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November 21, 2013 Music » Sound Stories & Interviews

More Jazz at the Oxford

Lisa Mann plays the blues

By Phil Busse

In the second installment of this year's Jazz at the Oxford, the King Louie Portland Blues Review is presenting a sampling of some of the region's most talented blues musicians. At the forefront is Lisa Mann. Singing self-effacing vignettes, Mann is delightful, a playful master of the blues. In her song "Someday," she talks about a future time when she will "do all the good" and, like a litany of New Year resolutions, belts through a number of pledges she will undertake "some day"—leaving, of course, the implication that she isn't doing any such positive-living things just yet. It is playful and fun song writing. And, skilled as a bass player (oh, she just won the Muddy Waters Award for Bass Player of the Year three times), Mann pulls out the big-bottomed notes from the background where they usually serve, and reassigns them a righteous place as the driving force for the songs—and Mann knows how to move these songs along at double time. Often partnered with the glee of a church organ, no, these aren't stare-into-the-bottom-of-your-whisky-glass blues, but foot-tapping and good-natured sets.

Three shows: 8 pm Friday, Nov. 22; 5 pm and 8:15 pm Saturday, Nov. 23

Oxford Hotel, 10 NW Minnesota

$39

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