A remembrance memorial jam for Steve Thorpe will be held at Lou's Blues in Indialantic, Florida on Sunday, September 12th, from noon until closing. Donations for the Thorpe family can be made anytime at Lou's Blues in the form of a check or money order ONLY, NO CASH! Make check or money order payable to Linda Thorpe.

Donations can be mailed directly to:

Lou's Blues

Attn: Steve Thorpe Memorial Fund

3191 N. A1A

Indialantic, FL 32903

"As a founding member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughan was one of the leading Austin, Texas guitarists of the late 1970's and 1980's, responsible for opening the national market up for gritty roadhouse blues." - All Music Guide to the Blues"

"In his brief four year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master of coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion." - All Music Guide to the Blues

All the way from Mississippi, the 2010 International Blues Competion winner Grady Champion and his band were in the studio for a live interview. They were in town for a performance at Earl's Hideaway. While in the studio, Grady and his band did acoustic versions of "Wine and Women Don't Mix" and "Policeman Blues". Click here to listen to the complete interview.

Chuck Van Riper and Dave Thomas were in the studio to talk about their new album "About The Blues". Each song on the album is an orignal work. After an instrumental acoustic piece by Chuck, Brother Frank played four tracks off of the new CD: "I'll Follow You", "Get Outta My Way", "Can't Rock No More", and "Mexicali Blues".  Hopefully, the duo will be back in the studio for a live performance. Click here to listen to the interview.

The Music Maker Relief Foundation does good deeds for down and out bluesmen and blueswomen and they put out great music that we  play on the Saturday Blues.  Artists like Guitar Gabriel, John Dee Holman, Etta Baker, and on and on grace the Saturday Blues (and certainly many other radio shows) thanks to the efforts of the Music Maker Foundation.  They also publish phenomenal photographs.   Check out their website for more information on their good works, and good tunes, and interesting stories.