Blues Legend BB King 82 Says His Mind Is ‘Sort of Like a…
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- Fisk researchers’ roles in legendary field recordings revived…
- An old ‘Blues Brother’ joins Guy Sebastian
Blues Legend BB King 82 Says His Mind Is ‘Sort of Like a…
Washington Post – Feb 29, 2008
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Grub Scout: Delightful dinner selections drown out foul fellas
Knoxville News Sentinel – Feb 29, 2008
Semi-slumped over the bar they seemed content to nurse their beers while lip-reading the muted ESPN on one of the bar’s flat-panel TV screens. Gritty blues music filled in as the room’s soundtrack. I started the evening off with a Scrimshaw pilsner just to say I sampled something from the bar’s generous selection of beers wines and spirits. It was then that several loud disembodied voices began to drift in from the adjacent bar and it was soon evidenced by the high profanity ratio that these fellas were well past their first bottle of the evening. I’m not overly sensitive to others’ foul mouths and I know that when a nightspot is packed to the gills that’s just par for the course.
Fisk researchers’ roles in legendary field recordings revived…
International Herald Tribune – Feb 29, 2008
Work who died in 1967 at age 65 had a gift for finding and collecting black folk music. He traveled the South recording blues singers work songs ballads church choirs dance tunes whatever struck him as showing the evolution of black music. And yet what might be his greatest achievement went largely unnoticed for 60 years stashed in a file cabinet at Hunter College in New York. Now with the opening of a new exhibit on Work's life at Fisk University and a companion CD some say Work is finally getting his due. “He was seeking out music that many African-American academics at the time had no use for” said Evan Hatch a professional folklorist who helped compile the Fisk exhibit “The Beautiful Music that Surrounds You” which runs through May 11.
An old ‘Blues Brother’ joins Guy Sebastian
The Age – Feb 29, 2008
“It’s great to berecognised and have that kind of fan base. It took people a whileto realise we weren’t a cover band and that John Belushi isn’twith us any more. But we tour the world as the original BluesBrothers Band and people are realising that it’s about the musicnot the characters in the movie. MGs songs have also featured prominently in the Charles Bukowskifilm Barfly (Hip Hug Her) and AmericanGraffiti (Green nions) – the latter which Cropperdiscovered by surprise. “I went to see it and I didn’t know we had a song in it andwhen they got ready for the big race which is one of thehighlights of the film Green nions came on. We went to the filmwith some friends of ours and when that scene came on she jumpedup in the middle of the theatre and yelled ‘he wrote that song’. Itwas very embarrassing because you’re not supposed to talk intheatres.
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