Artist: Ben Caplan (Born in Hamilton, Lives in Halifax)
Recording: The Flood
Available on: Bandcamp, Spotify, Digital through his website, Physical media through his website
Personnel:
Blues Blast Magazine recently annouced the winners of their 2025 awards. Former Burlington resident Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne was the only Canadian to win.
Waterdown's Stony Plain Records was also represented by two wins: Kenny and Duke Robillard
September 16, 2025 would have been American Blues Superstar B.B. King's 100th birthday.
Biographic Highlights (From Wikipedia)
The Giving Closet Thrift Shop is a neighbourhood thrift store, whose profits will be reinvested into Crown Point and surrounding neighbourhoods.
We accept donations. If you would like to donate, please contact us through this page (Click picture above) or by phoneThe Hamilton Blues Lovers (HBL) want to showcase a deserving local charity every week. HBL is not affiliated with these charities nor does it fund raise for them.
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Today (September 6, 2025) would have been American Blues Legend Jimmy Reed's 100th birthday.
Biographical highlights (from Wikipedia)
Ohsweken-born Hollywood legend Graham Greene passed away on September 1, 2025. He had many incredible movies under his belt: Dances with Wolves (1990) (he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar), Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999) and many more.
He was also a fixture on TV with regular roles on the Red Green Show, The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon and guest starred on numerous other shows.
Links: Red Green Show, More Red Green Stories, Video above courtesy of RedGreenTV
In 2000, he won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children (for the album Listen to the Storyteller).
Links: Edgar Meyer, Video above courtesy of Edgar Meyer - Topic
In his early years, he was an audio technician for many bands and worked as a roadie and soundman for Crowbar. In fact, he had said that Crowbar frontman Kelly Jay was the one who encouraged him to take up acting.
Social Media Reaction
Hank Fordam (Son of Crowbar's Kelly Jay)
Love and miss you Graham Greene, I am going to miss seeing you pop up in new shows and movies, getting excited and messaging you. Thank you so much for being there for me, our chats and for gifting me that necklace at dads funeral where we got to place the necklace with dad together. Going to miss getting to chat with you and your birthday wishes. ❤ I hope you and Kelly Jay are up there catching up and having a smile today~ Love and miss you tons, Rest in Peace, Graham Greene
A part of Possum Lodge has gone quiet. We're tipping our maneuver's caps to the memory of Graham Greene, who gave us the explosive Edgar Montrose. His presence was always a blast, and he left us with more laughs than a barrel of dynamite.
Very sad to note the passing of Graham Greene. So glad we were able to get together with him last year. In his early days in the entertainment business Graham worked as part of the crew that travelled with us on the road throughout the States and Canada when I toured with the Magic Bubble.
Aaron Wolf (Director)
Graham Greene was truly one of one. From working together to becoming immediate friends, he was a working man’s Hollywood trailblazer and a Canadian through and through. He didn’t really care what people thought of him—a rarity in this industry—but he deeply cared about those he loved. He was spiritual, loved to tell an inappropriate joke, and couldn’t care less about “the scene.”
“They send me somewhere, I get paid, and then I get the hell out.” That was a Grahamism.
His stories about being a bouncer and a working man’s man were almost more important to him than his big movie stories—and he had plenty of those, too. I’ll miss his random calls (they could come at any hour, about truly anything), his humor, his spiritual nature, his toughness, his kindness, and how damn much I learned from him.
The last time we talked, a few weeks ago, was a call I will never forget. Like Graham himself, it was one of one.
I’ll miss you, Graham. Thank you for being you. I’ll never think of a cab ride the same way, and I’ll always look for that bird.
