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            <title>HONEY BOY EDWARDS!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michael Packer will be playing 2nd guitar with one of the last of the living delta blues legends Honey Boy Edwards @ Larry Holmes restauraunt in Easton PA on Friday March 12th. Mr. Packer will also be playing rhythm guitar for Marc Benno famous for his guitar work with Stevie Ray Vaughn and the Doors as part of the support band for Honey Boy Edwards @ BB Kings in NYC on Thursday March 11th. This is the blues. The real deal...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>FREE BEER CD IN-STORES</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Free Beer CD by Michael Packer is now available in stores across the country Barnes & Noble, Borders Books, Amazon, Itunes and soon coming to a radio station near you!]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>INTERNATIONAL BLUES BAND</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You guys sounded awesome last night. Your band has the formula for success. An older white guy who's definitely got da' blues (Michael Packer). A little Ugandan guy on bongos (who the fuck has ever heard of bongos in a blues band) who can sing his ass off provided he can reach the microphone (Ed Jackson). A bass player (King Bear) who looks like he was the strategist who orchestrated the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A sick run down harp player who looks burned out and tired (Felix Cabrera)from swimming from Havana to Key West and an excellent blues drummer (Bad Eddie Suozzo)who can probably sprint faster than Carl Lewis, having run from the law so many times. Looking forward to seeing you again.  - MARK DIAMOND owner of the Blue Parrot, Wilmington Delaware]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Michael Packer Story</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michael Packer's story about the 2010 International Blues Challenge in Memphis is published on The Blues Foundation website <a href="http://www.blues.org">www.blues.org</a> and will appear in the "Chitlin Circuit Magazine.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>MEMPHIS BLUES NEWS</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[WHAT A WEEKEND! SIMPLY PHENOMONAL! MICHAEL PACKER & ED JACKSON ARE BACK FROM MEMPHIS.THEY PLAYED SOME GREAT SETS @ SILKY O'SULLIVANS ON BEALE STREET AND MICHAEL PACKER GOT TO SING WITH AN OUTSTANDING PICK-UP BAND @ BB KING'S ON BEALE STREET. WINDMILL MUSIC'S OWN CEE CEE JAMES WAS TERRIFIC @ THE HARD ROCK CAFE. MICHAEL PACKER GOT TO MEET MANY BLUES LUMINARIES MICHAEL FRANK (Honey Boy Edwards manager), GUITARISTS BOB MARGOLIN, HAWKEYE HERMAN, TAS CRU, BARBRA BLUE (blues singer), BRAD STEWART FROM THE INTREPID ARTISTS BLUES AGENCY, DETLIV HOEGEN WHO COVERED MICHAEL PACKER'S SONG 'I'M IN LOVE' AS A TEENAGER WITH HIS BAND IN GERMANY. DETLIV IS NOW PRESIDENT OF CROSSCUT RECORDS AND RECEIVED A KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE  AWARD. ANOTHER RECIPIENT OF THAT AWARD  WAS ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE'S SENIOR EDITOR DAVID FRICKE WHO MICHAEL ALSO GOT TO MEET. HE ALSO GOT TO HEAR THE LATVIA BLUES BAND WHO ARE AMAZING LIVE AND WILL BE REPRESENTING THEM FOR WINDMILL MUSIC. THERE WERE SOME INCREDIBLE ACTS SUCH AS HARRISON KENNEDY (stella guitar-spoons), RICKY NYE (piano), DIVINA AND THE VAGABONDS (great band) AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. IT WAS A COMPETITION BUT THERE WERE NO LOSERS IN MEMPHIS. JUST SOME FINE MUSIC FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD! THANK YOU TO THE BLUES FOUNDATION FOR ORGANIZING A TRULY MARVELOUS EVENT....]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[MICHAEL PACKER & ED JACKSON WILL BE PERFORMING ON BEALE STREET IN MEMPHIS ON THURSDAY JANUARY 21 THRU SUNDAY THE 24TH....]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>HAPPY NEW YEAR! &amp;amp; 2009 HI-LITES</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Windmill Music would like to wish the world a happy new year! 2009 turned out to be a great year for The Michael Packer Blues Band. The "Rikers Island Blues" CD was nominated for best self-produced CD in Memphis. Michael Packer & Ed Jackson are returning to Memphis for the International Blues Challenge in January 2010. The band played some great shows: The NYC Marathon, Bettye LaVette show, Red Bank & Long Branch festivals, Logfest in Woodstock NY, Rutgers University and our regular club dates BB Kings, Turning Point Cafe, Ben's of NYC, Blue Moon Cafe, Adobe Blues and The Blue Parrot. We wish a special thank you to Gene Iandanza of The Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation for his support. Windmill Music has also established a working relationship with the Chicago blues label Blue Skunk in which we have secured distribution/promo deals for our artists Solomon King, Cee Cee James and  Mr. Keith Little. Windmill also got a licensing deal for 'Sugarcane Collins" with the prestigious Blues Leaf records. Guitarist Ron Hacker who was featured on Tom Waits' "Orphans" box set has been added to the Windmill Music roster. We have received tons of airplay all over the world with our artists hitting both national and state radio charts. The Michael Packer Blues Band "Bleecker-Bowery" CD has been consistantly in the top 100 Rhapsody Country Blues Artists Charts and closes out 2009 @ #67. We look forward to a very successful New Year. Michael Packer's "Free Beer" CD is scheduled for a February 16th, 2010 release. We wish the world LOVE, PEACE and HAPPINESS. Not nescessarily in that order but you can't have one without the other!]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY PEACEFUL HOLIDAY!!! THE MICHAEL PACKER BLUES BAND WILL BE APPEARING @ BB KING'S NYC <a href="http://www.bbkingblues.com">www.bbkingblues.com</a> ON CHRISTMAS DAY FRIDAY DECEMBER 25TH @ 8PM. WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO COME AND SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH US....]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>THE SAN FRANCISCO BLUESMAN RON HACKER!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[WINDMILL MUSIC WELCOMES THE SAN FRANCISCO BLUES MAN RON HACKER TO THE ROSTER. RON IS ONE OF HELL OF A GUITARIST AND SLIDE PLAYER. IN 2006 TOM WAITS ASKED RON TO PLAY SLIDE GUITAR ON A TRACK ON WAITS' "ORPHAN'S BOX SET". THAT ALONE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF . WINDMILL MUSIC WILL BE PROMOTING RON'S CD "MY SONGS" TO RECORD LABELS, BOOKING AGENTS, RADIO ETC. INTERESTED PARTIES PLEASE CONTACT US. RON HACKER IS AS GENUINE AS YOU CAN GET. ONCE YOU LISTEN TO HIM YOUR GOING TO SAY WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD OF HIM BEFORE.HE IS TRULY AMAZING!  <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ronhackerandthehacksaws">www.myspace.com/ronhackerandthehacksaws</a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>BETTYE LAVETTE! BLUE SKUNK! SOLOMON KING! FREE BEER!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Michael Packer Blues Band opened for Bettye LaVette to a sold-out show last Saturday night in South Orange New Jersey. Both Solomon King and Michael Packer have signed with Blue Skunk Music a blues record label out of Chicago. Michael Packer's  'Free Beer' CD has just been released digitally by Ioda and is available @ Itunes and other digital stores. Solomon King's 'Under The Sun' and Packer's 'Free Beer' are scheduled for a January 2010 release and will be distributed by Burnside Corporate Distribution (BCD) in the U.S.A. and Canada.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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