BLUES DREW DUTTN T ‘HNEYDRIPPER’
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- BLUES DREW DUTTN T ‘HNEYDRIPPER’
- IN SEARCH F THE BLUES
- Bringing jazz to Rogers Park: Will people follow?
BLUES DREW DUTTN T ‘HNEYDRIPPER’
San Francisco Chronicle – Feb 24, 2008
But his mind is a thousand miles and nearly 20 years away as he recalls visiting Greenwood Miss. to make Mira Nair’s 1991 drama “Mississippi Masala. ” The lifelong blues fan spent his off hours seeking out the music asking each elderly musician he met whether it was true that famed guitarist Robert Johnson trafficked in the occult. Did he really sell his soul to the devil at the crossroads?”ne old guy said ‘h hell no. He got killed because he was messing with too many people’s wives’ ” Dutton says. “And then another old guy would say ‘You know what? The boy came around and couldn’t play worth a damn. Saw him a year later; he was a genius.
IN SEARCH F THE BLUES
New York Times – Feb 24, 2008
The seekers some in the service of white supremacy some operating under the banner of Popular Front proletarianism some in the thrall of art for art’s sake hoped to locate the one true voice of the Negro in the deepest darkest South. The map of this multigenerational pursuit doesn’t show Highways 61 55 and 49; it’s a more mythic path revealed only to a studious elite. The Delta blues survive not because of the talent and emotional depth of the music makers but because of the image of them that was constructed by the scholars and collectors. In that light let’s tell a familiar story:.
Bringing jazz to Rogers Park: Will people follow?
Baltimore Sun – Feb 24, 2008
But they believe that a jewel-box like performance space with a separate casual-dining restaurant under the same roof can’t miss. Yes they acknowledge that finding parking in the residential neighborhood can be a challenge. And they realize that Chicagoans seeking jazz blues gospel and world music — plus a touch of classical — do not reflexively think. They are unfazed by these facts. “I lose a lot less sleep over parking now than I did last year” says Andy McGhee who with partners Devin McGhee (his son) and William Kerpan have spent nearly three years nurturing their vision of a resurgent Morse. “Actually I never really saw parking as the big hump — I saw people’s perceptions of Rogers Park as the hump.
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