I had the good fortune to travel to Las Vegas on business recently and was able to take in two different blues clubs. The first evening was at the clean, well-lit smoke-free House of Blues. You can argue whether it's a real blues club or just a Disnification of the blues, but musically it was excellent. Andy Walo Trio preformed a great live set of rocking blues numbers. Walo is originally from Sweden but has been in the US for many years working in Chicago with Junior Wells and most recently in LA with his own band. Walo tours regularly and is definitely worth catching live. The set included his own music as well as some classic blues songs by John Lee Hooker and others. Walo has just completed some west coast gigs and hopefully there will be more in October and November.
I had just picked up a new Canon G9 point & shoot camera which I used to snap some photos as well as a video clip on YouTube. Frankly I was surprised at the high quality I was able to get on video.
- Andy Walo: Official Site, Schedule, Bio, MySpace
- Amazon: Live Your Life
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