Brew to bring blues to fans
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- Brew to bring blues to fans
- Lowery’s benediction rooted in black culture blues music
- Blues series starts with a history lesson ends with a bash
- Club Notes: North Mississippi Allstars back home at the Fox
- Catch Blues Guitarist TJ Wheeler at the Family Museum for a Free …
Brew to bring blues to fans
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Walker said he first became interested in playing guitar as a child from listening to popular music of the time. “As a kid I was very much into The Rolling Stones” Walker said. “From there I found my way to blues music. Walker names legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson as an inspiration as well as ’70s contemporaries Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna and David Bromberg. Though he’s a fan of both acoustic and electric blues Walker said his live music is 100 percent acoustic. He plays both a traditional wood acoustic guitar as well as a National Steel resonator guitar. Colbert said Angelo M.
Lowery’s benediction rooted in black culture blues music
Columbia Missourian M
CSTBY Michael SchrantzCLUMBIA — The Rev. Joseph Lowery’s benediction at President Barack bama’s inauguration last week sparked intense online debates about whether his closing comments were racist. But his words were a paraphrase of an old saying that evolved through black oral culture and has found a place in folk and blues music. Lowery closed his benediction last Tuesday with a rhyme about looking toward a day when “black will not be asked to get in back when brown can stick around when yellow will be mellow when the red man can get ahead … and when white will embrace what is right. ”Lowery’s closing was met with laughter from those in attendance and a grin from bama. When news organizations such as the.
Blues series starts with a history lesson ends with a bash
Monroenews.com MI
2009 3:41PMBill Reiser admits that this year’s Black History Month Blues Series may push the boundaries of blues music but he hopes it’ll expand people’s ideas of what the blues is. "We’re staying true to what got us here – education and entertainment. We’re telling a story here" he said of the Monroe County Library System’s 22nd annual event. Reiser an MCLS staffer coordinates the February series that includes two big concerts four smaller concerts and a history lesson.
Club Notes: North Mississippi Allstars back home at the Fox
Colorado Daily C
—The North Mississippi Allstars love playing the Fox Theatre. The band even recorded its 2008 CD Boulderado: Live at the Fox at the University Hill venue. The North Mississippi Allstars may play blues music that resurrects the past but this band is truly wired into the technological age.
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Catch Blues Guitarist TJ Wheeler at the Family Museum for a Free …
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won the Music in the School award from the National Music Foundation. And he was chosen by PBS TV and the Experience Music Project to write the blues music curriculum to accompany the 2003 PBS film series on the blues produced by Martin Scorsese.
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