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OK Blues Hall of Fame 2012
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OK Blues Hall of Fame @ the Down Home Blues Club
D.C. & Selby Minner
701 D.C. Minner Street
Rentiesville, OK  74459
















 

 

 

 

(918) 855-0978

dcminner@
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Rosie at Dusk til Dawn 2005

 



                     
                                      F O R     I M E  D I A T E    R E L E A S E                                                    OKLAHOMA BLUES HALL OF FAME INDUCTS HONOREES

May 1, 2012

Contact: SELBY:   918-855-0978   dcminner@windstream.net

 

     The 8th Class of Inductees will be inducted into the OK Blues Hall of Fame in Rentiesville on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend – May 26th, 7 pm at the time worn juke joint / Hall of Fame / family home and birthplace of founder D.C. Minner. This will be a gala including a sit down bar-b-que dinner. There will be MANY Hall of Famers present to welcome the new inductees – and we will hear from them (musically) too!! The blues will flow until well after midnight.

     This year’s inductees are Leon Blue, Clyde ‘Chico’ Lamar,  Baby Ray Mucker, Malyne ‘Poochie Love’ Lyons, Aaron Harvey King, Harold Jefferson, The KBA in Education Inductee will be Jahruba Lambeth. Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to Miss Lura. Media to LaNelda Hughes for writing the yet unpublished life story of D.C. Minner.  KBA Awards to the late Booker Lowrey and to Robert Williams.

      The Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame was created through the vision of  D. C. Minner and is housed at Minner’s birthplace and Blues Club in Rentiesville. Friends of Rentiesville (F.O.R.) Blues Inc. is working to recognize and document the works of important Oklahoma or Oklahoma-connected artists in the world of blues.
       Many ongoing programs at the Hall of Fame, including lessons, the Weekly Sunday Jam Sessions 6 pm, free, Rehearsal for Sunday Practice Session on Wed. 6 – 8 pm (musicians only); outreach to music lovers and students of all ages. The 22nd Annual Rentiesville Blues Festival will be August 31, Sept 1, 2, bringing 200 musicians here and celebrating OK Blues and D.C. Minner’s contribution at the juke joint his family started in 1936.


Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame 2012 INDUCTEES and
WHY WE HONOR THEM:

 

Our four best shows of the year are the three nights of the Labor Day Weekend Festival and these Inductions coming up on Decoration Day Saturday – Memorial Day Weekend, May 26th” Selby announces. “We have inducted over 50 OK related Blues Artists and this year’s show will be a great one. 2012 Inductees include Leon Blue, keyboardist for BB King who has played the Blues Cruises for years and tours in Europe annually, Poochie Love of Slick Willie and the Right Cats – a brother and sister based band; she is a great vocalist and the friendliest diva in the blues. Also Baby Ray Mucker, born in Slick OK and raised in Stockton CA, he now fronts a new Tulsa Band, Soul Magnetic, and has a track record playing behind Bobby Blue Bland, BB, The Whispers, Betty Wright, Billy Preston . . . he sure is fun”. Selby goes on to say “– we lost old friend and our first security guard Booker Lowrey just after the Festival this year so he will get a KBA for his years of passing out Festival PR at every major blues event in OKC since we started. Jahruba Lambeth will get inducted with the Education Trophy – Fest attendees know him as the leader of the drum circles in the Kid’s Village. Jahruba has charmed listeners with the Signifying Monkey story and more for years as he slips knowledge into young minds between the drum beats. His band is the Broke Brothers. Clyde ‘Chico’ Lamar, born in Rentiesville was in the first singing group D.C. was in as a teenager the Five Clouds of Joy. Clyde had a long career with the Platters. Harold Jefferson Guitarist songwriter singer producer ( Golden Eagle, Johnny Taylor, Z.Z. Hill, Etta James, Wilson Pickett, The Artistics, Joe Tex, Sam and Dave, Soul Stirrers and many more). Miss Blues ‘04 (who was in the very first band D.C. played bass for in the 50’s) comes in every year from OKC to help us with the Inductions.

