Homemade Jamz
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 4, 2014

Another year of WBF recordings. Recorded from KBOO FM in Portland, OR. A great lineup again this year. I was looking forward to Greg Allman's set, but he had to pull out due to sickness. Oh well, I wouldn't have been able to share him here anyway. Seems to be much more DJ talking this year, interrupting some music. I just left it in rather than trying to edit each show. Feel free to make any changes you wish for personal use.

I may need help with some of the set list's as I don't know all the bands.

Enjoy, twofthrs

FM> H2 Zoom in wave format> Flac w/TLH> torrent (SBE's checked)


How does a seven-year-old kid get the blues? Ryan Perry, now 21, laughs heartily at the notion�like he�s a father himself, maybe even a grandfather, as if fondly recalling his precocious past self. �We haven�t had any bad experiences as a family,� says Perry, who sings and plays guitar in the Homemade Jamz Blues Band (HJBB) with his brother Kyle (19, bass) and sister Taya (15, drums). He understands the irony of a world-weary anklebiter but more importantly he understands the simple, youthful concept of doing what comes naturally.

It all started in Baumholder, Germany when father Renaud Perry returned from military service in Korea. Young Ryan found a Stratocaster copy among dad�s bags and wanted it. A week later, Ryan had composed a short instrumental tune (which he�d play at his school talent show) and was playing along to commercials. When the family relocated to Tupelo, the passion stayed with him. Returning home, Ryan, dove head first into the blues.

Two years later, Ryan was playing live with a drum machine and little brother Kyle, then nine years old, wanted in on the action. After first trying piano and becoming frustrated that he didn�t progress as fast as Ryan, Kyle switched to bass, teaching himself the nuances of the instrument and its role in the blues. Soon he was playing out with his brother, as confident as any wizened old pro and digging his role. �[I] keep the timing and lock down the beat along with the drummer, which allows the lead guitar player to do his own thing while everyone is juking to the beat.�

Eventually proud papa Renaud called Robert Stolle of Clarksdale�s storied Ground Zero Blues Club and insisted on an audition�Ryan, Kyle and an unrelated drummer wowed Stolle enough to get a booking. When that drummer didn�t work out, then-seven-year-old Taya wanted to give it a shot. Already possessing a rhythmic sense from playing tambourine, Taya settled onto the stool and in two months was providing the beat behind Ryan and Kyle.

Soon the cherubic trio was a hot ticket. Ryan�s gruff vocals and visceral, stinging, guitar licks, Kyle�s solid rumble and Taya�s cool stomp have electrified crowds across the country, up and down Memphis�s famed Beale Street and on the festival and blues cruise circuit. The band saturated their local media, appearing numerous times in several local papers and national blues magazines, and on local and national TV�including a feature segment on CBS Sunday Morning when the band played the WC Handy Festival last July. Even B.B. King said in a YouTube video, �In my 82 years, I�ve never seen something musically� so remarkable.�

Set List

01 Buy One Get One Free
02 So Many Tears
03 Unknown
04 Got A Bad Feelin'
05 Unknown
06 Boom, Boom