We did it! The fabulous launch of the second season of Madam Miaow on Resonance 104.4FM (now named Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge) kicked off with parts 1 and 2 of Charles Shaar Murray‘s fabulous Guide to the Blues with guitarist and songwriter Stephen Dale Petit adding his expertise and good taste. You can now hear […]
I’m back with a bang! To be precise, a new eight-week radio series of Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance 104.4FM on Tuesdays 5-6pm starting this week, 4th March. To kick off, Charles Shaar Murray gives us his Guide to the Blues, Parts 1 and 2, Ancient and Modern: the 1920s to the early 1960s
A culture-rammed week began with Crosstown Lightnin’ at the Black Velvet club in West Kensington last Saturday 18th May, supporting Bex Marshall and her band. Here’s Crosstown Lightnin’s encore with special guest Stephen Dale Petit. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles play “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon. Video by
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Crosstown Lightnin’ played their first gig in a while, the first of many more the way things are looking. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bll Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles were tight as a gnat’s bum and rocked the swanky new W14 venue, Black Velvet, with their punky blues. Bex Marshall headlined with her 4-piece
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Duck stars at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis This article first appeared in Gap Year Magazine The Mississippi Blues trail It was the ducks that did it. Even they had their own musical accompaniment: the King Cotton March by John Phillip Sousa, as it happens. Any trip worth remembering will have its own soundtrack that stays
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The Cowboy, the Punk and the Queens of Funk For all you NME babies and blues fans out there, Charles Shaar Murray’s new band, Crosstown Lightnin’, features the Cowboy, the Punk and the Queens of Funk: CSM on guitar and vocals, Buffalo Bill Smith on harmonica, the sublime Max Doray on bass and JoJo Ruocco
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