nt. In its eighth year, The Thom Hartmann Program airs live daily, NOON – 3pm, ET simulcast as both radio and TV on over 120 radio stations. into more than 50 million homes via both nationwide satellite TV systems (DirecTV and Dish Network). Arthur Adam Spellbinding Blues Comes to SLO
The San Luis Obispo Blues Society presents Arthur Adams on Saturday, April 24. The Amazing Stupifyers will open the show at 8:00 pm at the SLO Vets Hall, 801 Grand Ave. in San Luis Obispo. SLO Dance is offering free dance lessons at 7:30pm. All tickets are sold at the door: $17 Blues Society members; $20 general public, 21 and over, please. For more information, call 805/541-7930.
Arthur Adams is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer who is equally adept at interpreting blues, jazz and soul. Anyone who has listened to the radio in the past 30 years has heard Arthur Adams play guitar. Adams played with Bonnie Raitt on Nick of Time (the record that won three Grammy Awards); he recorded five albums with the Crusaders including Street Life (which topped the Billboard jazz, R&B, and rock charts); and he has backed up B. B. King, Lowell Fulson, Al Jarreau, Nina Simone, Jerry Garcia, Lou Rawls, James Brown, and more. In short, he’s been in great demand as a studio musician for several decades.
Adams recorded the first of his seven solo albums It’s Private Tonight in 1972. His most recent is Stomp the Floor (Delta Groove, 2009), a recording that combines the complex rhythms of jazz with blues leads reminiscent of his friend B. B. King, while showcasing his sweet and soulful tenor voice (comparable to Aaron Neville), with lyrics and melodies that are solidly blues. Adams says of Stomp the Floor, “I’ve done it exactly the way I feel it. It’s all me; not all traditional blues, not all R & B, not all jazz, but a little of all of it.” Adams has made a career out of making other people sound good, and when given the chance to craft his own CD, he creates wonderfully complex and soulful blues. This could easily be the best blues CD released this year.
The Amazing Stupifyers are a raunchy, hip shakin', house rockin' Central Coast electric blues band featuring frontman Kirk M. Huitt on harmonica and vocals, Larry Curtis on guitar, Joe Jiles on bass and Franco Oliveira on blues drums. Go to www.myspace.com/amazingstupifyers and have a listen.