The Carlos Club (also known as "The Rail Sports Bar & Lounge") is located in downtown San Carlos and is turning out to be an exciting new blues venue for music lovers in the South Bay.  They have a fire place, great drinks, and lots of cool vibes. Come check out this new venue for blues.

Visit the Rail Sports Bar & Lounge website here. 

A fave place in Minneapolis to see consistently good free (no cover) music. Decent beer selection that is reasonably priced. And food. It's just a good neighborhood hang with great music every night of the week. Plus, an amazing happy hour!

Visit the 331 Club website here. 

The Lucky Losers with Phil Berkowitz & Cathy Lemons plus our touring band will begin their Summer Tour No. 2 at this bar and restaurant in Anacortes, Washington!

Visit the Rockfish Grill & Anacortes Brewery website here. 

The Lucky Losers, Cathy Lemons & Phil Berkowitz,with Chris Burns, Marvine Greene, and Robi Beane, will return to Fremont's best BBQ and blues joint. Great bands play at this venue all the time! Check it out!

Visit the Smoking Pig Barbecue website here. 

The Lucky Losers do their thing in the "Beatnik Jungle!"  Built in 1864, The Saloon is a famous blues bar and home to some real greats in the genre. 

Visit the official Saloon website here. 

The Lucky Losers, featuring Cathy Lemons and Phil Berkowitz, play at The Saloon in San Francisco, CA every second Thursday every month. Other band members include Marvin Greene, Steve Evans, Chris Burns, and Robi Bean.

The Saloon is the oldest bar in San Francisco (established 1861) and boasts the best of the blues in the Bay Area, not only in terms of the incredibly good music with exuberant crowds of a mid-week evening, but because of the impressive array of albums recorded on the premises and released by proprietor Myron Mu. The days of catching Tommy Castro at The Saloon are now at Christmas time under "TC Rider," but Ron Hacker, Steve Freund,  Daniel Castro, Cathy Lemons, Wendy Dewitt, and many others are on the regular roster. Cathy Lemons has been playing at The Saloon steadily since 1987.

During the 1800s, so the legends go, drunks who stumbled out of this tavern risked being shanghaied for nasty and ill-paid ocean voyages. The building survived the 1806 earthquake, it's said, because of its unusually stout timbers and because of the fact that it was once a brothel and the firefighters ran to save the ladies of the night from flames. Today the doorman/bouncer Greg scares the hell out of would-be troublemakers but is actually one of the sweetest characters you'll ever meet. 

Visit the official Saloon website here. 

Shaw's Bar & Grill is the perfect North East neighborhood dive bar with a welcoming group of regulars. The Minneapolis Blues Society sponsores blues jams weekly. And like most bars in the area, you don't have to worry about a dress code. Drinks are kept at a low price, even if it isn't happy hour, which it almost always is. 

Shaw's Bar also offers arcade games, golden tee, and darts, as well as a large, fenced-in patio. Music is always a mix of classic rock, blues, or indie rock and the crowd is as varied as you can get. Shaw's is also a "sports bar," so you can expect to watch the game on one of the 9 Big-Screen T.V.'s.

Visit the Shaw's Bar and Grill Facebook page here.

B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ is owned by Lindsay and Jo Shannon, a husband and wife team, and they have been featuring live blues music, Thursday through Sunday since 1992. They also host several special events that are held each year, including the Sherwood Center Benefit, The Acoustic Blues Showcase, a benefit for the Kansas City Blues Society, as well as the Hope House benefit which helps abused women.

Lindsay’s credentials are impressive: he is the founding member of the Kansas City Blues Society, a blues radio DJ, and a booking agent for the blues stage at Kansas City’s Spirit Festival. Lindsay’s successful radio show on KCFX, 101FM, The Fox,  “The Kansas City Blues Show,” earned him the Blues Foundation’s coveted “Keeping the Blues Alive” award for blues in commercial radio in 1992.  

When he was a boy, the Kansas City Blues, a farm team of the New York Yankees, played ball at a stadium close to all the barbecue places in the 18th and Vine district, and eating barbecue became part of the ritual. In the ’50s and early ’60s the opportunity to hear blues and jazz music came from AM radio stations including KPRS in Kansas City, and a Little Rock, Arkansas radio station that featured all the blues greats of the time. When Lindsay was in college he got his own smoking pit and began to develop barbecue recipes while listening to the blues.

When you come to Kansas City, be sure to stop by this friendly, family place. It’s easy to get there. As Lindsay says, “To find it, turn right on 85th, then go south about 60 years.”

Visit the B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ website here. 

The 700 South Broadway building which houses BB's was known as Phil's Hotel as late as 1969, and has a colorful past. Since its original construction in the mid 1800's, in an area then known as "Frenchtown" with a further 3 story addition at the turn of the century, the location has been used as a home, boarding house, reception hall, mercantile, millinery, transient hotel, bar, diner, and a "house of ill repute" with 37 rooms between its 2nd and 3rd floors.

A new company that's been around for a long time, they enthusiastically support St. Louis music and St. Louis culture.

Visit the BB's Jazz, Blues, and Soups website here.