We donated $2,000 ($1,500įrom the BBS and another $500 collected at two shows) for a college fund set up for Riley Boutchie, his young daughter.Ī special celebration of his life is in the works for this fall, so stay tuned. The BBS is still reeling from the sudden loss of our beloved Georgetown Fats, the former managing editor, blogger, and a hero to many. In addition, Toni Lynn Washington, Duke Robillard, Ronnie Earl, Al Basile, and Geraci are up for best female soul artist, acoustic album, guitar, horn, and Pinetop Perkins piano player awards respectively. The band and its members have seven nominations, including Best Band, and Best Song, by keyboardist Anthony Geraci.
Speaking of the Bluetones, we wish them and all of our New England nominees great luck May 4 at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis. If you can’t spend the entire three days, there are options for one or two days, and all sorts of deals. The lineup includes Joe Louis Walker and Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, along with a whole bunch of great talent. The New England Blues Summit will take place May 13, 14, and 15 at the Cape Cod Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis. Interested, email T-shirts and CDs on Saleĭonate to The BBS and keep this web site goingĪnd what could be better than a late spring weekend on the Cape featuring some great blues. The Boston Blues Society seeks volunteers to write feature stories and CD reviews for our monthly e-zine. United it stands, divided it falls.įor those of you who are social networkers, be sure to “like” the Boston Blues Society on Facebook Now more than ever community solidarity is needed to keep the blues alive. In order for us to keep on this trajectory and truly support local music, we need your help.īecome a member and get involved. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.The Boston Blues Society keeps expanding its coverage of events and its participation in the scene. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. I saw Ricky at a grocery store in Los Angeles one day. I like all of the players, they all seem to be relaxed and decent folks and I am always happy for their successes.but if Ricky is on the lead card, I do root for him a little bit more than the others. I actually started following the pro tour after that and now watch all the content I can find. He was approachable, friendly, very polite and genuinely seemed to enjoy talking to a couple of old folks like us.a great ambassador for the sport. He was practicing at the time (for the upcoming Memorial) with a few other guys who I’m sure were also touring pros but my knowledge of the pro scene was extremely limited at that time and unfortunately did not know who they were.Īfter our conversation he wished us a safe trip back to Canada. He saw my Penguins hat and mentioned that he had played a round with their goalie (Casey DeSmith) the day before. As he approached, we asked him if he was Ricky and he came over and talked to us for about 5 minutes.real chill and friendly. I was playing a round at Vista Del Camino and my wife recognized Ricky (at that time he was was probably the only pro we would have recognized as one of the channels at home had three old disc golf tournaments in rotation and Ricky was in two of them). A few years ago my wife and I went down to Phoenix for a vacation to get a break from the Canadian winter and watch some hockey (I’m a huge Pittsburgh Penguins fan and they were in town).