About the Show
Voodoo Kittens
The Voodoo Kittens offer a special breed of afternoon blues entertainment. We start with the old masters and end up with contemporary blues. Along the way, the Kittens keep it real by throwing in musical styles which are offshoots of blues or were heavily influenced by and/or blended with blues to produce new sounds: rockabilly, R&B, early soul, country, jazz, zydeco, Cajun, swamp pop, and anything else that might temporarily sway our feline senses.
Stray Cat reviews the story of how the blues came to Britain in the 20th century and how the music was transformed and brought back to America in the ’60s.
American blues became known in Britain from the 1930s onwards through a number of routes, including records brought to Britain, particularly by African-American GIs stationed there in the Second World War and Cold War, merchant seamen visiting ports such as London and Liverpool Blues music was relatively well known to British Jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie Woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.
While some bands focused on blues artists, particularly those of Chicago electric
blues, others adopted a wider interest in rhythm and blues, including the work
of Chess Records’ blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, but also
rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
We visit these artists and the bands they inspired on the June 24th edition of the Voodoo Kittens. Join us!!
