MISS MARCY THIS THURSDAY ON BIG TEXAS BLUES

Those of you who are regular listeners to Big Texas Blues already know that March is Women's History Month.

In celebration of that, for the entire month I'll be playing all Blueswomen on the show. (For those of you who got your huff up there, how many times have you tuned into a blues show an heard nothing but bluesmen? Huh? And you never even thought about it, right? Thought so. So put on your big boy panties and deal with it.)

In celebration of fabulous females, I've asked a few other local blueswomen to come in and guest on the show. On Thursday, March 22nd, local blues harmonica queen Cheryl Arena will be my special guest from 11 am until Noon presenting a blues history segment on Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

And this week, March 15th, my guest will be the sensational and uninhibited Miss Marcy. What will that be like? Well, here from Marcy's website is her take on it:

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Miss Marcy KNON 89.3 fm - March 13, 2007
Thursday Morning. 9-12 pm. I am the guest DJ for KNON 89.3 fm. This will be a show dedicated to the fabulousness of Woman; her scent, her aura, her passion. I will be playing tunes that will make you want to call all your old girlfriends and confess that you were a fool. Women will want to stop everything they are doing and put on their red lipstick. These are tunes that celebrate a woman’s purpose, to be loved by a man. Whether you are going to work in the morning or just getting home, tune into KNON 89.3 fm. Live on the net www.knon.orgEvery Thursday 9-12pm Blue Lisa brings Dallas/ Ft. Worth the Blues!
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Check her out at www.MissMarcy.com Marcy is a woman's woman, so she's a perfect guest host choice for Women's History Month, but my God how the men lust for her! (Have you seen her lately - she's been working out and looks amazing. And all you boys be warned - she can run faster than she used to. No way you can get away from her now!)

So tune in for all the fun. Pity for you listeners is that no matter how much fun we have or what we say on air, you'll never get to hear the racy off-air talk. Maybe that's just as well. I think Marcy's last restraining order was just throw out. Best not get her right back into another!

FUNDRAISER FOR SOUTHWEST BLUES MAGAZINE

For those of you who do not know, Southwest Blues Magazine is owned, managed, edited, and published by one awe-inspiring woman, Joanna Iz. For 10 years now she has made sure Southwest Blues has kept you in the know with all the blues news you can use.

As you can imagine, it's no small task to keep a magazine coming out month after month. And it's not cheap either. It's free to you, the general public, but there are lots of costs associated with keeping it alive. (Not to mention blood, sweat and tears!)

So this Sunday, March 11, please join me in supporting Southwest Blues Magazine by attending the fundraiser taking place at Poor David's Pub , located at 1313 S. Lamar in Dallas - 214-565-1295. Cover charge is just $15 and gets you in to see an amazing array of blues royalty on stage for this special night - Smokin' Joe Kubeck, Bnois King, Anson Funderburgh, Hash Brown, Wanda King, Chris Ruest and Kirby Kelly.

My educated guess is that the celebrities in the audience will actually out number the ones on stage - all the local musicians love Joanna and SWB and will be out in full force showing their support. I say it all the time, but we have such a fabulous blues scene here in the DFW area, and that it due to a number of things: the plethora of Blueswomen and Bluesmen who make the DFW area their home, KNON's blues programming and Southwest Blues Magazines coverage of the musicians and events. Most of all, you, the Blues loving audience. Without you, there is no need for any of us.

So, if like me, you eagerly await the new issue of Southwest Blues Magazine every month, can't wait to see who made the cover, read the stories and reviews, check out the calendar to see who's playing where, try to master the licks in Jackie Don's monthly guitar column and love the fact that we have such a cool magazine in the local area, join me at Poor David's Pub this Sunday, March 11.

SPECIAL THANKSGIVING BIG TEXAS BLUES RADIO SHOW WITH A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE!!

I'm excited to announce that since I'm always at KNON on Thanksgiving morning (Thanksgiving is always a Thursday), I have decided to do something extra special this year and open the show up to a studio audience!

Your $20 ticket gets you:

A seat in the studio for the live show
A Thanksgiving Continental Breakfast
A copy of the KNON Texas Blues Radio Vol 4 CD
Live Blues in the studio:
9:20 - 9:40 - Dallas's newest Blues Diva, 14 year old Kayla Reeves
10:20 - 10:40 - Andrea Dawson & Jackie Don Loe
11:20 - 11:40 - Cheryl Arena & Aaron Burton

Doors for this special broadcast will open at 8:30 a.m. at the KNON studio located at 5353 Maple (the corner of Maple and Butler). My BIG TEXAS BLUES show will air as usual from 9 am until Noon, with one important difference - YOU can be there live in the studio with me!

And yeah, I'll be doing all that Thanksgiving stuff I do every year, like offering Turkey and Thanksgiving trivia, and help for all your Turkey Emergencies!!

For more info, check out KNON's web site at http://www.knon.org/. For tickets, call 214-237-3003, or get yours from me at any of my gigs.

Because of space limitations, only 50 tickets are available, so get your's today. Matter of fact, at this moment, less than 50 are available, because they began selling the moment we announced this last night on KNON.

What a great way to kick off your holiday season! See the lovely new KNON studio! Help KNON raise much needed funds! Partake in some delicious food! Be treated to awesome Blues by some of Dallas's most talked about Diva's and guitarists! Take home some fabulous CD's!

You'll be sorry if you wait too long on this! When the tickets are gone, they are gone - we can't squeeze another body past 50 in. So don't be a turkey, get your tickets now!!

DIVAWEEN AT NATE'S SEAFOOD

Looking for something really fun to do on Halloween this year?

