Micro Brews and Macro Blues
It’s a run-of-the-mill Monday with plenty to do and to think about but as I sit here down at my bar listening to my Pierce Dipner CD,...
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Melissa Durse
- Aug 4, 2022
- 3 min
Pittsburg Blues & Roots (and All Things Good) Fest
Well, last weekend I had the very good fortune to photograph the Pittsburgh Blues & Roots Festival once again and had a great time doing...
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Melissa Durse
- Jun 25, 2022
- 3 min
Franklin Blues and BBQ (and the Merriam Webster dictionary)
Idyllic idyl·lic | \ ī-ˈdi-lik , chiefly British i- \ Definition of idyllic 1: pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity 2: of,...
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Melissa Durse
- May 21, 2022
- 3 min
Damn Right I've Got the Blues!
I didn't have a camera in 1992 but ohhhh, how I wish I did! On a crisp spring evening that year, I took a ride up to the Richfield...
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Melissa Durse
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
NEOBA BC FOR 2023 IBC
Admittedly, I just wanted to use as many acronyms as possible in the title. Anyhow, on Saturday, April 30, we had the good fortune to...
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Melissa Durse
- Apr 14, 2022
- 3 min
Trouble Is...No Trouble at All!
Time sure is a slippery little bugger; I can't believe it has been two and a half decades since I rushed to Best Buy for Kenny Wayne...
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Melissa Durse
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
I'm reasonably certain that Aristotle wasn't referring to a rockin' blues double bill with that phrase but I am DEFINITELY referring to a...
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Melissa Durse
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
A Bluesman Came to Town
Summer of 1999 was a very good season. I was teaching high school and didn’t have kids yet so I was long on time and short on obligations...
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Melissa Durse
- Mar 10, 2022
- 3 min
In Like a Lion...
March seems reluctant to let go of winter. Snowflakes made yet another unwelcome appearance today, blankets remain at the ready inside, a...
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Melissa Durse
- Feb 27, 2022
- 3 min
Spinning Wheel, Got to go 'Round...
“Let’s go back, let’s go way back, let’s go way on way back when…” as Aretha Franklin said in her unforgettable 1968 hit, “Think.” That...
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Melissa Durse
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
Snow and Joe, Shins and Quads
November 27, 2021 wasn't as bad as November 20, 2021, but it was a bad day. It was one week since a heartbreaking loss, two days after...
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Melissa Durse
- Oct 23, 2021
- 2 min
Badassery and Delight: Samantha Fish and King Solomon Hicks
I have had the good fortune to have seen and have photographed Samantha Fish a few times over the past 5 years or so; Canton Blues Fest...
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Melissa Durse
- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
It was Flooding Down in...Warren, Ohio, on October 16, 2021
According to Stevie Ray Vaughn's Texas Flood, it's flooding down in Texas, as any blues rock fan well knows; however, his big brother...
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Melissa Durse
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
A Cast-off Camera and a Joe Show
I have a lot--A LOT!--of pictures of my favorite blues rocker, Joe Bonamassa. I've been to over 100 Joe shows--small, medium, and large...
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Melissa Durse
- Aug 14, 2021
- 2 min
Almost Heaven? West Virginia...
In keeping with the state slogan, The Heritage Music Blues Fest in Wheeling, WV, was quite a wild and wonderful experience. When we were...
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Melissa Durse
- Aug 14, 2021
- 1 min
330 Meets 662: Christone Kingfish Ingram, 8.12, 21 @ Robins Theater in Warren, Ohio
Different area codes are just the tip of the contrast iceberg between the worlds of northern Mississippi and northeastern Ohio but last...
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Melissa Durse
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
8.1.21: Sunday at the Pittsburgh Blues and Roots Festival, which is rooted in way more than blues!
At a casual glance, this was a blues fest worth buying a ticket for and traveling to. It was on the beautiful rolling green grounds of...
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Melissa Durse
- Aug 8, 2021
- 2 min
Big Show in the Small Town of Kittanning, PA
July 31, 2021, was a flawless summer day and Riverfront Park in Kittanning, PA, was a wonderful place to be on such a day. The heat of...
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