footage taken at the 2009 Sighisoara Blues Festival
SUTTON BLUES COLLECTIVE Station Pub, Sutton Coldfield 4/10/06 Blues in Britain/issue 59 France based Rag Mama Rag (husband and wife team Deborah and Ashley Dow) put on a superlative performance at The Sutton Blues Collective this Wednesday. They were exactly the right sort of act for the ambience of this club. A complex combination of [...]
Posted by Rag Mama Rag on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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Acoustic duo Rag Mama Rag comprises husband and wife, Ashley and Debbie Dow, who are English, but live in France. Ashley sings and plays any number of stringed instruments, including guitars, mandolin, ukulele and bass. Debbie adds harmonica, washboard, percussion and backing vocals. I didn’t know what to expect when I put this CD on [...]
Posted by Rag Mama Rag on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Filed under blog, reviews · Tagged with acoustic duo, ashley, blind blake, blues harp, boze, bukka, bumf, country blues, hawaiian paradise, home blues, jug band music, jug stompers, memphis jug band, michael prince, percussion instrument, pleasant surprises, rag mama rag, stringed instruments, viola lee blues, washboard, wife ashley