Johnnie Johnson

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From December 17 to 23

Plenty of excellent shows this week; particularly as we enter the weekend -- local releases galore. We'll get into that in more detail on the weekend post though. Supposedly, the world is ending this weekend as well. I know what you are thinking, and I don't really buy it either, but then again the ... More >>

Joe Pastor Trio

8:30 p.m. Monday, February 20. BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups, 700 South Broadway.

St. Louis Blues and Soul Revue Aims To Revive the Days of Stax and Motown

The Soulard Blues Band​The variety show is a venerable American musical institution, with a history that stretches all the way from medicine shows and vaudeville to the chitlin' circuit of the 1940s, the early 1950s rock & roll cavalcades promoted by Alan Freed, and the label-sponsored Stax/Vo ... More >>

Introducing the Sheldon Ballroom Series

Bill StreeterPokey LaFarge and the South CIty Three do a holiday show​November 10's May Day Orchestra release show at the Sheldon Concert Hall functioned as the inaugural concert in the Sheldon Ballroom Series. In an interview with Michael Dauphin, organizer Ryan Harris explained the aim of th ... More >>

Homespun: The Bottoms Up Blues Gang

Handle It
(self-released)

Jimmy Vivino Talks Johnnie Johnson, Conan O'Brien, and St. Louis' Role as a Rock & Roll Breeding Ground

Bernard Ente/jimmyvivino.comThe man himself playing with Felix Cabrera in 2007.​Watchers of late-night television knew Jimmy Vivino as the guitarist for the Tonight Show band during Conan O'Brien's short-lived stint as host. Before that, Vivino was part of the Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with ... More >>

Review: Johnnie's Jam, Featuring Dona Oxford and Conan O'Brien's musicians, at the Sheldon, Sunday, September 19

​Last night at the Sheldon, musicians gathered to pay tribute to the late Johnnie Johnson and his many accomplishments. KSDK's Art Holliday served as the night's master of ceremonies. (The concert served as a fundraiser for his Johnson documentary, Johnnie Be Good.) Holliday began night with a ... More >>

Win Tickets to the Johnnie's Jam: A Tribute to Johnnie Johnson!

(Art Holliday interviewing Buddy Guy. Photo by Jim Newberry.)

Art Holliday's documentary on Johnnie Johnson comes together

Interview, Part Two: KSDK's Art Holliday Discusses Fundraising with Conan O'Brien's Band, Other Memorable Interviews -- And When It'll Be Completed

image viaArt Holliday, TV news anchor and director of an in-production film, Johnnie Be Good​Last week, we published an interview with Art Holliday, who's working on a documentary about Chuck Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson, called Johnnie Be Good. Here's part two of our chat, below. Speaking ... More >>

Interview, Part One: KSDK's Art Holliday Discusses Filmmaking, Johnnie Johnson and St. Louis' Contributions to Rock & Roll

image viaArt Holliday, TV news anchor and director of an in-production film, Johnnie Be Good​Art Holliday is known for his work as a news anchor on KSDK, but he's also a independent filmmaker in his free time. In his latest project, Johnnie Be Good, he documents the life and career of Johnnie ... More >>

Save the Date! Johnnie's Jam: A Tribute to Johnnie Johnson, Featuring Conan O'Brien's Musicians

JohnnieBeGoodTheMovie.comA promotional still from Johnnie Be Good​Last weekend, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups hosted an event which showcased Art Holliday's documentary, Johnnie Be Good. The film highlights the career of Johnnie Johnson, who is best known for playing piano with Chuck Berry's band ... More >>

This Weekend: Free Event at BB's Showcases Local Johnnie Johnson Documentary

JohnnieBeGoodTheMovie.comOfficial Film Poster​ BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups will be hosting a free event showcasing the progress of Art Holliday's forthcoming documentary, Johnnie Be Good.

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, June 4-6, 2010

Nick SchnelleThe Trip Daddys, last year at the RFT Music Showcase. This year's fest is Saturday for $5.​Memorial Day has come and gone, and it's time to kick off summer. (Just look out for those scattered thunder storms on Saturday and Sunday.) This weekend brings indie craft fairs, more than a f ... More >>

St. Louis Video: Johnnie Johnson and David Krull

The great piano man Johnnie Johnson passed away in 2005. However, thanks to YouTube, his effortless playing lives on. Here's footage of an encore from a Sheldon concert. Johnson is performing with David Krull. The fluidity of Johnson's performance and the dulcet tones he's coaxing from the piano are ... More >>

Preview Slideshow: St. Louis Music, R.I.P.

In this week's paper, we published some awesome photos by Mark Gilliland, a long-time RFT freelance photographer who also documented major rock stars displaying their love of gear crafted by St. Louis Music. (Brand names include major players such as Ampeg, Crate and Alvarez.) Check back h ... More >>

Touch of Grey

B-Sides gets groovy with Ratdog's Bob Weir, gets the scoop on Counting Crows' new CD and hits a grand slam with our next scene trading card.

Going Down Slow

Bennie Smith and a dwindling cadre of St. Louis music pioneers have a right to sing the blues

Letters Column

Week of January 26, 2006

Christmas Wrapping

Locals share their holiday memories; the latest on Frederick's Music Lounge's sartorial swag and for-sale signs

Beat Happenings

Week of September 14, 2005

Buffet of Champions

You came, you saw, you voted: the winners of the 2005 Riverfront Times Music Awards

Murder Most Fun

We compare killers and Killers, look into The Source and learn about the final recordings of a rock legend

In-Town Sounds

We're cleaning off our desk for another local CD roundup

Letters

Week of April 27, 2005

Gone, Daddy, Gone

We say goodbye to a rock & roll forefather, talk sports with Mr. Lif and get religion at the new Gearbox

Metal Moves

Record-store shuffling send metal fans scrambling

So Long, 2004

Celebrate city-style at First Night in the Grand Center Arts District

Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival

Saturday, September 18; downtown Webster

Art v. Art

Two art fairs, no waiting

The Boathouse Rocks

And rowboats row

The 2004 RFT Music Awards

Riverfront Times Music Awards '04

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bombay Here, Tanqueray There

Dooley's Ltd. Restaurant & Pub, 308 N. Eighth Street, 314-231-4200 / Missouri Bar & Grill, 701 N. Tucker Boulevard, 314-231-2234

Honey, Is That You?

Will the real Chuck Berry please stand up? Competing biographies paint radically different portraits of the St. Louis legend.

Chuckie and Johnny

Judge tosses out lawsuit between rock legends

Berry, Berry Good

St. Louis' duck-walking icon holds forth on his art, his life and hisunderwear

2001 Sam's Club Rib America Festival

Thursday-Sunday, July 12-15; Soldiers Memorial (Market and Tucker)

On With the Show

Our footsore columnist concludes her tour of the Slammies Showcase

Hall Pass

Looking for influence, significance, development and perpetuation at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

A Year in a Day

From Nelly to the Pageant: what went down on the St. Louis music scene in 2000

Sour Note

Time for Chuck Berry to roll over, says rock legend Johnnie Johnson

Kind of Blue

The Big Muddy Blues Festival cascades over Laclede's Landing

Gateway Groove Festival, featuring Koko Taylor, Sonia Dada, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas and Chris Duarte

Saturday, June 3; Casino Queen parking lot

WEEK OF FAME

Letters to the Editor

Listening Post

Sound Checks