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eJazzNews – Sep 13, 2007
" The resulting masters were so compelling that Bonamassa and his label decided to finish the record and release Blues Deluxe. Around this time Joe became involved with "Blues in the Schools" a program developed by the Blues Foundation to help perpetuate the heritage and legacy of blues music to new generation of fans. The lectures take teenage students on a journey tracing the evolution of blues music from its birth among the field workers of the Delta during the late 1800’s up to the present day. The lectures are followed by a live performance by Bonamassa. Bonamassa’s next CD Had To Cry Today continued where Blues Deluxe left off. Mixing original and classic blues the CD incorporates influences of Chicago Delta and British blues into something electrifying and wholly unique. From the 40’s and 50’s music of B.
Blues authority at Happy Days.
Free with registration – Akron Beacon Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 13, 2007
Friday in the Happy Days Visitor Center of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It is off state Route 303 in Boston Heights. She received the 2007 Blues Music Award for best acoustic album for her newest release The Lady and Mr. Johnson a tribute to blues legend Robert Johnson. The New Jersey-born musician got hooked on the blues at the age of 14 in 1964 while growing up in New York City. The show is part of the Cuyahoga Valley Heritage Series presented by the park and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children 3 to 12.
How sex turned the blues red hot
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 13, 2007
Louis Blues Are you a good jelly roll baker? Do you need a little sugar in your bowl? And does anybody here want to try your cabbage? These and a host of similar questions were put to American record-buyers in the 1920s and ’30s when a craze for surprisingly daring and witty sex songs dominated the early days of recorded blues. It was the big female stars of this era – women such as Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter – who made sure that the first blues records ever released were also some of the most sexually explicit in the history of popular music. This is documented in King Size Papas (& Mighty Tight Women) a documentary I produced for Radio 4. Recorded blues was born with Mamie Smith’s 1920 song Crazy Blues which sold in huge numbers to the black migrants fleeing the South for new factory jobs in the northern cities. Soon every label had its own specialist “race” imprint selling records by black performers to an almost exclusively black audience. Many of the singers had a background in vaudeville and this combined with the white labels’ fondness for comic minstrel numbers produced a flood of joky sex songs… It was the big female stars of this era – women such as Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter – who made sure that the first blues records ever released were also some of the most sexually explicit in the history of popular music. This is documented in King Size Papas (& Mighty Tight Women) a documentary I produced for Radio 4. Recorded blues was born with Mamie Smith’s 1920 song Crazy Blues which sold in huge numbers to the black migrants fleeing the South for new factory jobs in the northern cities. Soon every label had its own specialist “race” imprint selling records by black performers to an almost exclusively black audience. Many of the singers had a background in vaudeville and this combined with the white labels’ fondness for comic minstrel numbers produced a flood of joky sex songs. thers got their start in the brothels of gangster-era Chicago where similar songs were used to keep the punters entertained while they waited for their favourite girl. Alberta Hunter began her career in just that setting and continued working the clubs of Chicago until one fateful night at the Burnham Inn.
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