Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
- John L. Hooker
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MVBS Presents Candye Kane, Sunday August 29
Candye Kane
The Mississippi Valley Blues Society presents Candye Kane and her band on Sunday August 29 at The Muddy Waters, 1708 State Street, Bettendorf, IA. Show time is 7:00 p.m.; admission is $10, $8 for MVBS members.
B.B. King told the San Diego Reader, “Candye Kane has that big, brassy voice that has authority and sass—the kind of thing men like because it’s seductive and women like because it’s powerful.”
Nominated for three 2010 Blues Music Awards for B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Best Blues Contemporary CD and Best Contemporary Blues Female (the highest honor for blues artists) and beating down pancreatic cancer in the last two years, Candye Kane is a survivor. Superhero is the name of Candye’s original song and the title of her latest CD for Delta Groove records. It is also an apt description of the jump blues singer and songwriter from East Los Angeles, who has earned this moniker the hard way. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars, but her path to success was not always glamorous or easy.
Raised in a dysfunctional, blue-collar family, Candye became a teenage mother, a pinup cover girl and a punk rock, hillbilly and blues-belting anarchist by the time she was just 21 years old. Ten CDs, six record labels, millions of international road miles and countless awards later, Candye Kane has scrambled her way to the top of the roots music heap, creating a world- renowned reputation that has spanned two decades.
The Mississippi Valley Blues Society presents the Texas blues of Shawn Pittman on Wednesday September 22 at The Muddy Waters, 1708 State Street, Bettendorf. The show starts at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $7, $5 for blues society members.
Shawn Pittman is James Dean meets the Vaughans: Torn white T-shirt, slicked-back hair, and chiseled Dean features preside over intense Texas guitar. Pittman commands his guitar to speak the string-slingin' language of the Lone Star State. Sure there's Jimmie and Stevie, but the influences of Albert King, Buddy Guy, and young guns such as Smokin' Joe Kubek and Mike Morgan also are present in his playing..—Art Tipaldi, Blues Revue
Shawn Pittman was born in Oklahoma on October 13, 1974. The first music he remembers hearing was his grandmother playing boogie piano and his dad’s 8-track tapes of Buddy Holly. When he was a teenager he discovered Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker. Then he listened to Anson Funderburgh and Mike Morgan, and he decided he had to go to Texas.
At 17, Shawn moved to Dallas. He learned from Hash Brown and watched guitarists like Tutu Jones and Jim Suhler. He played as a sideman with the Bramhall Brothers and Mike Morgan, and then he met up with drummer Jason Moeller (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) and Paul Size (The Red Devils), from whom he learned even more about the blues.
