Women’s Herstory looks at first women to record blues music
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- Women’s Herstory looks at first women to record blues music
- Live: Wynonna Judd at Club Nokia
- Fans can hear Copeland’s new musical direction at Wolf Den
- The Weekend List: Jimmy Buffett boat music Glean Infusion’s CD …
- Guitar Blues at College of Lake County on Sunday February 22
- Chris Smither
- Local favorite DJ gets a new gig on digital radio
Women’s Herstory looks at first women to record blues music
The Advocate R -
’ It used to be a compliment. " According to Flower when she taught guitar students would ask her to play the song "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and ut" by Eric Clapton but this song is originally a Bessie Smith song. Flower continued playing songs recorded by women who were recording during the early years of blues such as "Black Rat" a song by Memphis Minnie about "one of her many ex-husbands" and a medley of songs by Elizabeth Cotton. Cotton had her own style of guitar playing which is called cotton-picking. Cotton-picking is a self-taught upside down left-handed two-finger-picking style. Flower said that Cotton’s songs are "so beautiful and so simple. " Bessie Smith was a big influence on Flower who even wrote a song titled "Bessie Blues.
Live: Wynonna Judd at Club Nokia
Los Angeles Times CA -
Alison Krauss for instance is another country-rooted singer who generally doesn’t write her own material either. She’s seven years younger than Judd but has demonstrated in any number of the projects an intensely focused expression of where she wants to take her listeners. Drawing heavily from "Sing" Judd hopscotched from the barroom blues of Vaughan’s "The House Is Rockin’ " to the Presley rocker "Burning Love" to a surprisingly unbawdy reworking of the Sippie Wallace-via- Bonnie Raitt cautionary blues "Women Be Wise" to the reflective country lament of Haggard’s "Are the Good Times Really ver. " Few veered more than millimeters from the original arrangements unlike Krauss’ wholesale reimagining of the songs she chooses. Through them all Wynonna exhibited the countenance of an athlete who’d just solidly planted two feet after a complicated lympics routine. But music should be more than gymnastics. It was only when she dipped into of all things Foreigner’s arena rock anthem "I Want to Know What Love Is" that she truly became absorbed in a song.
Fans can hear Copeland’s new musical direction at Wolf Den
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Also on Friday The D. Smith Blues Band plays at one of the fun neighborhood blues spots Legends Sports Bar. And the Crystal Blues Project is at The Prospect Café. Now is the time to vote for the Blues Music Awards. Members have less than three weeks to vote for the 2009 Blues Music Awards. Voting ends at 8 p.
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The Weekend List: Jimmy Buffett boat music Glean Infusion’s CD …
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– Friday-Saturday — Blues music comes to Hopcat 25 Ionia Ave. SW in a couple of intriguing forms with Grand Rapids’ Nomad Willy performing at 9 p. Friday and Kalamazoo’s Blue Moon Blues Band with Grand Rapids’ Mary Rademacher at 9 p.
Guitar Blues at College of Lake County on Sunday February 22
Examiner.com -
in the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts. In a career that has already spanned nearly a half century Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music blues and Americana and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. He was a founding member of two legendary bands The Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna. He was nominated for a Grammy® for his highly acclaimed “Blue Country Heart. ” Along with the other members of The Jefferson Airplane Jorma was a 1996 inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Robben Ford is one of the premiere electric guitarists today particularly known for his blues playing as well as his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical contexts.
Chris Smither
Austin 360 TX -
After a short stint taking piano lessons Smither switched to ukulele after discovering his mother’s old instrument in a closet. The young Smither was passionately attached to the ukulele and now years later it helps to explain the emotion and expertise behind his unique finger-picking guitar style. Smither discovered blues music when he was 17 and heard a Lightnin’ Hopkins album Blues in the Bottle. The album was a major revelation to him and he subsequently spent weeks trying to figure out the intricate guitar parts he’d heard on that record. Smither recorded his first couple of albums for the Poppy label in 1970 and 1971 I’m a Stranger Too and Don’t It Drag n.
Local favorite DJ gets a new gig on digital radio
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“We haven’t performed locally for quite some time” Sykes said. “But we’re trying to expand our bookings. “QUICK CHECKSThe Natchel’ Blues Network — an organization that fosters love and support for blues music in. Music will be provided by the jump-blues band Big Joe and the Dynaflows. The event will run 1:30-6 p.
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