Blue Empress Music Group

Chef Steve's Guide to the Crawdad After-Life

Cooking is great therapy for me - cheaper and more reliable than a psychiatrist!

Cooking is great therapy for me - cheaper and more reliable than a psychiatrist!

Being a spiritual man, I thought I'd have a brief prayer with the leader of the crawdads about entering the after-life, before they all went in the wok.  He wasn't real receptive

Being a spiritual man, I thought I'd have a brief prayer with the leader of the crawdads about entering the after-life, before they all went in the wok.  He wasn't real receptive

Crawdad purgatory!!

Crawdad purgatory!!

The Final Judgment - wow, did they taste good !!!

The Final Judgment - wow, did they taste good !!!

On Tour With Blue Empress Artists

The gentleman James Cotton wishing me his very best

The gentleman James Cotton wishing me his very best

Backstage at Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival with Watermelon Slim bassist, Cliff Belcher, Lurry Bell, The Preacher, Hubert Sumlin, and Fiona Boyes

Backstage at Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival with Watermelon Slim bassist, Cliff Belcher, Lurry Bell, The Preacher, Hubert Sumlin, and Fiona Boyes

Not only is he a guitarist without equal, but Hubert Sumlin has to be one of the finest human beings on the planet

Not only is he a guitarist without equal, but Hubert Sumlin has to be one of the finest human beings on the planet

This is what I love about the Blues.  Hall of Fame guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, with one of Australia's best young blues and roots artists, Ash Grunwald, just before they went on stage together

This is what I love about the Blues.  Hall of Fame guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, with one of Australia's best young blues and roots artists, Ash Grunwald, just before they went on stage together

Check out the eyes.  Ash can't believe he's just performed Smokestack Lightning with Hubert.  Hubert can't believe that he's just heard a young Wolf

Check out the eyes.  Ash can't believe he's just performed Smokestack Lightning with Hubert.  Hubert can't believe that he's just heard a young Wolf

Maton Guitars Artist Rep, Anthony Knowles, with Hubert, backstage at the Corner Hotel, Melb.

Maton Guitars Artist Rep, Anthony Knowles, with Hubert, backstage at the Corner Hotel, Melb.

Hubert's just played the Maton Custom Shop Messiah for the first time and he stopped mid-song in amazement at the quality of these great Australian guitars

Hubert's just played the Maton Custom Shop Messiah for the first time and he stopped mid-song in amazement at the quality of these great Australian guitars

Hubert and Fiona Boyes play together for the first time at the studios of ABC 774 in Melbourne.  It's the beginning of a great musical and personal friendship 

Hubert and Fiona Boyes play together for the first time at the studios of ABC 774 in Melbourne.  It's the beginning of a great musical and personal friendship 

This is the musical version of a first date.  Hubert and Fiona decide they're going home together!!

This is the musical version of a first date.  Hubert and Fiona decide they're going home together!!

Hubert, Fiona, and Australian harmonica great Chris Wilson wow a lunch time crowd at Melbourne's Basement Discs

Hubert, Fiona, and Australian harmonica great Chris Wilson wow a lunch time crowd at Melbourne's Basement Discs

Fans young and old line up for Hubert's autograph

Fans young and old line up for Hubert's autograph

This is how the band looks at the end of a tour.  Hubert Sumlin, with the Fortune Tellers Dean Addison, Mark Grunden, and Chris Wilson

This is how the band looks at the end of a tour.  Hubert Sumlin, with the Fortune Tellers Dean Addison, Mark Grunden, and Chris Wilson

Friend, mentor, and guitar master, Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, with Fiona Boyes on their first BEA Australia Tour

Friend, mentor, and guitar master, Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, with Fiona Boyes on their first BEA Australia Tour

This is the session where the Live From Bluesville idea was born.  Rich DelGrosso and Fiona Boyes at the Pig on Beale, Memphis

This is the session where the Live From Bluesville idea was born.  Rich DelGrosso and Fiona Boyes at the Pig on Beale, Memphis

Duke Robillard and Fiona Boyes swapping fours at the New Daisy Theatre, Memphis

Duke Robillard and Fiona Boyes swapping fours at the New Daisy Theatre, Memphis

Duke and Fiona digging in

Duke and Fiona digging in

Australia's legendary blues harp player, Chris Wilson, during the BEA Sumlin tour

Australia's legendary blues harp player, Chris Wilson, during the BEA Sumlin tour

Chris Wilson, presented with a bass harmonica by BEA friend and masseuse, Norma Malouf

Chris Wilson, presented with a bass harmonica by BEA friend and masseuse, Norma Malouf