If you’re free on Saturday and feel the need to see some absolute blues legends, then why not take the trip down to Youngstown for the Blues Fest. The City of Youngstown and Tangled Up in Blues, a blues radio show down in the area, worked together to bring two blues legends to the show, Robert Cray and Buddy Guy. Robert Cray is a blues guitarist and singer and five-time Grammy Award winner. He’s toured with Eric Clapton time and time again. And he’s a Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Cray is definitely a legend worthy of headlining the Blues Fest. Joining him on stage is Buddy Guy, ano...
If you are like many outsiders Dover and New Philadelphia, Ohio, are nothing more than farm towns. Separated by the Tuscarawas River, these two rural towns with a combined population of just under 30,000 have always been about being down home. “We are part of Tuscarawas County, which for non-residents is hard to pronounce, so people from outside the county affectionately abbreviate it to T-County. We are the Southern outpost of NE Ohio.” says Don Whittingham, Dover native and founder of the Unreal McCoys, who are one area band on the reunion trail. This August 21 at Bud and To...
By Mark C. Horn The last time the Black Keys played NE Ohio in November of 2009 it was at Musica in Akron as a tribute to artist friend, the late Alfred McMoore. It was also just last year that Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney were working on solo projects and there were rumors of fallout. The duo recovered, putting out a ground-breaking album called Blackroc. But what of the Black Keys? Speed ahead to 2010 and Auerbach and Carney have come home with their best album to date, Brothers, and nine consecutive weeks among the top 35 sellers on the Billboard Top 200 charts. Thei...
