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| Our good friend Hairy Larry, has one of the oldest, longest running Blues Web Sties known. Don't judge a book by looking at it's cover, as to discover the endless archives of Blues Knowledge on Larry's site, a study you will need to pack a lunch to really spend some time to see and read it all. Also Blues Radio. |
| Hey, 2010 sneaked up and hit us smack dab in the fanny. Heck, I hadn’t really realized summer was much over then Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas flew by faster than a shad swimming in front of a Alligator Gar. Well, like it or not we are wrapping up our first decade into the 21st century. We had a great year in 2009, and the Cruize Brothers had a lot of bookings, became the host band for the Thursday night Jam Session at Odies House of Blues, and were invited to perform at a few Blues Festivals. Our Festival and Club videos are doing well on YouTube, MySpace and AOL Videos. Thank you for all the great comments. As we do each year, we dedicate the January issue of Blues Guitar News and the Cruize Brothers web sites to all our great friends that have made our life that more special, and many of them caught sharing the hog. We explain each year what “Sharing the hog” is, and that is just the good old southern hospitality of passing the biscuits. Drop the normal musician narcissism, and be a real deal person ready to shout out about a fellow artist, instead of tooting your own horn all day and night. Not too many get the jest of all of this, and don’t realize that we are not alone in life or the world. There are some might fine folks all over, and here a few that we would like to share with you. As typical, just mouse click their logos or photos, and you will go directly to their web sites. For all our MySpace friends, we are sorry, we only check MySpace twice a month now, as we are on FaceBook most of the time, on most days. Twitter too, but that is a very limited social network. God bless y’ all, and let 2010 be a banner year for you and yours. Thank you. email mike@mikedollins.biz PS: Most know that Jo Ann was our band’s booking agent, and her mom has the last stages of cancer, so we are concentrating on keeping mom comfortable. It is a full time job. If anyone has any bookings, jobs or gigs for the band, give us a call. If you find a gig, take off a commission and send the gig on down to us. Thanks. 501-658-0385 |
| Thank you to all our friends for the super nice comments, and all the hits on YouTube for our version of "Sissy Strut," the song of New Orleans. |
| Joe Pitts, one of Arkansas' finest pickers, is also a good friend to me and The Cruize Brothers. More fun to jam with than you can possibly imagine. Click his photo, and read his bio, and check out his sounds. You be the judge, but I know Joe gets two thumbs up from everyone that hears him. wwww.joepitts.com |
| Our home away from home, Lonesome Oak Studio with Recording Engineer; Rhonda PItts. www.myspace.com/lonesomeoakstudio |
Mike Fraz - Keyboard, Guido Ciardetti - Bass, Brad Messer - Drums
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| Second printing of the Mike Dollins, Blues Guitar Chord book. Thousands of these informative learning manuals have been printed over the last 15 years, and we are now offering them on-line at $5.00 plus $1.00 postage. If you would like to learn blues and usable jazz chords, and then which scales to use on top of the chords, this book is for you. Easy to follow for the immediate player, and enough details to music theory for the advanced technical musician. Learn those cool sounding chords and those sizzling solos in a 12 step, quick action sight learning, with music scoring accompany. Guaranteed to boost your knowledge and skill set, providing new music tools for your guitar gigging tool box. Pay on line with safe, conveniently in privacy by sending an email to mike.dollins@sbcglobal.net We will send you an on line, safe secure invoice which accepts all major credit cards and PayPal payments including Debit Cards. |
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