Mississippi Delta trip gets to the heart of the blues
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Mississippi Delta trip gets to the heart of the blues
USA Today – Oct 15, 2007
But the myth of a Crossroads deal would be better attached to guitarist Tommy Johnson who boasted about a backroads pact with a shadowy apparition. The Crossroads don’t seem as menacing now with a kitschy sign of interlocking guitars marking the spot. But they are a sign that what matters here is the music — and your ability to play it well. After a quick stop at my hotel I drive to Hicks’ Variety Foods a famed Delta eatery where the clientele has included presidents and foreign leaders. Hicks serves scrumptious ribs and fried catfish but is perhaps best known for tamales. I order a half-dozen tamales and sides of baked beans and coleslaw. The coarse spiced tamale beef is expertly cooked and the coleslaw succulent… The coarse spiced tamale beef is expertly cooked and the coleslaw succulent. I then head to Ground Zero a blues club owned by actor Morgan Freeman and his business partners. The club with beat-up sofas on the front porch and graffiti and old blues posters adorning the walls inside is named “Ground Zero” because Clarksdale is “ground for the birthplace of blues music. ” It aims to recreate the feeling of an authentic juke joint although it is probably a bit more upscale than traditional jukes. n this Saturday night Little Howlin’ Wolf belts blues classics like Spoonful and Bright Lights Big City in a gravely voice backed by an ace harmonica player and band. My room for the night is a renovated sharecropper’s cabin at the Shack-Up Inn at the old Hopson Plantation. The inside of the “Cadillac Shack” is covered with old blues posters and memorabilia.
Zombies and Mummies #6 – Iggy Pop
Curlio.com – Oct 15, 2007
He was raised in Michgan where he began his musical career as a drummer in different bands. The band where he got his stage name Iggy was called the Iguanas. Iggy moved to Chicago in the 60’s to learn more about blues music. He then formed the band the Psychedelic Stooges giving himself the full stage name of Iggy Pop. Made up of Iggy on vocals brothers Ron and Scott Asheton on guitar and drums respectively and Dave Alexander on bass the band debuted on the scene in 1967. The following year the band was signed to Elektra Records. The Stooges who had dropped the word psychedelic from their name recorded two albums for Elektra – both of which sold badly.
Rissi Palmer Crosses Music Color Divide First Black Female Singer To…
CBS News – Oct 15, 2007
She recalls how Nashville music executives would gush over her demos then back off when they discovered she was black. Palmer doesn’t blame racism just the realities of the market. “It was a question of ‘Is this marketable? Is this something country listeners will buy into? ‘ “Despite its roots in blues and gospel country music may be the whitest of musical genres. Aside from Charley Pride it’s tough to name a single black country star. Harmonica wizard DeFord Bailey was a Grand le pry favorite but that was back in the ’20s. Ray Charles had success on the country charts but country wasn’t his primary milieu. More recently country rapper Cowboy Troy made waves but radio treated him more as a novelty than a legitimate hitmaker.
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