Blues Monday

Man did Rockin' Jake kick it Monday. What a great time. Thanks to Jim Teeter for putting this show together. Somewhere around 125 people(not bad for a Monday) enjoyed a furious show. Ken and B! jumped in and the whole house ROCKED. Shoulda' coulda' woulda'>>> been there.

Good Rockin TONIGHT!!!

NOVEMBER-7th! Imagine being on the road when your entire town is wiped out. No home to go home to, so you try to find some gigs and stay on the road till things work out. That is the story for Blues great Rockin' jake

Luckily for us Jake has snagged a gig in Boise. This will be an all ages event with a bar area. Doors open at 7pm show at 7:30. BBS members $3 general $5. Come on down to the historic Rose Room-Nov 7th.

Rockin Jake is from New Orleans, LA and is the 5 time winner of the "Best Blues Harmonica" award in the Best of the Beat, New Orleans Music Awards.

This should be one of the great Blues acts of the year. Don't miss it

If you have read this far you are a blues fan. . . so-be the first one to e-mail me at daverday@gmail.com and I will leave you a pair of tickets at the door!!!!

O'Michael's Pub and Grill

"20 years in the bar business is enough" Mike MCHail Boise's oldest irish pub is for sale. Mike and Becky have "had enough" The price is right. $285,000.00 and the license, twenty years of customers, the fixtures, everything including the kitchen sink can be yours. Located in the ever so trendy North End, this may be a gold mine. Wanna' be my partner?

O'Michael's Pub and Grill - 2433 Bogus Basin Rd. 342-8948.

Would you like tires with that?

Trailer Park Cuisine

Soon, a new restaurant called Donny Macs will be going into the old Goodyear tire location on Grove. They are keeping some of the tire store decor and are adding a very old Airstream Trailer. Not sure why you would want to eat a burger in an old tire bay, or have a table that was made from a car lift?

Donny might be working a little to hard at being retro cool.

It's not Bull

Famous writer Erin Ryan(Soon with Thrive?) did almost break her ankle riding the mechanical bull in Stilettos at Dirty Little Roddy's this weekend.

BCRP

Gotta admit a huge amount of skepticism toward Jeff Abrams' long suffering Boise Community Radio Project. If seems to have been a long series of meetings and fund raisers. That said, friend and word master Rick Overton is currently involved so it is time to take a new look. Here is a bit of the response I received when I ask Rick about The Boise Radio Project. . . "> Boise Community Radio Project Boiseradio.org is the front for the Boise Community Radio Project, which about 10 months from now expects to get a fair hearing from the FCC in application for a new public affairs station license. Within six months of that, if everything goes well, there should be the aural equivalent of the old KBSU back on the local airwaves (70 percent music, 30 percent talk). The engineering is done, the application is all but ready, the legal mumbo has been jumbo'd, and we're just waiting for the application window to open. Boise has the nation's largest radio market NOT already served by a KPFA-style public affairs station.

In the meantime, we stream. My show ran this morning and tomorrow morning from 9-11a, and it's a broad mix of country rock, bluegrass, emerging americana, and an eclectic grab at some of the dustier corners of popular music from the last fifty years (Today's playlist is attached). Think of a backbone of artists like Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Uncle Tupelo, Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, and John Hiatt, with about fifty percent of every set being brand new music, much of it from artists otherwise unknown to this market. That's The Virgil Caine Show.

It would be wonderful if this project could take to the airwaves after all the years of trying. Maybe the technology of the web will take over and we won't need radio stations at all!

Daddy Daddy, these white folks are playin' the BLUES.

Great friend and keybroad master Wayne Levy, broke up the Blues Society membership party with his snappy one liner. Apparently after moving from Florida, Wayne was surprised to find that the musicians in Boise were playing what he thought of as music closer to his southern heritage than the lighter skinned folks of the northwest. Wayne being Wayne quickly settled in and became to be the go to guy for keys. Didn't matter what style, Levy made each band better, Disco, Funk, country whatever. Sad to say Wayne is headed out of town, back to Florida. I'll miss his dance lessons and his music. Lake City, watch out another hurricane is headed your way.

Rockin' Jake

Imagine being on the road when your entire town is wiped out. No home to go home to, so you try to find some gigs and stay on the road till things work out. That is the story for Blues great Rockin' jake

Luckily for us Jake has snagged a gig in Boise. This will be an all ages event with a bar area. Doors open at 7pm show at 7:30. BBS members $3 general $5. Come on down to the historic Rose Room-Nov 7th.

