Welcome to Ray's Blues page!
My name is Ray Roth and I have written, directed and produced a documentary entitled "I Got The Blues... The Canadian Blues" about several Canadian (and some non - Canadian) Blues musicians and their music.
This is an introductory half-hour documentary for the general public.
It explains the origins of Blues music, a musical definition of the Blues and how it evolved from Africa to the Southern USA and then North in Canada.
Is there a Canadian Blues musical style? This video showcases some well known Blues musicians discussing their take of the Canadian Blues scene. Look under Bryan Lee for one perspective.
This documentary had its premiere on CFCF-12 (a Montreal TV station that covers most of Quebec) on Thursday, September 11, 1997 at 7:30 pm.
Here is a list of the blues musicians and blues bands, if applicable, that show up in this documentary (in order of appearance):
[Click on a name and you'll see a photo of that musician and some background information or a part of an interview or you'll be taken to an other site, on a different server, about that person.]
Jitterbug Swing,
Randy Renaud,
Rita Chiarelli,
Jerry Dugger,
Rick Weston,
Bob Walsh,
Otis Grand ,
Harmonica Zeke,
Michael Nerenberg,
Bryan Lee,
Steve Hill,
Mike Goudreau of Boppin'Blues Band,
Todd Littlefield (manager/promoter with Diesel
Management),
Stephen Barry of the Stephen Barry Band,
Morgan Davies,
Dutch Mason,
Lou Simon,
Rick Fines' official home page ,
Andy Forest,
And Blues musicians I have met and appreciated:
Jimmy
James,
Suzy Vinnick and
* Karl Kelly.
And of course the obligatory BLUES links page:
This documentary was a labor of love ;).
Should you wish to buy a copy - in any format, please contact me at RayRoth @ hotmail.com
All musicians (and music publishers) receive mechanical royalties on sales.
My day job is Producer / Production Manager on movies, TV series, web-mercials.
E mail me if you have any
questions about producing or shooting in Quebec or Ontario. (I am a Directors' Guild of
Canada national member.)
If you want to comment or submit any info, please e- mail me at RayRoth @ hotmail.com.
If you want to link to this site please use http://www.canadianblues.info
Thanks for dropping by and may you have a wondeful day.
If you want to help translate any page in French please do so and e-mail me the result and I'll post it. Please make sure to include your full name so I can credit you.
All text and images found on this server (not including the respective copyright owners and the links to other sites or images of CD/DVD covers) are copyrighted (c) 1994 - 2010 R. Ray Roth. You may use some text or images for "any media" review purposes only. You may not use any part of this site for the explicit or implied purpose of commercial gain of any kind without the written permission of the respective copyright owners .