She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
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- She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
- Yoko Noge and Jazz Me Blues find a new home at Andy’s
- Local Mariachi Band Talks About Their Blues
She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
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“I used to could play that thing (the piano) like it was going out of style but I can’t now” she said. Her favorite religious song is “Precious Jesus Hold My Hand” and her favorite secular music is any type of blues she said. She took after her father who had a good sense of humor and also loved blues music she said. During her teenage years when a boy would come to visit a girl the young couple would sit in the room with the girl’s parents. If they went somewhere a chaperone would accompany them. An oil field worker named Loran Copeland began visiting her when he would come home to visit his parents who lived near her parents. Her father didn’t like him at first and said he was a roughneck.
Yoko Noge and Jazz Me Blues find a new home at Andy’s
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"At times her smokey-timbred voice and breathy vamping emphasizes tone and rhythm while her hands deftly keep the melody. And on the singing duets with John her come-hither yet in-control vocals are a perfect foil for John's transparent bluster naked begging and brilliantly pleading counter-vocals — humor that is a much neglected aspect of blues and which welcomes the audience into the moment. "When you mix that with the very sad songs that brings real life" says Yoko in a voice as expressive as her music "I like to reflect the realness of life in the music. "VIsit the Jazz Me Blues website.
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