Blues reviews.. Uncle Phil

From Dig Magazine this week...

Dark bars and dialogue

In 1994, an LSU Journalism Professor (and Thursday night harp player) by the name of Phil Ward took it upon himself to document what was going on at Phil Brady’s every Thursday – a feat that few have accomplished. He took photographs between his harmonica sets, and even though the dim lighting is enough to make any photographer cringe, he didn’t use any extra illumination.

“I wanted to capture them in what Wynton Marsalis later identified as ‘dialogue,’” said Ward. “With no flash on, I could get an intimate snapshot of a look or a smile, on-stage or off.”

Contacting him about his photographs inspired him to unearth and scan negatives – some of which might be seeing daylight for the first time in these pages.

To see more of Ward’s photographs of the World’s Greatest Blues Jam, visit http://www.PhotosByPhil.net/PBBluesJamCover.html.

For some bluesy advice on laying at jams, visit the Digs comments from Shannon, Phil, Kenny neal and others.

A couple of slide shows of Scotland

Hi,

A good friend of mine on the trip took lots of really good pictures and made a couple of slide shows out of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw16BpWgaIA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw4EyQFp8HY&feature=related

Classic cousins having coffee

I think this was taken about 1984 at Coffee Call in Baton Rouge-Jeff and Trevor demonstrate the need for Ward derivatives to experience coffee (maybe that was hot chocolate..)

This photo fell in my lap as I was redouxing a photo essay on the Phil Brady Blues Jam in Baton Rouge: 1994. A magazine is using it for an article.

I might try to find my favorite niece and nephew photos and post them later... if you have one, think on it. maybe we could create a page for the cousins. It seems like cousins should have a generational name: The Cousins from the 70s or something.

Hello Elise

Otis says to Elise, "Welcome aboard, come on in the water's fine, cheers(rather-cheerios!)"

Scotland pictures

Let me know if you can see them: https://picasaweb.google.com/116320936970593383689/ScotlandTrip?authkey=Gv1sRgCOiv7dHV6-b_hgE

Don't hit your finger with a hammer

Delay in putting pictures up. I hit my finger with a hammer and had stitches, got infected, had stitches out and I am now on the mend - I hope. More later. Do you want pictures of the finger?