role for our first segment you can go and walk in front of the camera because we want to imply that there's a live studio audience right here with us and that's ok so don't feel shy ok we are getting roland and i want to introduce everybody to the new orleans creole restaurant we are here live most every sunday afternoon now taping this show which airs friday two and friday at seven on scant television that's channel twenty nine and seventy seven were improvising we're trying to trying to make this happen and i think we're to make it work i've got a fun menu of guests today and also want to let you know the season change will begin here on the fifteenth and so every friday night at seven o'clock and of course friday it to make sure you tune in on channel twenty nine or seventy seven and then of course we're also airing in pierce county on that channel help me out seventy six seventy seven well anyway there's another channel in pierce county that's a cable access believe a seventy six that you can tune in a couple times a week and we'll let you know more about that as we get closer to those dates ok so this show is going to air on the fifteenth if you're going to be on t v tonight you can make sure to tune in on the fifteenth for this show part of our show on a regular basis is to have guests and also do the blues to do calendar the gentleman sitting next to me is jim earlybird he's going to talk to us about a gospel event coming up tomorrow this shows taped on friday so tomorrow saturday the sixteenth of course i want to do a little brief calendar i'm not going to play music for you we're we're getting that part figured out but i want to let you know who's coming to town a brief calendar ok i'll keep it brief i'm really known for a long winded in this but this guy robin trower more of a rock artist but he's doing some blues on his recent recordings he'll be at the phoenix which used to be the premier right here in the pioneer square area the phoenix down the street used to be the premier anyway a robin trower on the fifteenth the night friday at nine pm also on our calendar a guy named maurice john von and that's going to be right here at the new orleans creole restaurant two  nights he was at the sun bank's blues festival if you went to that festival and of course tonight's the fifteenth and sixteenth both maurice john von great guitar player great vocalist and of course on the sixteenth the big event at the bet christian church will talk to bert about that in minute so i just a mention of that legendary shake shack or no check shakers there we go at the tractor seven on the sixteenth and a couple of the calendar items for this week leon russell will be coming through town he's going to play the night light on the eighteenth and a couple of dates jazz bones on the sixteenth and we have got another one in there leon russell plays the triple door on the fifteenth two shows you know leon russell was not really a blues artist per se but he produced all the freddie king recordings and he plays outstanding keyboards arranger songwriter a magnificent artist in many ways and the shelter people were his singing group his backup singing group and of course kathy mcdonald who lives here in the region was one of those shelter people for years and we love kathy and we've had her on the show here so leon russell in town again three nights in a row he'll be at the triple door for two sets on the fifteenth a set of jazz bones on the sixteenth and then at night light in bellingham on the seventeenth ok next artist on the blues to do calendar and i'm just about done for the week it would be smokin joe q back when we stop ok there's a fundraiser for becky sue in her big rock and daddy's they're trying to get to memphis that happens at jazz bones on the seventeenth want to make sure  mention that and then we smokin joe q back and benoist king will do a show at the triple door on the eighteenth at seven thirty that's a monday and two nights for guy davis now we've gotten footage on this program of guy davis before and i was standing traditional acoustic artist with the new flavor obviously he's bringing it into the twenty first century so he's doing it differently than he used to be done but he's got a great voice a great character great storytelling artist tonight's demetrius jazz alley again for guy davis you might know his father and mother famous actor and actress ozzy davis and ruby dee anyway guy davis in town for tonight's all of this information by the way is available in the blues to do publication which is part of this program and we i also have a website where you can find it and you can print it out in really big type if you want to read it you know that helps a lot all right there's way more going on this month but i'm not going to cover it right now we'll get it on in the next program i do want to talk to bird little bit about this event coming up tomorrow at bethel christian church bird tell me about this gospel of it when what we're doing is we're introducing traditional gospel music to seattle which has not been very much of it in recent years and i'm doing a lecture  me and i'm looking forward to seeing you there and i didn't mention but oh yeah free food to the course early bird met member of the rock n roll hall of fame as of last fall and traditional radio personality if you will on the east coast for decades and he retired out here in the northwest and he's been a regular guest on this t v program so he stopped in today tell us about this gospel event happening again tomorrow september sixteenth at bethel christian church you have the gospel  jimi reads and we've done that show many times and times you know we haven't to see a lot of people still don't know that gospel is the birth of the blues and i hear an amen from the crowd on that gospel is the birth of the blues and a thank you very much and thank you for having me this is a time when you have shown that the when do i get paid we're all working on that paycheck thing all right well again on the sixteenth bethel christian church and you're going to have free services and there's workshops all day and  evening free services population is also part of the event for the edges here in seattle but he knows about the groups here that i've been blessed to have got a national thing going from starting in one nine hundred twenty seven with the golden gate ready i'm ready writing jim early bird everybody ladies and gentlemen jim earlybird part of the rock n roll hall of fame and a regular guest on our program give him a round of applause yes  always find him talking about gospel rhythm and blues blues he has expertise in a mind full of stuff i don't know how you remember it all barista