We had a radio interview today with KLIF and two photo shoots, one for Society Life Magazine and one for The Star-Telegram.

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Look out for lots of press in the next couple of days all the way through the Grammys. Things are really exciting around here right now.

If you have not picked up your tickets to The Blue Shoe Project Grammy Gala on Friday, February 8th (next week) do it now! Looks like we’re going to have a full house!

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The 50th annual Grammys were very, very good to Grapevine’s Jeffry and Michael Dyson.

By PRESTON JONES

pjones@star-telegram.com

The father and son team, who co-founded the nonprofit organization the Blue Shoe Project to bring the blues to classrooms across Texas, took home the award for best traditional blues album. Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas beat out records from Pinetop Perkins, Koko Taylor 007 goldeneye free not as a stranger divx online

and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. It was the Blue Shoe Project’s first-ever Grammy nomination.

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“We are ecstatic,” Michael Dyson said from Los Angeles, where he and his father were attending the Grammy ceremony at the Staples Center. “It’s been a great experience and these guys [The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen], they deserved it. It feels like a chapter in the book has now closed and a fine work will forever be in the memory of people.”

Dyson said he and his father would return to North Texas on Monday.

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Preston Jones is the Star-Telegram’s pop music critic

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Of course we did have the camera, but did not take pictures! Nonetheless we had a great time at Pinetop’s 95th birthday party at Antone’s in Austin . Pinetop was looking super-snazzy as always (he wore the red suite displayed above). Susan Antone was kind enough to allow us to get up on stage and say a few words about The Blue Shoe Project and how we came to know Pinetop, etc, which was awesome!

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Michael Freeman, co-producer of Pinetop’s new album, Pinetop Perkins and friends was also in the house. He is a super-nice guy and the story he told about how Pinetop’s new album came into fruition is rather amazing. The album features guest appearances by iconic artists such as Eric Clapton and B.B. King . We hope to record a podcast

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soon chronicling this story. Tomorrow we’re headed to San Marcos to conduct The Blue Shoe Project harmonica workshop for about 120 kids that are classified as extremely at-risk. We’ll keep you posted on how this goes and hopefully we’ll have some pictures to share. Stay tuned!

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And the winner is: Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David “Honeyboy” Edwards.

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Calling it a “labor of love” an overwhelmed Michael Dyson humbly expressed his appreciation to the fans and voting members of the Academy when it was his turn at the acceptance microphone.

Following Michael, Dad, Jeffry Dyson, after expressing a heart-felt thank you, shared the mission of The Blue Shoe Project and their desire to bring the rich history of blues music to young students everywhere.

Gentlemen, a standing ovation to you both!

Miles, who had been suffering from congestive heart failure, died Tuesday night in Austin, publicist Duane Lee said.

“He loved to laugh,” Lee told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. “We spent more time laughing than anything else. He was a great joke teller.”

Miles, who was born in Omaha, Neb., was performing with his father’s jazz-influenced combo by the age 11. He then went on to play for The Delfonics, The Ink Spots and Wilson Pickett, according to his Web site.

He co-founded the band Electric Flag in 1967. He also co-founded the Band of Gypsys with Hendrix and Billy Cox, the Web site said.

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By Andrew McElwee / Pegasus News

Once, if you told Jeffry Dyson of The Blue Shoe Project he’d be staring at a Grammy, his reaction would have been slack-jawed disbelief.

But now, the unbelievable has become reality. The Colleyville-based organization, dedicated to promoting awareness of blues in education, took home the prestigious award Sunday night.

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Their album, Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen - Live in Dallas, was nominated in December for Best Traditional Blues Album. The CD features live music from four of the last original Delta bluesmen: Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Henry James Townsend.

For those riding the coattails of success, a Grammy nomination alone is a guaranteed foot in the door. But to actually win one? There must be a higher power involved.

Founded in 2004 by father-son team Jeffry and Michael Dyson, The Blue Shoe Project started out as a small-time operation. Their first shows took place in Grapevine and the surrounding communities, playing only to handfuls of students.

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This is where Blue Shoe discovered its niche. While other noble ventures to “keep blues alive” have failed, the Dysons’ approach is radically different, yet far reaching: take a century-old genre, and put it in the minds and hearts of students.

To that end, the Project has successfully integrated a series of music programs, geared towards the blues, into school curricula all over North Texas. In support of these educational ventures, the organization has sponsored several sold-out performances in DFW, Austin, Chicago, and other hot spots across the country.