Rockin Jake is from New Orleans, LA and is the 5 time winner of the "Best Blues Harmonica" award in the Best of the Beat, New Orleans Music Awards.

This should be one of the great Blues acts of the year. Don't miss it

Classified

In the classified section of the Idaho Dailey misstatement there is a listing for a "downtown pub and restaurant." Which one is it? The true definition of a pub means beer and wine only no liquor sales. So? The Connector already? Can't really think of another pub and restaurant. Also in the paper are both a Boise and a Meridian liquor tag. Feeling lucky and rich? Just buy the pub add liquor and hang on!!!!

It's Time to celebrate

If you read this blog you know that the Boise Blues Society has come a long way this year. THANK YOU-THANK YOU-THANKS!!!!

Now it�s time to celebrate. The BBS is going to throw a party! A big party! Our annual membership meeting and party. FREE to BBS members!

Live music w/nationally famous bluesman-Jimmy Burns, food, a full bar, a memphis blues contest, prizes, raffles, board elections and dancing. Did I mention LIVE BLUES MUSIC. Bet we will have a jam after word-so musicians bring your stuff.

This is an all ages gig-help us celebrate this all american music and the rebirth Boise Blues.

Not a member-not a problem, $5.00 at the door gets in you after 7:00 for Jimmy Burns, better yet join, come early and this can be your first freebie.

Sunday October 16-doors open at 4:00 AT THE ROSE ROOM(Thanks Elise!)

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Well said!

Sometimes you get an e-mail that sez it all. . . Here is one! Hi all:

I am a good friend of Lori B!'s and just wanted you all to know that my new band is playing at Shaker's, Sept 7th @ 9pm. �The address is 199 N 8th, Boise. ��We play 70's to present Rock & Roll and a little dance funk in for fun.

Hope to see you there. �Some I know are saying...WHO THE HECK ARE YOU? �Some, I don't know, most I do. �You'll remember once you see me.

Thanks for the support and hope to see ya out there!

Bon

Calling Dr. Bombay

The old Peter Shotz restaurant location in the historic Idanha building will soon be sporting an Indian food restaurant. Understand this is a family affair and early indications sound good. Hope this works out, apparently the family who are going to run the new venture are quite nice. Good Luck to them.

Balls-Meat that is! Ginos

The simplest of dishes can be the hardest for a restaurant. When eating a red pepper stuffed with a dilled goat cheese or a guava granita desert, can you tell if it is great or not? Me, haven�t had many goat cheese stuffed peppers!!

Spaghetti we all know. So when you order spaghetti it better be good. Gino�s in downtown Boise has spaghetti and meatballs on the lunch menu. Personally I love meatballs. So when my plate arrived I was expecting it to be at least OK. Hard to screw up a meatball, red sauce and pasta, right? Well many Italian restaurants can, especially the chains by the mall. They over work the recipe. Adding odd spices or heaping the sauce over weird pasta shapes. Guess they do this so their spaghetti looks different from the plate down the street. Gino? No! This is the SPAGHETTI and MEAT BALLS , a Marinara Sauce that is bold and smooth, al dente� spaghetti pasta and big lightly spiced Meat Balls.

If you want lots of pasta and a couple of golf ball sized meatballs go drive down MIlwaukee. Pull over at the first tan stuccoed building with a red roof. You may have to wait with everyone else and enjoy less than medium service but hey it�s the same meal you can get anywhere right?

Me ? I�ll be at Gino�s

Caldwell Blues

Here is a portion of a letter/review that Nancy McIntosh sent to bbs members Saturday morning. Says it all!!

Wow, awesome, oh my gosh....raves, raves, raves for Jerry Hardy and J.P. Productions first night of the two day event "Caldwell Blues in the Park."� All I can say people is that�if you missed the Friday night blowout at Creekside Grill and Music of the Vine you'll be hearing from those that went what a FANTASTIC time it was!� Joe Craig Jones was a treat and our own Ken Harris joined him for a set on accordion.� What glorious fun!� What a charming man Eddie is...still a magnet for the women and blows that sax and harmonica like nobody's business!� His son, Eddie "Van" Shaw proves that talent is in the genes folks!� He is hot, hot, hot and the universe will be hearing more from this man!�

Thanks!

A big tip of the hat to Mike Bunell of the Record Exchange for the wonderful job of picking music for Alive after Five. Went to see the �Waybackers� this Wednesday. Perfect example, these guys kick it. Not sure what to call them, not many rockers have a fiddle, not many country bands rock this hard. Hope the DBA folks are smart enough to keep this up!