country and western star with the same break when jimmy rogers in one nine hundred twenty nine thousand nine hundred thirty knows all the numbers i can i couldn't even keep up with this guy in a trivia contest all right well to rick to have you yes need to keep my hands on is to write all right we have one more gas before we get on with the rest of the program and  there's actually a connection here jim early bird is this gentleman's name and there's a documentary film being produced it's about this guy named james byrd jr and you may have heard that name he was unfortunately  tragically killed in a hate crime in texas in jasper texas and this was a serious thing that happened a number of years ago and our next guest is a documentary filmmaker doing a project on james byrd jr and how would you like to come up now liz late them and of course jim bird early bird is still alive and well we want to make sure remind people of that there's no confusion for blues fans here in the northwest jim early bird still alive and kicking at seventy eight years old and of course and both of them have events tomorrow on the sixteenth this event though is the barbecue fundraiser and i think the food thing is really going to bring me into this when the three to six pm is the time and liz let them thank you for joining us thanks for having me marlee we have  the good news to the blues crowd that we have l j porter and cora weigel as our entertainment for this party it's tomorrow saturday september sixteenth from three to six and i started working on this documentary in december of ninety eight and there's a whole long story around that and we probably don't have time for it but long story short we're making this documentary to teach kids in the middle and high school about hate crime hate crime education but we're ending it with a component in altruism compassion and love where we can teach them distressing techniques that ultimately will help them to not commit acts of violence in  lives ultimately can we have an amen on that one please everybody in the crowd yes indeed hate crimes affect us all in a very personal way and lives late them doing work on a documentary level and also in curriculum with young people to do some education around the subject a great music of course part of the event barbecue part of the event a porter affiliated with dixie's barbecue so we'll have some good food at filleted there will be there with their barbecue well now you also have some people that are tremendous speakers on the subject of hate crimes tell us more about that well one of the key speakers tomorrow will be robin mohler who's the chair of the jewish federation here in seattle where the women were shot in july and another guest speaker will have his mike hogan who's the senior deputy prosecutor of hate crimes for king county and will have a mother from a limpia who lost her son to a hate crime that occurred down there he was beat up after school and it was pretty bad thing all the people coming together are people who want to help stop these types of crimes and get this type of educational film and curriculum into our nation's schools and that's what we're coming together to do you make that happen so again if you want to be a part of this fundraiser and to help liz finish this documentary and work on that curriculum there is information that we can pass along the phone numbers to zero six seven eight two eight two two zero and that of course is on our website at blue's to do dot com if you want to follow up on that it's in renton near lake kathleen is a private home so you have to get directions and be if you go to the website lizard productions dot com the directions to the party and everything can be found right there lizard productions dot com and of course we have information blues to do monthly so either way we hope that you support this this work and of course it's a reason of the week for the blues hate crime so i wanted to make sure and address this in the blues to do television program again we want to thank everybody for coming down on sunday afternoons and joining us here at the new orleans creole restaurant we're taping live television and it is going to be airing on friday at two and seven pm and of course we're talking about tomorrow the sixteenth in our taping seen here ok thank you very much as or more did i miss all the details now i think you pretty much got it so everything else can be found on the website lizard productions dot com excellent once again liz laith i'm doing the production the whole thing that the filmmaker the documentary and the party to raise money for finishing the film so we wish her luck in that and give her support in that work thank you very much for doing the things this late them everybody give her round of applause ok well my next guest is the owner of the club here and i'm not sure she's in the middle of mixing a drink but if anybody wants to ring her up over here we'd like to get gay anderson on television for just a few minutes i know she's a little reluctant but if i could get ten minutes with gander sin and well well they're ringing her up i want to remind you the national blues foundation is also doing great work and they have membership as well that they're raising money for they did really well this year thirty five percent increase in the membership they do a lot of good work their website is real simple triple w dot blues dot org and they are out of memphis they do the international blues challenge in early february and i mention becky sue and her big rock and daddies they are going to be playing here at the new orleans as matter fact and also raising money on sunday the seventeenth at the jazz bones event so that they can make it to memphis for the international blues challenge at the orpheum theater at the new daisy theater right in the historic memphis it should be a gre experience to be doing that contest for twenty three years and of course it's one of the fund raising events for the national blues music association ok we do have a wonderful crew here that puts on this program with i wouldn't do this by myself you know that so my name is marley walker i want to go around the room think any watson think rosalind powell think marching i want to give him some applause they worked hard setting this up maryland also paul taylor i know gay anderson is over there i'd like to talk to gay anderson if somebody want to ok she's busy all right we'll see if we can get her over here for a few minutes anyway very generous woman she's supported the work of blues to do for its entire career and beyond her previous she's been in  square here for over twenty years i'm sure i'm almost sure to over twenty years