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Longest Running
Blues Fest in the State ready to roll
with more music than ever!
- a tribute to founder D.C. Minner
RENTIESVILLE 2008 LINEUP
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35 bands from 10 states, 65 hours of
music)
FRIDAY Aug 29
JOHNNY RAWLS
TONY MATHEWS Selby Minner
TOMMY McCRACKEN
Pure Silk
LEON BLUE
Miss Dee & Tru Blu
Pat Moss Roland Bowling
Sunshine
Berry Harris Jahruba
Battle of the Bands
& JAMS
THE KID’S VILLAGE
(all three nites ) :
Jahruba -drums
Domenica faces & crafts
Joann & puppets
Patrick Duffy pottery
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SATURDAY Aug 30
GUITAR SHORTY
JAMES PETERSON
ANDREW JR BOY JONES
BACKUP BLUES BAND
Selby Minner
LEON BLUE
Wanda Watson
Dues Paid
Miss Blues Baby Ray Mucker
Tiny Davis Tommy McCracken
Clarence King Three Legged Dog
Checotah HS Jazz Band
Blue Fire Foley Jonathan Fox
Andrew 'To-low 16' Miller
& JAM to include
THE KID’S VILLAGE
adds
Dave Berntson
and HARMONICA workshops
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SUNDAY Aug 31
ANDREW JR BOY JONES
HARPER
JAMES PETERSON
JIMMY
the preacher ELLIS
Selby and Friends
Harry and Debbie Blackwell
Odd Sheep Out Leon Blue
Debbie Henning
Tony Mathews Perry Thomas
Wewoka's Second Generation
GOSPEL SHOW Sun:
Rev Tony Wise, OKC
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Fri Aug 2, Sat August 30, Sun August 31 5 pm
- 5 am
contact: Selby Minner 918-473-2411
the focus event of the OK Blues Hall of Fame
701 DC Minner Street,
Rentiesville OK 74459; 5 miles N of I-40 off US
69…15 miles S of Muskogee OK
www.dcminnerblues.com -
dcminner@windstream.net
Number 18! Thirty five
bands from 10 states – 50 sets – 65 hours of
music in all - will be presented in Rentiesville
at the OK Blues Hall of Fame, Down Home Blues
Club and Minner home place...What a way to wrap
up the summer! Dance under the stars or sit in
air conditioned comfort. Check out the Phoenix a
week before the event for the program or log on
to the website
www.dcminnerblues.com
for complete details and a printable poster for
the three day blues extravaganza.
As Donna Pearce recently reported in the McIntosh
County Democrat out of Checotah, "This
year's Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival at
Rentiesville won't be quite the same with D.C.
Minner gone, but his influence on others will no
doubt be reflected in every note played and
every lyric sung.
"The festival, scheduled for August 29 - 31, will be a
tribute to it's founder.
...The music legacy D.C. left for us will be
remembered and put into play ...Selby, D.C.'s
bassist for 30 years, will continue his work as
lead guitarist and will keep the festival alive
with the help of the non-profit they founded,
Friends of Rentiesville (F.O.R.) Blues Inc."
Besides more music than ever several of the bands will
cover some of Minner's originals keeping the
Rentiesville Blues Alive in the best way
possible - through playing the music itself. The
Blues is party music - people who work hard need
to have fun once in a while, and the blues is
custom designed for this purpose, (among
others, - like expressing yourself,
dancing...)
The Blues presented at Rentiesville
run the gamut from
young guns who rely on ‘fire’ to get over
straight through to the old timers of the genre
who roar or finesse their way through the
blues… and every stripe in between. True blues,
and a few derivations.
D.C. never did think a
'moment of silence' was the thing to do at a
party....Just more music than ever - Selby
reports "We have really over-booked the event
this year" That translates into more music for
you at the same incredible price of $15 per
night ...which would be impossible without the
support of over a hundred volunteers and the
Oklahoma Arts Council grant as well as support
from Budweiser and the Very Special Artists VSA
non-profit (kin to Very Special Atheletes, both
founded by the Kennedys). Also Budweiser, the Phoenix and
many others. It is a community built around
loving music.. we welcome you to come have fun
with us. And bring the kids if you like. They
will be giving away harmonicas and showing how
to play them in the Kid's Village (which runs
all three nights) on Saturday.
