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Oct. 1 – PAUL JAMES

Oct. 2 – TERRY WILKINS

Oct. 3 – JAY DOUGLASOct. 4 – CARLOS DEL JUNCO

Oct. 5 – GUY DAVIS

Oct. 8 – CHUCK JACKSON

Oct. 9 – GARY KENDALL

Oct. 10 – RITA CHIARELLI

OCT. 11 – DOCTOR NICK (2PM) &

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OCT. 12 – DANNY MARKS

OCT. 15 – BRIAN BLAIN

OCT. 16 – PAUL REDDICK

OCT. 17 – SUZIE VINNICK

OCT. 18 – CAROLYN FE (2PM) &

PAT CAREY (7:30PM)

OCT. 19 – BOB MARGOLIN

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October 16-19,Westin Bristol Place Hotel, 950 Dixon Road at 427, Toronto Folk Music Ontario Conference. TBS will be producing a blues showcase Oct 17, noon-2pm (with the Oh Chays, the Mackenzie Blues Band and Suzie Vinnick.) and another session, Idle No More, will discuss issues in the first nations community. www.folkmusicontario.ca

The Music Managers Forum will host a "managers huddle" event (details at http://musicmanagersforum.ca/events/managers-huddle-series). These events are open to FMO Conference registrants

November 22, 2014, Massey Hall Women’s Blues Revue

The Women’s Blues Revue returns to the historic site of Massey Hall for the 28th Annual event with an exciting lineup of featured vocalists including Shakura S’Aida, Diana Braithwaite, Divine Brown and Andria Simone (more to be announced later). Mariel Borelli will be back to emcee Charter Members can contact the office for member discounts

January, 16-19, 2015, Eaton Chelsea Hotel Toronto, 33 Gerrard St W Blues Summit 7 The Blues Summit, presented by The Toronto Blues Society, is Canada’s biennial blues conference. to page 17 for more information on registration and discount hotel rates.

January, 19, 2015, Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St W 18th Annual Maple Blues Awards (All Blues Summit delegates can take advantage of the special Delegate Discount which includes best available tickets for $28! To take advantage of this offer, please contact the TBS Office at 416-538-3885 or [email protected] to retrieve the special discount code. This discount is available to all TBS Charter Members, as well as all Blues Summit Delegates.)

January 20-24, 2015 Orpheum Theatre and various venues in Memphis International Blues Challenge. The TBS will be sending representatives in all three categories: Conor Gains (group), The Oh Chays (solo/duo) and Angelique Francis (youth). Jerome Godboo's CD, Sanctuary City is the TBS entry for the Best Self-Produced CD

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The Toronto Blues Society is a Registered Charity!

Make a donation beyond membership and merchandise, and get your charitable tax receipt in time for this year! (Charitable # 87487 7509 RR0001). You will be helping to support events like the annual Women's Blues Revue at Massey Hall, The Blues in the Schools program, The monthly Gladstone Blues Series, numerous workshops and carreer development activities for the musician community as well as the Maple Blues Awards and the Blues Summit conference, the most important blues industry gathering in Canada that occurs every other year. Networking events within this conference allow for industry discussion alongside artist discovery through the showcase program.

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Kid Cajun is Toronto's newest Cajun/Creole/Zydeco music project. Kid Cajun's repertoire expands to the farthest reaches of the Cajun tradition. Father and daughter duo Ron and Alice Sellwood join with Casey van Gorkom and Ted Hawkins to play their Toronto debut on October 19 at 402 queen east / gallery 402.


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When my brother, guitarist Mark Ghent, and I were kids, we turned the basement of our Chicago home into a variety show venue. We went around the neighbourhood and drummed up audience members and charged them 5 cents to see the show: a combination of music, dance, circus routines, and novelty acts. Today, I’m still staging home concerts at my summer venue “Rita’s Parlour”, in my Picton, Ontario home.

One of my recent guest artists was Illinois-born, Toronto-based Bill Westcott. Dubbed the “Barrel House Commander”, Bill is a living direct link to piano music born in the South and made famous in one of The Great Migration’s destinations: Chicago. To hear Bill play is to hear early blues come alive with an authenticity that is rarely heard today. One of his specialties is the music of Little Brother Montgomery, with whom he studied.

Little Brother was born Eurreal Wilford Montgomery on April 18, 1906 in the sawmill town of Kentwood Louisiana. He started playing professionally in African American lumber and turpentine camps in Louisiana and Mississippi. As a 22-year-old, Little Brother relocated to Chicago. It was here that he started to record. He has several surviving recordings, mainly on the Folkways label. He also recorded for Bluesville, Delmark, and Genes. In 2013, Montgomery was posthumously inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame.

The following is a transcript of my brief interview with Bill before a live audience at “Rita’s Parlour” in July 2014. Transcription was provided by Emma Cava.

RdG: (to the audience) So, Bill started to play the piano when he was eight years old.

Westcott: That sounds right.

RdG: Yeah. And you grew up in rural Illinois. Your parents were farmers?

Westcott: No, ah, my parents were technocrats. My mother was a...kindergarten teacher, and my dad was a chemist. And they worked for the oil refinery in Wood River, Illinois. And, um, so we lived right on the edge of town, actually. Sort of. Farms in the back yard, and suburbs in the front yard...that kind of thing.

RdG: Oh. Did you have a piano in the house?

Westcott: Oh yes. My parents got me a piano when they saw me watching piano players on television. And…after I saw someone--it was probably Steve Allen--I would sit on the couch...with my knees up, and I would go 'bang-bang-bang-bang-bang’, and sing “ding da ding da ding”, like that, you know. I remember doing it, too. And, uh, so they took the hint and they bought me a piano.

RdG: Beautiful. Did you have formal instruction at that time?

