Bluesfest, BB King - Albert Hall - review

Bluesfest, BB King - Albert Hall - review

By Jack Massarik
29 Jun 2011

The blues ain't nuthin' but a respectable woman gone bad, as they say, but last night it was more a type of a big guy gettin' old.

BluesFest London 2011 needed BB King as its only authentic poster-boy, but at 85 the Mississippi guitar maestro is well past poster-boyhood.

The Greenhornes - Hacienda - Rock'n'Roll Hotel - Apr 1! !011

The Greenhornes - Hacienda - Rock'n'Roll Hotel - Apr 12 2011

Hacienda - Taking the present is a drummer, bass player/vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist. They plunge into a rootsy blues-rock sound. It's cheap and electric with a dainty bite. They are from San Antonio and there is a harder-edged Doug Sahm sound in their somewhere, from what I think of Sir Douglas Quintet.