The News Review:
- The “Blues” Make You Happy
- … . Riffs column: It’s a mighty good time to get blues.(Co…
- News for Sioux Falls South Dakota Minnesota and Iowa
- Mingles Reopens as Sunset Beach Club
- St. Louis mayor rejects request by music festival to proclaim Sept. 2…
- ld Crow Medicine Show | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates…
- Top DVD rentals-sales 7/20/07
The “Blues” Make You Happy
KMU-TV – Jul 20, 2007
“When we were very young our parents would let us play blues and really had a great time doing it” Schnebelen said. ne thing interesting at BB’s is a mural on the wall above the stage depicting many of the great blues artists all of them black. Most of the blues fans at BB’s are white. Blues music didn’t start out as a crossover genre. With its roots at the turn of the last century it was largely considered “race music” music recorded for and marketed to blacks. This was the heyday of stars like Ma Rainey Louis Jordan Bessie Smith and Kansas City’s own Big Joe Turner. Today the legacy of these greats has a guardian of sorts… His name is Chuck Haddix director of the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. “What is compelling about the blues is that it tells a story” Haddix said. Haddix co-wrote a book on Kansas City music and hosts a weekly blues radio show. “You have the great blues shouters coming through Kansas City and St. Louis” Haddix said. “They’d playing St. Louis then Kansas City.
… . Riffs column: It’s a mighty good time to get blues.(Co…
Free with registration – Roanoke Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 20, 2007
He deejays a blues radio show on WRV. He’s about to open a restaurant called Blue 5 located at the corner of Second Street and Kirk Avenue in downtown Roanoke a place named for one of the notorious “blue notes” that turn a major scale into blues scale. He founded the Blue Ridge Blues Society to perpetuate and preserve blues music in Roanoke and Southwest Virginia. The boy’s got a bad case of the. CPYRIGHT 2007 The Roanoke Times.
News for Sioux Falls South Dakota Minnesota and Iowa
KELLAND TV – Jul 20, 2007
With almost 100 thousand people expected this weekend jazz and blues fans from all over the region are here at Jazzfest. Specific bands food and the crowds are all reasons that draw live music listeners from different states to Sioux Falls for this one weekend. Thousands of people are showing up from all over the Midwest all for the same reason to listen to jazz and blues music. Minneaopolis MN native Rick deen says "Good way to spend a Friday night. " Sioux City IA native Giles Beacom says "Come up specifically tonight to see Rod Piazza. " Bismark ND native Curt Carik says "We first started coming down here when Jazzfest had Delbert McClinton and we enjoyed ourselves so much we’ve come back ever since.
Mingles Reopens as Sunset Beach Club
SKNVibes.com – Jul 20, 2007
Sounds After Sunset which will take place every Sunday and feature R& B Reggae Calypso with concentration on Latin and Caribbean Jazz. Further on Thursday nights they will host ‘pen Mike’ where persons can come out to sing karaoke or. To culminate the year the Sunset Beach Club will also be hosting Art Pelau which they hope will highlight dance poetry music and the arts in general.
St. Louis mayor rejects request by music festival to proclaim Sept. 2…
International Herald Tribune – Jul 20, 2007
Cathy Smentkowski an aide to Slay said that when the request “was brought to the mayor's attention he did not feel comfortable issuing it. ” She declined to elaborate. “We were only looking to celebrate his contributions to the music industry. Many entertainers have checkered pasts” festival director Dawne Massey told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Louis rhythm and blues on the map… Many entertainers have checkered pasts” festival director Dawne Massey told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Louis rhythm and blues on the map. ” Turner's past troubles include a 17-month stint in jail on a 1990 drug conviction.
ld Crow Medicine Show | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates…
MTV.com – Jul 20, 2007
) has evolved into a tightly-meshed ensemble with keening vocal harmonies fiddles and banjos. The band made up of Critter Fuqua (Banjo Resonator Guitar and Vocals) Kevin Hayes (Guitjo) Morgan Jahnig (Upright Bass) Ketch Secor (Fiddle Harmonica Banjo and Vocals) and Willie Watson (Guitar Banjo and Vocals) play pre-World War II blues and fiddle tunes with a decisive brazenness and the fiery result equally impresses old-time music fans and modern day roots musicians… put together a self-titled album which shares a wide range of traditional country and blues songs from reeling mountain party sounds to juggy stomp beats and a mournful Leadbelly-inspired number. Despite their success.
Top DVD rentals-sales 7/20/07
phillyBurbs.com – Jul 20, 2007
“Bridge to Terabithia” (PG); Grade: B+; with AnnaSophia Robb and Josh Hutcherson in a sometimes sad fantasy about a 14-year-old boy and girl who together create a magic kingdom. “Black Snake Moan” (R); Grade: B-; with Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci in a gritty picture that blends blues music sex and redemption. “The Astronaut Farmer” (PG); Grade: B-; with Billy Bob Thornton as a former astronaut who asks his family to help him build a rocket so he can blast into space.