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Westcott: Oh yeah...I had lessons from a woman in town named Ruth Cassing, who was a very, uh, interesting woman...There were two piano teachers in that town. One of them was the wife of the Superintendent of Schools, and the other one was Ruth Cassing, who was known for getting kicked out of church jobs for showing up drunk on Sunday. [audience laughter] And then she’d get another church job, and she’d be good for, I don’t know, a year, or two years. And then she’d fall off the wagon, show up drunk, and rag the hymns. And...then they’d fire her...But she was a much more interesting teacher. She taught me classical, of course, and a lot of it. But she also realized that I was kind of visually impaired. She’d give me a piece to learn and I’d learn it, and then I’d come away filling out chords that weren’t there. You know, and just making more of it than it was. And she realized I was an ear player. And ah, so she taught me old turn-of-the-century songs like “After the Ball”, and stuff like that. With simple chords, right?...[she] would give me a new song every other week or so, and I’d learn how to play it. So that went right along with the classical training.

RdG: How did you get to Little Brother Montgomery?

Westcott: Little Brother Montgomery was a very important blues recording artist. Starting around 1929 in Chicago...all through the Depression, made a lot of records. Was one of the big stars of singing blues pianists. And then the war came along, and everything changed. The electric guitar came along and kind of changed blues, you know, fundamentally. Or at least, how the blues ensemble worked. [Little Brother] resurfaced again in the '50s and '60s when the blues revival was happening... Young college men, often ivy-leaguers but not always--would take a sudden interest in the old music, right? The music that black people made 30, 40, 50 years ago...These people were very scholarly in their approach, and they dug up all the old records, and started making discographies, and interviewing the old guys and getting them to play, and recording them and making, you know, records out of it and selling them in these limited-editions. And it became, a real...small business, reviving the blues. And Little Brother got in on that...By the end of the late 70s, I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois in Champagne, Illinois, and hanging out with some jazz musicians, and playing with a guy named Ron Dewor, who is this wonderful sax player. He’d play bebop and post-bebop--you

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Little Brother Montgomery (circa 1927)

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Blues Summit 7, Canada’s biennial Blues conference, will be held January 16-19, 2015 in Toronto, ON. Blues Summit is a place for all members of the blues music community (including artists, presenters, agents, festival bookers, event organizers, radio hosts and industry representatives of all kinds) to attend seminars and showcases as well as network with other industry professionals.

The Maple Blues Awards is Canada’s national blues awards program. The 18th Annual Maple Blues Awards will be held on Monday, January 19, 2015 at Koerner Hall. Toronto Blues Society members and Blues Summit delegates can take advantage of the special TBS Discount which includes best available tickets for $28! To take advantage of this offer, please contact the TBS to retrieve the required promo code.

Blues Summit will return to The Eaton Chelsea Hotel (33 Gerrard Street West) located in the heart of Downtown Toronto. Conference attendees can take advantage of the special Blues Summit Delegate Discount of $99/night. For more information on The Eaton Chelsea, Toronto, go to torontobluessociety.com/blues-summit-7/hotel

Blues Summit Price Guide: Early Bird Registration (Sept 16-Dec 15, 2014) is $89 for Musicians/Members* and $99 for Non-Members after which the registration will be $109 for Musicians/Members* and $129 for Non-Members. *Please contact the Toronto Blues Society at [email protected] to take advantage of the musician/member discount.

"The Swiss Are Coming!" The Blues Summit 7 Team has been busy confirming the attendance of blues industry professionals from across Canada, the United States and Europe for Blues Summit 7! Representatives of all kind will be in attendance, including managers, agents, publicists, radio hosts, festival directors, and many more. This year, we will be welcoming blues colleagues from Switzerland, including representatives from the Sierre Blues Festival and the Lucerne Blues Festival who are coming to experience Canadian Blues talent first hand, as well as Canada's friend of the blues, Mark Stenzler from Blues Zeppelin and The European Blues Union. We look forward to welcoming our European guests!

First Wave of Showcasing Artists Announced: Blues Summit provides artists an opportunity to perform in front of industry professionals. This year's Summit will feature performances from 32 showcasing acts. Showcasing musicians at Blues Summit 7 include: The 24th Street Wailers, Andria Simone, Angelique Francis (pictured), Chris Antonik, Conor Gains, David Gogo, Drew Nelson, The Gary Kendall Band, Jake Chisholm, Jenie Thai, Kat Danser, The MacKenzie Blues Band, Michael Jerome Brown, Miss Robin Bank$, The Oh Chays, The Ria Reece Band, Ross Neilsen, Sugar Brown, Suzie Vinnick, Tobin Spring, & Wicked Grin.

Attention Musicians: Volunteers Wanted: Interested in attending Blues Summit 7 on a shoestring budget? Blues Summit is supported by the generous time donation of TBS volunteers. Volunteers receive FREE entry to the conference and must be able to volunteer for a minimum of 8 hours. Stay tuned for more info on how to apply!

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Musicians Take Note: If you released a new CD in the last year you should submit to the JUNO Awards. Oct 1 is the CARAS submissions opening date with early bird expiring oct 24. The final deadline Nov 13. Visit the submissions pages at www. junoawards.ca.

Music Money: Ontario Government has announced the recipients of the first year of the Ontario Music Fund. Hon. Michael Coteau, Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, announced the recipients of the first year of the Ontario Music Fund, as well as the official l a u n c h of Ontario’s live music portal, http://ontariolivemusic.ca/.

The first year of the Ontario Music Fund, which is administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), is providing 108 grants to artists and music organizations that produce, distribute, and promote Canadian music and artists. The TBS benefitted from a grant of $35,000. 108 grants totaling $15 million were distributed to 108 different music artists and organizations.

You can see the whole list here: http://www.omdc.o n . c a / A s s e t s /

Industry+Init iatives/English/OMF/OMF+2013-14+Successful+Recipients.pdf. The Kathleen Wynne government has allocated $45 million over three years, $15 million a year, to the Ontario Music Fund.

Minister Coteau also announced the official launch of Ontario’s live music portal,OntarioLiveMusic.ca, which was developed by Music Canada under contract to the Ontario government. The site is a comprehensive and reliable source for information on live music in Ontario, including concert listings and venue promotions. As part of Ontario’s Live Music Strategy, the portal will promote live music in Ontario to boost concert attendance, visitor spending, and economic impact. All musicians and venues are encouraged to submit their gigs so that the government can see that it is being put to good use.

