Win Tickets ($60): Black Joe Lewis & Cedric Burnside @ Aladdin Theater | Grammy Nominated Electric Blues Guitarist
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Black Joe Lewis & Cedric Burnside @ Aladdin Theater on January 20. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed January 17.
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Black Joe Lewis & Cedric Burnside
January 20, 2022
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $30 | All Ages
More info: event.etix.com
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202
Black Joe Lewis
Black Joe Lewis is the realest motherfucker there is. When Covid sidelined his touring this past year, he started laying concrete to help support his baby mama and his kid. That’s fuckin’ real. When Joe and his band, the Honeybears, popped onto the national stage over a decade ago, many critics embraced him but still, there were some that maintained that they hadn’t paid their dues. Joe’s still here. Still going. Still cashing checks and snapping necks.The dues of hard work; the delirious heights of the industry as well as the disappointments and low hanging fruit. Through this all, Joe’s only honed his mastery over gut bucket blues guitar and his true voice. It’s a vital and distinctly American voice that never anticipated the attention he wound up receiving, never went looking for it either. It just started happening.The garage, the blues, the propulsive and synergistic live performances that inhabit the spaces of James Brown, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and the MC5…those things happened naturally from the very beginning and could only be accurately communicated in the live experience, not a press release or a slick brand campaign. Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin Malcolm, The Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras, the Strange Boys; these are some of the artists that Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears shared countless bills with; almost a roll call of the most influential soul and garage bands of the last twenty five years. If you like whistling in your music and some floppy hat, quaky kneed dudes cloyingly singing at you,then you might not “get it” but whatever…there are enough intrepid, degenerate weirdos that do. Those are the folks Joe cares about. Not the glad handing set. Not the fair-weather friend set getting down with the flavor of the month. Like the title of his last album says,“the difference between me and you” is Joe defining for himself that there’s the belabored wannabes and then there’s dudes that actually “HAVE the blues”…whatever the hell THAT is! Joe’s concrete pouring boss is gonna miss him.
Cedric Burnside
Take one glance at the iconic tintype photograph which serves as the cover to his new album, Benton County Relic, and you know immediately that Cedric Burnside is the real deal. “When I first saw it, I thought I looked like an outlaw,” he laughs.
The 39-year-old still lives on several acres not far from the Holly Springs, Mississippi, home where he was raised by “Big Daddy,” his grandfather, the late singer/songwriter/guitarist R.L. Burnside whom Cedric famously played with, just as his own father, drummer Calvin Jackson, did. Cedric was literally born to the blues, more specifically, the “rhythmically unorthodox” Hill country variant which emerged from Mississippi, where he grew up surrounded (and influenced) by Junior Kimbrough, Jessie May Hemphill and Otha Turner.
Grammy-nominated in 2015 for Best Blues Album for the Cedric Burnside Project’s Descendants of Hill Country, as well as the recipient of the Blues Music Awards honor as Drummer of the Year for four consecutive years, Cedric’s latest album offers a showcase for his electric and acoustic guitar, recording 26 tracks in just two days with drummer/slide guitarist Brian Jay in the latter’s Brooklyn home studio in a rush of creativity.
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I use to go see the MC5 all the time cause I’m from Detroit. Would like to check out this concert. Thanks.
I’d love to see Black Joe Lewis (he’s great!) and Cedric burnside. I never saw R.L. Burnside.
This will be a perfect musical match!
What a great musical match! I would love to see this show.
Oh heck yeah!
Love Black Joe Lewis, been wanting to see him live for awhile!
RL was the man! I was lucky enough to see him open for the John Spencer Blues Explosion. This would be fun!! BJL&THB’s put on a fantastic show!
Love Black Joe Lewis, his Backlash album is AMAZING! Great guitar player.
This is going to be a good night of music. This pair of musicians will tear it up.
Thanks
I love Black Joe Lewis & Cedric Burnside! Aladdin Theatre is close to my house too! I’d love tickets to this show!!
Cedric was awesome on RL’s lp.
I’d like to tryout to be one of The Honeybears
Would love to see this show! Thank you!
Dude is real. Like, really…f-in’ real. Sounds like Robert Johnson mixed with BB King if they stayed up all night partying in the back of an El Camino outside of Nashville.
This sounds like a blast!!! Would love to jam down with some degenerate weirdos 🙂
Love the blues- the roots of rock n’ roll!
Yes!!!
I’d like to take my wife out for a date night.
Blues in January? Yes, please.
I am a BIG fan of both these talented gentlemen. Cedric Burnside played our Waterfront Blues Festival in 2012. Black Joe Lewis played our Crystal Ballroom in 2009. I own their CDs and it would be memorable to see them on the same stage!
I’m a BIG an of both talented gentlemen. Seen Cedric here at Waterfront Blues Fest…2012. Black Joe here Crystal Ballroom…2009. I have their CDS…would be Great to see them together.
5 STARS FOR BOTH GENTLEMEN!
I’m a BIG fan of both talented gentlemen. Cedric played our Waterfront Blues Fest…2012 & Black Joe played our Crystal Ballroom…2009. I own their CDs & it would be memorable to see them together.
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5 STARS FOR BOTH GENTLEMEN!