To celebrate the screenings of Electrified and Cheat You Fair on March 11th during the opening night festivities of Red Gorilla Music Fest in Austin, Notes of the Urban Blues is giving away Electrified T-shirts, as modeled above by the films’ director Phil Ranstrom and film editor Justin Kulovsek(l-r).
We will give away one T-shirt for every 10 entries in the giveaway, capped at 100 shirts/1000 entries. One entry per person.
How to enter: Help us spread the word about Electrified and the Notes of the Urban Blues blog.
- Include the following information in a blog post:
- I’m entering the Electrified T-shirt Giveaway on Notes of the Urban Blues (electrifiedblues.com).
- My favorite Blues artist is: Name your favorite
- Because: Tell us why.
- Link back to this post and/or the main Notes of the Urban Blues address.
- Then leave a comment on this Notes of the Urban Blues post with the URL of your entry. This lets us share some of our traffic back with you.
- If you don’t have a blog, you can just leave a comment here with the information about your favorite Blues artist and you will be entered in the giveaway. But, if you do have a blog, we really hope you’ll help us out by writing a short post and linking back to this post. We’ll be using all your answers in one or more future posts.
- If (heaven forbid) you don’t have a favorite Blues artist, just write a post linking back to this post on Notes of the Urban Blues or leave a comment. And let us know if you’d like some suggestions!
Entries will close on Tuesday March 25, 2008 at 6:00pm Eastern Time. Winners will be selected using a random number generator, and announced on Notes of the Urban Blues on Wednesday March 26, 2008. The number of shirts awarded is dependent on the total number of entries, with a maximum of 100 shirts.
We will notify the winners by email to obtain their preferred T-shirt size and mailing address on Wednesday March 26, 2008. If we are unable to reach a winner or winners to obtain a mailing address, we will hold the T-shirt prize for an additional month, until April 26, 2008 to give the winner(s) time to contact us. At that time, unawarded prizes will be returned to inventory.
Giveaway open to adult residents, 18 years or older, of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Void where prohibited.
Questions? Email sgetgood@getgood.com
Technorati Tags: Electrified, Notes of the Urban Blues, T-shirt giveaway, Red Gorilla Music Fest
Hi guys,
Glad to read on here that the recent Sundance and Chicagoland trips/screenings were a success.
I’m keeping the many Bo Diddley fans around the world aware of all your screenings & events etc.
As you know, the Maxwell Street Market area still means such a lot to Bo Diddley. It’s important that your movies reach as wide an audience as possible.
Below is a message regarding your new YouTube Channel and the upcoming Austin screenings that I’ve posted today in the BO DIDDLEY-The Originator authorised website Forum and sent out to the fans on the mailing list.
Kind regards and best wishes,
David Blakey, Webmaster,
BO DIDDLEY-The Originator
http://members.tripod.com/~Originator_2/index.html
A Celebration of his unique contribution to Popular Music.
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Hey BO DIDDLEY fans,
Fans in Central Texas may be interested to know that the two new documentary movies “Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street” and “Electrified: The Story of The Maxwell Street Urban Blues”, both of which feature interviews with BO DIDDLEY, are due to be screened on Tuesday (March 11th) at The Chuggin’ Monkey music venue, 219 E. 6th Street in Austin. Tel. 512.476.5015.
Showing as part of Austin’s RedGorilla Music Fest celebrations, the schedule for Tuesday’s screenings is as follows:
3:00pm - Screening of “Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street”
4:30pm - Q&A with Director Phil Ranstrom
5:15pm - Screening of “Electrified: The Story of The Maxwell Street Urban Blues”
6:00pm - Q&A with Director Phil Ranstrom
Admission is free.
“Electrified: The Story of The Maxwell Street Urban Blues” examines the history of electrified urban Chicago blues and how it gave birth to rock & roll. Written and directed by independent TV writer/producer Phil Ranstrom, the movie is an offshoot project from his 2006 documentary film “Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street”, which pays tribute to Chicago’s world-famous Maxwell Street open-air market, from its beginnings in the late 19th century to its turbulent end in the mid-1990s when the property was sold to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to expand their South Campus.
For more than a century, Maxwell Street was a port of entry into Chicago for immigrants arriving from Europe, Latin America and the Southern States. Operating in the style of the European street markets, in the 1930s and 1940s the area became famous for its blues music and street musicians and the electrified urban Chicago blues popularized by artists including BO DIDDLEY, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Muddy Waters that gradually evolved into rock & roll.
A new Maxwell Street Documentary Channel at YouTube, located at http://www.youtube.com/user/maxwellstreetdoc now also has a number of authorised video clip extracts from the two movies available to view on-line.
Both movies are Big Shoulders Digital Video productions in conjunction with the Chicago Historical Society.
“Electrified: The Story of The Maxwell Street Urban Blues” website: http://www.electrifiedthemovie.com/
“Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street” website: http://www.cheatyoufairthemovie.com/
Maxwell Street open-air market website: http://old.openair.org/maxwell/pbo.html
The Chuggin’ Monkey website: http://www.thechugginmonkey.com/
David Blakey, Webmaster,
Lynn Cameron, Technical Support,
BO DIDDLEY-The Originator
http://members.tripod.com/~Originator_2/index.html
A Celebration of his unique contribution to Popular Music.
My favorite Bluesman would be Pete Karnes “King of the Boogie Harp”John lee Hooker gave him that title, I met Pete in the 70s while trying to revive my life after being injured in a motorcyle wreck(lost my left leg) I hung out and recovered in a blues bar he played at, i soaked up the grooves,met my next of kin the Blues.
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My favorite - Howlin’ Wolf.
His life and music were the blues personified.
My favorite was Michael Bloomfield. He is an interesting study in Chicago blues, but mostly because his guitar playing resonated in my soul. I still get goosebumps when I hear some of his stuff with Paul Butterfield.
My favorite all time Chicago Bluesman was Luther Allison. He was so good at streaching out to include rock and jazz licks in his solos and his performances are the stuff of legend!