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Little Suzie
Car Without a Driver

"Junkyard Jane's new album, Ductape and Sagebrush, reveals the singer-songwriter, Americana underpinnings of the band's music. The real Junkyard Jane has finally stood up." ---Rick Nelson, Tacoma News Tribune, May 2002

Sound Clips from: Milkin' the Frog
Pepperjelly by L. Trevalyan
  Life of a Frog by L. Trevalyan

Reviews:
"These guys are a traveling college party of blues energy!"
---Wendy Walker, WBS Bluesletter, July 1998

This is the kind of group that will have people saying, "I'm not into the blues, but you guys are a lot of fun."
---Mark Bristol, Blue Suede News, Fall 1998

"These musicians take their music seriously but make their music fun!"
---Carol Sawyer, WBS Bluesletter, Sept. 1998

Reviews:
"WASHBOARD HIGHWAY...pick it up. It'll knock your socks off."
---Susan Stewart, Cascade Blues Notes, Sept. 1998

"WASHBOARD HIGHWAY is one of the top N.W. recordings of 1998."
---Juliette Zentelis, KPLU Radio

"The tunes are well written with great originality....This is a bright and shining body of work."
---Carol Sawyer, WBS Bluesletter, Sept. 1998

"Fine original songs with great singing...excellent horns and a tight rhythm section."
---Mark Bristol, Blue Suede News, Fall 1998

Junkyard Janes's Home Page

Sound Clips:
Freakshow
Corn

Corn"Swampabilly Snake Oil Freakshow is tight, smart, funky, funny and all over the map musically...a steaming plate of corn fed
swingin' jug band blues." ---Kurt Dahlke, Cascade Blues Notes, June 2001"

Fresh from a strong showing in the finals of the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge, Junkyard Jane has kicked its already formidable momentum up a few notches with the release of its third CD, the accurately titled Swampabilly Snake Oil Freakshow. This musically colorful concoction offers many joys to the listener -- tight vocal arrangements, excellent production, and JJ's trademark warped sense of humor -- but perhaps the greatest pleasure it delivers is the opportunity to hear a band so completely in command of its own musical ship. This is unquestionably Junkyard Jane's most consistently satisfying release so far, and it wonderfully captures the band in full embrace of its unique talents and sensibilities."
                                  ---John-Allen Briscoe, WBS Bluesletter, March 2001

Junkyard Janes's Home Page

About the CD
Recorded at Triad & Stepping Stones Studios
Engineered by Steve Smith
Produced by Freddy James, Steve Smith, Robert Allan, And Jon Goforth
Artwork by Pat Moriarity
This CD is a Blues Rockin' Celebration of boogie at it's best...with some of the Northwests finest artists featured..
Freddy James - B3 organ and Vocals and Songwriter
Leslie "Stardrums"Milton on Drums
Pete "the Beat" Langhans on Drums
Sam Mason on Sax
Jay Thomas on Trumpet
Jon Goforth on Sax
This CD is a great enhancement to any collection...!

Iosis Records

About the Artist
Raven Humphres, a veteran NW musician and a multi-nominee & winner of the Washington Blues Society award for Best Horn, is a much in demand Saxophonist, playing Baritone, Tenor, Soprano sax and Clarinet.

He owns his own studio called Blackwing Studio and has produces and engineered many fine works. This CD is his first, with some of his favorite songs that he grew up with and originals he has been perfecting over the years. Some of his favorite musicians are featured on this CD including:Duffy Bishop, David Brewer, Mark Whitman and many more.

So sit back and enjoy this creative work.

RAVEN

It Seemed Like Such a Good Idea at the Time Produced by Kate Hart, Ray Varner & Donnie King
Two Plays For A Quarter Produced by Kate Hart, Ray Varner & Donnie King

About the Artist
Kate Hart’s journey to singing the blues began when she was a 17 year old singing in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Shortly thereafter, she moved to Chicago and began absorbing the music of the musicians heard on the Southside.

Several years later, Kate returned to Detroit to write and record her first hit song, Syncopated Love, on the Stag label.

Currently, Kate is being managed by Transatlantic Management and has signed with JoeRecords.com. Her distinctive vocals can be heard with Seattle Women on their recently released Cds "We Are Not Good Girls" and "Back Porch Gossip". Look for her current project "Mongrel Music", a CD of all original material scheduled for release in September.

Kate Hart Home Page

Baby Come Back Vocals: Kate Hart, Duffy Bishop, Nora Michaels,Lily Wylde/B>
My Man Vocals: Patti Allen,Kate Hart, Nora Michaels

Review
"Each women is a force to be dealt with. Together, these women are a foot-stomping, standing room only show and a piece of Northwest history.".........The Times

History:
Singer Kate Hart created Seattle Women for one show in 1985. Fourteen years later the show is still going strong. Though each woman pursues her own singing career, the Women make time to get together to sing as often as possible. Collectively, the Women have either been nominated or the recipients for over fifty music awards.

Kate Hart/Seattle Women Home Page

The Dangerous Kind By Pat Coast
A Good Night For The Blues By Pat Coast

History:
Cafe Blue is an 8 piece Blues Band that has been performing around the inland northwest for the past nine years. Originally formed as a 6 piece r&b band, subsequent personnel changes and the addition of an alto saxophone and a second drummer/percussionist have caused the group to evolve into a modern blues band that better reflects the personalities involved. Because of the differing backgrounds of each musician, Cafe Blue is able to cover a wide range of blues styles, from the skankiest Texas style blues to the slow burning funk of Albert King, to straight Chicago blues, as well as the syncopated New Orleand sound, always able to weave a touch of jazz or soul throughout.

Members of the band include Pat Coast, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.Keyboards are handled by Keith Lewis, one of the founding members of the band and also a vocalist. Holding down the bass guitar is the very talented Tom Brewster. The other half of the rhythm section is actually a third, as Cafe Blue features two drummers. Bill Bancroft has been with Cafe Blue 5 years and also plays a full percussion setup of congas, timbales, and hand percussion instruments. The Cafe Blue horn section features another founding member, Russ Hoffer, on tenor and Baritone saxes. Russ handles many of the Cafe Blue horn arrangements. Also, on tenor and alto saxes is Bob Spittal, on trumpet, Buzz Graham rounds out the section. Cafe Blue’s recently released CD, “A Good Night For The Blues”, has been recieving great reviews, and been selling well. Burnside Records in Portland has just agreed to distribute the CD, and many songs have been written now for the next CD, which tentatively is scheduled to go into production in September 1999.

Cafe Blue Home Page

In The Dark
Hard Luck Child

About the Artist:
A lone piano sits highlighted by a stream of light. Drink glasses clink around the room. Cigarette smoke floats lazily toward the ceiling. A man in a white tuxedo crosses the floor and sits down at the keyboard. The deep voice croons an old song of lost love and lonely pain. Clip from an old 40's movie? Nope, "Miss Sister's Blues Boy" has taken center stage. Mel Oliphant is the personification of class. From the white tuxedo to the thoughtful selection of his music, Mel has developed his act with an eye to the great entertainers of the 30's and 40's.

"Mel brings a touch of class to the Blues" ......Wayne Ellis ...The Every Other Weekly

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