Thu. May 17, 2012
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Free Times
May 17, 2012
P. Wall The Dubber - The original
Mississippi musicians we now regard as blues players were always more than that, playing the kind of roadhouse gigs where one had to know many different songs and styles to avoid getting a knife in the side from a ...
Indiana Daily Student
May 17, 2012
But she persisted, knowing he would need the knowledge in order to communicate with other
musicians who were not as intuitive.
Colorado Daily
May 17, 2012
The blues workshop with Blues in the
schools and musician Dan Treanor will be for kids 18 and under on Saturday afternoon.
Patch.com
May 17, 2012
Feeling the blues cause there are no Jazz clubs in Freehold? The Freehold Borough Arts Council (FBAC) will cheer you up! "There is a large fan base for blues and jazz here in the borough and we are looking forward to supporting the
musicians of that ...
Washington Examiner
May 17, 2012
After winning all kinds of kudos for his 2010 album "Harlem River Blues" -- including the prestigious Americana Music Award Song of the Year for the title track -- he has turned around and released an album that is personal, passionate and dripping ...
Scene Queenstown
May 17, 2012
Stringer fronts the band on vocals, keyboards and harmonica, backed by talented
musicians Ned Webster on drums, Sam Ross on guitar and Aaron Waata on bass.
IFC
May 17, 2012
This story of a blues musician's desperate trek across the deep South in the 1920s would make a great TV miniseries (with a great soundtrack).
Huffington Post
May 17, 2012
On Sunday nights, I play in the horn section of a blues band. Each week,
musicians come from all over town to play with us.
Charleston Gazette
May 17, 2012
There, he's joined by Inspiration. Call 304-349-1439 for Friday or 304-400-4814 for Sunday. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Some blues musicians are made. They discover the blues and make a choice to help keep the music alive. Others, like Johnny Rawls, ...
Tri Parish Times
May 17, 2012
Houma musician Tab Benoit enjoys a guitar solo during Jazz Fest. Benoit took home three awards at this week's Blues Music Awards. In this week of wall-to-wall Morganza to the
gulf coverage, one of the project's biggest champions took home top honors at ...
OC Weekly
May 17, 2012
In 2004, Greg Sullo was a college sophomore spending a semester in the West African country of
Mali and a musician still four years away from launching Dinosaur Feathers.
Winston-Salem Journal
May 17, 2012
For 26 years, the Carolina Blues Festival has been going strong, bringing in some of the nation's best blues musicians for the Triad's listening pleasure. This year's festival, presented by the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, will be held Saturday ...
News Sentinel
May 17, 2012
King has not only influenced such renowned
musicians as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix, among countless others, but he is also seen as one of the world's best and most innovative blues ...
Edmonton Journal
May 17, 2012
His recent release The Road Is Dark (Borealis Records) offers a wonderful tour of early
acoustic blues styles and some heavy subjects, too, with the occasional surprise.
Bluff Country Reader
May 15, 2012
By Bob Bovee Each year since 1999, the beautiful, small town of Lanesboro, located on the scenic Root River, has filled up with fiddlers, banjo pickers, guitar players, old time
musicians and
Singers and dancers of all sorts. These
students, campers ...
PR.com (press release)
May 15, 2012
musicians that apply must have a killer image, the ability to sing harmonies, Pro Gear/Attitude and the Ambition to bring the project to life.
Gay News Network
May 15, 2012
In these days of Adam Lambert, Sam Sparro and Beth Ditto it's easy to think the world has always had out, queer
musicians, embraced by an adoring public and unafraid to project their sexuality. But even in the hey-day of glitter rock in the Seventies ...
NOLA.com
May 15, 2012
By Alison Fensterstock, The Times-Picayune In the
aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the Jazz Foundation of America - a 21-year-old nonprofit whose focus is on providing financial, legal and medical assistance to jazz and
blues musicians in need ...
Billboard
May 15, 2012
With the sudden passing of Donald "Duck" Dunn Sunday in
Tokyo at age 70, the world lost a preeminent musician whose inventive, rule-making playing crossed the worlds of R&B, blues, rock and gospel. Though best-known as part of Booker T. & the MG's, ...
MusicRadar.com
May 15, 2012
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retailer Guitar Guitar and ACS Custom have teamed up to bring you an event that puts budding
musicians up on stage.
SoundSpike
May 15, 2012
musicians I'd known. We went with songwriters I'd never worked with before. That made it even better. We had no basis to judge their work other than the quality of it and what it brought out of us.
Daily Eastern News
May 15, 2012
Kaiser said he hopes the jams will provide a comfortable atmosphere for
musicians to come and improve while enjoying all the aspects of playing live.
CBC.ca
May 15, 2012
Veteran St. John's blues musician Denis Parker said in an interview that the cut will hurt the entire local music industry, and will be particularly hard on new talent.
Broadway World
May 15, 2012
Ladies of the Blues Night, ft. Treasa Levasseur, Hope Waits and Fredericks Brown ft. Deva Mahal, daughter of legendary blues musician, comes to the Fox Theatre for a free show on May 18th. Levasseur remains one of the most versatile of
artists, ...
