Bay City Blues w/ Chris Cain & Special Guest Guitarist Anthony Paule
A South Africa Event on 2016-04-12 19:30:00
The Bay City Blues is our weekly showcase of world class Blues music and superb instrumental talent. This event is a celebration of the Blues in all its forms and an adventure into the depth of a national genre. Hosted by the nationally recognized Chris Cain & his All-Star cast of Musicians, every week they invite a new special guest to accompany them on stage and present new, upcoming, & old talent from the blues world! Bay City Blues is our tribute and exploration into the Blues genre, it is a special event in which we all get to help, share, & “Preserve the Blues."
About Anthony Paule:
Anthony Paule has been a driving force of the Bay Area music scene for many years and has previously released two solo CDs. In addition to fronting is own band, he’s toured and recorded with Boz Scaggs, Charlie Musselwhite, Bo Diddley, Maria Muldaur, Barbara Lynn, Norton Buffalo, The Johnny Nocturne Band, Mark Hummel, and others. The release of the two CDs with Frank Bey,“You Don’t Know Nothing” and “Soul For Your Blues” finds Paule in his element, in full stride with this eight piece soul band… backing up a fine singer.
Anthony Paule was born on December, 21, 1956, in Durban, South Africa. He came to Los Angeles at 10-months old, and settled in Northern California when he was 15. Paule has worked with some of the best singers in the business during the past quarter century. They include Johnny Adams, Brenda Boykin, Earl King, John Nemeth, Bo Diddley, Louisiana Red, Jody Williams, Brownie McGhee, Maria Muldaur, Kim Nalley, Tommy Ridgley, and Boz Scaggs. He spent a dozen years as a member of the Johnny Nocturne Band and also toured with groups led by Muldaur, Scaggs, Mark Hummel, Charlie Musselwhite, and Mitch Woods. His extensive discography includes two albums of his own – 1997’s Big Guitar and 2001’s Hiding in Plain Sight – and two with Home Cookin’, a band that featured Boykin.
About Chris Cain:
Chris Cain's jazz-tinged, blues soaked guitar and deep, warm vocals have the maturity and authenticity of bluesmen many years his senior. His expressive style is the result of a lifetime of study and the relentless pursuit of music mastery. His passion and intensity are a blend of his mother's Greek ancestry and his father's soulful black heritage.
Cain was raised on stories of his father’s childhood upbringing on Memphis’ Historic Beale Street and attended his first B.B King concert at the tender age of three. Blues music played continuously on the home stereo and family outings were often trips to concerts. Cain recalls, “I remember when I was a kid, my Dad would be mowing the lawn with the stereo blasting Muddy Waters. When I look back, that was pretty cool! There was always music playing at our house, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, all the greats.”
Larry Nager (syndicated Scripts-Howard music critic) writes, “Nowadays most young blues players are Strat-wielding Stevie Ray Vaughan-a-bes. Not Chris Cain. With a voice that recalls B.B. King and a thick toned Gibson guitar sound reminiscent of Albert King, Cain is forging a unique style. With his own highly personalized songwriting, “Hall Of Shame” is a giant step in the development of one of the most compelling young Bluesmen on today’s scene.”
Through his guitar mastery and remarkable songwriting ability, Chris Cain has established himself as a musical force to be reckoned with. And as San Jose Mercury News music reviewer John Orr writes, “more than anyone else, anywhere, Chris Cain represents the future of the blues.”
at Biscuits and Blues
401 Mason Street
San Francisco, United States
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