This funding helped underwrite the recent meeting of Canadian Blues Festivals hosted by the TBS with the mandate to

create a Blues Festival Network in Canada. Larry Kurtz, Founder & Artistic Director of the Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival said, "The meeting of Ontario Blues Festivals was a great opportunity to get to know fellow festival organizers and share ideas. The information provided about government funding programs was very helpful. This was an excellent first step in understanding how we can work together and support each other." Chris Murphy, Artistic Director of Quai du Vin Reds Whites and Blues Festival in Sparta reported ,"It was great to see everyone in the same room. We could have swapped stories until midnight...It is rare that festival organizers get to spend time with each other."

There will also be a series of career development workshops funded by Music Canada including sessions on “Touring, Gigging and Making a Living on the Road“ (September 30, 12-1pm at Silver Flex Studio, Artscape Youngplace – 180 Shaw St.,) “Partnership and Collaboration: Music Is a Team Sport“ (October 1, 12pm-4:30pm Guelph City Hall, 1 Carden Street, Guelph); “Publicity, Promotion & Music: The Final Touch“ (October 7, 2014, 12-1pm, Silver Flex Studio, Artscape Youngplace – 180 Shaw St.) and “Labels: A Brave New World of A&R and Record Deals (October 14, 12-1pm at Silver Flex Studio, Artscape Youngplace – 180 Shaw St).

The cost is minimal, Members: $5, Non-members: $10 and includes lunch! These sessions are funded by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), with additional support provided by our sponsorship partners MROC and ACTRA RACS.

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theatre hybrid that combines autobiography, interview, live music and multi-media has announced the line-up of special guests who will join the band (Jake Chisholm on guitar, Tom Bona on drums and Chris Banks on upright bass) for a short interview and jam at the end of each night (these guests are subject to change):

Sept. 25th – Ken Whiteley; Sept. 26th – John Mays; Sept. 27th - Shakura S’Aida; Sept. 28th – David Vest; Sept. 30th – Chris Whiteley & Diana Braithwaite; Oct. 1st – Paul James; Oct. 2nd – Terry Wilkins; Oct. 3rd - Jay Douglas; Oct. 4th – Carlos Del Junco; Oct. 5th - Guy Davis; Oct. 8th – Chuck Jackson; Oct. 9th – Gary Kendall; Oct. 10th – Rita Chiarelli; Oct. 11th - 2pm – Doctor Nick & 7:30pm – Johnny Max; Oct. 12th - Danny Marks; Oct. 15th – Brian Blain; Oct. 16th – Paul Reddick; Oct. 17th – Suzie Vinnick; Oct. 18th – 2pm – Carolyn Fe & 7:30pm – Pat Carey and Oct. 19th - Bob Margolin.

Life, Death and The Blues will go on tour across Canada starting early in 2015, with stops at Winnipeg’s PTE [Prairie Theatre Exchange] and the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.

Healey Honoured: It was announced this week that Jeff Healey is among the latest inductees to Canada's Walk of Fame. The other inductees this year are the Band, actors Rachel McAdams and Ryan Reynolds, women's hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser and former Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Arbour. Honourees will be feted during an awards show at the Sony Centre on October 18th which will be televised in the middle of December.

Dominion on Queen is currently closed for renovations. No word on when they will

The Mighty Duck Blues Band kicked off their 7th year of popular Saturday Afternoon Blues Matinee`s at The Duck in St. Catharines on September 27 and will continue weekly through the fall/winter until early June 2015. Upcoming shows feature guest appearances by Paul James, John Finley, Robin Bank$, Bird Stafford, Harpdog Brown, Tim Williams, Joel Johnson and Tobin Spring


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MonkeyJunkTiger In Your TankReissue of Canadian swamp roots rock trio’s debut album with two bonus tracks.

Billy Boy ArnoldThe Blues Soul of Billy Boy ArnoldProduced by Duke Robillard, this release showcases the legendary blues harmonica player.

Available Oct 21

Rory BlockHard Luck Child: A Tribute to Skip JamesOn Block’s fifth mentor series release, she tributes one of the most important country blues artists in history.

Available Oct 21

Ronnie Earl and the BroadcastersGood News“Ronnie Earl again demonstrates the musical mastery that continues to garner him both awards and accolades.” ~ Elmore

Eric BibbBlues PeopleA collection of songs about change and hope in collaboration with some of Bibb’s blues friends

Available Nov 4

The DukeRobillard BandCalling All BluesOne of blues music’s best and most creative artists returns fresh from touring in Bob Dylan’s band.CD out now / LP available in Oct

Long John BaldryThe Best of the Stony Plain YearsCelebrating the British blues pioneer with the best tunes of his fourteen years with Stony Plain.

JW-JonesBelmont Boulevard“One of this country’s top blues guitar stars” (Globe & Mail) releases Grammy winner Tom Hambridge produced CD.

Available Oct 7


CBC Radio One (99.1)"Saturday Night Blues",

w/ Holger Petersen (national)Saturday 9:05pm-11:00pm

(on Radio 2 Saturday at 6:05pm),

JAZZ-FM (91.1) "Bluz FM" w/ Danny MarksSaturday 8:00 pm-midnight

CIUT-FM (89.5) "A to Z Blues" w/ Screamin' Red Saturday 8-9am "John Valenteyn's Blues" w/ John ValenteynThursday 4-5pm

CHRY-FM (105.5) "Everyday I Have the Blues",

w/ Vince Vitacco Monday 9-11pm,

The Haze FM www.thehazefm.ca"Sunday Morning Soul "w/Johnny MaxSundays at 11AM-1PM "At The Crossroads" w/Brant Zwicker Sundays at 1PM "Southern Crossroads" w/Patrick Le Blanc Sundays 2-4PM "Dawg Howlin’ Blues Show" Mon-Fri 10 pm – Midnight

