BLUTO

Bluto Newsletter for April 2021 !
Welcome new fans & Hi to the rest of you. My last note was to call out the friends of BLUTO that have gone to the problem of SHARING & re-posting our stuff to their friends. This has been
a devastating year for the live music industry. Not a problem for me as this band doesn’t exist live any more. I’m mining the video archives for songs to post for your enjoyment. I own the rights to the songs done on solo 4-track as they were published on the MP3 platform for sale. All others are old Blues tunes , or covers of 60's & 70's music that we enjoyed. Feel free to save via download with the little down arrow below a tune.
Get out of the house if possible and go see some local bands in your country. They need all the help we can give them. Support Live Local Music. I pay for N1M to host our music for the fun of getting fan mail etc. So pay it forward locally for me to help out someone less fortunate . THANK YOU for your time & enjoying a C+ group at best. JOHN
Pic is Bugs & Freddie that I jammed with at different times .

A special Thanks to the Best Friends of BLUTO : NIGHT TRAIN , Bessie from Whitehorse , Mai - Las Vegas , Claudia - Brisbane , Gideskog Music - Sweden , MAB in Torino ,Clausio Diniz - Brazil , Robert Watson - Ohio , Mike - Sydney , Hattaman - Ontario , Ro’s Muppet Band - France , Chick Marshall Greenvillle NC , John Fabian -Muskogee BLUES , Crimsonbluesnu - Missouri , Valynda in Milwaukee , James - Ft Lauderdale , ARRON in London , Dan in Kettering , Carmella in Gresham , Agnes in Regina , JO in Indianapolis , Irma in Grand Rapids , Rock Modo in Calgary , Bo Sar in Switzerland , Slim B Tha General in Little Rock , Ayla in Indianapolis * , Linda BW in Leeds , Leslie in Burwood , Eugenio in link. , Brian Derek in Ft Wayne , Tabitha in Cleveland , Megan in Huntly UK , Mattie in Columbus , Tanya in Chicago , Jordana in NYC , Jakie in NYC , Jon in Halifax , Shawn in Austin , Jane in New Orleans , * HELEN Isle of Arran * , Gina in Brossard , Audry in Carlsbad , Hilda in Memphis , * Bernice in Sydney * , Glenda in Phoenix , Stella in San Diego , Nicholas in Kanta , EM in Sandbach UK , Mollie on Morell PE island , *WILL in Largs UK* , MINNIE in Chicago , Mui in Aukland , * Hung in Chicago * , Matt in Rochdale UK , Cortney in San Antonio , Jennie in Seattle , * Everette in Salford UK , Bianka in Cleveland , Bronze Sambe in Yokohama , Genaro in Oxford UK , John in Hartpool UK , Albina in Pictou , Muonbluze in London , UTE in San Antonio , Roberta in Brooklyn , Erik-Peter Mortensen NYC , Luigi Bozanini in Verona , Alison in Houston , Dora in Austin , Gregory in Bedeque , Coleen in Patrica , * Hershel in Loundon* , MAXINE in Charlotte NC , Jessie in Montreal , Bo Blue and Power Ohm in Fla.
And to the other 1650+ newsletter people . The named people have shared a no name band with their public and friends and the fanmail and notes make it all worthwhile . We remain FREE to SAVE & DOWNLOAD etc. N1M tries hard to get me to Spotify , Amazon $$$ etc. No this is my own 4 track solo stuff , The Howard Brothers & BLUTO jamming on different moods etc or it’s a total BS cover of a real tune that we don’t have the rights to profit from . Please continue to enjoy this OLD catalog of music . I have a dozen songs that I haven’t located to post but will keep looking . Peace & Love to you friends of BLUTO. JOHN

John posting as BLUTO : Wow that was a heck of a non year. I'm 68 now and shocked with the state of the world in general. I'm too old school to look forward to the probable changes that loom on the horizon. I hope you all enjoy old time Rock n Roll and Blues or covers of 1969 - 1979 ish because that's all we have to offer. This is an archive page of a group that had a fun time locally making music. I have a load of videos of gigs that I'm stripping audio from for your enjoyment. Please share for our sake , NO $ is coming in on this page. DOWNLOAD any song you like and share it. Love to you all , have a great next year if possible and help others when you can I beg you for my payment for this page. you are in the TOP % of the world's population . PEACE John

