Jill Newman returns to Stones Throw Brewery with bassist Patrick McDanel. We’ll be playing covers and original roots and blues songs from Jill’s newest album.
It’s a free, family friendly and pet friendly venue with great brews, food trucks and outside food welcome! 6pm – 8pm.
1009 Larrabee Avenue
Bellingham, WA
It’s been a while since I produced my last recording, Lovestruck Blues and I’m thrilled to be heading back to the studio. I’ve been busy writing songs and working on pre-production. I will be recording at Studio Litho in Seattle in early 2025 with Floyd Reitsma engineering. Stay tuned!
I’ve got some new and exiting shows coming up to celebrate the fall season: I am delighted to be invited back as the featured guest of Stacy Jones at her songwriter showcase night @ the Madison Ave Pub in Everett. We had a blast the last time we got together. It was so much fun playing twin danelectro guitars. That show is coming up on Thursday Sept. 21st.
On Oct. 6th, The Jill Newman Band is back at the Beach Bar in Birch Bay. I’ll be playing some new originals along with some fun covers in a trio format.
Tuesday Bluesdays Nov. 7, 14, 21 – I’ll be the guitarist along with Jimmy Wright and the guys for the Tuesday Night Invitational Blues Jam at Menace Brewery in Bellingham, WA. I’ll also be sitting in on the Bluesday stage on Tuesday Sept. 19 and 26th. Downbeat for these free shows is 7:30pm.
Happy fall!
This year’s Northwest Folklife Festival is all about beats, rhythms and the traditional roots of the music we enjoy today. I’m thrilled to be a part of the 44th Annual Festival as a blues performer and have been inspired by the artists who paved the way for contemporary blues artists, especially the women. From the guitar stylings of sister Rosetta Thorpe and Memphis Minnie to the slide playing of Bonnie Raitt and Debbie Davies, there are plenty of women who’ve led the way for the next generation of female blues musicians. I’ll be playing a featured set as part of the Lady Sings the Blues Showcase on Friday May 22nd at 4:45pm. C’mon out and enjoy the Festival.
Blame the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. And, while you’re at it, the White Stripes, Black Keys, and every other act that at some point decided the only thing Robert Johnson’s old recordings were missing was a lethal injection of distortion and some serious tub-thumping on the back-end. Somewhere along the line, blues rock fell out of fashion, replaced by blues rawk that sounds more indebted to Led Zeppelin than Leadbelly.
Jill Newman dials back time on Lovestruck Blues, a record that features an unfussy and economical production job that’s retro-sounding without seemingly precious or coldly calculated. The singer has a voice that’s more well-worn country twang than back-alley blues, but that works to her advantage on numbers like the strutting “Too Hard to Handle” and the last-call shuffle “Without You”.
As for the playing, if you’re looking for obnoxious showboating, better to haul that old Stevie Ray Vaughan vinyl out of the crawl space. Newman’s unflashy but solid work always comes down on the right side of tasteful, so close your eyes and cue up the title track and you’re transported to a honky-tonk somewhere deep in Tennessee—the kind of place where there’s sawdust on the floor, cigarette smoke hangs thick in the air, and no one has ever heard of those overamped phonies known as the Soledad Brothers.
Mike Usinger on Twitter at @mikeusinger.
http://www.straight.com/music/653851/jill-newman-travels-back-simpler-time-lovestruck-blues#
Summer in the City at Lion’s Park in POCO was a blast. I had the great opportunity to kick off their summer concert series and played a bunch of my newest songs from my upcoming album with my blues trio.
My daughter, Michelle, an opera/musical theatre performer agreed to join me for a few songs and it was so fun having her up there.
The Lion’s Park venue was gorgeous with lots of trees and shade and a hardworking crew of volunteers and staff……an awesome way to spend a summer Sunday afternoon. 
Now it’s back to the studio in Vancouver where I am busily doing guitar and vocal overdubs, with bed tracks finished and ready to go. Check back in for more news and updates on shows.
2300 Lion’s Way at Shaughnessy (just off Lougheed highway)
Jill Newman and her blues band kick off the summer concert in the park series with a selection of original blues and roots tunes from Jill’s upcoming album, Lovestruck Blues.
Cost: Free
all ages welcome
For Directions or more information- click here http://www.portcoquitlam.ca/leighsquare go to Programs, and then Events
