Michael Burks... (Page 4 of 6)

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I can't ignore your impeccable taste, George, so yes I will check out Michael Burks. Just a shame he sounds like a BBC newsreader.

Having taken delivery today of Sonny Landreth's Levee Town, Jay Tamkin's Sorted, Buddy Whittington's album of the same name and EC & SW at MSG, I've plenty to listen to at the moment. I will check Michael when I have a minute or two, though.

Thanks
Phil

Heard today that Michael is coming to my hometown Winterswijk in November.
His management  agreed and confirmed he is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hans Derksen from bluescafe De Buurvrouw is now working on the date with Michaels management,  will probably be Friday the 13th.

YES, YES!!

Good job Hans and Andre!

Andre Wittebroek

That is just too for words, Andre!!!!!!

That was the day Cathy was thinking of flying on, but I'm sure we can arrange to be there!!! This is really far out!!!!

That would be nice!

Andre, I'll call you tonight and Eva, I'll look out for you in the usual place.

Dutch readers should go here - http://www.bluesmagazine.nl/michael-bur … interswijk for Andre's very excellent interview with Michael and show write-up.

The rest of you will have to wait for Andre to post here.......

I'll start by saying Michael is a Joe fan. He got a real sweet tone to his voice when he said to tell Joe "hi". He told me to say something less refined, but in good spirits, to Walter Trout! lol

G and I rolled in early for the 4:30p.m. start time, and good thing. We not only had a chance to visit with Michael and the band, but heard some stellar, extended, guitar work as the sound check. We had every intention of keeping track of the song list, but once the band started we were too rapt. They played a solid 130 minute set to a VERY appreciative Belgian audience of about 140 people. I'll add there's a very active blues-loving group of people in that area. One fella brought a tee from the Arkansas Blues Festival he had attended! I heard my favorite "Empty Promises", as well as most of the tunes from "Iron Man". As usual, he gave his all. No breaks, no rest for the weary, just a steamroll of heavy, nasty, music...yummy!! Top it off with Belgian fries and mayo (standard fare in the area) and it was a great night!       Cathy

Andre: We heard what a fine job you did selling Joe!!!

(edit - your correspondent underestimated the length of the set, which was well over two hours. We also particularly enjoyed meeting and hanging with Wayne, the keyboard player. Yours truly had  his cd signed and begged a pick.)

I'm sorry that I still haven't got to your translation, Andre...you know how it goes....

Seeing Michael in such a tiny club was just fantastic. We both simply LOVE his tone. The sound in the club was much better than the sound on the clips I have just uploaded, but they still give a 'feel' of what it was like.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/487/pa210098.jpg - The happy oldies and Michael

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http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/8203/pa210087.jpg -

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8801/pa210094.jpg - Cathy & Wayne

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8710/pa210097.jpg  - Wayne and I

Again, sorry about the sound quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHPUrhwkxv4 - Empty Promises

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OQYuwIH … re=channel - Fire and Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VLZdcuFuc - a truly awesome sound check that gave us goosebumps!

Thanks Rick!

Andre Wittebroek