So who
will be playing??
. . .
The MUSICIANS . . .
Headliners here
from across the US and abroad (!):
Guitar Shorty
from CA and TX will
headline Saturday night... when he was married
to Jimi Hendrix's sister Jimi used to sneak into
the clubs to steal a few of Shorty's
licks...powerful and versatile blues guitar, a
world renowned recording artist.. he has played
with Little Richard, former members of the
Eagles and Steely Danas well as Big Joe Turner.
He got his start professionally when he won a
six month battle of the guitarists contest in
Los Angeles and has not looked back.
Andrew Jr Boy Jones
TX -was a good enough guitarist to play in
Freddie King's band as a teenager and has been
growing ever since...catch him now before we
can't afford him at all!
Johnny 'Mr. Romance'
Rawls MS and
NM - headlines Friday with his dance-able set.
Worked with OV Wright and Little Johnny
Taylor...many record companies and now self
produces.
Tony Mathews
Hollywood - Selby says "Tony is a life long
friend of D.C.'s and the most serious student of
the guitar I have ever known personally." Tony
toured the world with Ray Charles for 18 years
and worked sessions for Capitol records and also
toured with Little Richard.
Tommy McCracken
Chicago -arrived singing. Grew up singing in
church. He is a showman in the vaudeville
tradition and a "natural entertainer who goes
with the moment. His show offers a disarming mix
of reverence and ego as he rips through a blues
cannon that touches on hits from B.B. King to
Z.Z. Hill" - Steve Dollar, The Atlanta
Constitution. - here straight from Buddy
Guy's Legends Chicago. He's toured 40 states and
played in 4 foreign countries.
LEON BLUE
Las Vegas - plays in Europe several times a year
and hails from Las Vegas. he will be all over
the Festival sitting in with his cheery blues
piano
JAMES PETERSON
Florida - People always ask "Is the old man
coming back this year (from Florida)?" Of course
the answer is always yes. He wraps up the
outdoor stage Sat and Sun and then proceeds to
come indoors and sell CDs from the stage in the
middle of songs! Inimitable.
HARPER and his unique style of Aboriginal
Blues. Didgeridoo and harmonica; he actually
grew up in Australia and is very hot on
the festival touring circuit this summer. has
won countless awards, is signed with Blind Pig
and the newest release is "Day By Day" A
friendly and humorous story teller
Regionals
from 4 states:
Berry Harris is
a trouper who has personally kept the Blues
alive in Wichita for many years.. Inducted into
our OK Blues Hall of Fame, he says " the longer
I play the better I feel.. I just do not want to
stop!".
BACKUP BLUES BAND
Comes in
from Dallas - a seasoned group of musicians with
a tight funky fun band.
JIMMY the Preacher
ELLIS has
lived in Seattle and Arkansas and Texas and
Tulsa. One of this year's inductees into the OK
Blues Hall of Fame here in Rentiesville. throaty
vocals, harmonica and guitar - lots of fun and
real blues.
Harry and Debbie Blackwell - the best in
Hipppy Blues from Mt. Shasta
Clarence King jazz
sax will be at the High School in Checotah with
a workshop and then play with the Jazz Band on
the first Set outdoors Saturday nite.
The area's
best:
Pure Silk
a really high quality outfit from Tulsa.
Together since 1975 or before...a family R&B
Blues sound......Walter Watson is one of the
areas best drummers and they have opened for
Lowell Fulsom, Little Milton, Albert King and
Bobby Blues Bland.
Miss Dee & Tru Blu
will thrill you if you love soul inflected
blues. Tank, the leader of Tru Blu has been
keeping this band up and working for years. Out
of Tulsa.
Pat Moss
hails from Tahlequah with his Native blues -
slide, harmonica. His hit song is Bar room
preacher and he sure rocks on Wang Dang
Doodle...
Roland Bowling
loves to perform for veterans and bikers. He is
a big man with a great guitar style, lots of
originals and a sweet and capable - and cute -
wife on the bass. OKC metro is his stomping
grounds. He also hosts KXRO's Sunday Night Blues
Cruise.
