Party: James Buddy Rogers

Party: James Buddy Rogers

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.

Invited: Jaskeerat Bassra, Dylan Sid, Tanya Plows, Amanda Wood, Evee Kay, Suzette Laqua, Mandy Ross, Marianna Nagy, Jasmine Diana Ireland, Mell Kirkland, Catherine Born, Josephine Watson, Don Mäncha, Lisa Elliott Fennell, Marla Douglas, Tana Woods, Erin T, Andrea Martyn, Ken Burke, Tarah Samuels, Rachel Ashmore, Laura McIntyre, Bonnie Dale, Stella Panagiotidis, Chris Horne, Anna Stelmach, Paul Kalanj, Tom Lavin, Lindsay Barnard, Robyn Zarchynski, Barbara Ann Heggie, Cindy Mae Schmidt, Joelle May, Lisa Lavin, Larry Moore, Jo Beck, Jasmyne Nicole, Ashlee Lavin, Rodney Dranfield, Amber Bridgen, Debbie Kennedy, Bill Railian, Mona Robertson, Heidi Henderson, Kirstin Driscoll, Catherine Munn, Adrian Aat, Rachael Chatoor, Britta Milk-substitute, Bradley Lenora Joe, Deborah Kriger, Rob Iacullo, Matthew Mcmurtry, George Balzer, Debbie Walker, Angel Appleton-Caley, Stella Panagiotidis, Esther Cohen, Alexis Ioannidis, Heidi Newcombe, Eli Bennett, Ryan Chandler Woods, Carla Lynne Kluss, Lorne IslandLeroy Vogt, Deb Robson, Barbara Ann, Kevin Williams, Brent Morrison, Paul Gibbons, Joe Luciak, Michelle Alyea, Brian Sentance, Cottage Bistro, Lucy Rex, Tim Storteboom, Brian Chrome Scorsese, Leaha Lake, Celeste Mcdonagh, Mario Brox, Amber Hately, Colin Murray, Kim Higham, Dalannah Gail Bowen, Deb Rhymer, Gerald Charlie, Bambina Lalina, Ilmi Haxhiu, Rob Pattee, Tedr McNicol, CottageBistro BluesJam, Ken Burke, James Buddy Rogers, Lorraine Banks, Councillor Corisa Bell, Chantel Cross, Anita Hummé, Jason Buie, Kim Vermillion, Waide Luciak, Sarah Ingham show more »