In 1941, a 27-year old folklorist named Alan Lomax was sent from the Library of Congress to the segregated south to record an oral history of the blues lineage. Equipped with 500 pounds of field recording equipment powered by his car battery, Lomax ventured on a wondrous odyssey through the Mississippi Delta and returned with the most beautiful and harrowing songs that music has ever known.

Now Jesse Kreitzer, a University of Iowa graduate film student, is producing LOMAX, a dramatic narrative based on Alan Lomax's 1941 journey through the Mississippi Delta. Mr. Kreitzer is a native Vermonter, a graduate of Emerson College and a Boston/NE Emmy Award winning producer who is pursuing his MFA in film production at the University of Iowa. He is the writer, director and producer of LOMAX. Production of the film is about to start and the project is still short of funding required to make the movie.

The film will be filmed on a farm outside of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and stars James "Tail Dragger" Jones, a legendary Chicago bluesman and Delmark recording artist who is protégé of the great Howlin' Wolf. Award-winning documentary filmmaker, musician, actor and educator, Georg Koszulinski plays Alan Lomax.

The production crew is seeking donations to raise the last $5000 needed for the project. Those who make donations of any amount will get their name in the credits of the film and receive an exclusive digital release of LOMAX before anyone else. For more information, visit: http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward/show?u=6b43d31ec443f856f505c1e13&id=f44cecdcb6

(CLARKSDALE, MS) – The creative team behind the award-winning 2008 blues movie M For Mississippi have reunited for a new film celebrating the Delta’s down-home blues tradition. The new film, We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads, is slated for an April 2012 release but is now available for pre-order at the film’s official web site: www.wejukeupinhere.com.

We Juke Up In Here follows producers Jeff Konkel of Broke & Hungry Records and Roger Stolle of Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art as they explore what remains of Mississippi’s once-thriving juke joint culture. The film is told largely from the vantage point of Red Paden, proprietor of the legendary Red’s Lounge in historic Clarksdale, Mississippi. Paden, a true Delta character and jack-of-all-trades, has been running his blues and beer joint for more than 30 years – providing one of the region’s most reliable live blues venues and an authentic stage for a cavalcade of veteran blues performers, both legendary and obscure.

Told through live music performances, character-driven interviews and rare on-camera blues experiences, viewers will be taken below the surface of the quasi-legal world of real Delta jukes while it’s still living and breathing.

The project reunites Konkel and Stolle with cinematographer Damien Blaylock and sound engineer Bill Abel who were instrumental in the success of the earlier film, M For Mississippi. Rounding out the production team is Lou Bopp who is providing both video and still photography.

We Juke Up In Here will be released as a deluxe box set featuring a DVD, a CD soundtrack and a glossy pullout booklet with multiple essays, notes and color photos. The DVD will include the feature-length documentary along with a treasure trove of bonus features including unreleased scenes, production stills, a promotional trailer, closed captioning, French and Italian subtitles and more. The DVD will be region-free and playable on DVD players worldwide. The box set will retail for $25 (US).

"Blues In My Soul", the superb sixth solo disc by Bryce Janey, an outstanding blues/rock axeslinger from Iowa, features 13 tracks (63 minutes) of phenomenal, top-shelf, world-class, soul-powered, retro-70s bluesy heavy guitar riffage that truly delivers on all levels of greatness. An amazing display of Classic blues-based "six string mojo" @ it's best.

Bryce Janey in an amazing gifted and talented blues/rock guitarist who speaks the same language as the true "guitar greats" on the instrument. The strength of his first-rate excellent playing skills along with his strong, clean, soulful, whiskey-soaked vocal power complete with solid to the core, exceptional material all add up to one thing: Bryce Janey is the REAL deal. The man lays down the blues/rock guitar law with endless style, class and six string authority. Genuine, organic, authentic, "old-school", bluesy, groove-induced, retro-70s heavy guitar riffage rules in the world of Bryce Janey, a true legitimate Strat-master of world-class proportions who should get all the worldwide credit and recognition that he deserves.

"Blues In My Soul" digs in deep on the bad-ass, killer blues/rock guitar factor. Bryce Janey plays his guitar with untold passion and power as he bares his naked soul on this amazing disc. You can feel his blues deep in the groove. Also landing on this impressive disc are Dan Johnson who lays down the Bass and Eric Douglas who rocks the Drums, both excellent players who nail down a solid musical foundation for Janey to strut his six string stuff. Excellently recorded @ Catamount Studios by Tom Tatman and superbly mixed & mastered by our main-man Don Moore in Dallas for some seriously killer "sonic delivery" to bring this amazing disc home where it belongs. "Blues In My Soul" is Bryce Janey's finest hour and stands tall in the supreme blues/rock guitar world.

For more information on the CD, visit: http://www.grooveyardrecords.com/brycejaneybluesinmysoul.html

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