives at
701 D. C. Minner Street. So if you're coming to the Festival, come into
Rentiesville two exits up US 69 from I-40, and when you get to D. C. Minner Street, you'll know you've arrived!
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Selby
Minner
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Selby
Minner was
born in
Providence
RI
in
1949 and attended art school there at the RI School of
Design. Her friends dragged her to a concert by Janis
Joplin in the school dining hall and her life was
changed on the spot. All of a sudden the blues she had
been finding and listening to seemed acessable, and
Selby knew she had to try and sing the blues no matter
what.
She
left
Providence
in
1971 with guitarist Jim Donovan. The couple formed
acoustic blues group Home Cookin’ and worked coffee
houses in
Chicago
,
DC
,
New
Orleans
and
eventually gravitated to the flourishing Oakland –
Berkeley – SF blues scene. They worked the clubs for 2
years. The group disbanded and Selby worked as a solo,
also forming the Shady Ladies Blues Band. Longing to
play electric blues she bought a bass from Peggy
Mitchell and started the transition. Soon she met and
grouped with DC Minner who
had retired from 18 years as a bassist backing such
luminaries as Freddy King and OV Wright…DC was now on
guitar, needing
a bassist, and a ‘match made in heaven’ got together
and got busy. DC
Minner, Selby and Blues on the Move. The band lived on
the road for 12 years booking themselves from border to
border and eventually to
Europe
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They worked as a three piece, finding local drummers
along the way. The pair returned to DC’s birth place
in Rentiesville and reopened his Grandmother Lura’s
corn whiskey house as a blues club in 1988. The Dusk til
Dawn Blues Fest started in 1991. By this time the couple
was on the Touring Arts and Artist in Residence rosters
of the Oklahoma Arts Council. This led to lots of Blues
in the Schools work, eventually garnering them the
Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Handy people in
Memphis
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An international Award in Education in 1999. DC’s
health is shaky now, and Selby, together with the
non-profit Friends of Rentiesville (F.O.R.) Blues Inc.,
is keeping the Festival alive and have great plans for
the development of the OK Blues Hall of Fame (now in
it’s third year).
Selby
has performed on stage with Albert
Collins, Drink Small, Hubert Sumlin, Lowell Fulsom, Big
Bad Smitty, Larry Davis, Smokey Wilson, Little Johnny
Taylor, Tony Mathews, Harry and Debbie Blackwell, and
countless others. She has worked tirelessly to develop
the community and spread the good word about Oklahoma
Blues. She has recently moved back to the guitar and her
lead playing is getting better all the time as DC
encourages her and is slowly pushing her to the front of
the band.

and here she is sitting in with Lucinda Williams at the
Cains, 5-1-07 photo by Bryan Clifton

