SIDESWIPED IS HERE!!!! Sideswiped is here! Blue Lunch's fifth cd for Wilberts Records is IN and available.    The CD is packed with almost one hour of 'Blue Lunch music', including seven original tunes and two cuts featuring "Sax" Gordon Beadle. This is Blue Lunch's most eclectic recording yet with all the different varieties of blues Blues Lunch plays and is known for. Buy the cd or download individual tracks from iTunes, Amazon mp3, Rhapsody, Napster, iLike, Best Buy digital, emusic, and other download services.
MEMPHIS WRAP-UP!   January 20 through 24 Blue Lunch represented the Cleveland Blues Society at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN This is the "news" page so here's the news: we didn't win. But we did have a good time and we ate lots of good Southern barbeque. And we made many new friends and possibly some good contacts. There were 111 bands competing, from all over the world. You get two chances to play, once on Thursday and again on Friday. There are about 15 venues hosting the event and one band from each event moves on to the finals which are held on Saturday. Our venue, the New Daisy Theater, on Beale Street is the largest of the venues so the competition was pretty stiff. Each band gets 25 minutes per set. Our Thursday set was marred by some iffy sound and we didn't really catch our groove until about the third song but on Friday we pretty much nailed it to the wall. We'll have to see what happens next year. We would like to congratulate our friends Becky Boyd and Tim Matson who made it to the finals in the "Single-Duo" category. Way to go guys!
SKETCH A nice lady named Anita Silverman drew this sketch of the band. Click on it to see it full size. Oh, and the drummer is our good friend Rod Riseman who was filling in for Scott Flowers that day.
CLEVELAND BLUES SOCIETY... We encourage all our friends and fans to join the new Cleveland Blues Society. Cleveland may have been the largest city in the country without a blues society. Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, Marieta, and Warren all have societies and it's time we had one in Cleveland. Please check out the web site and we hope you'll consider joining.
FINALLY! BLUE LUNCH ON YOUTUBE...	BLUE LUNCH FROM THE FREE TIMES AWARDS SHOW 2008
MORE BLUE LUNCH ON YOUTUBE WITH ROBERT LOCKWOOD, JR...
In Conclusion... Thanks to everyone for your support. Please check the calendar page for more shows. Have you checked out our new photo galleries? There'll be more to come

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