The News Review:
- Mississippi Blues Trail honors Highway 61 South
- 10 QUESTINS for a club owner
- Piedmont Blues Guitarist And Vocalist John Cephas 1930 – 2009
Mississippi Blues Trail honors Highway 61 South
Hattiesburg American
King to rock icon Bob Dylan. “Like Route 66 in the Western United States the iconic U. 61 is so strongly identified with blues music that it is also known as the Blues Highway. Many Southerners traveled north along the highway to promote their music. The rise of the automobile and the development of a national highway system in the 1920s and ’30s coincided with the initial boom of blues jazz and spiritual recordings.
10 QUESTINS for a club owner
Geneva Sun
And in March of ’98 he wanted out so I just took over his half of the partnership. Why a blues club? What got you into blues music in the first place? I’ve been a live music junkie my whole life. Growing up here there was a ton of music out here. I mean Cheap Trick was a bar band. The music scene not only in Chicago but in the western ‘burbs was pretty happening.
Piedmont Blues Guitarist And Vocalist John Cephas 1930 – 2009
Top40-Charts.com
in 1930 into a deeply religious family and raised in Bowling Green Virginia. His first taste of music was gospel but blues soon became his calling. After learning to play the alternating thumb and fingerpicking guitar style that defines Piedmont blues John began emulating the records he heard by Blind. Gary Davis and other early blues artists. Aside from playing blues John worked early on as a pro! fessional gospel singer carpenter and Atlantic fisherman.
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