Event Info
James Buddy Rogers
Doors 6pm, Show 7pm, $10
James Buddy Rogers
Most blues musicians can proud...
7:00pm Doors at: 6:00pm
$10
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Event Description
Doors 6pm, Show 7pm, $10
James Buddy Rogers
Most blues musicians can proudly recall their age and stage in life when they received their introduction to blues music. It is a coming of age in a sense before the blues and after the blues. For Vancouvers James Buddy Rogers, life as he knew it was inherently different after discovering the blues.
James Buddy Rogers learned to love the blues close to home. His dad, Bud worked for the railroad and often brought home records and a guitar and by the time little Buddy was 10 he was lifting licks. By 11 hed formed a band and started gigging. Within two years he was a regular at local blues clubs. At 15 his band Texas Storm was being booked by Canadas top agency for opening concert slots. My dad went to the liquor control board and got a license that he would take to bars so I could legally play there. I began playing shows sitting in with all the great blues guys around Vancouver back then. The ones that really stand out, who took me under their wing, so to speak were the late Muddy Fraser, Tom and Jack Lavin, Jim Byrnes and Russell Jackson. These guys always invited me out to play with them and open for them. Rogers recalls.
At the age of 19 Rogers teamed up with former B.B. King bassist Russell Jackson and began a tour that lasted five years. Based in Kansas City, they played an endless string of clubs, concerts and festivals sharing the bill with Canned Heat, Sam Taylor, The Holmes Brothers, Elvin Bishop, Kenny Neal, Katie Webster and countless others. In 2000 Buddy started his own band and played blues clubs across Canada and Europe. When he wasnt working under his own name he appeared on US tours and recordings with many other blues acts.
James Buddy Rogers main influences on guitar - Johnny Watson, Jimmie Vaughan and the three Kings - plus years of being a blues road warrior have helped shape him into one of the most inventive and penetrating blues guitarists performing today. His new CD My Guitars My Only Friend was produced by Tom Lavin of Powder Blues fame and features 10 songs written by Lavin and Rogers.
Venue
1050 Granville Street
Bar / Nightclub
Capacity295
Open / Operational
In-Person Event
Sat. December 20th 2014 + Add to Calendar
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