[MNDancers] Fw: About Saturday night, Mickey Sez...

[Lois Donnay]

Here's some additional information about the band playing Saturday night at the Whiskey, where we are all going after the Blues Class (at 3142 1st Ave S): I think we will have a lot of dancers there!

Lois Donnay
www.mndance.com

Mickey Sez:

Ok - I'm hyperbolizing a little bit, it's just a gig. . .but for those not 
attending the Crossroads thing in Chicago this weekend, here's an 
alternative consolation prize for those in the Minneapolis area.

Cool Disposition featuring Minnesota's most recorded blues guitarist Dan 
Schwalbe and special additional guest guitar great Bob Bingham.

Whiskey Junction July 28, 2007 9:00 - 1:00

Dan has performed and / or recorded with Snooky Prior, Billy Boy Arnold, 
George "Mojo" Buford, Lynwood Slim, Percy Strother, Leonard "Baby Doo" 
Caston, RJ Mischo, Sonny "Cat Daddy" Rodgers, and Lazy Bill Lucas among 
others.

Dan Schwalbe Discography

1989 - Blues Deluxe: "Reet, Petite, and Gone" Natural Born Lovers Records # 
BL8008
1990 - Sonny Rogers: "They Call Me the Cat Daddy" Blue Moon BMR-003 and 
Fattening Frogs # jump2
1991 - Blues Deluxe: "I Can't Stop It" Blue Moon BMR-006
1993 - Mojo Buford: "Harpslinger" Blue Loon BLN-017
1993 - Rockin' Daddy and the Rough Cuts: "Straight Shooter" Blue Loon 
BLN-019
1994 - Lynwood Slim: "Soul Feet" Cold Wind Records # CWR9405-2
1996 - Texas Red: "What Kind of Woman is That!" Blue Loon BLN-034
1998 - Mojo Buford: "Home Is Where My Harps Is" Blue Loon BLN-032
2000 - Rockin' Daddy and the Rough Cuts: "Blues and Tall Tales" Blue Loon 
BLN-038

2003 - Cool Disposition: "Rompin' at the Ribshack" Cold Wind Records 
CWR-4187103042

2007 - Cool Disposition: "Buzz Awhile" Limited Edition EP / Independent 
Release


Bob Bingham is best known as an early member of Twin Cities blues legends 
Lamont Cranston. He was also a member of the near mythic Aces, Straights, & 
Shuffles, a band that included Kim Wilson
(Fabulous Thunderbirds), Kent DuChaine (intl touring guitarist), and Luther 
Tucker (Muddy Waters), and Bruce McCabe (Jonny Lang, Hoopsnakes, Lamont 
Cranston)

Taken from a Bruce McCabe interview at mnblues.com "and I moved back home 
and worked in a milk carton factory during the day and played in a band at 
night. I remember waking up in the dark once knowing I was late for one or 
the other but I wasn't sure if it was morning or night. The drummer from the 
country band sent me a tape of a band he was in in Minneapolis and asked if 
I wanted to join. The tape was great and here's why. The harp player was Kim 
Wilson who later got famous in the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Bob Bingham 
(Charlie's brother) was one of the guitar players, Kent Duchaine on bass, 
and the other guitar player was Luther Tucker . And guess what album I knew 
him from- "Pure Cotton" That James Cotton record I loved. That was enough 
for me. I loaded an upright into a U- Haul trailer behind my 64 Chevy and 
headed for Minneapolis. It turned out it was an audition but luckily I 
passed. Luther Tucker had left by the time I got there so I never got to 
meet him. That band was called Aces, Straights, and Shuffles. My first show 
was at the Cabooze, a new club at the time. My time in Aces was a tremendous 
learning experience. All these guys knew the blues inside out. I was just 
starting at that really, and I didn't have a good way to mike up the piano 
so nobody could hear me half the time, which was probably a good thing. 
After a year, Jimmy Vaughan kept coming up to Minneapolis to try and get Kim 
to move down to Texas. Kim and I were sharing an apartment at the time and 
he decided to make the move. I remember I could have gone with him. Not that 
I had a sure thing at joining their band, but I remember weighing it out.

Come on down THIS SAT July 28 
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