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Baptized in muddy waters down by the cross roads on a blue moon night, The Mighty Mojo Prophets were born as a group of seasoned Los Angeles area musicians who's passion for the old school blues drew them together with the mission of honoring the early blues pioneers who blazed the trails for the world to follow.

It's a first!

Deke Dickerson & The Whippersnappers make their exclusive debut at Original Mike's Hillbilly Jazz Matinee!

Deke has a new group he has formed to play rockabilly, Western swing and honky tonk.

Don't miss the first-ever look at Deke's new band - only at Original Mike's in Santa Ana.

Adding to the Sunday soiree, enjoy two more great bands: Amber Foxx for rockabilly and torch songs, plus Abby Girl & the Real Deal with their lively, soulful renditions of early R'n'B, blues, gospel, & roots rock rarities.

These two bands round out the combination of styles that together with Deke's hillbilly-influenced music equal Hillbilly Jazz!

Carolyn Sills Combo

2018 Ameripolitan Western Swing Group of the Year

They are back! Fans of Western Swing know Carolyn Sills makes the sort of creative and intuitive music we all love to dance and listen to.

"Powerhouse Carolyn Sills is the real deal of throwback country music. She has enough soul, heart, style and swag to convince audiences and listeners that they may have been transported to an era where country swing rules the waves, juke joints were the place to be, and heartache had a kick like a mule... their new album is a record packed from start to finish with all the lonesome wails, tongue-in-cheek humor, and late night reflection you'd expect from a classic country gem." - Good Times Magazine

A roots music group with a vintage sound older than its years, The Carolyn Sills Combo is breathing fresh life and heartfelt twang into the timeless sounds of post-war American music. Fans of classic country, blues and western swing from the 40s/50s are falling in love with the band's original songs, written and produced by vocalist/bassist Sills and her longtime guitarist and husband, Gerard Egan.

Sills and Egan are heavily influenced by spaghetti western films as well as their vinyl record collection, citing a wide range of influences from Bob Wills, Patsy Cline and Merle Travis and Les Paul & Mary Ford.

The cowboy-loving duo attracted top Monterey Bay area players for their combo, featuring Charlie Joe Wallace on triple neck steel guitar, Jimmy Norris on drums and Sunshine Jackson on harmony vocals and percussion.

"Seguing seamlessly between western swing, country, rockabilly, blues, and spaghetti western, the Combo's debut album is tight, lively, and refreshing. Sills' vocals sear, while guitarman Gerard Egan accents with inventive and toneful licks and solos. Charlie Joe Wallace adds stylish pedal steel."

— Vintage Guitar Magazine

In today’s musical culture, the word “authenticity” has pretty much lost all meaning.

What used to represent something bona fide and true is now just watered-down marketing speak, stamped onto press releases without a second thought.

Born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1983, JP Harris doesn’t fancy himself so much a musician as he does a carpenter who writes country songs. After finishing the eight grade, he boarded a Greyhound in the middle of an early summer night, and scarcely looked back. He traveled the country, often alone, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains while making his living as a farm laborer, shepherd, woodsman, and carpenter, among many other titles.

Still an in-demand carpenter to this day, Harris has been writing and performing country music for nearly a decade now, releasing his debut album, I’ll Keep Calling, in 2012.

He followed that album with Home Is Where the Hurt Is in 2014, which only saw his star rise both among country fans and critics at major outlets like Rolling Stone.

With his forthcoming album “Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing,” he’s back after a four-year hiatus to remind folks what a lifetime dedicated to country music really looks and sounds like.

Sure to please fans of his hardscrabble earlier work, this new release also finds the acclaimed songwriter and vocalist stretching himself musically and personally. In just about every way, Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing is a recorded manifestation of Harris’ growth over the last four years. He’s become more comfortable in his singing, more confident in his artistic direction, and more adventurous in his sonic palette. He’s letting listeners in to some of his most difficult struggles and turning a compassionate eye to the struggles of others.

The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are Austin's answer to the nerve and the verve of the Great One himself.

A BSOJC show combines all the attitude & the platitudes that defined the Man In Black.

The BSOJC, who came together in 1995, play modern country with an "outlaw" edginess, with some of the attitude and some of the swagger of artists we've come to expect from the man in black himself, Johnny Cash - or from Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and Kris Kristofferson to name a few others.

