Originating in 1981, the Baton Rouge Blues Festival is one of the oldest blues festivals in America, first held on the campus of Southern University. The festival honors the legend of home-grown blues artists like Slim Harpo, Rudy Richard, Silas Hogan, Whisperin' Smith, Guitar Kelly, Schoolboy Cleve, Chewin' Gum Johnson and Raful Neal. Expanding outside our backyard, the festival has brought in nationally and internationally recognized names like Bobby Blue Bland, Marcia Ball, Phil Guy, Larry Garner and Charlie Musselwhite-including recent Grammy-nominee Ruthie Foster, who won the hearts of festival goers in 2009. Visitors and locals alike are encouraged to further their Baton Rouge blues experience beyond the festival at hangouts like Phil Brady's (with the longest-running 21-year Thursday night blues jam around) and the inimitable Teddy's Juke Joint in Zachary, Louisiana. Learn more at www.batonrougebluesfestival.org.
I love you Dex. What a voice. What a player. A true one off. More talent than most of the rock and roll establishment, and so underground it’s actually criminal. Rest easy Dex.
I knew Dexter back in Chapel Hill N.C. We never talked about music, just about life and living. I remember a random meeting at The Skylight Exchange, (which does not exist.) He just played classical music on the piano so lovely. Anyway I love you Dex! I wish I could go back! Dexter passed away, your music carries on.
Yes, he and the Flat Duo Jets opened for the Cramps long ago. Some footage from those wild days of old. We will miss you, Dex. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DwlKwwI0g9A.html
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that Sir Charles that was mentioned as being the only person carrying the blues torch is horrible, cheesy artist. Songwriting sounds like a kindergartener. There are plenty of underground blues musicians that are actually writing, playing and singing the blues. Hit me up if you need to know who they are!
Yeah, someone over at The Gear Page ended up buying Dexter's old one that had all the paint wear on it. I forget his username, I just know it's not me, and that he posted about it multiple times in various threads. Before it was sold, it had a different type of bridge added.
I also ended up getting a 1448 of my own, but it's made up of the neck and body of 2 different ones. I then wound the pickup in the original style by myself. If you don't know what you're doing, it's the biggest pain of a guitar pickup out of any to wind and then stick in the tube; nothing else compares, & it took me over a year to get it right. Most of the time, I wasn't trying, because this just felt like my brain was in a jumble by trying to do anything. I wasted over 30,000 turns of wire to get it right. You gotta put the winding directly on the magnet that has no bobbin, get most of that wiring in the center, solder the wiring to the leads, tape up everything with thin tape, then manage to gently shoehorn and wiggle it all in the tubes gently, without breaking anything.
@@101Voltsit's way easier if you use doible sided tape to put two plastic supports on each side of the magnet. It prevents the wite from running out of the bobbin. Then you wax pot it before removing the supports, so that the bobbin won't fall apart.
I've known Troy Turner since we were in the third grade at Capital elementary School his grandmother used to take me fishing with him. I'm very proud of him!
Saw this legendary man play in Philly as the Flat Duo Jets -- he had an open conversation with the audience about how he hates using that name, and how it was a stunt by whoever was promoting the tour.
Would have been wonderful had you introduced him to your audience by his actual name, Dexter Romweber from The Flat Duo Jets. I'm a long time fan of Dexter and his music and he has never really gotten the recognition he so well deserves. It's like interviewing Jerry Cantrell and calling the video "Rock Backstory with Alice In Chain." Glad to see more exposure on this genius musician however, so thank you for that.