                More news: this year our Photo Exhibit which just left Connors State in Warner – From Black Town to Blues Festivals – opened at both the Jazz and Music Halls of Fame in Tulsa and Muskogee. . with an awe-some showcase of 15 of our Blues Hall of Fame inductees being presented at each venue. The exposure resulted in two of them being inducted last November into the OK Jazz Hall of Fame. Miss Blues and Rudy Scott; both about 76 and both very much alive..another great night for OK Blues.    

 


   

 

 

Our mission is to "preserve and develop African American traditional musics through education and entertainment." we were founded in 2003, and our major events include the OK Blues Hall of Fame and it's inductions each year, the Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival each Labor Day Weekend (see attached press release) and ongoing educational activities - a jam session each week and jam band on some Saturdays - also Selby teaches at two local libraries a semester or more each year; guitar and bass. D.C. Minner and his wife/bassist Selby returned to his birthplace in Rentiesville after over 20 years on the road touring and playing bass and later guitar with some of the best names in the Blues business;  Freddy King, OV Wright, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley to name a few. He returned in 1988 and reopened his Grandmother Lura’s Cozy Corner juke joint as a Blues Club and was inducted into 5 Halls of Fame before his death at age 73. He and Selby started the Friends of Rentiesville Blues  Inc. to keep this work going into the future.


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      Cookbooks 
       

The Blues Hall of Fame cookbooks are out and the are GREAT!! Selling like hot cakes for $10, $12 if they need to be mailed to you. Thank you for all the contributions! 200 recipies!
           Please send check to:
Friends of Rentiesville Blues, Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame  

WISH LIST

 

all donations deductible

Hope you buy a cookbook and check it out 

 

2007 was a great year for the Blues on the green Golf Tournament - Someone hit the flagpole at the hole-in-one hole, but the ball did not go in as it did last year! Too bad. But the weather was fair, the greens were impeccable, lots of sponsors made the tournament a rousing financial success and there were two first place winners, $200 to each team! So now it's frull steam ahead booking and promoting the next (17th) Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival to be held over Labor Day Weekend. Keep checking back for updates, please! Thanks, Selby


701 DC Minner Street Rentiesville, OK, 74459      (918)473-2411

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DC gives keys to The Muries

FIRST SHOT OF 2006 TOURNEY WON THE CAR!! 

 …Area Music Lovers Provide Golfers an Exciting Day at Fountainhead, Raise Funds for Dusk til Dawn Fest

"You’ll never see that again, as long as you live!" said the golf pro at the “Blues On The Green” tournament about the shot that won the car last weekend. On the 18th hole sat a brand new Nissan Altima, with the Fenton Nissan sign on the door. It was around 10 am and a husband and wife team started their day at the hole-in-one hole, number 18. It was their first shot - the first shot of the whole tournament, actually, and Leo, like most, had never made a hole-in-one in his life. In it goes! It was a clean shot! “He made it!” “He what?!?”  --cries rang across the golf course “He made a hole in one!”  … “Someone said it was the smoothest swing they had ever seen”, said Barbara Traylor. Sandra Crockett from the Friends of Rentiesville Blues was the witness. Sandra jumps up and Domenica screams and runs, congratulating Leo Murie (from Pawnee) and his wife Helen who are overjoyed  - later on they said they had ‘just started shopping for a car for her to get to work with, anyway!’ This was Blues on the Green Tournament number three, and F.O.R. Blues Inc. (Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame) could not be more proud to finally be giving away a new car this year. Domenica Lovera, tournament organizer said “you hope but never expect for someone to win. Never in a million years did I think it could happen!! It’s a once in a lifetime thrill. What a lucky shot and a thrill - even to me!”  Michael Urbach-Teague, co-organizer, said he was glad that their “payments for (car) prize insurance actually paid off.”

        You can meet everybody - the car will be given away in a few weeks.  Hall of Fame and Blues Festival founder D.C. Minner will give the car to the Muries at the Fenton Nissan Dealership in McAlester. We will be sure to let you know exactly when.

