Juke Joint Caravan

"Yeah, it wasn't no fight; I just knocked him out. I didn't want to do it but I talked to him and told him. I said, "Paul, look, I want to be friendly with you. You stop telling me about the white ladies. I don't have a white woman and you don't, neither. Don't come getting at me cause a white woman leave you and come to me. Don't come saying to me nothing about, That's yours and that's mine. You're gonna cause some bad confusion if you do now. You better keep that on your mind."

- T-Model Ford from Slug Magazine

I just got back into the office after a small "vacation" (read: transmission failure and final exams), and we've apparently got a bunch of cool stuff going on this month. We've just moved our entire website to another server, and managed to fix most of those problems. More importantly though, we've got the Juke Joint Caravan back on the road.

Justin loaded up the van, picked up T-Model Ford, Kenny Brown and Cedric Burnside, and Paul "Wine" Jones and is sending them out, hopefully, to your neck of the woods. If you see a city near you, then come out and check them out.

May 12th - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
May 13th - Ogden, UT - Brewski's
May 14th - Salt Lake City, UT - Club Halo
May 15th - Victor, ID - Knotty Pine
May 16th - Missoula, MT - Other Side
May 18th - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Night Gallery Cabaret
May 19th - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - New City Likwid Lounge
May 21th - Vancouver, BC, Canada - Richard's on Richard's
May 22th - Seattle, WA - Hideaway/WA
May 23th - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theather
May 25th - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
May 26th - Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp
May 27th - Pacific Beach,CA - Blind Melon's
May 29th - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
May 30th - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
May 31th - Santa Fe, NM - Paramount
June 12th - Chicago, IL - House of Blues - Back Porch Stage
June 13th - Chicago, IL - Chicago Blues Festival -Grant Park
July 10th - Wasaga, Canada - Wasaga Beach Blues Festival
July 11th - Ottawa, Canada - Ottawa Cisco Systems Bluesfest

- Derek

Also...

You may have heard us mention this before, but Arthur Magazine has a montly column written by T-Model Ford. This month, he imparts his wisdom on politics, old men with young women, and walking sticks. Definately, a must read.

Arthur Mag: One of our readers asks, "T-Model, are you a voting man? Who are you planning to vote for president this November?"

T-Model Ford: I ain't even interested in it. I ain't never voted in my life. Anything they do is all right with me. If they do good, it's all right, and if they do bad, it's all right. If they do bad, it's all right, and if they do good, it's all right. See when you vote for somebody, it's like a woman... You see a woman yonder, you get on your head, you want her whether or not. Then when you get her, it ain't what you thought. And that's the same thing with you voting for somebody. You vote for a person, he'll talk sweet to you 'til you get in, then when you get in, you get SOUR. He ain't doin' nothing when he say he gon' do. That's the way it happens. I ain't done bad ever who be the president, and I ain't done too good ever who be the president. It don't matter. I ain't never voted!