Artist / Manager: KJBlues
Co Founder / President: 'Kickin' The Cancer Blues Corp.'
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Support / Raising money through concerts for the fight against Hogkins Lymphoma / www.kickinthecancerblues.org
KJBlues........ “Blues based music with a story to tell.... Robert Johnson meets Tom Waits meets Bonnie Rait meets Galactic meets R.L Burnside meets KJ!”
Voted 09' Cleveland's Entertainer of The Year by CBC magazine, Kristine Jackson's KJBlues “Is Not Your Average Blues Bland”.
KJ has been on the scene since 1998; first as a freelance trumpet player then a full time singer, songwriter, guitar player and band leader in 2004. With musical roots in Mo-Town, rhythm and blues, country, classic rock and soul combined with a fresh modern sound Kristine has developed a voice all her own and is unleashing new sounds to the blues world.
From solo/duo shows to full band form, KJBlues is a soul searching musical experience. Using music as a vehicle to share a positive vibe with an ever changing audience; weather it be dealing with a troubled past, the loss of a loved one, or any one of life’s tragedies.
“Kristine's soulful vocal and fiery guitar playing mark her as a true original” Jim Henke.. Curator, Author of The Lennon Legend, Marley Legend and The Jim Morrison Scrap Books
"Jackson sings, writes, and plays guitar and trumpet. When she gets her band cranked up, KJ and Basically Blue own the musical territory where the borders between blues, country and soul become indistinguishable..... If Elvis and Bonnie Raitt had a baby, [she] would be Kristine Jackson."
• The Plain Dealer "Feeling the blues" By:M.Heaton
Cleveland FreeTimes Magazine
Voted Best Blues Band/Horn Player 2007
Nominated Best Horn Player 2004/05/06
Cleveland Scene Magazine
Nominated Best Blues Band/Horn Player 2008
Winner 2007
Mahoning River Blues Festival
International Blues Challenge (IBC)
Semifinalist 2008/2009
Winner 2009
3rd Annual Appalachian Blues Challenge
Opened for or performed with: Robert Lockwood Jr./Sue Folley/Buddy Guy/John Hammond Jr/Buddy Miles/Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Lonnie Brooks
Festivals:
Mahoning River Blues Fest 2007/The Gahanna Creekside Blues
And Jazz Festival 08' 09’/ The Kalamazoo Blues Festival 08'
/ Northwest Ohio Rib Cook off 08'/ Burning River Festival 08' 09’/ Great American Rib Cook Off 08'/Ohio City Blues and Brews Festival 2008/Lima Ohio Blue Festival 2008/Traditional Acoustic Blues Fest 09' Columbus. Worthington Oh