OFFICIAL Home Page of LITTLE JOE MCLERRAN
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America's best loved and longest running blues radio program, Elwood's BluesMobile is hosted by Dan Aykroyd. Each week in the guise of Elwood Blues features the song of the week... Elwood Blues presents his Originally aired February 16-17, 2013 Listen to Elwood's Blues Breaker - Little Joe McLerran "Facebook Blues" |
Facebook Blues review... There are few musicians who have managed to breathe life into the older styles.....Little Joe McLerran is one of them that can...and this CD comes highly recommended! |
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| The recording of the FaceBook Blues CD began in Tulsa, Oklahoma following Little Joe’s triumphant US State Department tour to Paraguay in 2011. Constantly touring, Little Joe carried the project down to New Orleans and then on to Boulder, Colorado enlisting the talents and | energy of the band mates who have traveled with him around the globe.The title song, FaceBook Blues is one of half a dozen originals on the CD, but all thirteen tracks have Little Joe’s signature all over them. [YouTube Video_FaceBook Blues] | |||||
Besides the Festival and the concert schedule we gave workshops and master classes at schools ranging from elementary to college level. One of the most frequent questions asked was, “How do you dance to the blues?” Salsa music is more about the dance than it is a musical style. The local musicians explain and complain that you’re not really playing Salsa unless you have a 13 piece band. Otherwise the dancers complain. As a band leader that’s a lot of mouths to feed...
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- TULSA WORLD -
Tulsa World, Nov 11, 2012 - Tulsa musician Little Joe McLerran's specialty is finger-picking Piedmont-style blues - he's played it as long as he can remember.He and his father, longtime local musician Robbie Mack, started performing together when McLerran was 8 years old. "That was 21 years ago," he said. The blues have been good to McLerran. In recent years, the award-winning musician has visited the Persian Gulf, Paraguay, and most recently, Colombia, South America, in his work with the U.S. State Department's bureau of education and cultural affairs. It all started three years ago, after he and his band performed for the bureau's Rhythm Road project at a concert at Lincoln Center in New York City. "They really liked us, and we were asked to tour the Persian Gulf," McLerran said. "It's grown from there." He's developed an education program he calls "American Roots Soup," which he and his band have taken into sold-out music halls, schools and other venues across the globe. He and his father, longtime local musician Robbie Mack, started performing together when McLerran was 8 years old. "That was 21 years ago," he said. The blues have been good to McLerran. In recent years, the award-winning musician has visited the Persian Gulf, Paraguay, and most recently, Colombia, South America, in his work with the U.S. State Department's bureau of education and cultural affairs. It all started three years ago, after he and his band performed for the bureau's Rhythm Road project at a concert at Lincoln Center in New York City. (more) |
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OCTOBER 2012- The Cali Blues Festival was the anchor gig on this tour. I went down to Columbia with Andre Bohren and Robbie Mack and immediately started talking about the prewar blues. Colombia is the land of Salsa music and Cali is the world headquarters. They’re not exposed much to the natural Blues down there, but they dig it when they hear it. We visited several cities across the country playing concerts and reaching out to the folks explaining the Blues, and the impact Blues has had on all popular music forms from Jazz, Rock & Roll, Country & Western and even Salsa. We always make a few converts. 
Blues in the Southern
Hemisphere Tour (March 26-April 3rd) includingconcerts at the US
Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay - celebrating 200 years of independence. 