supporting the great jazz great blues supporting the musicians that put that music on we are again taping live television here every sunday afternoon between four and six pm and we have a live audience so they sometimes walking for the camera but that is ok that's just ok with me i like feeling like we're all in the same room together did it rain this week i'm not even sure i did i don't think i felt anything i don't think anything gathered in my rain barrel but i just want to check with anybody else did you see rain this week oh it was a drop in your neighborhood ok pretty dry out there please keep your sparks to yourself it's a real sparky time of year and fires all over the state of washington is the real reason of the week for the blues ok i'm going to add live a few more minutes to fill up the rest of this show if i can't get anderson over here well we'll get her on another program because she's a character ok good so we have a few minutes hopefully we'll get her over here before the show is up tremendous club a lot of great history here as a said lot of great jazz and blues jay thomas place here every month pete linen in plays here every month they both do a lot of work to put a full band together it's tough for you here to see pete piece here this afternoon ok pete linen in tonight at seven o'clock will begin i think it's at thirteen piece band tonight a lot of work to keep it together all right we have  ok we always need a few crew members if anybody is interested in being on the crew postproduction is a big part of it some people you know somebody who knows computer work a young person maybe who wants to do some television work it's great for their resumes and we work with scan television that is channel twenty nine seventy seven right up the street on aurora they have a great facility they just remodeled it and went digital so we're all learning the knobs again and we'd love to have a music editor in particular  because we are gathering musical footage to air on this program every week now we're going to do a half an hour of interview in different calendar segments neck kind of thing and then will feature a half an hour of live footage either gathered here at the new orleans the same day we shoot the show or possibly footage that we gather around the scene in the northwest it could be jazz bones it could be the triple door could be highway ninety nine there's many clubs that feature blues so we'll try to get around town and share a lot of great music with you we actually have some footage coming up on next week's show  that we gathered a few years back actually from guy davis he was playing jazz alley at that point and he will be playing jazz alley next week so we'll share that footage with you in later in the later segment of this program also john lee hooker jr played right here at  creole restaurant it was a terrific show really got the whole crowd going so we'll keep some footage of that and share that with you also on tonight's program again this program is being taped right now on sunday afternoon at the new orleans creole restaurant but it is every friday on air at two o'clock and seven o'clock on channel twenty nine and seventy seven that's cable access channel twenty nine seventy seven for king county and in pierce county is channel seventy six so tell your buddies tell your friends and i believe we're also live streaming on the web that's a new thing but if you if you have high tech stuff at home or wherever you can park it go ahead sit with us on fridays at two and seven at triple w dot scan t v dot org that's the again live streaming so you can tell your friends that you were on live television show and they can tune in and catch you on the web wherever they are amsterdam afghanistan all eight countries anybody else he way all right we are going to have some live music later on this afternoon and i do hope anderson finds her way over here or she might have to be hog tied because i know she doesn't want to and live television but i just want to few minutes with or ask her about her club and the history here at the new orleans i know she's also been doing benefits here at the new orleans for the city of new orleans for the people of new orleans and is has been involved since day one in helping support the cause of supporting the people in new orleans and the rebuilding of new orleans and that's a very important work anderson always a part of raising awareness and raising funds she helps out booking some of the great bands that come out of garfield high school and the other high schools around the region they get to play here at the new orleans what a terrific experience for them to have as well ok again we do need crew members on a regular basis so go ahead and look up with us we have a phone number two zero six three two eight zero six six two or check our website and there's e mail contact information there is triple w dot blues to do dot com ok we're going to continue our program let's see set design we could have some help in set design maybe construction i was also thinking that you know we need more people to go out and get live footage with with permission of course so that's one of the things that's really fun to do and get involved with and it can be a lot of fun you know someone asked me the other day about curtis agao and i did get some new information it's actually very good information i have to report he has been ill with cancer liver cancer got out of portland a great soul blues singer nationally recognized nominated for handy in the past and out of portland we really care about curtis agogo so we were really devastated this summer to learn that he had liver cancer but as it turns out luckily all the prayers went out and sure enough they came back to him his girlfriend is a match and these days the technology that they have they can actually take a piece of her liver and grow a whole new liver for curtis so it's give me just chills to think about it but apparently they're going to be able to help him out he has to gain some strength before he can have the operation so they're now fattening curtis up a little bit and now we're very pleased to report that he looks like anyway all reports are coming in positive as is girlfriend and once again is a match so they'll take a piece of her liver and grow whole new one for him talk about given the shirt on your back all right my name is marley walker it's a pleasure to be doing blues to do television right here at the new orleans creole restaurant runner mind you again we taped this program on sunday afternoons from four to six almost every sunday afternoon there's a couple of football games we might be competing with so we might just let the football game take