Radio Regent, Toronto "Blue Remedy"

w/ Blues Doctor Julie Hill, Wednesdays 8-10 pm ET, at www.radioregent.com

DAWG-FM (101.9 FM Ottawa)www.dawgfm.com

CKWR (98.5 FM)“Old Chicago Blues" w/ Willy A, Friday 10:30 pm-midnight (Waterloo)

CIOI FM (INDI 101 FM) Blues Blast, with Ken Wallis Tuesdays, 4-6pm (Hamilton)CIWS 102.7FM (Whistle Radio) Blues on Whistle with Dave “Daddy Cool” Booth Mon, Tues, Fri 11pm (Stouffville)whistleradio.caCJLX (91.3 FM) "Saturday Night Blues Review", with George Vaughan. Saturday 6-7pm (Belleville)CFRU (93.3 FM) "The Thrill is Back" with Andy and Andrew Mondays 1 to 3pm "Wacky World of Waldo Fourtunes" with Mo' Kauffey Mon 8-9pm "The Blues Review", with Roopen Majithia Tues 9.00 pm (Guelph)CANOE FM (100.9 FM) canoe.fm.com "Zoe's Haphhazard Saturday Night" with Zoe Chilco Saturday 10 pm (Haliburton)CFBU (103.7 FM) "Eclectic Blues" with Deborah Cartmer Tuesday 7-9 pm (St. Catharines)CKCU(93.1 FM) www.ckcufm.com "Black and Blues” w/ John Tackaberry Every Sunday 9-11 pm (Ottawa)CKMS (100.3 FM) "Poor Folk Blues" w/ Bruce Hall (aka Brewski) Monday 7:30-9 pm (Waterloo)NORTHUMBERLAND897 (89.7 FM) "Bohemian Blues Hour" with Michal Hasek and Daniel Courtney Sunday 7-8pm (Coburg)

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Johnny Winter Step Back MegaForce/Sony*Jack de Keyzer Voodoo Boogie Blue Star*JW-Jones Belmont Boulevard Blind Pig/Stony Plain/WarnerTrudy Lynn Royal Oaks Blues Café Connor RayMarcia Ball The Tattooed Lady & the Alligator Man Alligator/Fontana North/Universal*Cold Specks Neuroplasticity Arts & Crafts/UniversalDom Flemons Prospect Hill Music Maker/Sony*Drew Nelson The Other Side Self*Arsen Shomakhov Dynamic Blues Leaf*MonkeyJunk Tiger in your Tank (Re-mastered) Stony Plain/WarnerChris Smither Still on the Levee Homunculus*Blue Room Blue Room SelfElvin Bishop Can’t Even Do Wrong Right Alligator/Fontana North/UniversalAlexis P. Suter Band Love the Way You Roll American Showplace*Andria Simone Good Lovin’ Artist-tree*Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley Blues Stories Big City BluesDuke Robillard Calling All Blues Stony Plain/Warner*Rita Chiarelli Music From The Big House DVD Mongrel MediaVarious Artists Take Me To The River OST Stax *Jordan Officer I’m Free Select

This month's recommended listening by John Valenteyn, host of John Valenteyn's

Blues on ciut.fm, 89.5 and CD reviewer for Maple Blues. You can drop by and say

hello to John at the blues Department of HMV on Yonge Street


Jack de Keyzer Voodoo Boogie Blue Star/Indie Pool

Jack de Keyzer’s legions of fans will tell you that his live shows are what make them his fans. What a treat then to have more recordings from the one that earned him the Blues JUNO in 2010. Voodoo Boogie is Part II from The Corktown Tavern in Hamilton. He opens with the title song, a re-worked “Mojo Boogie” by J.B. Lenoir that just smokes, Jack’s guitar pyrotechnics get the audience, and us, off to a rocking start. Dave ‘Groove Dr.’ McMorrow provides sterling support on piano while Alan Duffy & Danny Lockwood provide that solid foundation. Up next is a major highlight, the grinding, slide-driven “If You Were My Woman”, with bass and guitar in perfect synch. On the recording, Jack chose to fade this performance after five minutes, I wish it had gone on much longer. Bob Dylan’s “All along The Watchtower” gets a slower, jazzy performance, which not too surprisingly takes off from the Hendrix version. Needless to say this one showcases Jack’s guitar and his wah-wah pedal. Jack’s own “Pleasure is my Business” is a shuffle taken at a mid-tempo clip, a change of pace that features an organ solo from McMorrow. “Rock Till We Drop” is a Chuck Berry-style rocker that is another highlight, with pounding piano from McMorrow and furious solos from Jack. Not enough can be said here about Al Duffy on bass and Danny Lockwood on drums, they put this engine into overdrive. The Muddy Waters version of “You Shook Me” is a de Keyzer specialty, taken nice & slow before the Fleetwood Mac version of “Shake Your Moneymaker” rocks it up once again. A jazzy Jack original, “Cinderella” with Chris Murphy on sax and David Colter on

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is otherwise an album of entertaining songs. Laura Greenberg, his regular bass player and Jamie Holmes his drummer appear on four of the songs, and they performed with him at Monarch’s Pub for the CD release here on September 18. The official release date is October 7, by which date, he’ll be on a western swing followed by some California shows, all are listed at www.jw-jones.com. Those American dates should be getting a much higher profile thanks to this excellent album. I hope you were able to see him host the MBA Show last January, I hope he can do that again some time.

Rita Chiarelli Music From The Big House DVD Mongrel Media

A little known aspect of Rita’s career was ten years of journeys to the infamous Angola Prison in Louisiana to learn from & work with the inmates there. The prison recordings she had heard in the past made a great impact on her. The plan for this trip was to not only perform for the inmates and their families but also to perform with the bands the convicts had formed behind bars. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bruce McDonald brought his crew. The movie he and producer Erin Faith Young made is a masterpiece. After about ten minutes of both Angola’s history and the story of how Rita got to do this, we get rehearsals and interviews with the inmate musicians. Rita’s rapport with the inmates is immediately obvious. Her interviews allow the inmates to tell their stories without preconceptions. Life behind bars has seldom been so effectively conveyed, remorse and healing so well expressed. The concert sequences show how

drums takes us out of a very entertaining hour. You can catch up with this road warrior at www.jackdekeyzer.com, maybe at the Canal Bank Shuffle on Saturday, October 18.

