The Blues in Paradise

The Blues In Paradise: Live from the Honolulu Rhythm & Blues Festival (WN49401)

(Play list and audio samples below)

On a seedy industrial strip out by the airport, surrounded by wholesalers, strip bars and junkyards, sits The Sand Island Restaurant and Bar (or R and B as the owner likes to call it). Not the place you think of when you think of paradise. For three days in early December, it became the home of the Honolulu Rhythm and Blues Festival. Legally the bar seats around 100, but on these nights they were packed in at more than twice that.

The parking lot out front was turned into a beer garden to handle the overflow crowds. And on the stage, the 13 home grown Honolulu blues and R and B bands and a bunch of great jam sessions rocked the house. Some of the bands on this recording play weekly and have honed a sound of their own. Others never played together before this gig. The caliber of the music they all made is surprisingly good, and we captured it all live, just the way it came off the stage. Living in these islands one would think there's little reason to sing the blues, but give a listen...the blues is alive and well in paradise. And it's now alive and well on the airwaves. The Blues in Paradise is now playing on blues radio nationwide. Call and ask your local blues DJ to play a cut off the CD for you.

"The Blues in Paradise" Play List and Audio Samples
No.	SONG	ARTIST
1	Home at Last	Blues Society House Band
2	Big Legged Woman	Backstreet
3	Jelly Jelly	Backstreet
4	Further on up the Road	Sunday Jam
5	I'm Comin Home	Sunday Jam
6	Cadillac Walk	The Strangers
7	Last Night	The Harp Jam Band
8	On The Spot	The Harp Jam Band
9	There Oughta be a Law	The Eric Petersen Band
10	Love Rears up its Ugly Head	The Renovators
11	Them Changes	Big Dawg
12	I Got You (I Feel Good)	Big Dawg
13	Do You Know What It's Like	The Honolulu Blues Band

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