On April 28 at 8 p.m. we have Nick Katzman. Nick is a fingerstyle guitar legend, owing to his great records for Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule label in the early 1980s. His original rags are something to behold and his intepretations of delta blues are so good its eerie--anyone who has heard him play Robert Johnson knows what I'm talking about. Nick lives in Germany these days and he only plays one venue in the States, so we're proud to have him back

May 12 at 8 p.m. we have Mike Dowling. Mike has simply amazing chops in fingerstyle blues, ragtime, slide, and swing jazz. He's making his first Good Coffeehouse appearance. Should be a great show.

http://bsec.org/events/coffeehouse/index.php

Hope to see some of you at one or both shows.

http://www.guitarseminars.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002480.html

This other link is to a review of their classic recording and it's re-release on CD.

http://home.att.net/~sparklex/srp.html

An "not to be missed show".

Jon,

Thanks for posting that old thread. No, Ruby Green (aka Terry Garthwaite) is not joining Nick. Interesting to hear Nick say he never liked his Kicking Mule recordings (he still says that). They contain some of the best acoustic blues guitar ever put on record IMO. Nick is a perfectionist, that is for sure.

Ian-

Something good has just come up which may positively affect our gig on the
28th.

The story is this: three days ago I was getting my e-mail and was about to
zap what I thought was a peice of spam. At the last moment, I decided to
open it anyway and it turned out to be a letter from a singer/guitarist
named Thomasina Winslow who said she was covering tunes from my Kicking
Mule LP's on her new CD. Now, mind you, this is NOT an everyday occurence
for me, so I went immediately to CDbaby and listened to her recording. She
had a version of "I'm Goin' Away" where she played guitar at least as well
as I did and sang wonderfully. I was of course flattered
that someone was so involved with my music and very impressed with how well
she handled the material. It turns out that she is the daughter of a Gary
Davis disciple named Tom Winslow and apparently she grew up around the
Davis' scene and was pretty much brought up in a folk-blues household.

To make a long story short she said that I was a primary musical influence
for her, so I've asked her to come and do a guest apprearance at the gig,
and she said she'd come all the way down from Albany to do it, so it looks
like we'll be hosting Thomasina Winslow on that night, too. I'm not sure how much
exposure she's had or even how much she's done professionally. The
idea of my music somehow finding it's way back to young black musicians is
very exciting for me.

I'll be meeting her for the first time at the gig, so it should be an
interesting night.