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“BLUES STAINS ON MY HANDS”
“HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME” Check out the Norman Sylvester Band at Local Venues and Regional Outdoor Festivals. Support your local Boogie Cat!
The Inner City Blues Festival “Healing The Health Care Blues” was a tremendous success. Special thanks and appreciation to the Melody Ballroom owner Kathleen Caad & Family for donating the ballroom space, the Portland radio stations and Press media for their help with getting the word out to the public about our Event. Also, special thanks to the ICBF planning committee, volunteers, musicians, community and labor Unions support staff. Please check www.HCAO.com for update about the Universal Health Care/ Single Payer movement. Everybody in – Nobody’s Out!
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/135640-blues-musicians-bend-a-note-for-health-care
Hey! Hey! the Blues Is Alright
The Boogie Cat is ready to groove at 2013 Festivals – Live Venues- Corporate Parties. In Portland Oregon or in your Town the Norman Sylvester Band is ready to lay some Funky Blues down. For more information: (503)419-7093
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SUPPORT THE LIVE MUSIC VENUES IN ROSE CITY REGION. LET’S KEEP THE BLUES ROCKING IN THE NORTHWEST!
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Special Thanks! To all our family,friends,fans and DJ’s for their continued love and support in 2012. Our new CD “Blues Stains on my Hands” is getting airplay around the country and overseas.
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Breaking News! The Norman Sylvester Band’s new CD “Blues Stains on My Hands” is #2 on the Sirius/XM satellite Radio (Pick-to-Click)list BB King’s Bluesville Show.
Give the Gift of Music for Christmas! Check out Norman’s Original Music on www.CDBaby.com
The Norman Sylvester Band has shared the stage with BB King, James Cotton, Tower of Power, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Otis Clay, Peter Frampton, Mavis Staple, Lil Ed and the Imperials, Junior Wells, Isaac Scott Five Blind Boys of Alabama and WAR.
NORMAN SYLVESTER
Blues Stains on My Hands
Boogie Cat Productions – (No#)
Louisiana-born guitarist/vocalist Norman Sylvester has been gigging around Portland, Oregon, since the mid-’80s, and he was recently inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. His style, though, carries strong echoes of his Gulf Coast roots. The title tune is a swampy 6/8 ballad; elsewhere he alternately showcases a sophisticated jump-and-jive elan (the topical Outsource At the Top) and a funk-flavored strut (Senior Moments, Fine as Frog Hair); his guitar work invokes T-Bone, toughened by an Albert-Collins-by-way-of-Gatemouth aggressiveness.
Sylvester’s ballad work is equally convincing. On Bad Weather, he summons a deep, clear-toned baritone croon to sing about the disaster wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina If You Didn’t Want Me to Have the Blues features an extended guitar solo that highlights Sylvester’s finely honed melodic sensibility and tonal suppleness. In Please Lie to Me, he lays his Charles Brown–like ruminations over Bill Rhoades’ atavistic harp squalls as Frank “Funk Master” Redding contributes some moody after-hours organ work.
Sylvester can also call forth images of Mississippi. S-E-N-D, a cyber-age updating of folksy aphorisms (“don’t e-mail what you heard, only what you know”) is couched in a Delta-fried boogie. Blues Is in Control echoes a stripped-down Smokestack Lightning; Sylvester’s lyrics are rife with images of erotic betrayal, guns-and-whiskey mayhem, and “a new big-leg woman” who sounds as if she’ll either help Sylvester’s protagonist get over his earlier travails or create new ones of her own.
If Sylvester’s storylines occasionally get a little arch (he invokes “the blues” pretty often, and some of his high-tech references sound like self-conscious attempts to be contemporary), he remains a first-rate storyteller with vocal and instrumental chops that do justice to his unique lyric vision. Judging from what’s here, it seems likely that one of the Northwest’s better-kept blues secrets won’t be a secret for much longer.
—David Whiteis
Our New CD product “Blues Stains on my Hands” can be purchased at:
- At Norman Sylvester Live Performances
- www.CDBaby.com
- www.Itunes.com/normansylvester.com
- Music Millenium – 3158 SE Burnside – Portland,OR 97214/-503-231-8926
For Booking Information and Price Quotes please phone: Boogie Cat Productions @ (503)419-7093 or send us an email: bluboog@msn.com
For more music schedule information visit our land line 24 hour Blues Hotline: 503-281-5989
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Norman Sylvester inducted to Oregon Music Hall of Fame - When he was a kid, Norman Sylvester would get up on Sunday mornings before church and listen to his father’s gospel quartet sing on a radio station broadcasting out of Monroe, La. “One of the most beautiful sounds you’d ever want to hear,” he says. Sylvester was born in Bonita, La., in 1945 on his grandmother’s [...]
Oregon Music News Video - Norman Sylvester on the meaning of “Fine as Frog Hair” among other things. Interview for Oregon Music News. www.oregonmusicnews.com on May 26, 2011 in Portland Oregon.
