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- MiddletownJournal: Dayton hio news and information
- A little-known fact: Houston is the blues capital
- Dylan plugs with ‘Homesick’ message
- Shows in the region from 28/9/07
MiddletownJournal: Dayton hio news and information
Middletown Journal – Sep 28, 2007
html –>ther harvest-themed events will include a fall flower booth a scarecrow crafts making booth and a hugging and Hershey’s kiss booth organizers said. Local musician Gregg Clark also will perform blues music from 11 a. About 200 people are expected to be on hand for the event said Amy Dallis human resources director at Mount Pleasant Retirement Village. “It’s going to be a great family time” Dallis said.
A little-known fact: Houston is the blues capital
Houston Chronicle – Sep 28, 2007
The blues also lives on through its musical offspring rock and R&B of course and also zydeco in which young African-American musicians are consciously preserving the blues as part of their Creole birthright. And yes the spirit of the blues can be felt in the slow-rolling hard-banging beats of Houston hip-hop. It is not too much of a stretch to go from Juke Boy Bonner’s Stay ff Lyons Avenue to Z-Ro’s King of the Ghetto and Trae’s In the Hood. It is no accident that ZZ Top the most famous rock ‘n’ roll band ever to come out of Houston is at heart a garage-psychedelic blues band and that Clint Black the most popular country singer to emerge from Houston in the past 20 years blows a mean blues harmonica. It also is no accident that Jason Moran the Houston’s High School for the Performance and Visual Arts-trained jazz pianist released an album a few years ago called Same Mother in which he honored his hometown’s blues heritage. Back in the days of Duke-Peacock and Robey when Houston was a segregated Southern town it was obvious why the civic leaders declined to recognize the city’s vital role as a cultural hub for black music. Can it be that we are still susceptible to a more subtle form of bias in which European-based musical institutions are celebrated as “fine arts” worthy of public subsidy while indigenous forms — in this case African-American forms — are taken for granted as primitive folk music?There is an old slave song called Red River Blues that asks the question “Which way do that blood red river run?” The song took on new meaning for slaves in East Texas because to run north of the Red River meant escaping to freedom.
Dylan plugs with ‘Homesick’ message
TVNZ – Sep 28, 2007
Dylan’s Columbia Records label is promoting his upcominggreatest-hits collection with an internet chain letter that mixespersonalized greetings delivered by the rock bard with links to hiswebsite and an online purchase form. The viral marketing campaign features a clip from the famed”Subterranean Homesick Blues” music video showing a young Dylanstanding in an alley as he flips through cue cards printed withselected words from the song’s lyrics (.
Shows in the region from 28/9/07
ic Cheshirenline – Sep 28, 2007
LIVERPL: September 30 – Bluebell Dance Academy presents Memphis Belles a dance extravaganza celebrating blues music Elvis and rock ‘n’ roll at the Philharmonic Hall in Hope Street at 5. Tickets £15-£12 children under 12 £10. Ring 0151 709 3789 or visit www.