The News Review:
- Blues blogs and historic markers
- Enjoy the Music.com ffers MusicGiants Media Downloads
- Happy to have the blues
- Eric Bibb: Baptized in Blues
- After Years of Neglect Rebirth for a Blues Singer’s House
Blues blogs and historic markers
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 28, 2008
It’s a long article but men like Mitchell who worked so hard to preserve this deserve a little notice. The music he found was pretty darned good too — much of it from musicians we’ve never heard of. The CDs mentioned here look like they would be very appealing to fans of this old blues. And I’ve really heard more than few samples. Another side of the bluesAn article on Popdose… Here’s a description of the project from the Web site:”The primary project of The Mississippi Blues Commission is The Mississippi State Blues Trail which honors a variety of institutions individuals and locations rooted in the history of making blues music not the least of which is Malaco Records. The trail is noted by special markers placed by each chosen location. The marker placed in front of the Malaco Music Group home of Malaco Records will be unveiled on April 8 2008. First published on March 26 2008 at 12:00 am.
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eCoustics.com – eCoustics.com (press release) – Mar 28, 2008
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Happy to have the blues
Belfast Newsletter – Mar 28, 2008
With his dusky voice associated with a more middle-of-the-road sound and featured on dozens of driving compilations the renewed and reinvigorated artist was determined to challenge the boundaries of music. Chris returned to the blues began releasing records on his own label and played with the conventional idea of what an album should be. That ultimately resulted in Blue Guitars ? an 11-CD release which covered the range of blues music and also included a DVD paintings and a book. Commercially it was viewed by conventional record companies as suicide but it went on to sell 150000 copies. While Chris enjoyed the success it also crystallised the notion that record company bosses are increasingly out of touch and ruining it for fans. “The music business is dead” he said. “I’m qualified to say this because I’ve sold 24 million records in the past 20 years.
Eric Bibb: Baptized in Blues
Traverse City Record Eagle – Mar 28, 2008
Upon advice from the likes of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger he played in the house band for his father’s show “Someone New” and with the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969 in New York before splitting for Paris at age 19. He eventually settled in Sweden in the 1970s. “When I first moved to Sweden I discovered this incredible music shop Early Bird Records with probably one of the best collections of pre-war blues music anywhere in the world. Maybe because I was homesick as well I just dove straight into it and immersed myself — a kind of blues baptism” he said. “It might not have happened if I had stayed at in the states” he said. “I probably would have been steering my ship more into commercial waters and missed some of what I’ve been able to absorb. Bibb came home to New York for a stint in the 1980s opening for headliners like The Persuasions Sonny Terry Tania Maria and Etta James.
After Years of Neglect Rebirth for a Blues Singer’s House
New York Times – Mar 28, 2008
“You could always promote white tourism” he said “but when it came to something black people were like ‘Why would you do that?’ ”Skepticism about the project Ms. Dawkins said was not limited to white residents. Many black people thought of the blues as the devil’s music she said adding “We did dog-and-pony shows about Ma Rainey for years and we just could not pick the momentum up. ” Restoration money was slow in coming even after the United States Postal Service issued a Ma Rainey stamp in 1994 and.