Johnny Winters Summer 1967

My freshman year in High School was in Dallas Tx. I played for the talent show and met a few more musical kids in school from that day. Two brothers ,their friend & I formed a little band and only played “out” 5 nights. The friend knew the Mgr. at the Family Circle Club in town. It was a Big converted warehouse near downtown with a bar at each end. He laughed & said sure we could come play a late afternoon set the next Thursday / Friday from 6-7:30 . The real music started more like 9. We were there for the beer crowd to hear .
The first night was crazy fun playing on a REAL raised up stage with lights and a GOOD sound system.
Played mostly top 40 soul R&B and the few BLUES tunes I knew from my big brother . We played every song we had 2 1/2 times for sure. A local band was there setting up on the other end while we finished up, so we left to do homework etc. ( a Thursday school night).
Friday night we were pumped knowing the stage , rehearsed live the night before , FRIDAY night etc. We tied a couple of extra songs that we almost knew early . After 45 min. a band came in to the other end with drums and cases etc. Long white hair , skinny as heck and talking fast to the other two dudes. We launched into Big Boss Man by Jimmy Reed and I was doing my best to impress while they were just getting inside. ( you only get 1 first impression ) . They stopped and came down to our end to hear the rest of the song. They looked like a REAL BAND .
Johnny , Uncle John Turner & Tommy Shannon . We got their attention and didn’t know any more licks than I played in the first 40 seconds. After I’m A Soul Man , Heard it through the Grapevine etc 10 long minutes we quit to run out the door.
But , Johnny came over and was amused and surprised at another little white kid playing the Blues . He said hang out and do a fast tune with him when they started. Wow , I was excited , surprised , scared , etc etc. I squeaked out YES and ran to a pay phone to call home & explain my late timing happening and why .
They set up and Johnny plugged me into an amp . He was like a lightning fast BLUE guitar god from the Crossroads of the South. I was shocked with his 160 bpm BLUES with or without a slide. I played the rhythm that wouldn’t get me noticed up there till he nodded to me. CRAP now what ? I launched into every blues lick , turn around , effect etc I could think of much to the bands amusement . After the song an approving nod from the group and I headed for the floor level with cord in tow. Watched their first set and was so overwhelmingly blown away I was like in shock .He had forgotten more licks than I would ever know WOW , WOW didn’t know whether to quit or buckle down & start the long journey with an link an afternoon job at a downtown music store and met lots of the local musicians needing strings , picks , records etc. A big dude bass played noticed me at work and took me the next day out to Oak Cliff to jam with a guy from the band STORM . Jimmy Vaughn

Rolling Stone ranked him the #15 greatest guitarist of all time. His sharp treble tone, hooky melodic licks and innovative fingerpicking style—using metal banjo picks on electric guitar—were a profound influence on such British guitar gods as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. And his live performances were so incendiary, so unstoppable—and his build so imposing—that he was nicknamed “The Texas Cannonball.”

Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Hideaway
Key To The Highway
I'm Tore Down
The Stumble
Further On Up The Road
Big Leg Woman
The Sky Is Crying
Stormy Monday
Going Down .....

These are the songs I’m used to FREDDIE KING playing.
By strange coincidence I ran a light show with a friend at
The End Of Cole Ave. club for 2 nights in a row back in north Dallas.
The 2nd night THE Freddie King showed up for his gig. The club had no dance floor,
just standing room only with a pile of pillows for the front people to sit on . At midnight
everyone was kicked out and I came running down from the tiny projection loft booth and planted myself in front of the stage. After a few minutes they stopped & Freddie asked what I wanted to hear. I said “ I’ve got my guitar in the car.” HE stopped and waved his arm at the band & said “ White Boy’s got his guitar!” Go get it !
I ran out to my trunk and brought in an electric guitar. I’m primarily a BLUES player and
getting ready to jam with THE MAN that wrote lots of the tunes Clapton , Beck , Page etc made into British Blues. CAN’T WAIT. *** But , this is the week that Johnny Rivers new album Realization came out & his song Summer Rain is all over the radio.
Freddie shows me the rhythm part of the song while he noodles out the lead/melody
on his guitar. NO BLUES just Summer Rain for 15+ minutes before the band started to give him a hard time to go.
You don’t tell a guitar GOD no. You roll with it and enjoy....
This was one incredible moment in my musical history .... Next month JOHNNY WINTERS