News - Spotted Dogs Spotted Revised 1/25/2008

Blue Notes: Rear View "Food" Mirror

by Kim DuVall, January 21, 2008

Friday - 1/11/08 - Zigato Bar & Grill - formerly the Blue Room - inside the Clarion Hotel.

We went early to have dinner and check out the new restaurant and food of the new venue. Anyway, we LOVED the food - It was awesome!!! Since it was Friday, the soup of the day was my favorite, clam chowder - Yummy!! Dave ordered the Salmon and I ordered the Meatloaf - my usual test! Well, let me tell you, it met and exceeded my expectations! It was excellent! The meatloaf was stuffed with mushrooms smothered with pepper gravy, and was served with "corn mashed potatoes" (delicious) and asparagus. The salmon was perfect, and came with rice pilaf and asparagus. Everything was wonderful - and we both liked each others as well. Our waitress was very attentive and was sweet enough to suggest that we top the meal off with a order of Banana Foster to share; She said it's the only place in town you can get this desert - available ONLY at Zigato's. This was very good - bananas in amaretto, brown sugar and butter, fine vanilla ice cream, home made light, flaky pastry and drizzled with chocolate - very rich and decedent! It was to die for... (Note: there was enough for four people to share!! And I had leftover dinner for lunch the next day too!)

The band on Friday was Greg Gartrell's "Spotted Dog - Rockin' Blues Revue" - We were delighted to get a copy of the band's new CD - which was recorded live at the Blue Room. Check it out - there is definitely some music worth checking out on this CD!!

Blues @ 2008 Jazz Jubilee

by Willie Brown, Januray 21, 2008

The Sacramento Blues Society has again established a partnership with the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society and will be a part of the 2008 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee being held in Old Sacramento during the Memorial Holiday weekend! The Jubilee folks have given us our own venue - the Laugh's Unlimited on Front Street in Old Town. The blues performers will include Johnny "Guitar" Knox with Dave Croall and the Soothers, The Jimmy Pailer Band, Leo Boots & Southside Shuffle, Marshal Wilkerson & Smoked Sugar, Two- Tone Steiny & The Cadillacs, The Steve Foster Band, The Jeff Watson Band, Equinox Blues Review, The Spotted Dog - Rockin' Blues Revue, Black Cat Bone and The Linda Bracamonte Band!

Blue Notes: Rear View Mirror

By: Deborah Gregory, January 3, 2007

I love a blues jam and Sacramento has one of the best venues for musicians in Northern California. The Stoney Inn (1320 Del Paso Blvd.) sponsors a Wednesday night blues jam hosted by Greg Gartrell and the Bluenatics, with Don Gates and Richard "the Wolf" Henson. Their blues jam has been running strong for five years now. Greg tries to run his jam as fair as possible, everyone is welcome, so come out and sit in. I rarely miss a Wednesday these days. You just never know who might show up and what magic may occur because of it. Last week we were entertained by Derrick Washington, Sax, Rick Van Gelden, Guitar, Jonny Lopez, Guitar, Bobby Ray Wright, Guitar, Steve Knobles, Bass Guitar, John Woods, and Henry on congas, just to name a few. We had John and Pinkie from the Morningwood Blues Band, David Zieher and Jimbo Callaghan from the Spotted Dog Rockin' Blues Revue, Dave Baldwin, host of the Monday open mike at the Fox and Goose , Greg Saunders from Wheatland on drums, Danny Sadler on everything, John Newby on drums, Stevenson Profit on his screaming guitar, Alan Hunter on drums, Dave Segal on guitar, Ready Eddie from Thunder Valley on drums, Peter Jacobs on guitar, Chris Erby from the Blues Express on bass, and the vivacious Carrie Lee sang her signature tune, Crossroads for us. Even Boze Brannon and Chris Ferrer were sighted. Da joint was rockin' way past midnight. Apologies to all for misspelled names. It also happened to be Pinkie’s Birthday. If you have not heard of "Pinkie" do yourself a favor and listen to Lost In The Shuffle, her latest CD and a preface to the Morningwood Blues Band. When she sang with Marshall Wilkerson, they brought the house down! If you like to play, sing, listen or dance, do yourself a favor and come on out. I even got to sing!

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