Performing Artist Painted By Visual Artist

(Left) Performing Artist Augusta Lee Collins with Painter, Artist Anthony Holdsworth in his studio in West Oakland. Collins with Rev. Kevin Barnes at Abyssinian Baptist Church. (Right) Collins poses beneath Holdsworth‘s painting of him that hangs in the Alameda Public Library. Photos by Adam L. Turner.

Creating New Music As I Go

Interview and music from

Augusta Lee Collins

Listen Now!

From Groningen, Netherlands, this interview has been archived.  You can listen to the show, right now.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/69945310

Love Will Find A Way

September 21, 2011

West Coast Blues Hall of Famer Augusta Lee Collins says he’ll never forget where he came from as he sang a song he wrote called
"A Thousand Miles From NoWhere".
Recalling...times while on the streets playing for survival money, he sang

“I’m out here in the rain, with my guitar in my hand, I'm writing you this letter, in hopes that you might understand me, now.  Aaah
Understand Me Now.  I'm a thousand miles from no where.  With my guitar in my hand"

Augusta Lee Collins' Mix at Pizza Pazza

By Paul Cobb
 
Part 1—“Baby, Please Don’t Go”

Some musicians say that a performer can’t sing or play the Blues with feeling unless they have lived a blue-black experience.

 Augusta Lee Collins, can sing the Blues.

From homelessness
to
West Coast Blues Hall of Fame

Blues Man

 Augusta Lee Collins

New Release

"GAME"

Directed by Jehnovah Carlisle
Music by Augusta Lee Collins

Phone Augusta @ 510.695.93393