Quotable

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable"
- Janice Joplin


"Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help."
- Mahalia Jackson


"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
- Janice Joplin


"A guy will promise you the world and you nothin' and that's the blues."
- Otis Rush


"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
- Jimi Hendrix

Blues Brews and BBQ Photo Gallery

Brad Wilson and Band | Bad Luck and Trouble
Mercury Blues Band | Papa Ray & The Rockers | Shari Puorto
Black Water Blues Band | Deja Blues

Shari Puorto & The Rhythm Addicts - August 7

The second of the two ROCK THE BLOCK events - Shari Puorto & The Rhythm Addicts hail from Southern California and perform gritty blues and rock classics like their lives depend on it. Shari Puorto has a voice that can serenade as well as knock your socks off ala Janice Joplin. Performing their own songs and blues/rock standards with equal aplomb, her vocals and the Rhythm Addicts really shined on Joplin classics, Piece of My Heart and Me and Bobby McGee. The band: Dan Malouin, bass; Mike Iba, guitar; Jake Jacobs, drum and Shari Puorto, lead vocals. This band is what Rock the Block and Blues Brews and BBQ is ALL ABOUT!