Beale Street Music Festival - Memphis in May International Festival

2019 Vicksburg Blues Challenge

2015 IBC Memphis, TN

A Travel Through Music

Band Photos

Jammin with Benny Turner!

Only on Bourbon Street!

Jammin with Pete at the Blues Bayou restaurant...

Jammin in Vicksburg, MS

Jammin out!

Just hangin out after performing...

VBS IBC Performance...

Vicksburg Blues Society wtih Ameristar Casino Manager and the band...

jammin at the Sante Fe in Hammond, LA... Best ribs u ever tasted...

Sam Joyner with drummer Rick Newton, Whole Foods Baton Rouge

We decided to do a Bob Marley B Day Jam... Everybody showed up for that..

This was at the Micronesian Blues Jam...

Jammin tha Pacific Islands...

Jammin tha Baby Grand n Houston...

Still n Houston...

Hangin out on Beale St...

Sam Joyner, jamming at Phil Brady's

Rick Newton, Drummer, Vocals

Sam Joyner(far right) with the Rocky Denney band.

Harley Davidson Convention at Big Al's Place in New Orleans...They even had a Harley in the middle of the dance floor!

Hangin out at Pete's House in Myrtle Beach SC...

This is wat tha fingers look like...

Jammin on some Blues with Gloria Scott, former singer with Tina Turner...

Blues Island Style with the Micronesian Blues Society members...

Rastamon days back in tha 90's...

Jammin tha bass up in Memphis...

Jammin @ Groovys in Japan...

Jammin in Japan...

If you enlarge this you can see an old moog on top of the rhodes... Most of u have no idea what u lookin at but those who do know its tha read deal...

Me back in 1975? This was the first fender rhodes keyboard and one of the first peavey amps...

That's Alexander O'Neal on the Right and me on the Left... Alex had just moved up to Minneapolis from Natchez Mississippi.. The girl is Cris and back left is Mike Sosha and far right back is Steve Sonmore.. The two were top shelf players... Mike played drums and Steve played Tenor...

This was back in tha day of the real bell bottoms... I think this was in 1976?

Me back n 1967...

This was home for the past 21 years.. Beautiful Saipan...Check out the island section for more photos of Saipan, I will show you around...

Islands of Saipan, Japan, Philippines

Island Beats

Japan, Philippines, Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan)

Prepare for take off!

Does that say don't step out? Man! I was just about to step out for some fresh air...

The sky up close...

I must have been pretty high when I took this photo...

Map of Japan...

Hmmmm... on sale for only $800... Should I buy it?

Nagoya Japan... Everyone looking so colorful..

Did anyone figure out what that says????

I'm over here buying the train tickets and everybody's thinks I know what um doin hahaha! All of the writing is in Japanese and I have no idea what it says... I know where I want to go and um kinda readin tha pictures... OK... well um going for it... I hope these are the right tickets hahaha!

Ok so I just slide my ticket in and walk across at the same time...

Hey... Where did all these people come from?

Off the plane and on the train...

This is what the train looks like when u r the first one on... Airport in Japan...

The girls are going to have to double up...

Looks like standing room only...

Welcome to Nagoya Japan!

Hello, I'm Zalika, I'm Sam, Hello everyone I'm Aisha but u can call me "Ice"... Haw ya'll doin? Um samjoyner and these are the joiners...

Everyone I would like to introduce you to my wife "Hilda" also known as Mrs. "J"

Local mini Park..

Everything looks so high tech in Japan...

Doesn't everything looks so neat and clean...

Street view...

Guess what the main source of transportation is in Japan?

It was a beautiful day in Nagoya...

Picturesque...

Is that a merry go round attached to the building?

Wow! it is a merry go round on the side of the building...

I have no idea what they are playing but it looks like fun...

Some Japanese guys rockin out in the park...

Hmmmm... what shall we eat?

How bout this?

Now that's what I call a crab... Nagoya, Japan...

Now wait just a minute... We didn't come all the way to Japan to eat MacDonald...

Oh well "If u cant beat em, join um....

Shopping is wat we Luuuuuuvvv....

These are sooooo nice!!!

Mrs. "J" at Central Park.. I believe that is the TV station antenna in the back...

Now those are some big bags...

Ok...See u next time!

This is a map of Saipan and her sister island "Tinian" where the Enola Gay loaded her payload and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1941...

This is on the island of Rota...

Wait a minute... This wat we rollin in?

Welcome aboard flight 737... My name is Captain Bud... U wont be needing any seat belts because we will only be flyin about 30 feet high, so if we crash just jump out and swim cause there is nothing down there but water..Oh and if u see any sharks just be still and dont panic... Other than that enjoy the flight!

Well since um ridin co pilot I think everyone is feelin a lot safer...

The Rota Resort on the beautiful island of Rota..

The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II. The B-29 was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets.[1]

Close up of the Enola Gay pilot...

The atom bomb pit on Tinian's North Field, where Little Boy was loaded aboard the Enola Gay.

Bonzai Cliff was where the Japanese jumped into the Pacific Ocean rather than be captured by the Americans...

Suicide cliff... Again, some Japanese soldiers chose to jump off the cliff than surrender to the Americans...

One of the hiding places of the Japanese during WWII... Saipan was a Japanese Colony after WWI. One of the hardest battles was fought on Saipan. The Americans took the island in the end. It was the strategic location into the Pacific Islands..

The Last Command Post...

Japanese Memorial...

This is the Kalabera Cave... Very spooky at night..

Entrance to the cave...

Inside the cave...

This is called "Bird Island"

Hmmmm... looks like a little traffic...

Yep... definitely traffic...

Map of the Philippines...

An active Valcano in the Philippines..Mt. Mayon...

Preparing for a two hour boat ride down a river on the Visayan Islands in the Philippines...

This is a fish farm...

Countryside view...

A Valcano in the city of Bicol in the Philippines...

A beautiful Philippine island!

House on the river.. Imagine waking up to that view every morning... Pure beauty..

The boat... The owner and captain is my brother in law Frankie...

Street view of the town of Dolores in Eastern Samar... Guess what the main mode of transportation is?

Anyone need a limo?

Gettin ready to make a water run...

This is what it looks like deep in the central island (Visaya) in the Philippines... This is where the boat docks...

Waiting for passengers...

This is the store... By tha way there is no power so everything is warm... They drink warm beer and soft drinks like its ice cold...

From Beale St. to the Philippine Jungles...

Enjoy your life!!!

She looks like a little kid dont she? This girl graduated from college last year with a B.S. in education...

Waitin for the boat... The town is a two hour boat ride... No planes, trains, buses, or auto access down there...

View from the boat...

We visited some of the schools in the Philippines.. The students were so well mannered..

53 students per class, no absent, no tardy, no failing students, no air condition, and all students were on task and happy to be at school.... "unbelievable"