JW-Jones Belmont Boulevard Blind Pig/Stony Plain/Warner

The hard-touring JW-Jones keeps putting out better and better albums. Maybe the one leads to the other. Not to put his earlier albums in a lesser light, for they were all very good, but JW-Jones has none other than Tom Hambridge on board here and has placed this with a major blues label. Recorded in Nashville, mostly with their fine session players, there is less emphasis on personal-interviews-as-songs and more on straight ahead tunes. We begin in stellar fashion with one written by Hambridge & Colin Linden. “Love Times Ten” is a pounding Stones-style rocker and perfect as the opener and first single. Reese Wynans’s keyboards are every bit a match for JW’s guitar, I can see this one staying in his set list for some time. Bobby Parker’s “Watch Your Step” is taken at an even faster clip, with Hambridge hammering those tom-toms. “(The Blues Keep) Coming After Me” is a gorgeous Hambridge slow blues, with the ‘blues’ also being the men in blue. JW-Jones’ earlier albums were known for their guest star appearances, here he’s taken to paying tribute instead: to Magic Sam on “Magic West Side Boogie”- a monster of a guitar workout and to Jimmie Vaughan, with “What Would Jimmie Do”, written with Hambridge, featuring some dead-on Jimmie guitar work. Buddy Guy’s “What’s Inside of You” gets some virtuosic Buddy Guy-style guitar but JW style vocals. The album closer, “Cocaine Boy”, is an ambitious and serious JW-Hambridge song with heavily FX-laden vocals and guitar, presumably meant to highlight that perception-altering lifestyle. The verses helpfully delve into some of the deeper problems behind the addictive behaviour. Perhaps intended as a warning to someone he knows, it stands out on what


talented these musicians are and how well they take to Rita. By the time of the “Midnight Special” finale, the inmates are human beings who have made mistakes, not unknowns far removed from society. Rita expresses her own emotions in words well here too but “These Four Walls”, the highlight of the soundtrack, says it even better and the video is included here. There are also concert extras, only some of which are on the soundtrack CD. After the movie’s initial screenings, it aired on CBC’s Documentary Channel but if you happened to catch it there you saw a heavily edited version. You owe it to yourself to see it in full. If you’re not near a store or if you’d like to arrange a special screening for your next event, go to www.ritachiarelli.com.

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley Blues Stories Big City Blues

With Scrap Metal Blues on Electro-Fi, the Blues Suite Concert, Sugar & Gold from a couple of years ago and now Blues Stories, the much-expanded Underground Railroad Music Festival and Diana’s return to The Women’s Blues Revue, they are one very busy couple. The thread connecting all these activities is Diana’s heritage as a descendant of an Underground Railroad family. The music they write and record is firmly rooted in that tradition. We get underway here with a gospel a capella “Rocks and Gravel” that harkens back to earliest days. Diana’s and daughter Kala’s voices blend beautifully. Some John Lee Hooker boogie forms the groove under the tale of a trip to “Florida”. Chris switches to slide for an excellent 12 bar blues, “Lighthouse Keeper”, with a particularly fine vocal from Diana. Sonny Boy’s “Bye Bye Bird” is just Diana & Chris on harp, a rather different look at this classic. Chris takes the band to Chicago for “Fried Fish, (rum & ginger ale)”. It gets a little more serious for “Children of Circumstance”, a tale of a young man in a housing project meeting a Good Samaritan – a tour de force

of songwriting and singing (and harmonica soloing). After that it’s time to head to the “Tic Tac Toe” for some more good times. They also decided to perform some non-originals here, with fine versions of Skip James’ “Hard Time Killing Floor”, “Careless Love” and Jimmy Reed’s “You Don’t Have To Go”. They have a new web address: www.HotBlues.ca.

Blue Room Blue Room Self

Most of the musicians whose albums are reviewed here are doing it full time. There are some however who want to keep playing even though they have chosen careers outside music. Blue Room is one such band. Dark Angels is another. Blue Room has been at it for some time now, this being their fourth disc in almost twenty years. Brian Neller is the gravel-voiced singer, Paul Sanderson is on guitar, Fraser Lawrason plays fretless bass, Pat Quinn is on drums and Norm Ryan plays the saxes. They’ve done an excellent job here and you should catch their show at Monarch’s Pub on October 18th where they officially release this album. They also write their own songs, with Sanderson and Neller supplying most of them, either together or singly. The third song here describes their sound: they “Rock ‘n Roll The Blues”. They don’t play loud but they do play well - they clearly have been able to find a goodly amount of rehearsal time for these mostly live off the floor recordings. “Please Come Home” is an excellent blues about the plea of an abandoned child. “Clarksdale, Mississippi” chronicles a trip down the Blues Trail featuring a harmonica player who also keeps his hand in: John Bjarnason, of Whiskey Howl fame. “Walking Shoes” is also good, with the narrator thinking a long walk together will resolve problems. The concluding “Shake Hands With The Devil” is an extended piece on getting an offer from the devil, who then becomes the bank manager when you need a loan. The web site is www.blueroommusic.com.

Duke Robillard Calling All Blues Stony Plain/Warner

For his latest disc, Duke is ‘calling all blues’, a journey through various blues styles that allows him and the members of the band to shine, not only on their instruments but on group vocals on what even for Duke is an innovative set of new songs. “Down in Mexico” covers the Memphis/Stax sound particularly well, with lovely horns - he re-assembled the Roomful Horns for four songs here. “I’m Gonna Quit My Baby” is an acoustic jump blues, with an electric slide solo – he had not finished this song before he injured his hand, hence the rare slide appearance. “Svengali” may be the most innovative song here, an acoustic blues with a percussion-heavy arrangement. He says he wanted the sound of Peck Curtis on King Biscuit Time with Sonny Boy Williamson II. The song is about the John Barrymore movie of that name, he says in the notes. Sunny Crownover steps out front next on the slow blues “Blues Beyond The Call Of Duty”. She does a fine job with Duke’s excellent lyrics and you know he’s got the guitar part down on a song like this. “Emphasis on Memphis” opens & closes with the “Knock on Wood” horn riff as Duke pays homage to the importance of Memphis – the group vocal choruses sound like The Band, and with their devotion to American music history, it becomes a double tribute. Ron Sexsmith helped with the writing. Keyboard ace Bruce Bears gets a lead vocal on the light, jazzy “Confusion Blues”, a nice change of pace. “Motor Trouble” channels that rural Texas sound of Frankie Lee Sims. Another major new disc from the endlessly inventive Duke, he may have started with older blocks but he has built something remarkably new.