The Beacon Herald
May 15, 2012
Contributed photo Maple Blues Award winner Shakura S'Aida is one of the internationally renowned
musicians scheduled to play during the Stratford Blues and Ribfest June 22-24. A mix of international and local talent will perform at the second annual ...
Dallas Voice
May 15, 2012
In today's announcement, they mention that out folk and blues musician Ruthie Foster will be among the line up. The Gause, Tex.
Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2012
Does the blues matter anymore? Do
blues musicians stand a chance of being heard amid the din of our popular
culture?
Chicago Sun-Times
May 14, 2012
Dunn, whose legacy as one of the most respected session
musicians in the business also included work with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brothers as well as with Levon Helm, Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, died while on tour in
Tokyo.
The Kingston Whig-Standard
May 14, 2012
First of all, 11 venues participated in the festival, each with its own musical genre theme, from folk to blues and celtic to country.
CBC.ca
May 14, 2012
Edugyan won the Ethel Wilson fiction prize for Half-Blood Blues, which follows the story of jazz
musicians in 1940s
Paris and later, in
Poland in the 1990s.
Salon
May 14, 2012
Dunn, whose legacy as one of the most respected session
musicians in the business also included work with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's Blues Brothers as well as with Levon Helm, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and others, died while on tour in ...
SunHerald.com
May 14, 2012
By SHERRY LUCAS - The Clarion-Ledger JACKSON, Miss -- Jackson blues
guitarist Jesse Robinson is in
Brazil, where a continuing Two Rivers
cultural Exchange program is forging ties between Brazilian and
Mississippi musicians. The highlight of Robinson's ...
Daily Commercial
May 14, 2012
Dana Fuchs heads up her own blues band, has performed off Broadway, and has even had a supporting role in a film nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
Chestnut Hill Local (blog)
May 14, 2012
He will perform with blues and jazz
musicians Victor Bailey and Jim Dragoni. Coryell has long been known for his jazz-fusion style, but in recent years, he has added another dimension to his music in exploring other genres.
Hamptons.com
May 14, 2012
The festival includes almost 200 performances with a variety of music styles ranging from alternative rock, blues, pop, bluegrass, reggae, folk, jazz and more.
Tuscaloosa News
May 14, 2012
Buy Photo File | AP By Mark Hughes Cobb TUSCALOOSA | The legendary king of the blues, BB King, will return to town for the first time in 11 years, for an Aug. 25 concert at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater, according to Red Mountain
Entertainment.
The Guardian (blog)
May 14, 2012
He's a blues musician, playing decent-sized gigs and making a name for himself. He said he's noticed a rising trend from promoters: paying bands door-share, but only after a certain base figure (which the promoter pockets) has been reached.
Boston Globe
May 14, 2012
Friday night at a sold-out House of Blues, nearly 20 years removed from their mid-'90s heyday, the Cranberries proved that they have weathered the years nicely.
Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2012
The session musician helped created the gritty Memphis sound in the 1960s and played with the Blues Brothers, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton.
Hollywood Reporter
May 13, 2012
... a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers, has died in
Tokyo.
World Music Central
May 12, 2012
Bluesman Tab Benoit is the big winner of the 33rd Blues Music Awards. Benoit took three awards: Contemporary Male Artist and BB King Entertainer of the Year, and his album Medicine won Contemporary Blues Album. The Blues Music Awards were held Thursday ...
Asbury Park Press
May 11, 2012
... resourceful
musicians,
guitarist and singer-songwriter Gar Francis has a side project, Plainfield Slim and the Ground Hawgs.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
May 11, 2012
I've just finished reading Buddy Guy's new autobiography, ""When I Left Home: My Story" (with David Ritz, Da Capo Press, released May 8), and when I finished, I felt like I'd just experienced a great blues concert. Buddy makes his life come alive with ...
Vernon Morning Star
May 11, 2012
Instead, the Cuban-born, Canadian-raised musician wants to talk about who he is performing with when he returns to the North Okanagan next week.
San Angelo Standard Times
May 11, 2012
"A lot of people in San Angelo really enjoy blues music," he said, "but some never realized what blues music was." Favorite country-western
musicians like
Hank Williams Sr. and Bob Wills worked the blues into their music, Jolley said.
Escanaba Daily Press
May 11, 2012
... including at the 2005 Marquette Area Blues Fest and built a strong international fan base playing and recording with blues luminaries such as BB King, Dr. John, Levon Helm, James Cotton, Susan Tedeschi and others. The Atlanta musician lived with ...
Jackson Sun
May 10, 2012
"What if blues musicians like Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell actually wore blue clothes?" White wonders, laughing.
Toledo Blade
May 10, 2012
A pair of former Toledo blues musicians are members of a band that is a finalist for the Best Historical Blues Album in the Memphis Blues Awards contest. Bill Tarsha, who played for years in Toledo as "Bullit Bill" Tarsha, and his wife, ...
Forward
May 10, 2012
Collaborating happily with Rwandan or Ethiopian
musicians, as Raichel has done in the past, does not guarantee success when attempting to mate (musically speaking, of course) with a master of the Malian desert blues. And while some people see broad ...
Ventura County Star
May 10, 2012
Morlix also is an in-demand producer - pretty much, just another swell musician out of
Austin. He'll be at Zoey's in Ventura tonight.
