JRL Show Sacramento Heritage Festival

[JRL]

Just got a call to play here//http://www.sacheritagefest.com/HeritageFest/

I will be playing at the crack of noon. I am assuming it will on the blues stage. i will be in the band backing Kentucky Slim, Omar Shariff, and the guy that starred in American Pimp Fillmore Slim

Hope to see you there, it is great festival, two days of sheer musical glutony for $10 a day in advance $15 at the gate.

A few years back at the SHF I got dosed (squirt gun) two days in a row!

[judih]

Sounds great! Hope you are filled with festival energy, jrl.
and may you be squirted with only the finest liquids.

judih

[JRL]

Well getting ready for the big dance. Folks, this is an awesome event.
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful.

[Avery L. Breath]

Sweet!  Say, what are the chances of possibly getting a soundboard recording?

[senorsalvia]

Tru  'dat previous inquiry---------------  senorsal

[JRL]

Don't know if anyone was recording from the board, Peter, the drumbo du jur, said something about a mini disc.

It was a great day! Our three part set went well. The first segment featured Kentucky Slim and his pithy desperado country rock by way of Keith Richard tunes. We had a killer band, with Sean Barfly on mandolin, an electric violinist, and Jackie Greene on organ. Jackie was actuallay there to be the second headliner on the big stage. He is the latest in the line of next Dylans and has recently inked a million dollar 4 record deal with Verve. Word on the street is that his touring band is gonna be Elvis Costello's old band. Not bad fro 23 years old.

Next up was Omar Shariff, piano man, and he was in rare form. His version of the blues draws on Ray Charles, Coltrane, Bethooven, and all the great jazz piano players. Omar is one of the true forgotten geniuss of American music and proved it all over again.

Last part was  Peter, Kentucky and Omar and yours truely backing the one and only Fillmore Slim.

It was a great festival and the new venue right on the Sacramento River was pretty nice. I couldn't stay for the whole day, had a nightime show with Stickey Viki and the Pinecones, but I did see the Oakland Silvertones, a great gospel group, Ben Lacy, a solo guitar genius( gonna get to play with him on Tues) and one of my personal favorites Lydia Pense and Cold Blood.

A splendid time was had by all.

[judih]

Sounds sensational.

checking out Omar Shariff - //http://www.newsreview.com/issues/static/music/bands.asp?BandID=151
does seem like a welcome phenomenon.



i'd put a picture here of the inimitable J** L**, but dare not without permission.

[JRL]

Omar is a phemonenon alright, not welcome everywhere though lol.

I think that even as much as he gets occasional rave reviews in the papers around here, not a lot of people realize how brilliant he is.
Omar is a huge repository of American music, "the Great American Songbag" I think is what he calls it. One time he said, (Omar has one of the great speaking voices speaks in little blips like a Monk solo, ask any musician in Sacramento to do his Omar impression) "Joe, I wish I could cut your head open and pour in the thousand songs I know" I said "Omar I wish you could too"

Here is a great Omar story. When his record "Anatomy of a Woman" came out he took out an ad in the paper with a picture of him on a Harley. The caption "If you don't like my new record you can kiss my black ass"

Judih, go for it. Just make sure you show my good side.