The Blues guy from your home town

This band is called BluesFish and is a bit of a local legend. The singer and guitarist have been playing together FOREVER ,and I used to sneak into clubs to hear them play when I was a teenager.
I got to jam with them last year and I was scared shitless!!
 
The Dutch vid made me think of sadly departed Dave... only clip I could find is this remixed version of him playing the Thrill... Great player, great singer too.

 
30 years ago, I was living in San Diego going to school. I was 19 or 20. Friends invited me to see a local blues guy. So we go to see Tom Cat Courtney. He was playing some mean blues when we got to the bar. A small bar. The stage backed up to a store-front window. We could see the back of the band as we walked in. Well, I was only 19 or 20. I sometimes got carded. And on this night I did. So we were ushered out of the bar. But for the entire rest of the song, Tom Cat turned around and faced me and my friends as we watched from the sidewalk.

Here is more recently:

 
Back in Baltimore, there was a guy who would come to the open mics to sing the blues. He'd drive in from the suburbs in his Mercedes, pull out a shiny National resonator guitar and sing the blues. I wrote (but never performed) this song about the experience.

Throw my guitar into my Mercedes Benz,
going downtown to sing those blues again.
I got the white boy blues, I got the white boy blues.
I got the white boy blues right down to my wing-tip shoes.

My baby done gone and you know it's a bummer.
My baby done gone to Europe for the summer.
I got the white boy blues, I got the white boy blues.
I got the white boy blues right down to my Gucci shoes.
 
I guess the two local guys I can think of would be

Andrew Ellis


or Josh Boyd



Not really my thing. :shrug:
 
Not local to me anymore, but in my old hometown (Tampa). I played in James Peterson's band for a couple of years in the early 90's. James was Lucky Peterson's dad and he passed away in 2010. The guy could sure belt some blues...

 
This got me thinking about some of the acts we shared stages with back then. Here is Rock Bottom who always had killer guitar players in his band. He passed away in 2001, sadly:




And Sarasota Slim who apparently is still at it:

 
Here is a guy who came from Springfield, MA, one of the larger cities not too far from me. I understand a couple of you may have heard of him.
 
oh yea......not really a blues "person"......but we have a pretty famous old blues club outside town.....and they're still playing out there.

Hines Farm Blues Club
 
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