Diddley Squat Blues Band - Texas Blues for the World

Talent abounds in this remarkable Texas blues band. The guitarist and lead vocalist is Jim "Blind Lemon Pie" Cobb- spanning the greats like T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Witherspoon and Freddie King in guitar and vocal prowess. Next up is Rick "SaxMan" Sims, who plays with the color and excitement of King Curtis and Boots Randolph, and who tends to leap off the stage into the crowd, serenading patrons individually. Rodney "Gizmo" Beal, on the bass guitar, is steady as a rock like Willie Dixon, and adds his own sweet vocal harmonies and the occasional lead vocal himself. Sylvia Carrell sprinkles percussion throughout, and sings from the heart- growling like KoKo Taylor and emoting like Etta James, spanning a wide range of styles before the night’s over. All the band members are lucky enough to work within the parameters of the solid grooves and superb timing of Val Nail on drums- a young man who’s a ‘‘show” all by himself.

You can't get enough of this group. That's probably why they won The Texarkana Blues Society sponsorship to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis coming up January 31^st through February 2^nd.

Come see ‘em; you won’t be disappointed.

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Catch Diddley Squat if you can!

Well, it's been pretty weird with them not playing the last couple of weekends, but they needed to get saxman Rick recuperated from his bout with pnuemonia and an additional infection of the lungs that landed him in the hospital for a week. He's at home recuperating now, and doing well. Reports are that he blew a little on the soprano sax yesterday, so he's coming around.

They relunctantly cancelled their trip to The Shed in Ocean Springs last weekend, and are laying off THIS weekend also, but we should be back at

Rick's on the Square in Tyler, TX on Friday and Sat, November 21st & 22nd.

After that week, things are gonna get pretty wild with nine staight gigs at seven different locations in Alabama and Florida....more about those later.

Hope to see some of you folks out supporting live music whenever you can!

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Doug Tackett

Road Dawg Touring Co

PO Box 2835

Evergreen, CO 80437

Office: 303-670-9950

Fax: 303-670-3744

roaddawgtouring at comcast.net

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