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New Members: Rick Clarke, Larry Glass

Renewing Members: David Torosian, Kevin Cop, David Ngo, Paul McKinlay, Sue Bracken, Peter's Players, Paolo Chiocchio, Martha Ireland, Mary Carmichael, Nicholas Lanaro, Michael Church, Mike Harrison, Choose The Blues Productions (Institutional), Gordon Tomlin, Doug Burn, Larry Duncan

Institutional/Benefactor Members: Choose The Blues Productions, Music By The Bay Live, Grand River Blues Society, Mike Calhoun, Joel Goldberg, Rick Barber, Dana R. Clarence, Joel Goldberg, Brian David Johnston, Michael Malone, Scott Peaker, Canal Bank Shuffle Blues Festival, Choose the Blues Productions, Dan Aykroyd Wines, Dee’s Deeds, Eaton Chelsea Hotel – Monarchs Pub, Linus Entertainment – True North Records, Music By The Bay Live, Re/Max, Stony Plain Recordings, Porquis Blues Society

Honorar y Members (Honorar y Membership is assigned to musicians in the past year who have participated in a TBS event): Lindsay Barr, Tom Bona, Patrick J. Carey, Richard Dawson. Julian Fauth, Matthieu Gagnon, Rebecca Hennessy, Harrison Kennedy, Jon Knight, Teddy Leonard, Al Lerman, Rob Lutes, Steve Strongman, Joanna Swan, Dawn Tyler-Watson, Rachelle van Zanten, David Vest, Suzie Vinnick, Sacha Williamsonr

Lifetime Members (Blues Boosters are Maple Blues Award recipients for their good work in the national blues community): John Valenteyn, Liz Sykes, Gord MacAuley, Ed Torres, Rob Bowman, Brad Wheeler, Mako Funasaka, Richard Flohil, Brian Slack, Elaine Bomberry, Andrew Galloway, Fred Litwin, Ralph Strodeur, Brent Staeben, Mark Monahan, Holger Petersen

Lifetime Members (Blues With A Feeling Award members are the Maple Blues Award lifetime achievement recipients): Matt Minglewood, Paul James, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Whiteley, Amos Garrett, Big Dave McLean, Colin Linden, Danny Marks, Jackie Richardson, Mel Brown, Chuck Jackson, Jack de Keyzer, Michael Pickett, Long John Baldry, Morgan Davis, Gary Kendall, Donnie 'Mr. Downchild' Walsh, Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, B.B. King, Holger Petersen, Bruce Iglauer, Derek Andrews

Donors Janet Zopfi, Linda Partington, Joel Goldberg, Sharon Evans, Trynie de Vries, Carol Flett, Sue Bracken, Derek Andrews, Michael Malone, Noah Blackstein, Jon Arnold, Gordon Brown, Suzie Vinnick, Ed Parsons

Many thanks to Carol Flett, Valerie Chamberlin, Linda Logan, and Sherry Milito for their help at "Blues In The Garden". Many thanks as well to Rudy Kay and his Friend Josh, Pat power and Patricia McCully for their help with the August and September Newsletter Mailings

VOXXY LADY cont’d from p 5

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a trio and it was just great. And, um, I was talking to him--to Ron--one day, drinking coffee, and I said, I just finished transcribing this thing called “Forty-Fours” from Little Brother Montgomery. And he says, 'Oh, I know him.’ And I just--you know, my jaw dropped because I was completely un-hip to what might be going on in Chicago not 20 miles north from me. And, he said 'Yeah, I play with him all the time.’ So, he gave me the address and sort of cleared the path for me a little bit, I think. I wrote Little Brother a letter and he wrote back, and we agreed to meet. I rode up to the IC station in Chicago...got off the train and met Little Brother. And we went to Walgreens and sat down and I said, 'Look, can I tape-record our lessons?’ And he said, 'Well, yeah, you can do it, but you have to promise not to ever publish it--not to ever record it and make records of it.’ And I said 'Oh, I promise I won’t ever do that.’ And I haven’t. [pause] Ah, but I would take the stuff home and then transcribe, I would make piano music out of it...and did quite a lot of it. Then I’d go back and see him a couple weeks later, and play for him the things. And he was duly impressed, 'cause he’s never had a student that worked that way...

RdG:Well, it’s great because a lot of the blues that we would hear nowadays has

been filtered through several generations. And I know you’ll all appreciate Bill’s playing because it’s the source...it’s not being filtered...what you’re gonna hear is very historical. It’s like going back in time. And on that note, we’ll have the great Bill Westcott start.

Westcott: You’ve all been too kind. Thank you very much. [Applause]

For anyone who would like to acquaint themselves with the music of Bill Westcott and Little Brother Montgomery, each has live performance videos on Youtube. You may also find fascinating Westcott’s blog, “The Rantings of a Mad Music Professor” found at http://billwestcott.wordpress.com, and, of course, go hear Bill live if you can. For more information on “Rita’s Parlour”, see the Facebook page of the same name. Come out and see me some time!

- Rita di Ghent

“Voxxy Lady” is the handle (bestowed upon her by fellow singer Ailsa McCreary) of Rita di Ghent. di Ghent is a recording artist, songwriter and voice instructor at York University and privately. She is also a PhD student in Musicology.

