EVENT: RockTheBlues.com & Hard Rock Seattle Present Rock N’ Blues WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe, Seattle BENEFIT: Seattle Musician Norm Bellas and Friend Steve Randel WHEN: Sunday July 11, 2010 TIME: Doors 5:00 PM / Show 6:00-11:30pm TICKETS: $10.00 Advance / $15.00 Door Click Here to Buy Tickets For more information please visit: www.rocktheblues.com RockTheBlues.com & Hard Rock Seattle Present the Rock [...]

“Ricky Nelson Still Remembered” Concert /Film Review by KK Ryder Picture sitting in the audience where a screen comes down and you feel like you are part of an amazing time warp of rock and roll through the years of 1952-1966 nostalgia style, you are watching clips of The ADVENTURES OF [...]

Rail and the Angela Hammontree Band at the Oddfellow’s Grill in Redmond, Washington April 10th, 2010 By Gary Draper RockTheBlues.com Wow! What a night. I walked into the Oddfellow’s Grill in Redmond, Washington last Saturday night around 9:15 pm and I could almost feel the energy in the air. It was a full room and you could tell [...]

Randy Hansen / Soulstice concert at Club Broadway by Gary Draper RockTheBlues.com Lee Ann Davis (photo by Gary Draper)       Soulstice (photo by Gary Draper) Saturday March 13th, 2010 at Club Broadway in Everett, Washington was the location of a concert myself and many others will not soon forget. Teri Beede told me last summer, “Gary, you’ve got to see [...]

Start Time: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 9:00pm End Time: Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1:00am Location: HARD ROCK Seattle, WA USA Street: 116 Pike Street City/Town: Seattle, WA Description BORN TO BE WILD BIRTHDAY PARTY AND CONCERT SEATTLE HARD ROCK CAFE On March 1, 2010 Steppenwolf INC entered into a licensing agreement with Goldy McJohn and Glen Bui. This is the first time in the history of [...]

Pictured from left to right, Evan Sheeley, Scott Vogel, Dudley Taft Big, fat and loud are descriptives that got slapped around on the début album of Seattle’s rock and blues singer/songwriter Dudley Taft; pretty, soft and conservatively wired listeners need not apply. “Left For Dead” is stacked with the Texan overtones of ZZ [...]

RockTheBlues.com and The Motor Club Present… Valentine’s Rock & Roll Showcase Saturday February 13th, 2010 featuring, T h e  A u r y  M o o r e  B a n d with special guests… Soul Solarium Heartless Somar and with the very special guest… Randy Hansen - Live and Unplugged We’ll be video taping the whole show Randy goes on at 9pm SHARP AND we’re having a 1 hour ALL-STAR [...]

The story below was written by someone very close to me and I’d like to see it shared with others.  I feel it has a very insightful and compelling message. I hope you agree. Gary Draper, president RockTheBlues.com On the 3rd of July of this year I was stopped at a red light in Seattle when someone slammed in to [...]

The third Sunday of the month is “Jazz at the Library” at the Anacortes Public Library. Last month’s artist was Washington Blues Society member Mia Vermillion, who is celebrating her newest self-produced blues CD, Alone Together with the Blues. Local libraries like the ones in Anacortes and Kirkland are onto something. Last year, Kirkland’s library hosted a set featuring Son Jack, [...]

Some kids just don’t fit in. They are transparent; a drab wallpaper covering the sheetrock of their adolescent society. Attempts at conversation are pointless with other kids that smile and turn away. Teenage society is ruthless. Games are played and jokes are conjured up with these kids as the butt. It’s not much fun being a teen in school [...]