She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
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- She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
- Rocking Cincinnati’s R&B Cradle
- True blues to Memphis
- Bluesman a contemporary traditionalist
- BLUES & MRE: Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll!
She’s 100 plays the blues and is all smiles
Lubbocknline.com TX
“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.
Rocking Cincinnati’s R&B Cradle
New York Times United States
King started as a so-called hillbilly label in 1943; moved into “race music” — the onetime name for what became rhythm and blues — around 1945; and attempted in ways great and small to merge both audiences until it essentially shut down a few years after the death of its owner Syd Nathan. It never achieved the household-name status of Stax or Motown but the crowd wants to change that. It’s an appropriately eclectic mix of folks dressed in country and R&B styles from 40 years ago. There’s a septuagenarian African-American man in an ermine coat and felt bowler. There’s a bouffant-haired woman with a hard twang leaning on a walker.
True blues to Memphis
The Age Australia
In 2001 the Graviesfinished second in the band category at the International BluesChallenge in Memphis. In subsequent years they made sure to stopoff in the Mississippi River town in between gigs at US bluesfestivals. The traders of Memphis promote Beale Street as the beating heartof blues music when really it’s become a big blues cash register. Cabaret singers preen their way through Mustang Sally whenVolvo Sally would be closer to the mark. During one of the Gravies’ stints in Memphis they had a weekendresidency at the Black Diamond Bar in Beale Street. Ian Collardthe Gravies’ singer and harmonica player recalls several chatswith tourists from the north of the US who were left to scratchtheir heads about the Australian band that provided their mostauthentic blues experience in Memphis. “People who went to Memphis for a blues experience ended upspending their weekend watching us” Collard says.
Bluesman a contemporary traditionalist
South Bend Tribune (subscription) IN
He wanted to make a statement Skoller says with the remix a reminder that “hip-hop comes directly out of the blues. “The people who record blues music and book it at clubs and festivals “the blues power brokers” Skoller says approve of rock’s crossover into the blues but not other forms of music. “Any time a musician and they’re usually black musicians wants to crossover soul R&B or God forbid hip-hop to the blues they’re banished from the blues scene” he says. “Consequently they’ve done a great disservice to the music. I’ve seen a lot of heirs to the throne have to go into other genres of music because they were using elements of hip-hop or funk.
BLUES & MRE: Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll!
The Bloomington Alternative IN
He also sang derisively of the “good music” my parents teachers and school principals were always trying to foist on me and the other youth of our day — that it sounded “just like a symphony. ” But it was precisely rock ‘n’ roll that led me to appreciate classical music not as an alternative but as confirmation and musical enrichment. “Blues had a baby and they called it rock ‘n’ roll. – Muddy WatersMy love of the percussive sounds of rock ‘n’ roll opened my ears to the savage beat of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” the marvelous fantasia of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Schereherezade” and the mathematically precise harmonic explorations of Bach. Needless to say because rock ‘n’ roll came earlier the dynamic enhancements of the British Invasion of 1964-65 and the rock that followed were made possible. “It’s loud and you can dance to it and it’s loud” was how the Lovin’ Spoonful one of the most creative of the later rock groups expressed tribute to rock ‘n’ roll.
Related from Johnlawtonband: Classic Rock Corner: Blues/Soul/R&B In Memoriam 2008
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