Never tired of signing the blues, Chuck Jackson and the Downchild Blues Band open a new tour in support of a new album in Sidney this month.
Already, the show on Wednesday, October 11 is almost sold out (although you have a chance to win a pair of tickets on the PNRB次元官网网址檚 Facebook page!) and that bodes well for the venerable Canadian blues band, whose music spans nearly 50 years and still wins new fans every day. DownhildB次元官网网址檚 18th album, Something IB次元官网网址檝e Done, releases on Friday, October 13 B次元官网网址� an ominous day for some, perhaps, but for Jackson, heB次元官网网址檚 had a lot of good luck with the blues.
Jackson has been the lead singer for Downchild since 1990, which fall about at the middle of the groupB次元官网网址檚 history. Downchild Blues Band started in 1971, producing and releasing their first album, Bootleg, on their own. And since then, theyB次元官网网址檝e found label success B次元官网网址� and are the recipients of three Juno Awards, including Best Blues Album of the Year in 2014 for Can You Hear the Music. Jackson himself has won two Maple Blues Male Vocalist of the Year awards and the band itself has a credentials list so long that thereB次元官网网址檚 isnB次元官网网址檛 enough space to list them all.
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Jackson said the albumB次元官网网址檚 first single, Mississippi Woman, Mississauga Man, was written from his experience traveling from his home in the Ontario city, down into the cradle of the Delta Blues. He jokingly referred to his home town as B次元官网网址渢he Mississauga Delta.B次元官网网址�
Jackson and other band members were given the freedom to contribute to this latest album, working in concert with Donnie Walsh. Known as B次元官网网址淢r. DownchildB次元官网网址� Walsh has been around since the beginning.
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He said heB次元官网网址檚 looking forward to the tour, which focuses mainly on western Canada. They open in Sidney Oct. 11 (show starts at 7:30 p.m.), they head up-Island to Qualicum Beach Oct. 12, then stop in Duncan Oct. 13 before heading to the lower mainland, interior, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Opening for Downchild at the Sidney show is blues guitarist David Gogo. Jackson said he knows him well and has invited Gogo many times to the blues festival he hosts back in Mississauga (Tim HortonB次元官网网址檚 Southside Shuffle).
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