Shepherd is keeping backroads blues alive
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- Shepherd is keeping backroads blues alive
- Campaigning in Florida and Super Tuesday States; Speeches by Huckabee…
- Francis Clay – star blues drummer – dies at 84
- Shaggers have annual event at the Grand Pointe Conference Center
- Bio-Musicals: You Hear Blues Theaters See Green
- ARTS HERES F BLACK HISTRY
Shepherd is keeping backroads blues alive
Deseret News – Jan 27, 2008
“Back when we were doing our third album we were talking about ideas for future projects. We thought it would be a cool little experiment to go down south and seek out original old-school authentic blues musicians and jam with them in their environment” Shepherd told the Deseret Morning News. Story continues below “They are all places in which blues music was created. In the early days of the blues the music of the blues was created on the porches back in the field and neighborhood bar. We were making the music where the music was made in the first place. The idea however actually sat on the back burner until after Shepherd’s fourth album the more rock-oriented “The Place You’re In. ” Shepherd decided it would be a good time to revisit the blues project and give fans of his blues style of playing something a little more to their liking.
Campaigning in Florida and Super Tuesday States; Speeches by Huckabee…
CNN International – Jan 27, 2008
It is going to be on Tuesday. Jim and you talk about the Memphis. bviously the home of the blues the home of music Mike Huckabee the Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas governor he is somebody who likes to talk about how unconventional he is as a Republican. Because he likes to play the blues he likes to play jazz as well. And he is about to speak in Jacksonville Florida I believe there is a band there that is warming up the crowd. It would not be a surprise at all Jim if Mike Huckabee took the stage and played his guitar a little bit. That is one of the things Mike Huckabee likes to do as he travels around.
Francis Clay – star blues drummer – dies at 84
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 27, 2008
Clay’s initial four-year stint with Waters included a 1960 appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival – the first by a blues performer – preserved on the “Live at Newport” album. That album which included band hits such as “Got My Mojo Workin’” made an impression worldwide notably on young British groups just beginning their careers such as the Rolling Stones who took their name from another Waters song. It was a pivotal point in the history of popular music as blues players who had only recently added amplification and drumming to the guitar- and harmonica-focused music they’d brought from the South went on to inspire the new generation of early rock ‘n’ roll artists. Clay’s unique style of play attracted wide notice. Stones drummer Charlie Watts called Mr. Clay “one of the most exciting drummers” he’d ever seen or heard.
Shaggers have annual event at the Grand Pointe Conference Center
Parkersburg News – Jan 27, 2008
Shag has its own genre of ?beach? music which has a simple and specific beat for dancing. That music has helped the dance grow in popularity Kinsolving said. ?Shag dancing has been done since the 1940s it?s done to old rhythm and blues music at between 110 beats and 130 beats a minute. Its home is in South Carolina but you?ll find shag dancing from Virginia down to Florida its central location is North Myrtle Beach? he said. The local dance club was formed in the winter of 2003-2004 by a group of local residents who enjoyed the shag dancing they had seen in South Carolina. The closest local club in the area at that time was Charleston W.
Bio-Musicals: You Hear Blues Theaters See Green
Washington Post – Jan 27, 2008
And Dinah Washington’s coming too. Blues and jazz greats are taking the stage in Washington this month in biographical musicals that are virtually a cottage industry here. Why? Affinity for late great jazz-blues legends. "Ella" starring Tina Fabrique as a scatting passionate… MetroStage can point to a track record with such material — "Mahalia" "Bricktop" and others. And has Producing Artistic Director Carolyn Griffin ever lost money on these musicals?”Never” says Griffin adding with a laugh that with other shows “we have lost some money!”Blues-jazz legends make up the audience-drawing dynamic Paul Douglas Michnewicz is banking on at Theater Alliance. Under recently departed artistic director.
ARTS HERES F BLACK HISTRY
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 27, 2008
Born in Georgia in 1897 Fuller shined shoes on the streets of Hollywood and even appeared as an extra in silent films such as “The Thief of Bagdad. ” He moved to akland in 1929 and worked for Southern Pacific Railroad where he spent many years crisscrossing the country on trains. In 1951 he decided to devote himself to music. He recorded “San Francisco Bay Blues” in 1954 and four years later was performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He was working as a laborer picking walnuts when his first European tour was booked in 1960. By the following year he could earn a living full time in music. He played all the folk festivals and folk clubs around the country.
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