LOOSE BLUES NEWS cont’d from p 7

JAZZ WEDNESDAYS8pm - 12am

OCTOBER 1The Vipers

OCTOBER 8 Fergus Hambleton

OCTOBER 15Melissa Boyce

OCTOBER 22Andy De Campos (CD Release)

OCTOBER 29Michael Danckert

NOVEMBER 5The Laura Hubert Quartet

NOVEMBER 12 Melissa Boyce

NOVEMBER 19Gene Hardy

NOVEMBER 26Michael Danckert

BLUES THURSDAYS8pm - 12am

OCTOBER 2The Jerome Godboo Band

OCTOBER 9Sean Kellerman

OCTOBER 16Connor Gains

OCTOBER 23Brant Parker

OCTOBER 30Jack De Keyzer

NOVEMBER 6Harpdog Brown (CD Release)

NOVEMBER 13Wicked Grin

NOVEMBER 20The Gary Kendall Band

NOVEMBER 27Jack De Keyzer

CLASSIC ROCK FRIDAYS9pm - 1am

OCTOBER 3 Topper

OCTOBER 10Material Men

OCTOBER 17North of 7

OCTOBER 24The Dylan Tree

NOVEMBER 7Danny Marks

NOVEMBER 1424th Street Wailers

NOVEMBER 21The Ross Nielson Band

NOVEMBER 28The Nomads

Music schedule subject to change without notice.

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Huron Club 94 Pine St 705-293-6677 Collingwood 10-Oct Tim Bastmeyer/Jerome Tucker 8pmIrene’s Pub 885 Bank St. 613- 230-4474 Ottawa 04-Oct Jimmy Bowskill & Dave Fewins 9pm opening Main Street Market Band 07, 08, 11-Oct Rocket Rached’s Blues Harp Blow-Off 9pm - harmonica competitionLancaster Smokehouse 574 Lancaster St W 519-743-4331 Kitchener 31-Oct Tim Bastmeyer 7pmLiquid Lounge 159 Sydenham St. 519-756-3939 Brantford 04-Oct Larry Kurtz with Rick Taylor 3-6pm 11-Oct Robbie Antone with Blaine Bomberry 3-6pm 18-Oct Bob Margolin with Joel Johnson 3-6pm 25-Oct Steve Grisbrook with Mark Lalama 3-6pm 22-Nov Liquid Lounge All Stars, 3pm special guest Mark “Bird” StaffordLondon Music Club 470 Colborne St 519-640-6996 London 17-Oct MacKenzie Blues Band 7pm

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Ken Whiteley kicks off his 12th season of Sunday Afternoon gospel music at Hugh's Room on October 26 with a special Nova Scotia Gospel Celebration featuring Linda Carvery, a founder of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir and Jeremiah Sparks (fellow Nova Scotian and "Mufasa" from the Toronto production of The Lion King)


Lucy’s Sea Food Kitchen 6905 Mill-creek Dr. 905 567 8950 Mississauga 24-Oct Fried Angels 8pm-12am 28-Nov Fried Angels 8pm-12amMarket Hall 140 Charlotte St. 705-749-1146 Peterborough 17-Oct Jackson Delta-Revisited (Rick Fines, Alan Black, Gary Peeples) 8pm Reunion ConcertMoonshine Cafe 137 Kerr St 905-844-2655 Oakville 04-Oct Alfie Smith 8pm 17-Oct Paul Reddick 8pm 30-Oct Sisters Euclid 8pm 08-Nov Al Lerman - solo 9pm 21-Nov Alfie Smith 8pmPeter’s Players 830 Muskoka Rd S 705-687-2117 Gravenhurst 04-Oct Duke Robillard, The Walkervilles 3.45-8pm Peter’s Players Blues Cruise10-Oct Guy Davis 8pm08-Nov Johnny Winter Band with special guest 7pm - pre-release screening of “The Johnny Winter Story” movieRose Theatre 1 Theatre Lane 905-874-2800 Brampton 17-Oct David Wilcox 8pmRoselawn Theatre 296 Fielden Ave 905-834-0833 Port Colborne 14-Nov Michael Pickett with Mike Branton and The Mighty Duck Blues Band 8pmSean O’Sullivan Theatre, Centre for the Arts, Brock University 500 Glenridge Ave. 905-688-5550 St. Catharines 15-Oct Official Blues Brothers Revue 7.30pmShowplace 290 George St N 705-742-7469 Peterborough 07-Nov Coco Montoya and Victor Wainwright 8pm

Silence 46 Essex 416-580-2496 Guelph 07-Nov Jennis 8pmSt. Francis Centre 78 Church St S 905-831-8661 Ajax 09-Nov Blackie & The Rodeo Kings 8pm Music By the Bay Live Presents10-Oct Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers 8pm Music By the Bay Live Presents Stonewater Irish Pub 490 Stone St S 613-382-2116 Gananoque 04-Oct Al Lerman - solo 8pmThe Blues Room - Knights of Colum-bus Hall 222 Queenston Rd 416-580-2496 Hamilton 01-Nov Harpdog Brown, Jack de Keyzer, Brant Parker Blues Band, The Vaudevil-lian, Alfie Smith 11am - full food service all day, cash barThe Bruce Steakhouse 750 Queen St. 519-396-5100 Kincardine, ON 16-Oct Ghost Town Blues Band Rick and Marilyn Blues, 8:00 pmThe Cove Inn 2 Bedford St 888-COVE-INN Westport 24-Oct Harpdog Brown with Gary Ken-dall 7-11pm Fundraiser Blues on The Rideau, dinner & show $60.00 23-Nov Fathead 7-11pm Fundraiser Blues on The Rideau, dinner & show $60.00The Duck 244 Ontario St. 905-687-9505 St. Catharines 04-Oct The Mighty Duck Blues Band Saturday Afternoon Blues Matinee w/ Special Guest Paul James 2:30-6:30pm 11-Oct The Mighty Duck Blues Band Saturday Afternoon Blues Matines w/ Special Guests John Finley & Lance Anderson 2:30-6:30pm 18-Oct The Mighty Duck Blues Band Saturday Afternoon Blues Matinee w/ Special Guest Robin Bank$

