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- Blues Music
- Spreading the word through music
- Watermelon Slim bringing the blues back to the Norman Depot Jan. 11
- Just a few days of practice then a Winter Blues jam
- Live Music at Armando’s in Martinez
Blues Music
Boston Globe United States
Not with a bang nor a whimper but with a pair of uncharacteristic defensive penalties with a punt that bounced off safety Paul Anderson and ended up as a Vanderbilt touchdown and with a Dominique Davis pass for a game-ending interception. Throw the mix into the pot and you have a 16-14 Vanderbilt victory in yesterday’s Music City Bowl which produced two distinctly different reactions. For Jeff Jagodzinski’s Eagles it was the end of an eight-game bowl winning streak which had been tops in the nation and left a bitter taste despite a respectable nine-win season. For Vanderbilt playing before a partisan crowd on a 39-degree afternoon at LP Field it was the Commodores’ first winning season (7-6) since 1982 and their first bowl victory since the 1955 Gator Bowl. All of this unfolded in a bizarre sequence of events that turned the momentum against the Eagles (9-5) and their small group of fans among the crowd of 54250 when Vanderbilt’s Bryant Hahnfeldt booted a 45-yard field goal (his third of the game) with 3:12 remaining to give the Commodores a 16-14 lead. The Eagles lost despite holding the Commodores to no offensive touchdowns 200 total yards and 1 of 15 third-down conversions.
Spreading the word through music
Hindu India
detta’s music draws on the experience of the black people of America and the slave era music of struggle and empowerment. Her first album “detta Sings Ballads and Blues” announced her coming of age and had a significant impact on Bob Dylan whose interest in folk music and the acoustic guitar was all owing to her music steeped in rhythms both moody and heavy a tightly constructed rhetoric that fuses the African oral tradition with the Pentecostal aiming to rouse the black audience with its history of the journey from slavery to freedom. The confidence behind detta’s music screams for the fundamental human need for due respect and acknowledgment denied to the oppressed. The poet Maya Angelou rightly emphasised “If only one could be sure that every 50 years a voice and a soul like detta’s would come along the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly we would hardly recognise time. ” Ideological underpinnings The exceptional structure of her music is imbued with this passage from slavery to servitude. And what really kept it afloat and struck a chord of fear in the hearts of the white slave owners was the loud wailing of the blues and the heart-rending notes of her guitar that have always been associated with pagan rites and anti-Christian sentiments in its celebration of black aesthetics.
Watermelon Slim bringing the blues back to the Norman Depot Jan. 11
Norman Transcript K
Advance ticket purchase is recommended. Watermelon Slim’s 2006 self-titled release was ranked 1 in MJ Magazine’s 2006 Top Blues CDs won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Blues Album of the Year hit 1 on the Living Blues Radio Chart debuted at 13 on the Billboard Blues Radio Chart and won the Blues Critic Award for 2006 Album of the Year. Slim garnered a record-tying six 2007 Blues Music Award nominations for Artist Entertainer Album Band Song and Traditional Album of the Year. In April 2007 Watermelon Slim and The Workers released “The Wheel Man” his second for Northern Blues Music and his fourth album in five years. The CD hit 1 on the Living Blues Radio Charts 2 on the Roots Music Blues Charts and debuted in the Top 10 in Billboard’s Blues charts. At the Blues Music Awards in May Watermelon Slim and the Workers took home Band of the Year honors and Album of the Year for “The Wheel Man. “This year served up four Blues Music Award nominations which makes 17 nominations in four years since the debut of “Up Close — Personal” in 2004.
Just a few days of practice then a Winter Blues jam
Quad City Times IA
But it was Kellen Myers’ second Winter Blues jam after all and he has been through several of the River Music Experience-sponsored Rock Camps. “And music — that’s my life” said the have-to-see-him-to-believe-him piano player. “I’m a music freak. I’m putting out a new album soon and it’s going to have all blues originals. ” (What 11-year-old says “album?”)Kellen of Davenport was one of 13 children who performed Saturday in a sort of end-of-camp graduation.
Live Music at Armando’s in Martinez
Listen & Be Heard CA
FRIDAY JANUARY 98:00 – 11:00$8 2 for $15Jeb Brady has played blues and roots music for thirty years. Jeb did his first recordings in New York at the historic Brill Building. In the nineteen seventies he worked in the New York area appearing at the ?Players Tavern? and ?City Limits? in Greenwich Village. Moving to California in 1980 Jeb became a regular at Mark Naftalin?s ?Blue Monday Party? in Fairfax playing with and learning from the blues greats Sonny Rhodes Percy Mayfield and Buddy Ace. In The 1990?s Jeb teamed up with slide guitar ace Dale Miller and performed on KQED?s ?West Coast Weekend? Larry Kelbs ?Sing ut” and Tom Mazzolini?s ?Blues By The Bay?.
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