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Butler & 13 jump at Chesterfield Cafe Madrid

Inside Lester Butler’s final 1997 residency at the Chesterfield Cafe chain, this time in Madrid.

13’s day off at North Sea, February 1998

Eddie Clark provided these photos of an off day on the North Sea from 13’s second to last tour of the Netherlands and Belgium in February 1998.

Lester Butler relaxes at Moscow’s Chesterfield Cafe, 1997

A look at Lester Butler’s 1997 residency at the Chesterfield Cafe in Moscow.

Timeline: 13 new dates, including 1 accident

Eddie Clark’s 1998 datebook adds more gigs to the 13 timeline — plus one crash.

Pics: 13 at Rhythm Room in Phoenix 1998

Thanks to photographer David Horwitz in Tucson, we have these great images of 13 from the Rhythm Room in Phoenix from April 4, 1998.

Alex Schultz burns on ‘Devil Woman’ live video

Rare live video of 13 featuring Lester Butler performing “Devil Woman” in 1997, with an incinerating solo by Alex Schultz.

13’s brilliance at Boogie Town

“The night before at Boogietown Festival in Belgium- THAT was a gig!” Alex Schultz said of this 13 show on May 1, 1998. What do you think?

1997 Tamines bootleg given mainstream release

Lester Butler is back — sort of — on the above-board release of the long-bootlegged Tamines show from Aug. 29, 1997, at the 7th South Blues Festival in Belgium. The two-disc set “Lester Butler featuring 13 Live at Tamines 1997” comes from RockBeat Records, the same folks who reissued “13 featuring Lester Butler” more than fourContinue reading “1997 Tamines bootleg given mainstream release”

Lester Butler memorials 1998

Not long after Lester Butler died in May 1998, I received a package from Enrico Crivellaro, who was Butler’s touring guitarist in 13 in 1997. We had kept in touch after meeting in Kentucky and Indiana, and now he had sent along a memorial flier for Butler, along with a prayer card and short biographyContinue reading “Lester Butler memorials 1998”

Blue Shadows gigs 1989-90

We are catching up with several Blue Shadows dates for the timeline section. We start with several great clippings from the Eddie Clark collection, snapshots of the late-’80s/early-’90s California blues scene. Included are an ad for the first blues hall of fame festival and a postcard for blues night at Spice, both organized by RandyContinue reading “Blue Shadows gigs 1989-90”