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24-Oct Mike Almas with Bent Bugle Band 8-11pm 25-Oct Jake Chisholm with Bent Bugle Band 8pm 31-Oct Mark Wilson & Scott Hutchinson with Bent Bugle Band 8-11pmWellesley Community Centre 100 Maple Dr 519-656-3474 Wellesley 08-Oct Guy Davis 8pm

REPEATINGEVERY SATURDAY Axis Gallery & Grill 3048 Dundas St W 416-604-333 Toronto - Julian Fautth 12-3pmThe Blue Goose 1 Blue Goose Way 416-255-2442 Mimico The Danny B Blues Band 3-6pm Black Swan (Burlington) 4040 Pal-ladium Way 905-336-1200 Burlington James Anthony with guest 2-6pm Carrigan Arms 2025 Upper Middle Road 905-332-6131 Burlington The Sil Simone Band with special guest 2.00 pm Castro’s Lounge 2116 Queen St. E. 416-699-8272 Toronto Big Rude Jake’s Monk Junkies 4.30-6.30pm Frankie’s Ristorante 1 Main St. 905-852-1011 Uxbridge Tim Bastmeyer 7.00 pm Old Winery 2288 Niagara Stone Rd 905-468-8900 Niagara on the Lake Ni-agara Rhythm Section w/guests 9.30 pm Outrigger Tap & Table 2232 Queen St E 416-748-2232 Toronto Johnny Wright & Michael Fonfara 3.30-6pmReservoir Lounge 52 Wellington St E 416-955-0887 Toronto Tyler Yarema and His Rhythm 9.45pm

Reposado Bar 136 Ossington Ave 416-532-6474 Toronto Bradley & The Bouncers 9.30pm Rex Hotel 194 Queen St W 416-598-2475 Toronto Danny Marks Noon-3pm

EVERY SUNDAY ANA Vets Club 408 Gage Avenue, Unit 2 519-742-1972 Kitchener Ian Taylor Open Jam 1-5pm Axis Gallery & Grill 3048 Dundas St W 416-604-3333- Julian Fauth 12-3pm Bay City Music Hall 50 Leander Dr 289-389-9900 Hamilton - Brant Parker and The Bay City Blues Band 2-6pm Grossman’s Tavern 379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-7000 Blues Jam w/The Nation-als - Brian Cober 9.30pm-1am Roc ‘N Docs 105 Lakeshore Rd. E. 905-891-1754 Mississauga Chuck Jack-son & The All Stars 4.30 pm to 8.30 pm Roc ‘N Docs 105 Lakeshore Rd. E. 905-891-1754 Mississauga Sean Pinchin 10pm-2am The Shebeen 5555 Eglinton Ave W, Etobicoke, Michael Theodore, 4-8pm

EVERY MONDAY Black Swan Tavern 154 Danforth Ave 416-469-0537 Toronto Sebastian Agnello 9.30pm Orbit Room 580A College St 416-535-0513 Toronto Jordan John 10pm

EVERY TUESDAY Black Swan Tavern 154 Danforth Ave 416-469-0537 Toronto Peter Verity 9.30pm

Brando’s on Market 135 Market St 519-720-6758 Brantford Chris Brown Open Jam 10pm-2am Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles Ave 416-588-2930 Toronto Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Blues Night 9pm Reservoir Lounge 52 Wellington St. E 416-955-0887 Toronto Tyler Yarema & His Rhythm 9.45pm Sauce on Danforth 1376 Danforth Ave 416-469-0537 Toronto Julian Fauth 6-9pm

EVERY WEDNESDAY Black Swan Tavern 154 Danforth Ave 416-469-0537 Toronto Nicola Vaughan 9.30pm Bobby O’Brien’s 125 King St. W 519-743-5657 Kitchener Dave Rodenburg, John Lee & Jim Boudreau Blues Jam, 8pm Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles Ave 416-588-2930 Toronto Julian Fauth 9pm-12am

Intersteer Tavern 361 Roncesvalles. 416-588-8054 Fraser Daley 8-11pm Reservoir Lounge 52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887 Bradley & The Bouncers 8pm

EVERY THURSDAY Black Swan (Burlington) 4040 Palladium Way 905-336-1200 Burlington James Anthony Jam 8-12pm )Col. Mustard’s Pub & Grill 16925 Yonge St 905-895-6663 Newmarket Lou Moore plus guest 9pm Harbour Street Fish Bar 10 Keight Ave. # 403 705-293-3474 Collingwood Wayne Buttery Band 7-11pm

EVERY FRIDAY Reservoir Lounge 52 Wellington St E 416-955-0887 Toronto Dee Dee & The Dirty Martinis 9.45pm Southside Cottage Grill 234 Lakeshore Rd E 905-338-0050 Oakville James Anthony 7-10pm

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JAZZ WEDNESDAYS8pm - 12am

OCTOBER 1The Vipers

OCTOBER 8 Fergus Hambleton

OCTOBER 15Melissa Boyce

OCTOBER 22Andy De Campos (CD Release)

OCTOBER 29Michael Danckert

NOVEMBER 5The Laura Hubert Quartet

NOVEMBER 12 Melissa Boyce

NOVEMBER 19Gene Hardy

NOVEMBER 26Michael Danckert

BLUES THURSDAYS8pm - 12am

OCTOBER 2The Jerome Godboo Band

OCTOBER 9Sean Kellerman

OCTOBER 16Connor Gains

OCTOBER 23Brant Parker

OCTOBER 30Jack De Keyzer

NOVEMBER 6Harpdog Brown (CD Release)

NOVEMBER 13Wicked Grin

NOVEMBER 20The Gary Kendall Band

NOVEMBER 27Jack De Keyzer

CLASSIC ROCK FRIDAYS9pm - 1am

OCTOBER 3 Topper

OCTOBER 10Material Men

OCTOBER 17North of 7

OCTOBER 24The Dylan Tree

NOVEMBER 7Danny Marks

NOVEMBER 1424th Street Wailers

NOVEMBER 21The Ross Nielson Band

NOVEMBER 28The Nomads

Music schedule subject to change without notice.

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