Join Blue Lisa, Andrea Dawson, Jackie Don Loe, Chuck "Popcorn" Lowden and Jay Dronge for a very special night of blues tricks and treats on Halloween, or as Andrea calls it, "DIVAween" at Nate's Seafood in Addison, Tuesday, October 31 from 7 pm until 11 pm. This is Nate's 18th Annual Halloween Celebration, but I do believe it's his first DIVAween!

It will be THE place to be on Halloween night. Great food, the best blues in town, and a costume contest. (Can't wait to see what Nate himself comes as!) Winners of the costume contest will receive gift certificates from Nate's - 1st Prize - $100.00 gift vertificate, 2nd Prize - $75.00 gift certificate and 3rd Prize $25.00 gift certificate. Now there's a prize worth competing for! That yummy Nate's gumbo. And oh-my-goodness that bread pudding!! Makes me hungry just to think about it!!

You can be sure that all kinds of craziness will be going on. Thank heavens for all our reputations that as Jackie Don says "What happens at Nate's stays at Nate's!"

For directions check out www.natesseafood.com

Be there, Darlings, for a frightfully good time!!

NATE AT THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS

Just a heads up that Chef Nathan Peck, known to blues fans and lovers of fabulous cajun food worldwide as Nate, will be presenting a cooking demonstration as a Celebrity Chef this Saturday afternoon at 2:30 pm in the Creative Arts Building at the Great State Fair of Texas!

Blue Lisa is such a fan of Nate's seafood gumbo, that she has to have it at least once a week, or suffers terrible withdrawl!

Nate is a tireless supporter of Blue Lisa's KNON Big Texs Blues radio show, Blue Lisa & the T-Bonz, and all the blues musicians in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

And you just haven't lived until you've seen him doing the "Nate Boogie."

So take advantage of this rare opportunity to see the master at work. Admission to the cooking demo is free with your paid admission to the State Fair.

For more info about the State Fair of Texas, visit www.BigTex.com.

SOUTHWEST BLUES HERITAGE FOUNDATION FESTIVAL

Blue Lisa & the T-Bonz are honored to be a part of this years Southwest Blues Heritage Foundation Bluesfest in memory of our friend, Sweet Sammy Myers. We are also excited to have with us as our special guest for this show, 17 year old guitarist Jessica Munn!

What: 6TH ANNUAL SOUTHWEST BLUES HERITAGE FOUNDATION BLUESFEST IN MEMORY OF SAM MYERS

When: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2006 Doors open at 1, music starts at 2 pm and goes on until 2 am!

Where: COWBOY SPORTS CAFÉ9454 N. MACARTHUR BLVD.IRVING, TX(972) 506-8088 in Valley Ranch

Who: 2 pm - Joel Foy
3pm - Some guys I really like with a complete jackass on lead guitar
4 pm - Blue Lisa & The T-Bonz w/ Jessica Munn
5 pm - Cheryl Arena & Aaron Burton
6 pm - Ray Reed
7 pm - Holland K.Smith
8 pm - Dennis Cavalier
9 pm - The Browntones
10 pm - Anson Funderburgh
11 pm - Lou Hampton & Jackie Don Loe
Midnight - Andrea D. Blues Band
1 am - Juke Joint Playboys

TICKETS: $15 ADVANCE / $18 DOOR

COME READY TO PARTY ALL NIGHTLONG!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE WILL BE RAFFLES AND A SILENT AUCTION THATINCLUDES A GUITAR SIGNED BY ALL THE MUSICIANS THAT PLAYED AT SAM MYERS’ BENEFIT LAST YEAR AT THE GRANADA THEATRE INCLUDING ANSON FUNDERBURGH, DELBERT MCCLINTON AND JIMMIE VAUGHAN!

FOR INFO CALL: (214) 887-1188 OR (214) 328-4141

EMAIL: SWBHF@sbcglobal.net

www.swbluesheritagefoundation.com

This festival benefits the Southwest Blues HeritageFoundation, Inc., organized by Southwest BluesMagazine. SWBHF is a non-profit 501(c) 3, allvolunteer corporate organization founded in 2001 forthe purpose of supporting and promoting BluesMusicians and Blues Music. The primary goals are to help educate the musicians so they can further their careers; provide financial relief for the musicians and their families; and to preserve, promote and perpetuate Blues Music for the Southwestern Region ofthe U.S.A. All proceeds from this event go directly into a fund established to help the blues musiciansand are tax-deductible.

SUNDAY'S SHOW AT KC'S

Don't say I didn't warn you. If you missed it, get ready to start hearing about it all over the place.

What a great time last night at KC's. Pat Boyack, Red Young and Brian "H-Bomb" Ferguson put on an awesome show, with a number of guests setting in, including myself, Cheryl Arena, Andrea Dawson, Ponty Bone, Hash Brown (popping in to play before heading over for the first night of his brand new jam in North Dallas), and the one and only Mr. Joe Jonas, in MY opinion, the best blues vocalist in this (and probably every other) area. I was honored to get invited up, but damn, did it have to be right after Andrea? She's my friend and I love her, but she's a tough act to follow!

Joanna Iz, publisher of "Southwest Blues Magazine", was in the house, and I saw her taking pictures, so hopefully some of those will end up in the magazine. (The October issue is on the streets. Be sure to check out my reviews of the new Cheryl Arena and Aaron Burton CD "Good Old Wagon", and also a cool new CD, "Lucky 13", from Australian singer/guitarist Fiona Boyes.)

Every week I tell you on BIG TEXAS BLUES to go out and see some live blues and support the scene, and this show was a true example of just that. Much, much thanks to Jeff & Robin Horton, Swag (also known as Mr & Mrs Salty), Jim Weiss, and Chuck Nevitt, all of whom put their money where their mouths were and made the whole thing possible.

Quite the night of funky blues in the super cool juke joint setting of KC's. Wow.