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    Beale Street Caravan: Luther Kent

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    Presented by Beale Street Caravan at 89.9 WEVL

    March 23-March 24, 2010

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    Feature Artist: Luther Kent 03/23/2010 Location - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana Feature Artist(s) - Luther Kent Luther Kent -- also sometimes known as Big Luther Kent or Amos Kent, and as Duke Royal -- has been a fixture on the New Orleans music scene since the mid-'60s. In the 1970s, he joined a Baton Rouge-spawned group called Cold Grits, got his name out there and was soon invited to join Blood, Sweat & Tears on tour, which he did from 1974-1976. What he's known best for around New Orleans is Trick Bag, a legendary horn band he put together that became "the" band to jam with around town. Anyone who was anyone that came to play New Orleans had to go sit in with Luther Kent and Trick Bag, including Boz Scaggs, B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimmy Page, Gregg Allman, Etta James, Joe Cocker, Bo Diddley, Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, ZZ Top, and more. Blues guitar phenom Eric Gales was born and raised in Memphis, learning to play at age four from older brothers Eugene and Manuel in imitation of their upside-down, left-handed style (a tradition actually passed down from their grandfather, Dempsey Garrett, Sr., who was known to jam with the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf). Winning his first blues contest at 11, four years later Eric signed to Elektra. A newly matured Gales returned in spring 2001 to release his debut for MCA, That's What I Am. Always influenced by Hendrix and the power trio format, Gales' most recent records have not only found Gales a breathtaking guitarist as he ever was, but also as an artist out of the Hendrix shadow and into his own voice. Guest Host, Poppy Tooker, tells us about Food and The Blues.


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        March 23-March 24, 2010

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        WEVL-FM 89.9 Tuesday 11:00 AM
        WUMR-FM 91.7 Wednesday 6:00 PM
        WTPL-FM 89.3 Sunday 7:00 PM

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