Blue Morris is a guitar player, composer, and bandleader of the Blue Morris 6 Swing Band and Pink Flamingo Burlesque, a variety show with burlesque dancing set to live music. He lives in Vancouver.
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The next Pink Flamingo Burlesque show will be live at the Penthouse! Originally the Penthouse was one of Vancouver hottest Supper Clubs attracting celebrities and stars from around the world. Acts like Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, the Mills Brothers & Harry Belafonte were regulars on the stage entertaining crowds nightly.
We're thrilled to have the opportunity to put on a classic burlesque show in this most classic venue.
Advance tickets are for sale on my website: www.bluemorris.com/tickets. Advance tickets are $12 and tickets at the door will be $15.
The show will feature:
* Shaboobie Boobarella
* The Starlet Harlots!
* MC Evil Bastard
* Valentina Virago
* Live music
* Period costumes
* Comedy and theatrics
* Glitter, sparkles, fun and sexiness!
In 1959 an album was released with one of the simplest cover art ever published, next to perhaps the White Album. On one side it read "Blind Joe Death." On the other side was printed only "John Fahey." Only 95 copies of the LP were pressed. There were no liner notes and no obvious credits given to the musician playing the music. And it's arguably one of the greatest solo guitar albums ever recorded.
John Fahey was a guitarist and avid record collector. In his collection Fahey had a scratched old 78 RPM record from 1927 of a song called "John Henry" by a man called "Blind Joe Death." It is Blind Joe Death's only known recording and it's quite possible the recording was never actually released because it is not listed in the Paramount label's catalogue.
That old 78 record was so influential to John Fahey that in 1959 he released his own album under that name: the cryptically titled album with only the words "Blind Joe Death" on the cover. That album has since garnered such a cult following that the name "Blind Joe Death" is more often thought to be John Fahey himself....
The Vancouver City Limits New Music Review featured one of my bands, Leonard and the Lab Rats about a month ago. City Limits regularly tapes their shows and they posted this video of Leonard's original song, "Shakin' the Salt."
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In 1959 an album was released with one of the simplest cover art ever published, next to perhaps the White Album. On one side it read "Blind Joe Death." On the other side was printed only "John Fahey." Only 95 copies of the LP were pressed. There were no liner notes and no obvious credits given to the musician playing the music. And it's arguably one of the greatest solo guitar albums ever recorded.