And while many of these played to local crowds, there was nothing local about the talent. Artists headlining Blue Shoe venues included soul legend Al Green, country superstar Hal Ketchum, and smooth jazz extraordinaire Richard Elliot.

But, like any worthwhile endeavor, the Project also weathered its share of hardship. Late in 2006, the organization lost one of its primary sponsors, 107.5 The Oasis, due to an unforeseen format change.

Shortly after, they lost not one, but two featured artists on the live album: Henry “The Mule” Townsend and Robert Lockwood, Jr. Both men were integral to the blues genre, widely credited with laying the foundation for modern American music.

Despite such setbacks, the Dysons’ resolve and the vision for the Project never faltered. Their accomplishments have become a sort of blues legend in their own right, inspiring a new generation of musicians and educators.

And now, it would seem that the critical acclaim surrounding the Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen album represents the culmination of these efforts. Indeed, the proof is in the pudding. Or, in this case, the guitar chords.

Recorded in the historic Majestic Theatre in 2004, the CD features a variation of slide guitar and piano performances the four bluesmen. Cuts include Lockwood’s slide guitar rendition of “King Biscuit Time”, and ex-Muddy Waters member Pinetop Perkins crooning “Kansas City”.

And of course, there’s the unmistakable “Sweet Home Chicago”, performed the way it was meant to be by all four artists.

People sensed this event would be a hit. But no one could have predicted an outcome of this magnitude. Over three years since its recording, Last of the Mississippi Delta Bluesmen - Live in Dallas has won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

If memory serves, a similar phenomenon happened in 1976, when an unknown actor by the name of Sylvester Stallone took home the Academy Award for Best Picture. Like the sleeper hit success of Rocky, The Blue Shoe Project has also attained that million-to-one shot.

Here’s to the underdogs.

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Legendary composer and bandleader Calvin Owens, part of the blues bedrock in Houston, died Thursday morning. He was 78.

The trumpeter died of kidney failure weeks after undergoing a second surgery for liver cancer.

Nationally, Owens was best known for two periods of work as bandleader for blues legend B.B. King, one of which resulted in a Grammy. Locally, he was a major session player at the Peacock Recording Co. during its golden era in the 1950s. Owens was a fixture on Houston stages for 50 years. He also lived and worked in Europe for 12 years.

Nicknamed “the Maestro,” Owens was a restless stylist who didn’t limit himself to one genre.

“He was a visionary,” said country musician Johnny Bush, who worked with Owens on two albums during the past two years. “He saw more in music than just blues or jazz.”

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Owens told Roger Wood, author of the blues book Down in Houston, “Jazz and blues are the same to me. People think of the trumpet as being a jazz instrument, and it is. But it’s blues, too. So even when I do jazz, it’s still the blues. I like to just think of myself as a musician.”

Owens was born on April 23, 1929, and raised in the Fifth Ward by his mother, a New Orleans native who had relocated to Houston.

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“We were extremely poor, in fact we were too poor to live in the housing project, and I mean, that’s really poor,” he told Amy Murdock in Touched by the Blues, an anthology of stories about blues players.

He grew up on Deschaumes Street in the Sawdust Alley area, northeast of downtown around Sumpter. Owens remembered the community fondly, later naming record labels and production companies after Sawdust Alley.

As a kid, Owens shined shoes and worked in a bowling alley. He picked up the trumpet at 13 and studied with the late, beloved music teacher Samuel H. Harris, among others. After graduating Phillis Wheatley High School, he joined a traveling vaudeville show.

Owens was also one of several local stars to make a name at Houston’s Eldorado Ballroom. When he first played at the venue is difficult to pinpoint. He appears in a 1949 archival photograph; in Unsung Heroes, he suggested it was around January 1950.

Established as a premier player in Houston, Owens began working with King in 1953. Though King was born in Mississippi and had moved to Memphis, his roots in Houston were deep. As a young musician in the ’50s he recorded here, and he also signed with a Houston-based booking agency. Owens told Wood of a camaraderie between Memphis and Houston blues musicians who would travel between the two cities picking up regular gigs. It was natural that King would court Houston talent for his band.

By 1957, Owens and King had parted ways. Owens worked different jobs around Houston, including one at a Maxwell House coffee factory. He also fell in with the Peacock Recording Co., where he developed talent and was a session player.

Those who heard Owens at the time suggest he was a fiery player.

“He was always first trumpet, no matter who he played with,” Texas Johnny Brown, a blues guitarist who crossed paths with Owens for years starting in the mid-’40s. “You could say he was very brassy.”

Local blues guitarist Pete Mayes, who played and recorded often with Owens, said he first heard the trumpeter in 1960. At the time, Owens was playing with Otis Turner’s band.