Cash awarded for 1st place went to Billy Torix and Kyle Tingel. 2nd Place was won by Jamie Carman and Steven Sykes, and 3rd went to Cody Jennings and Brad Whitmus.  Melvin Potter won the Closest to the Pin prize, a putter from Budweiser.  A beautiful golf bag, with all the trimmings including a timepiece, also from Budweiser, was awarded to Kyle Tingel for the Longest Drive.

       Every player won a door prize. These were donated by the Creek Nation Casino, Budweiser, and others. Tahlequah Native American artist Dana Tiger donated a signed print which was snatched up by an early winner. Prizes included fancy golf shirts, towels, golf shoe bags, carry-alls and other items that make a golfer's game comfortable and elegant. Sponsor Hole In One International out of Reno NV provided a coupon for each player to redeem for a wood valued at $100, as well as great prizes for hole-in-ones at all par-3 holes over 135 yards. Prizes were awarded by co-organizer Janie Teague-Urbach who adds “An equally exciting Blues on the Green Golf Tournament is planned for next year!”

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DC and Selby Minner and the Friends of Rentiesville Blues Inc. hosted the 2007 Inductions into the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame Saturday May 26th. This was the first time the awards have been given at an event seperate from their annual Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival, and it was a rousing success! There were performances and jams by inductees Miss Blues, Watermelon Slim, Tony Mathews, DC and Selby Minner. Also youngster (age 12) Blue Fire Foley performed, as well as Sunset and Sunshine. A full slate kept the time worn juke joint DC inherited from his family rocking until close to daylight!

Media awards were given to writer and managing editor Jack Fowler of the McIntosh County Democrat (the Checotah paper) and the Muskogee Phoenix. The
Phoenix has created and inserted the Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival program into their general circulation since the festival's infancy in 1993. The editor of the Weekender, Leif Wright, received the award for the Phoenix .

Baskets and trophies went to the inductees. Their photos are now on the Hall of Fame wall in the Blues Club. Selby Minner said "At some point we hope to build a concert hall upstairs which will be the true Hall of Fame, complete with exhibits of our inductees. We work to honor musicians and others with a lifetime in this music and
Oklahoma roots. We are starting with inscribed bricks people can order which will create a walk of fame in form the corner. The corner of DC Minner Street and John Hope Franklin Blvd. "

Minner is an Oklahoma blues legend who started his career as a bassist working in the bands of Chuck Berry, Bo Didley, OV Wright and Freddie King....He started singing and writing songs and switched to lead guitar in the early 70's. DC grouped with his wife/bassist/vocalist Selby Minner in
California in 1976. After 12 years living on the road performing the couple settled back in Rentiesville and has been on the OK State Art's Council Touring Arts and Artist in Residence rosters since the early 90's.

Having been included in 5 halls of fame around the state himself, Minner is proud to share the spotlight and honor other worthy players - while they are alive, if possible. The Friends of Rentiesville Blues Inc has been created to keep the Festival and Hall of Fame moving forward well into the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

ONGOING 4x/month:
The Rentiesville Jam Band !!!                               
ALL AGES come to the jam session, bring your 'axe'
 
(Call to confirm before you DRIVE)
cell 855-0978           
Intermittent Saturday 's, depending on Selby's gig schedule
THURSDAY EVENINGS ALL AGES    6 - 8  PM
Down Home Blues Club,  in Rentiesville at 701 DC Minner Street

Kids of
all ages welcome! Bring your instruments and come 
SING or JAM!!     
with Selby...FREE!

70 miles SE of Tulsa – BA Exp, Hwy 51 South to 69 –
Stay on 69 thru Muskogee to the Rentiesville Oktaha Exit.
Turn right 4 miles, then Left (E) onto Rentiesville Honey Springs Rd,
2 miles to DC Minner St and you are here.!!  125 Miles E of OKC
(918) 473-2411, 855-0978
dcminner@windstream.net

(918)473-2411,
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