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La Hora del Blues October Reviews on-line include, among others, new CD's by Hills & Lemelin, Paul Filipowicz, Ricky Gene Hall, Tribute To James 'Yank' Rachell, Dave Fields, Sweet Claudette, Lady Bianca, Aynsley Lister, Popa Chubby, Lisa Haley, Rick Moore, Tommy McCoy & Lucky Peterson, Alvin Jett, Nicole Hart, Eric Lindell, Christine Santelli, Memphis Slim, Duke Robillard and more... at www.lahoradelblues.com/criticas.htm 

Visit La Hora del Blues Show (Barcelona, Spain) current new monthly 'Playlist' at: www.lahoradelblues.com/playlist.htm
 
'CDs Received' (about 200 New Blues Cds together with informative point marks and links) at:
www.lahoradelblues.com/novedades.htm
 
Old cds reviews at www.lahoradelblues.com/criticasantiguas.htm
 
A new interview with Double Barrel Blues Band guitar player Mark Cloutier by The Blues Stalker from The Suncoast Blues Society at: www.lahoradelblues.com/entrevistas.htm

MONTE ADKISON’S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Monte Adkison, aka "the Blues Stalker," has been listening to the blues for over four decades. Along with many other teenagers who grew up in the southern United States in the early 60’s, she listened to powerful Nashville, Tennessee WLAC radio deejay "John R’s" popular blues radio show after midnight every night. Currently a high school social science teacher in Florida for over thirty years, Monte was the recipient of a scholarship in 1995 from the Florida Humanities Council to study blues music at the University of Tampa where she met the late Tampa Bay harmonica, Rock Bottom, and the late "Diamond Teeth" Mary McClain. Amazed that "Diamond Teeth" Mary had been written up in European blues magazines but not in American, she vowed to change that.
Taking a summer pilgrimage to the Delta to study at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, she spent time researching Mary in the Blues Archives and met David Nelson, then editor of Living Blues which is based there on the Ole Miss campus. She asked David if he knew Mary and he said he had seen her perform at the W.C. Handy Awards in Memphis in ’92. When asked if indeed his magazine was true "Living Blues", if she wrote about Mary performing on her 95th birthday, would he publish it? The answer was yes and Living Blues did and then went on to write an article on Monte’s Blues in the Schools program in a ’97 issue. Monte began writing a regular column for the Suncoast Blues Society newsletter, the Twelve Bar Rag under the moniker "the Blues Stalker." Five years later, the "Blues Stalker" is still writing about talented blues artists who are under appreciated and often ignored by the mainstream press. She also covers other aspects of the blues music industry besides the musicians themselves. Her photographs can be viewed on the Suncoast Blues Society web site www.suncoastblues.org as well as photographs of the popular annual Tampa Bay Blues Festival.
Monte’s commitment to keeping the blues alive is evident in her article, her photography, and in her classroom in Ocala, Florida where every inch of her walls are covered with snapshots and autographed posters of blues musicians that she has met. As she puts it, "It’s my way of sneaking the heritage in----when you’re bored with the lessons and look up on the walls and see a Kenny Neal, or Eddie Kirkland, or Sista Monica—you might just give a listen later in live and fall in love with the music just like I have. It is another small way of keeping the blues alive." You can visit her site at www.bluesstalker.com  
this is the reason why I am really satisfied and proud to have at "La Hora del Blues" staff, directly from USA, the valuable support, help and collaboration of this great blues expert and lover, known as "The Blues Stalker". I am sure you will enjoy this page with all her interesting and juicy interviews and photographs, so I can only encourage you to visit it regularly. Welcome aboard! Monte....

Vicente Zúmel