Bad Boy Blues Tour: Picking Up the Pace, Black Smoke Moan

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Picking Up the Pace, Black Smoke Moan

'Nuff said, eh?? Too cool for school. The Lincoln is running smoother and faster than ever, but failed it's Ontario "clean air" test yesterday. Go figure. Well, I'll just open the hood and keep on pouring in money until it does pass. I'll be busking Toronto's Queen Street today. Maybe I'll take it down to the Crossroads and burn it at the end of the National Steel "Bad Boy" Blues Tour... Be plenty of black smoke comin' off a bourbon stoked fire like that. And it certainly would be bourbon stoked.

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Bad Boy Blues

January 24, 2011

National Steel “Bad Boy Blues" Tour Announced

^6th Annual Blues Event will be 60 Shows

Big Dave McLean and Doc MacLean are pleased to announce their upcoming, National Steel "Bad Boy Blues" Tour. The "bad boys" of Canadian blues are back! It's gonna be big fun all over again! Sixty shows, nine provinces, one territory, coast to coast to coast. Bad Boy Blues will be the 6^th annual outing of the all acoustic, National Steel Blues series.

In contrast to last year's solo presentation, Bad Boy Blues will be the crazy, rollicking romp that is pure Doc and Dave on a cross country tear. Piloting a gargantuan 1994 Lincoln with a speaker on the roof, the Boys will bring a combined 80 years of blues experience, stories, and good humour to the stage. Expect a trail of genuine, white stripe, satin tour jackets to be left across the country. And expect the real deal from two acknowledged masters in their prime.

On their last, 2009 outing, Doc MacLean and Big Dave McLean's National Steel “Century” Blues Tour played 104 back to back shows in nine provinces and two territories. Over ten thousand people took in the live, all Canadian show which encompassed major festivals, theatres, casinos, concert halls, bars, cafés, gas stations and kitchen parties from coast to coast. With sponsorship from music giant Long and McQuade, the Century was the most comprehensive blues tour ever mounted in Canada. Broadcast recordings on CBC’s “Canada Live,” and “Saturday Night Blues” shared the Century Blues experience with an even greater audience.

“It was a giant, crazy tour,” reflects Doc. “but this year’s Bad Boy Blues is the third national tour Big Dave and I have taken on– and it promises to be the most fun of all!"

The 2011 National Steel “Bad Boy” Blues Tour. Featuring Doc MacLean and Big Dave McLean. Bad! September through November 2011. Sixty shows, coast to coast. No venue too big or too small, no place too forsaken. Now booking and accepting expressions of interest from all Canadian territories. Bring The Blues to Your Town. Check the developing Tour Schedule in the Blog Sidebar below.

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Visit Some Previous Tours:

http://darkerwaysbluestour.blogspot.com (2010)

http://centurybluestour.blogspot.com (2009)

http://nationalsteelblues.blogspot.com (2008)

http://bigroadbluestour.blogspot.com (2007)

Hear Stuff, Read Bios:

http://www.sonicbids.com/docmaclean (go on, play Jimmie Lee Jackson’s Blues)

http://www.stonyplainrecords.com/BigDaveMcLean

http://www.docmaclean.com

Contact, Info and Bookings:

Doc MacLean: doc@docmaclean.com

Developing Tour Schedule

Bad Boy Blues Tour Schedule

(version 16/08/11)

Sept 9 Port Alberni, BC

Sept 10 Hornby Isl., BC

Sept 11 Duncan, BC

Sept 14 Saltair, BC

Sept 15 Courtenay, BC

Sept 15 Cumberland, BC

Sept 16 Nanaimo, BC

Sept 17 Victoria, BC

Sept 18 Victoria, BC

Sept 19 Metchosin, BC

Sept 20 Saturna Isl, BC (TBC)

Sept 21 Gabriola Isl, BC

Sept 22 Vancouver, BC

Sept 23 Vancouver, BC

Sept 23 New West, BC

Sept 24 Surrey, BC

Sept 24 White Rock, BC

Sept 25 Spences Bridge, BC

Sept 27 Quesnel, BC (TBA)

Sept 28 Prince George, BC

Sept 29 Williams Lake, BC

Sept 30 Kamloops, BC

Sept 30 Kamloops, BC*

Oct 1 Invermere, BC*

Oct 4 Carstairs, AB

Oct 5 Banff, AB

Oct 6 Lethbridge, AB

Oct 7 Calgary, AB

Oct 8 Calgary, AB

Oct 8 Nanton, AB

Oct 10 Thanksgiving

Oct 11 Edmonton, AB

Oct 11 St. Albert, AB

Oct 12 Wapiti Valley, SK

Oct 13 Yorkton, SK

Oct 14 Wadena, SK

Oct 15 Saskatoon, SK

Oct 16 Pilger, SK

Oct 18 Regina, SK

Oct 19 Regina, SK

Oct 20 Estevan, SK

Oct 21 Brandon, MB

Oct 22 Winnipeg, MB

Oct 23 Winnipeg, MB

Oct 26 Kenora, ON* (TBA)

Oct 27 Wabagoon, ON*

Oct 28 Atikokan, ON*

Oct 29 Pass Lake, ON*

Nov 2 Burlington, ON

Nov 2 Oakville, ON

Nov 3 Picton, ON

Nov 4 Donnacona, QC

Nov 5 Woodstock, NB

Nov 8 Saint John, NB

Nov 8 Saint John, NB (TBA)

Nov 9 Fredericton, NB

Nov 9 Fredericton, NB (TBC)

Nov 10 Hampton, NB

Nov 11 Moncton, NB

Nov 12 Moncton, NB

Nov 12 Charlottetown, PE

Nov 12 Breadalbane, PE

Nov 14 Charlottetown, PE

Nov 15 Truro, NS (TBC)

Nov 16 Halifax, NS

Nov 17 Port Williams, NS

Nov 18 Hubbards, NS*

Nov 19 Halifax, NS*

Nov 23 Woodstock, NB*

Nov 25 Ile Perrot, QC (TBC)

Nov 30 Toronto, ON*

Dec 1 Toronto, ON*

*Doc MacLean solo date.

Dates confirmed or contracts pending. Schedule may change up to and beyond Tour start. All non-confirmed dates are for sale. Make me an offer. Every night must be filled! No venue too big, too small or too homely. Bring the Blues to Your Town! C'mon!

doc@docmaclean.com

Doc and Big Dave

Big Dave McLean is a Stony Plain recording artist who has been at the center of Canadian blues for most of his forty year career. A favourite of fans and critics alike, his extensive list of Juno, Maple, and WCMA awards and nominations is probably longer than his Johnson. He's definitely Muddy's Boy, his own man, and "the Prince of the Prairies."

Doc MacLean. He’s a blues vagabond writing from the dark side of the blues highway. He’s spent the last forty years exploring the road atlas from A to Z— surfacing sometimes on big stages in fancy halls, sometimes streetside trolling for change and a meal. No managers, agents, record companies. No fancy new guitars. He’s a traveller, a collector and teller of songs and stories— a songster in the blues tradition. Blues Revue magazine has called him “the Prince of Darkness.”

Bad Boy Blues Tour