Bootlegger’s Legacy Volume 2 - Dollar Bill's (Kingston, ON)

[Steam McQueen]

- "Dollar Bill's" was a Blues bar at the back of a hotel in Kingston that Dan would go to back in the day when he was still on SNL. There's a Dollar Bill's Apex Group that, as part of a fundraiser, made a CD of recordings from the bar and handed them out at a concert in 2014 which raised $30,000. They found more recordings and have another 4 disc set and there will be another concert next week Friday, October 20. Look at the folks on these discs ...

The artist and track listing of “Bootlegger’s Legacy Volume 2” include performances by Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, The Matt Murphy Blues Band, Bleecker Street, The Eddy
Clearwater Blues Band, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, Songship featuring Mary Margaret O’Hara, Whiskey Howl, The Florida Razors, Morgan Davis and The Relaxations, Prairie Oyster, Colin Linden with Amos Garrett, John Lee Hooker, The Lincolns, The Extras and Junior Walker and the All Stars. None of the new tracks on the new set have ever been released previously. And the sound is exceptional!

The concert next Friday features Blackie and The Rodeo Kings ...





- www.kingstongrand.ca/event/blackie-and-rodeo-kings



Good read here with Dan and former Dollar Bill's manager, Peter Lloyd ...

"I remember how long the sets would go. It would go right to the end. The bands were not in a hurry to get off that stage, and the breaks were short," Aykroyd recalled over breakfast on a downtown restaurant patio recently. "They loved playing that room, for some reason."

"They paid us to live broadcast the bands. We would often have them there for six nights. Ronnie Hawkins there for six nights. John Lee Hooker for three," Lloyd said about the broadcast's 1979 to '82 run. "We would simulcast the first night, and we'd be full the rest of the week."

- www.thewhig.com/2017/10/06/sharing-their-love-for-the-blues