“Let me tell you something about Calvin; Calvin loved to hit the high notes,” Mayes said. “That was what you would call his forté. He’d play them notes above most other trumpet players.”

Owens recorded with dozens of blues players, including T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, Gloria Edwards and Junior Parker. He also worked frequently with jazz artists such as David “Fathead” Newman and Arnett Cobb.

Owens’ second tenure with King was as bandleader as well as soloist, from 1978 to 1984. He was a crucial contributor to King’s Grammy-winning 1983 album Blues ‘n’ Jazz, an apt title for Owens’ decades of music.

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After leaving King’s band, Owens settled in Belgium for more than a decade. Owens returned to Houston in the late ’90s and began to record prolifically as a leader, starting with 1993’s True Blue. As was his way, he continued to make music without regard for genre. He recorded blues and jazz, sometimes country, and occasionally hip-hop. He also worked in Spanish-language music, translating a 1996 recording into Es Tu Booty two years later.

“He was a total inspiration,” said Andy Bradley, chief engineer at Houston’s SugarHill studios, where Owens made more than a dozen recordings. “He was always full of energy whenever he came over here. He was always looking for another great singer, another great tune, another great groove.”

Last year, Owens released La Mujer que Canta Blues, a collaboration between his Blues Orchestra and blues saxophonist Evelyn Rubio. Owens and his ensemble also released Houston Is the Place to Be last year.

Despite his cancer diagnosis, Owens continued to work regularly with his Blues Orchestra. He and his band appeared on Bush’s 2007 album Kashmere Gardens Mud.

“I’d call him Mr. Owens,” Bush said, “and he’d say, ‘Don’t call me that, you’re the same age I am.’ But we had great fun together. His arrangements were great.”

When he heard the record, Willie Nelson decided to make an album of jazz- and blues-based country music with Bush, Owens and singer Ray Price.

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“Generally, jazz and pop musicians don’t have much to do with what I call hillbilly music,” Bush said. “He was the opposite. This album is, more or less, his brainchild. If Willie hadn’t heard the blues things we did in Kashmere Gardens Mud, this album wouldn’t have happened.”

Owens, who was married four times, was single at the time of his death, though two of his former wives were with him at Memorial Hermann Hospice in his last days. He’s also survived by six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Mayes said Owens “was a guy that loved people. And he loved his family.

“And he was one of the most outstanding blues musicians and arrangers of our times. I’m sure he’ll get his due credit after he’s up in heaven. He was a great man.”

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The Colleyville-based Blue Shoe Project’s first blues album has been nominated for a Grammy Award, and the group will celebrate Feb. 8 with a concert in Grapevine headlined by blues legend David “Honeyboy” Edwards.

The album, Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen — Live in Dallas has been nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which will host the Grammy Awards ceremony Feb. 10 in Los Angeles.

The album was recorded live in 2004 and released last February. The album features Edwards, Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, Henry James Townsend and Robert Lockwood, Jr. Townsend and Lockwood have since died. All four are recipients of America’s highest honor for the traditional arts, The National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship Award.

Colleyville residents Jeff Dyson and his son, Mike Dyson, founded the nonprofit Blue Shoe Project in 2004 to educate Americans, especially children, about their musical heritage. Their idea was to bring the music to the classrooms with a focus on blues.

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The concert — at the Palace Arts Center, 300 S. Main St. in Grapevine — will start at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, with complimentary beverages and hors d’oeuvres. The performances will start at 8 p.m. The concert is expected to sell out, because only 435 seats are available.

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Tickets are $25, $45 and $65, depending on the seat. A $100 VIP ticket includes a seat in the front two rows and admission to a backstage pre-performance party with all of the performers.

The concert will start with St. Louis native Marquise Knox, who is 16.

“He’s sort of a child prodigy blues man,” Dyson said. “He will open for Honeyboy.”

Area group Bone Doggie and the Hickory Street Hellraisers will also perform, and they will accompany Honeyboy.

Brett Coleman, who lives in Denton and works at Alliance Regional Newspapers in Southlake, is the leader of the band.

“It’s a great honor, and it’s a little bit scary,” Coleman said. “But it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

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“Even if they aren’t a blues fan, they should come, because it’s a cultural experience,” he said.

See www.BlueShoeProject.org or call 1-800-714-6019 for tickets. People are also welcome to purchase a concert ticket and make it a donation so that more children attend, Dyson said. The album is available for purchase through the Web site, Amazon.com or through download services, such as iTunes.