up traffic and parking and all that and take a week off but most every sunday afternoon will be here taping this program we hope you join us it's a lot of fun anybody got the reason of the week for the blues come on what's your reason the week for the blues any car accidents any new health problems i mean you know you could just tuck your toe alright well good i'm glad to report that nobody here has any new reasons of the week for the blues but you might think about that  love to give somebody some opportunity to be on television it's great to be part of a community access television station and also of course be a part of the blues community here in seattle all right i think i have improvised as much as i can we everybody have a i'm so glad you showed up because i think i talked as much as i could scoot over get over here get over close anderson of course the owner here at the new orleans creole restaurant oh you back at you been doing this for years thank you for being here a lot of years we've been doing stuff together that's i thank her for being here seven days a week with live jazz and blues and of course the flowers are by her mom alice want to make sure give my mom  credit now how does your mom these days she's eighty four years old young young and of course a lot of heritage here at the new orleans creole restaurant how long have you been in pioneer square actually about thirty years but  then new orleans is turn twenty one on february thirteenth we still haven't had a twenty first birthday party yet and so we're open to suggestions for a party there should be some drinking going on on the twenty first birthday of the new or this creole restaurant i do believe even if it's just soda water but yeah terrific to have twenty thirty years of the door they've changed locations once or well the new orleans started down on us for way in eighty five and one of the slum landlords did a number on his sin that's why we moved over here and prior to that we had a lot of shop over on occidental for five years and then i worked up on second in yesler at a really nice restaurant for several years now you started this with your husband jimmy may he rest in peace and this was a project was it his vision or yours i mean who actually sparked this idea bad question ok so she's the one doing it now we know that much this shoulders are carrying the weight right here the shoulders now ok anderson there are some wonderful things you do here at the new orleans creole restaurant on a monthly basis with jay thomas and his big band backer duran you want to tell us about they are a big band and they do it kind of you know adult love and they teach a lot of high school kids and community college kids how to work in a live professional setting and read charts and gain experience to be come good jazz and blues musicians and of course any jazz musician has to learn how to play the blues first so there is a common thread in here and tonight this sunday in particular that we're taping this show which will air once again friday two and seven on channel twenty nine seventy seven you're going to have pete liniment tonight correct the wonderful thing about pete lennon is he was he's not only a wonderful musician as far as jazz and blues are concerned he also keeps the music alive  radio rhythm orchestra let him rest in peace and he keeps these people together to keep the arrangements and the music of john hald alive and there's not too many people that would spend t to to do that and god bless you for bringing it to a live situation here at the new orleans creole restaurant seven days a week there is live music here either jazz or blues and of course pretty much every friday saturday night you've got one of the regional fine blues bands or someone touring here that's a blues band who are some of your favorite blues bands i know you can't play favorites but you've got a couple that shine well cash mccall is one of my favorites take it's here about once a year regionals are all wonderful the locals are great i just wish there were more van use in seattle for all the talent that there is out there yeah i think it's been said about seattle that if you throw a rock you're going to hit a musician pretty much you've got a good chance you get a musician if you throw any rocks well now thirty one years what's the future look like here at the new orleans group more of the say we don't plan on going anywhere sound well now you also work as a group here in pioneer square for events there's some events and sometimes if you're discussing whether to chop down trees or not there's of it's discussions that happen in a group there's a business improvement a area formally there was a pub club now it's called club stamp and we get together and do promotions to support musicians music and night time entertainment well now there is a benefit coming up here at the new orleans creole restaurant for the new orleans cause you mentioned this to me the other day there's a gentleman that's heading up a nother of a huge support everybody do benefits for new orleans the people of new orleans the city of new orleans you tell us more about that event coming over to overton berets as seattle light and he came up with a clever idea to do a conglomeration cd and have all of the production of it donated and the proceeds will all go down to the habitat of humanities in new orleans and we'll be working on that very soon so we'll give you more details here on blues to do television once again a benefit for habitat for humanity they do terrific work and please give a hand for gay anderson the owner here and operator at the new orleans  restaurant thank you very much they award winning club owner that's right one of the favorites we are again are going to wrap this show up and give you a half an hour of live footage some of that footage was done here at the new orleans creole restaurant it includes john lee hooker jr terrific session we had cameras everywhere and had a wonderful time getting field footage i want to thank i need a field man and russ mcdaniel for helping us with that footage in february of zero five also some footage of guy davis is a mention he's in town this next week jazz alley performance we taped in january of zero five once again with the help of dale martin and anita field men these are some previous crew members if you'd like to be on the crew please let us know you want to thank the rest of our crew to rosalind powell a margene paul taylor especially paul carrying a big part of the way here tonight jeff also helped us out and again flowers by the matriarch gaze mom alice and we want to thank everybody for being a part of the show again we tape it on sunday afternoons and we me