Little Joe, Levee Town to play VFW concert
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By Staff Reports
3/23/2007
Little Joe McLerran and Kansas City blues band Levee Town will play the Veterans of Foreign Wars post No. 577 in a concert Saturday.
The Blues Society of Tulsa show at 1109 E. Sixth Street will start around 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door and $3.50 for Blues Society members.
Guitarist McLerran, backed by his father Rob McLerran on bass, was the local winner of the Blues Challenge competition. That band advanced to the national Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn.
McLerran said he was beaten out of the national contest by a French band which didn't sing in English and sounded more like world music than the blues.
"It was the strangest thing," he said. "There was this girl fom Italy this year, she went to the finals ... everybody was kind of scratching their heads on that one.
"There's always next year ... No matter what it's a good thing, I mean, you get to go down there and meet new people and all that stuff."
While there, the McLerrans met and admired the work of Levee Town, one of the finalists which competed in the challenge representing Kansas City.
Levee Town is a rock and roll blues quartet that features bass player Jacque Garoutte, a native of Miami, Okla.
Later this month, McLerran plans on heading to Colorado to do some recording for a new album, one featuring some solo material, and work with a clarinetist.
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By Staff Reports
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