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Contact, Label,Tour Direction:
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go to:www.myspace.com/blueplatespecialband ALL MIDWEST APPEARANCES BY BLUE PLATE SPECIAL ARE ANNOUNCED ON THE LISTINGS PAGE AT: www.illinoisblues.com The most popular site for venue attending Blues Fans in the Tri-State area ! WHAT DOES BLUE PLATE SPECIAL
BRING TO THE TABLE ?
Whether it's a Concert Performance, a full night Club Date,
or some time alone with your favorite Blues Radio Stations;
Blue Plate Special provides the Best in Original Contemporary Blues Entertainment available anywhere !! Come on along and join the list of venue's who provide their clientele with
the strongest entertainment available !
Chicago BluesFest 2010 and 2009, Beloit Folk and Blues Fest- Wi. 2009; Marengo Blues & BBQ Fest- IL. 2009; Big Brew Fest- Stevensville Mi. 2009; Midnight Madness Iowa Marathon 2009 and 2008; Renaissance Center- Joliet IL.; Hilton Lakes Resort- IL.; VOODOO Lounge @ Chuck's Southern Comforts Cafe, Burbank ; The Green Olive - Hegewisch,IL.; The Blarney Stone Pub, Chicago; Jake Melnicks Corner Tap, Chicago; Fontana Blu, West Chicago,IL.; The Gasthaus, Elgin, IL.; Catchers Inn- Chicago, IL; Double Tree Convention Center, Downers Grove IL.; Worldwide Blues Radio:    Blue Plate Special has had 24 songs hit the #1 chart position on Blues Radio stations
around the world in the last seven years!!
These songs are all from their 3 most recent released CD's.
Who's writing the new Blues favorites?
Blue Plate Special is one answer to that question!!!
Live Performance:
Energetic- Electric Blues that begs you to react!! Thrilled audiences, moving and shouting along with the songs from the longstanding , independent voice of the Chicago Blues scene. Blue Plate Special asks it's audiences every night-
"CAN YOU DIG IT !"
and they respond with a resounding "HELL YES !!".
R.P. Michaels gives a wink and shouts back
"I knew that you could !".
From the first stinging guitar riffs and fat backbeat ,
you know your gonna be entertained
by a Band with it's feet firmly planted in the power of The Blues !
Then they're off and runnin' with "I Like It Like That"
or "Working On Love" and you find yourself saying
"wait, this is new to me - but my body is grooving !"
The Rockin' Blues is happenin' and you can't keep still !!
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Band History:
Although some artists like to hang the name Chicago on their billing, this group truly has played almost every major and minor club throughout Chicagoland. Blue Plate Special, formed in1969 by R.P. Michaels, was there at The Cellar in Arlington Heights, Illinois in '69-'72 opening for Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues Allstars, Zephyr w/Tommy Bolin on guitar and The Bob Seger System. They were among the artists that played at the Otis Spann Memorial Benefit where Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy introduced the Blues community to Koko Taylor singing Wang Dang Doodle. They were one of the first bands to lead the famous Blue Monday Jam session at Chicago's Kingston Mines (with Studebaker John on the harp). Blue Plate Special was the House band at John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's Blues Bros. Bar on Wells St. They have entertained at the Chicago Bears Fan Convention and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Convention and Sears Corporate shows. Over the years, Blue Plate Special has shared the stage with Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Siegal-Schwall Blues Band, Heartsfield, Leon Russell, Edgar Winter, Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Mitch Ryder, The Kinsey Report, Larry McCray, Wayne Baker Brooks and Janiva Magness. Our new album "Can You Dig It" was released to Radio in 2006/07 and since then
all 14 songs have been on the air worldwide. During the months of March and April, 2006 the songs "I Like It Like That", "Hard Enuff" and "Feel So Good" went #1 on ElectricBlues Radio 56 & 16. The songs"Yer' Bad Behind" and "Workin' on Love" "Hard Enuff" and "Luck Runs Out" went to #1 on Midnight Special Blues Radio, France. At this printing FIVE songs from our previous CD "The Blues Ain't Pretty" have also gained #1 slots (Tell the Truth, Not In The Mood, Knock Knock, Get Some Fun Out Of Life and The Phone Call). 8 other songs from the album "Can You Dig It !" are in other various Top 20 ratings. Thank you to all the Blues fans worldwide that voted Blue Plate Special up the charts. Blue Plate Special's first album on Prime Records "No Place To Fade" is now also gaining renewed interest and the songs "Stand", "Homework" and "Dippin' In" have gone #1 in 2007. Photos This page by: Natalie Swain In response to the worldwide radio appeal of "Can You Dig It!",
we feel now is the time to reach out beyond our Chicago roots.
The Blues Radio listeners and Blues Festival attendees are one and the same.
The current hit songs, powerful sounds and all-around good vibe of Blue Plate Special
makes them a great addition to your Blues Festival;
an honest homage to the past mixed with the new blood of the present
and the determination to Bring The Blues into the Future!
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 Recent Accomplishments:
Blue Plate Special performed outrageously exciting concerts in 2009 at Beloit Folk and Blues Festival, the Iowa Midnight Madness Marathon Fest, Chicago's Blues Fest (on the Maxwell St. Stage w/ Tommy Too Tuff and Tom Holland of James Cotton's Band), The Greater Michigan Brewfest, as well as the Be-All Midwest Convention and The Associated Mail and Parcel Carriers Worldwide Convention !! Also our "Can You Dig It " Album was in the TOP 10 for Blues Album of the Year for 2009!!  During the month of April/07 We were featured on a Radio Contest
on the "Rewind Show w/ Jimmy Jay" "The Hits You Grew Up With!!!" This is a worldwide syndicated radio programme. go to www.rewindshow.com Blue Plate Special was featured in a 10 page cover story for "Blues Rocks the World" magazine in 2008. We were featured in the Premier Issue of Alternative World Fanzine /April Issue. Two Page Interview with Blue Plate Special by Peter Quinones/ Editor. We are on Pages 23 and 24 !!!!! This Magazine is also available in hardcopy on East and West coasts of USA. "Can You Dig It" Placed in "The Top Ten Albums of 2006" by the Oklahoma Gazette /C.G. Niebank THREE #1 HITS ON ELECTRICBLUES RADIO IN 2006 I Like It Like That, Hard Enuff and Feel So Good / from "Can You Dig It !" |