this
photo is print-ready at 300 dpi
PEACE
LOVE AND HAPPINESS TOUR 2006
| DC
& Selby MINNER |
on
tour! with the entire band! |
John Seymour bass, Daniel Williams
drums, Ray Tubbs keys |
| 918-855-0978 |
dcminner@uslogon.com |
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| FRI
OCT 20 |
Bisbee AZ |
The Stock Exchange 520-432-1333 |
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OCT 21 |
Bisbee AZ |
St Elmo's Bar |
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| TUES
OCT 24 |
San Francisco CA |
The Saloon, Upper Grant St
415-989-7666 |
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| THURS
Oct 26 |
Garberville/Redway CA |
The Mateel - Blues Nite
707-923-3368 |
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| FRI
Oct 27 |
Eureka CA |
Pearl Lounge 707-223-3368 |
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31st |
Whale Gulch Meadow |
Trade Fair --- Halloween! |
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| FRI
NOV 3 |
Dunsmuir CA |
Blue Sky Room 530-235-9931 |
| SAT
NOV 4 |
Mt Shasta CA |
The Vets Club |
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10 |
North Fork Grange |
Junction City near
Weaverville CA |
| SAT
NOV 11 |
Hayfork Mtn. CA |
The Hayfork Hotel 530-628-5337 |
| SUN
NOV 12 |
Sacramento CA |
Blues in Schools
Benefit |
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| FRI
NOV 17 |
Bisbee AZ |
The Stock Exchange 520-432-1333 |
| SAT
NOV 18 * |
Bisbee AZ |
St Elmo's Bar |
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| WED
22nd |
Cowgirl Pickup |
Santa Fe NM 505-982-2565 |
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Happy Thanksgiving! |
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NOV 25th |
Madrid NM |
the Mineshaft Tavern 505-473-0743 |
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DEC 2 nd |
BLUES CLUB OPEN |
at home in Rentiesville OK
918-473-2411 |
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Selby's birthday |
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Dusk Till Dawn Blues
Festival burns the midnight oil
By Leif M.
Wright
Phoenix Staff Writer
— Chances are, you have never heard the
blues.
Oh, yeah, you’ve probably heard Stevie Ray Vaughn, and
you probably watched that movie about Ray Charles.
But you ain’t heard the blues, man.
“Most people think blues is just sad music,” said
Selby Minner, one half of DC and Selby Minner, the
virtuoso blues pair from Rentiesville. “But blues is
party music. After you’ve worked hard, you have to
party hard.”
To that end, DC and Selby are hosting their 16th annual
Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival in Rentiesville this
weekend at the Down Home Blues Club.
“Musicians love to play here,” Minner said, but she
had a hard time putting a finger on why. “Maybe it’s
because we’re musicians, too. Maybe it’s because we
invite them into our home.”
Either way, musicians love the gig, and some are willing
to go out of their way to make sure they get the chance
to play.
In fact, a few years ago, Guitar Shorty made it his
mission to make the festival.
“He called me up and said, ‘I’m ready to play the
festival,’” she said. “But I said I didn’t know
if I had the kind of money to get him here. He said,
‘Just tell me what you want.’ I was honored.”
Blues, which is the root for all the rock-and-roll
inspired music of today, from country to pop to hip-hop
to southern rock, was music created by those who needed
an escape from hard times, hard luck and hard lives.
“Blues is how they let go,” Minner said. “It’s
got all the emotions, from sadness to joy.”
From its signature pentatonic scales to the three-chord
progression, blues forever changed music, and is today
still influencing major artists such as Christina
Aguilera, whose latest album, which is skyrocketing up
the charts, is a tribute to the music from which all
other modern music flows.
The Dusk Till Dawn Festival is a celebration of that
heritage, the history of a music founded by people
pouring out their hearts to three chords and heartfelt
solos.
“After 2 a.m., all the headliners get up and play
together,” Minner said. “It’s great to see
different combinations of people jam on stage.”
The jams often last until 5 a.m., she said.
Most importantly, the festival is a celebration of
success. DC Minner, a tremendously successful bass
player for many popular acts, “got tired of waiting
around for guitar players,” so he took up the guitar
and a the blues man made the instrument his own.
It’s a tribute to his success that so many musicians
are chomping at the bit to play with him at his home in
Rentiesville.
“The feeling here is so laid-back,” Selby Minner
said. “It’s not like a city or anything. People just
love to come here.”
In the end, it’s about the music.
“Blues has influenced all the music that’s come
since blues,” Minner said. “Right across the
board.”
You can reach Leif M. Wright at 684-2906 or lmwright@muskogeephoenix.
com.
Copyright © 1999-2006 cnhi, inc.
N.B.: billing has changed - please use: "Selby
Minner,
Blues on the Move
with SPECIAL
GUEST D.C.
Minner" ...thanks!!
check out the
Bluesland "It's a Girl Thang" interview by Lea
Gilmore at:
http://bluesland.net/thang/behind.html)
DC BIO as seen on the OK MUSIC HALL OF FAME website:
www.oklahomamusichalloffame.com/minner.html


D.C. Minner
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