John Surge & The Haymakers

L.A. singer-songwriter John Surge has put together a crack band – The Haymakers – of LA roots rock veterans that includes Randy Volin on lead guitar, Ted Russell Kamp on bass/backing vocals and Simon Runge on drums.

Surge has traded in his electric Telecaster for an acoustic guitar and there’s more of an emphasis on country, blues and folk elements added to his early career as a songwriter with power pop bands The Trouble Dolls and Pinwheel. The result – a highly infectious feel-good country-rock/Americana blend.

John Surge and The Haymakers have recorded a single, “Heather Lee,” with producer Ed Tree and will be releasing a debut album in 2019 recorded with Kevin Jarvis.

Los Straitjackets are the leading practitioners of the lost art of the guitar instrumental.

Using the music of the Ventures, The Shadows, and with Link Wray and Dick Dale as a jumping off point, the band has taken their unique, high energy brand of original rock & roll around the world.

Clad in their trademark Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling masks, the “Jackets” have delivered their trademark guitar licks to 16 albums, thousands of concerts and dozens of films and TV shows.

Viva Los Straitjackets!

From the Southern California working class neighborhoods of East L.A., Los Fabulocos' music is festive, energetic and crosses over all generations.

Formed in 2004 by accordionist, vocalist, songwriter Jesus Cuevas and drummer Mike Molina (both former members of "The Blazers") they are now joined by former band mate Ruben Guaderrama on guitar / bajo quinto / Cuban tres and Ray Aguilar on bass.

Los Fabulocos offers up a wide variety of musical flavors that will leave you full and satisfied. They perform songs about everyday the struggles of life, love and hope in a musical mix that remains timeless and without borders.

Staying true to their Mexican American heritage Los Fabulocos music includes: Americana, Gulf Coast Swamp Pop, Zydeco, Southwest Texas Conjunto, and infectious Cumbias.

Los Fabulocos look forward to bringing their unique brand of American music to Original Mike's on Sat. May 4.

Beano Mojo Hand

Hailing from Lynwood, Calif., Beano has been influenced in his career by such greats as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Carlos Santana, Albert King and John Mayall. His level of drive and commitment to being one of the best in the world certainly shows in his inspired playing and writing. He takes his name from the Eric Clapton/John Mayall Bluesbreaker album, Beano.

Arrive on time to catch this young blues sensation!

SPECIAL: 2-5 pm matinee

Kirk Fletcher has a reputation as a bonafide can’t-miss performer. His soulful playing and singing never fails to elicit chills, and his unique approach to Rhythm & Blues music is both refreshingly modern and completely authentic.

Widely considered one of the best blues guitarists in the world, he has commanded the respect and acclaim of critics, peers and fans across the globe. He is a four-time Blues Music Award and a 2015 British Blues Award nominee and has played with a variety of popular artists, including Joe Bonamassa and a three-year role as lead guitarist of The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

He has released 4 albums and a live album.

Rip Cat Recording Artists Johnny & Jaalene and band

The throwback sounds of old-school blues, R&B, rockabilly and pop are marked by a string of covers that are second nature to Johnny Ramos and his young partner Jaalene De Leon. Their new self-titled album includes all of those influences.

"We listen to all the stuff we play, really," Johnny said in a recent interview. "Rockabilly people, soul singers and everything, but you know, since we're young we have really big influences from everything else, the 90's, the 2000's."

If Johnny's last name is familiar to blues fans, you would be right. The son of blues guitarist Kid Ramos, Johnny joined his father on Ramos' comeback album Old School on Rip Cat Records.

Together, Fletcher and the young duo are the 6th showcase from Main St. Blues, a monthly spotlight on the best in the blues business with free parking, full dinner menu and all ages. Reservations recommended.

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today:

Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him “the Charlie Russell of Western Music.”

Western Horseman Magazine has declared his “Vaquero Song” to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time.

rue West Magazine named him Best Living Western Solo Musician four years in a row.

He has been voted seven times Entertainer of the Year, seven times Male Performer of the Year and Five times Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association.

He received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists.

He’s delighted audiences in 23 states, and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses.

Now see this cowboy up close and personal at Campus Jax, 3950 Campus Dr. in Newport Beach at 7 pm on a Thursday evening. All ages, free parking, full Creole dinner menu and cabaret seating.