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BLUE SUIT PRODUCTIONS Who are these guys?

drawing by John Rockwood: this more or less represents Porkchop Johnny & Lonesome Bob

Blue Suit is home to some of the finest music available throughout the world. Now in its 14th year, Blue Suit was initially founded as a record  label to produce albums for some of the unrecognized blues masters of the Toledo/Detroit region, Blue Suit has expanded into festival and concert promotion and radio broadcasting . Blue Suit has been

recognized by having multiple albums nominated for W C Handy awards and its catalog now covers blues to folkrock to swing jazz and  now gospel music. Howard Armstrong's much acclaimed "Louie Bluie " is still one of the most popular Blue Suit albums

 worldwide, but the quality of production and earthy tone pervades all of Blue Suit's catalog.

After releasing the first two volumes of great Motor City blues, Hastings Street Grease: Detroit Blues Is Alive!, Blue Suit followed up with a solo release by Harmonica Shah, one of the featured artists on the Detroit blues series.  This was followed by the return of Art & Roman Griswold (Toledo blues brothers who were on the original Blue Suit album in 1987) and their gritty "Cockeyed World."  The spring of 2001 will bring Maurice John Vaughn's "Dangerous Road" and the new bootleg series of tracks lying around in the Blue Suit vault.

Blue Suit has co-produced Miller Lite Rock Rhythm & Blues Festivals,  presented over the Memorial Day weekend since 1989. The festival is one of the friendliest outdoor festivals, taking place in Promenade Park along the side of the Maumee River in downtown Toledo. .

Blue Suit also produces the Sunday Night Root Hoot on Toledo's 94.5 WXKR-FM. After five years of the commentary and tall tales of Johnny Porkchop Dupree and Lonesome Bob, the blues and other roots music radio show has become a necessity for the ears of local music aficionados .

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