Sunshine
is sweet and
serious about the guitar. A lovely smile and
she has a way with a song.
Jahruba
will run drum circles
throughout the event for the kids...He can make
any kid sound great in 20 minutes!!
Domenica Lovera
paints hunrdeds of
faces
Joann McMillan
brings the costumes and
puppets which the kids love.
Wanda Watson
is hitting her stride
as bandleader vocalist from Tulsa in the OK
Blues Hall of Fame - one of DC/s fave
vocalists
Dues Paid, Wolfman
Black's
outfit from the Bartlesville area. Funky and
soulful. Wolfman loves the blues and evidences
this with hours and hours of volunteer help for
each Festival..
Miss Blues here every year and not to be
missed. Tours the midwest circuit and is a hit
every where she sings. Texas shout style...true
traditional blues with bite!
Baby Ray Mucker
soulful and spirited vocals and fabulous
keyboard. From Hugo OK
Tiny Davis bassist
in Selby's band but Tiny is also a fine singer,
guitarist. People love the tone of his deep
vocals.
Three Legged Dog
includes our recently honored Jim Hardluck
Johnson - we gave him the Media Award this year
for his long run ongoing Weekend Blues Radio
Show on KGOU of Norman, Sat and Sunday
afternoons.
Selby and Friends host the event as D.C.
brought Selby to live in Rentiesville in 1970.
Odd Sheep Out Jennifer Mariott came very
close to winning the IBC in Memphis this year
for Rentiesville. Tulsa by way of Canada...
Debbie Henning
has been streaming video concerts from the OKC
area
Wewoka's Second Generation is true blues
and they have a wonderful sound. Johnny Jones on
keyboard heads the group
Young players
in their teens - good, too - Sat Nite:
Checotah HS Jazz
Band Mr Jim
Davis will again bring the award winning local
High School Jazz Band.
Blue Fire Foley slide guitar from a
thirteen year old and he can really wail on the
deep blues. great stage presence.
Jonathan Fox on fire guitarist from the
Texas panhandle Jonathan again will grace the
kid's stage Saturday nite.
Perry Thomas 23 and from Muskogee, this
young man who is blind is maturing into an
effective bandleader.
Andrew 'To-low 16' Miller - New this year
D.C. found this young man doing a residency in
OKC when Andrew was in the second grade - and
could play blues guitar. D.C. hired him and paid
him his first $50 to play the Moore Fireworks
show.. Andrew is now 16 and tears the guitar
up....lyrical and versatile. His band of
Brothers includes Mathew, 18, on bass and Kevin
Miller, 14 on traps. Check them ou, a must-see.
Gospel Show
Sun:
Rev
Tony Wise,
(Dallas and OKC) and his father John Wise
are D.C.'s cousins and have been singing gospel
their entire lives.
“The nicest group of people you would ever want
to meet” is the quote from the survey Selby
likes the best – “that says it all”, she says.
“My favorite thing about this music is the
people who play it and the people who love it…it
makes for a great party…everybody is here, and
smiles all around.”
it is at DC’s birthplace on the family farm
turned festival site… low key, time worn… cool
in the evenings…fun!
“Everything about Dusk Til Dawn is a ‘family’
affair. The Minners are still very dedicated
and integral to the show, taking the lead role
in organizing and presenting the event. They
perform as well. Their extended ‘family’
includes 12 Board Members, over 100 volunteers,
and thousands of dedicated fans. Many of these
folks have been returning each year since the
very beginning (1991).
Vendors sell t-shirts, jewelry, barbeque, fried
fish, candy, ice cream, and even ‘fried pies.’
The Kid’s Village sprouts up around an old
school bus. Kids stay busy with Face painting,
costumes, ‘dragons’ (a la Chinese New Year’s
parades), clay pottery, and puppet shows, made
lovingly available by a group of exceptional
volunteers. These are all hands-on activities,
keeping young minds occupied while the hypnotic
sounds of blues slowly soak into the young minds
that will be the future of the blues. This
Kid’s Village is unlike anything we’ve seen
before!!!” But - indoors after-hours in the
juke joint is adults
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DC
STARS 2009!
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