the CAPITAL BLUES ENSEMBLE
 Groove motivation all along the dc blues beltway
 
We set this up to show what we do. Everything here’s the way we lay it down: the way you hear it live.
    Live or studio, it’s all one pass, played straight-through, no overdubs, no punch-ins, no foolin’... 
What you hear here is what you get. 

John V   240-423-0297
Solid, upbeat in-your-face and fun. Harp, sax and guitar all get a moment here. When you’re down, UP is the place to look. An Eddie Bo fav From the Dec ‘08 OBTG show
Bragging about an EXCEPTIONALLY  fine lady never sounded so dangerous.  Johnny Guitar Watson laid this one out.
Fellas and Ladies... we ain’t the same... and it’s important to keep that in mind at ALL times...
A smooth singin’ lady, Susan Haggerty sat in with us for this one. It cooks, so it’s here too...    enjoy!
Live recording from our night in September 08 at THE OLD BOWIE TOWN GRILLE with us playin and STACEY BROOKS singin ...
Atlantic-meets-Blue Note in this easy  take on Gershwin’s classic... again with Susan singing and Gary Hendrickson on fluglehorn
CBE’s own Swampdog wrote this lungburnin  piece of damned-right-its-a-shuffle harp work. The crowd approved so it’s one more reason to party.
Losing it all, and during That Holiday Season too. The blues doesn’t get much deeper, but with a groove like this it doesn’t seem so bad... We like this one so much we found a way to do it all year long!
 A smooth smokey-cool look at things that are supposed to be bad for you... but are they? Sometimes just asking the question the right way gets you the answer. A Jeff Golub story.
You just KNOW things ain’t quite right in Relationshipville, but you can’t cut the connection,  so whaddaya do...?
A great Michael Burks tune from our Dec ’08 gig .
The remarkable IDA CAMPBELL (of WPFW) joins us for a swingin version of this steamy ode to Agressive Intent.
  From March 09 at The Grille...
Lucky to have the Marvelous JAMES MABREY sit in on ROCK ME BABY at the Outta The Way Cafe in Durwood Md.