Juke Joint, March 2010: Part 2
Facts
- An Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot confirms this exact URL existed on the original scbsevents.org site, captured in 2023.
- This page is documented as "Part 2" of a two-part writeup continuing from /juke-joint-march-2010-part-1.
- Historically, juke joints are defined by music historians primarily through the participatory, dance-centered bond between crowd and musicians rather than through venue decor, a verifiable general fact about the tradition this event's name evokes.
- No specific lineup, venue, or photo content from this particular evening's second half could be verified.
This page archives "Part 2" of the Southern California Blues Society's March 2010 LA Juke Joint evening, continuing directly from the entry documented on our Juke Joint, March 2010: Part 1 page. The Southern California Blues Journal is an independent fan guide rebuilding this domain as a record of the region's blues community history; we did not run the original event and cannot speak to its specifics beyond what is honestly verifiable.
We confirmed, via an Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot, that this exact URL existed on the original scbsevents.org site before the domain lapsed. That snapshot establishes the page was real and once live; it does not, on its own, give us readable text or images describing what the second half of that March 2010 evening actually included. We want to be direct about that gap rather than filling it with invented details about a lineup, venue, or crowd that we cannot stand behind.
Dance is worth dwelling on briefly here, because it is central to what a "juke joint" night, old or new, is actually for. Historically, juke joints were defined less by any particular décor and more by the close, informal bond between the crowd and the music, usually built around dancing rather than passive listening, a dynamic that distinguished them from more formal performance venues even as the music itself overlapped. A community blues society staging a modern "juke joint" evening is generally aiming to recreate that participatory, danceable atmosphere for its own local audience, which is presumably why SCBS structured this as a two-part photo gallery in the first place, since dance-floor nights tend to generate a lot of candid crowd photography compared to seated-audience concerts.
If you attended this event or have photographs, flyers, or programs from it, we would welcome the chance to credit and include them properly rather than leave this page as a placeholder. For the related regional blues-society fundraising events SCBS ran that same general period, see our Long Beach Blues Festival 2009 page, and for the first half of this specific March 2010 evening, return to Juke Joint, March 2010: Part 1. Our photo archive remains the best place to check for anything newly added.
