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Thursday, July 24, 2008 --- 45 days ago http://blog.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2008/07/nightlife_agenda_update_3.h
 Blues guitarist Bobby Parker played with all the greats, and he's called D.C. home for more than four decades. (Chris Stanford/The Washington Post) It's pretty shocking that guitarist Bobby Parker hasn't moved beyond the D.C. blues scene in the last four decades. The Louisiana native spent the 1950s touring and recording with Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Jackie Wilson, then settled in D.C. in 1961. He almost took off once -- Jimmy Page tried to sign him to Led Zepplin's Swan Song label, which may have been payback for the way Page turned Parker's hit "You Got What It Takes" into the riff for "Moby Dick," but Parker never recorded a demo for Page. He still takes the stage at Madam's Organ on an occasional basis, but Parker turns 71 next month and his health isn't what it was -- hospital care has pushed his bills over $100,000. Madam's Organ owner Bill Duggan has organized a special fundraiser for Parker tonight, headlined by a band called the Coalition of the Willing . The dueling guitars belong to former Hungarian ambassador Andras Simonyi , whose love of rock made him a "Reliable Source" fixture during his tenure in Washington, and former Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter , who's traded yacht rock for positions as a defense consultant working on missile defense. (Weird. We know.) Also on tonight's bill are the Johnny Artis Band and local burlesque starlet Miss Kitty Victorian . All you gotta do ... |
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