Out of print - Reprint ONLY available with complete back issue set!. or PDF, link above) Blue Suede News #45 (Winter '98/'99) has 68 pages with a slick cover. It features an extensive article about '60s Northwest super instrumental group the Ventures ­ masters on their Fender (and later Mosrite) guitars with lots of hits. There is also a story about '50s Texas Rockabilly artists Gene Summers and Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell and Groovey Joe Poovey. Current west coast roots music band Russell Scott & The Red Hots is featured and there is a review about a show blues giant Jimmie Vaughan gave at the Pier in Seattle. Wayne Hancock, the Hillbilly top cat is interviewed. Also included is an article about the Greaseball in San Francisco and an excellent blues photo layout from the Lifetime achievement awards and 1998 Blues hall of fame induction at the house of Blues in Los Angeles by renown blues photographer Jef Jaisun, featuring Ruth Brown, Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. This issue can also be ordered in pdf form (along with any issue #35 - #116 - #35 thru #56 are $7.50, order below) and e-mailed anywhere in the world for the same price! E-mail to inquire for that price (about half what it costs us to print and ship a reprint copy in the U.S.).

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