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Review | WC Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Kansas City Star
During intermission a rustic string band began playing what Handy described as “one of those over and over strains. ” They were playing blues and the audience rewarded them with “a rain of silver dollars. “I returned to Clarksdale and immediately began working on this type of music. ” His first efforts at writing popular music met with little success until he began to incorporate the blue note –– the minor third fifth or seventh within a major key that subtly changed the mood of a particular song.
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ne Man’s New Take on an ld Tradition
New York Times
(His most recent self-released album “Different Game” spotlights his folk-rock side somewhat regrettably. ) “She’s All Alone” one of his older songs dripped with mawkish sentiment. “Necksnap Blues” a recent attack on music-business conformity crossed from indignation into smugness. In strictly musical terms though “Necksnap Blues” proposed a curious crossroads between the Appalachian hills and the Pacific Islands. And Makana made it another virtuoso turn tossing in hammer-ons and pull-offs with furious speed.
This weekend it’s Springing the Blues at the beach
Florida Times-Union
Just past halfway through that century I was born and grew up in the Deep South residing in six Southern states in a family that were leaders in the desegregation movement all of which fortunately broadened my exposure. "Early on I loved rock ‘n’ roll music was particularly drawn to Chuck Berry and was interested in where the music came from. I believe it mostly came from the blues. By the end of my teens I was in Memphis. At that time you had to search out blues music. And drawn to its emotion and rhythm I did search it out and found many of the old musicians still playing in Blues Alley where they allowed me to sit in. "Why blues? For me blues is the heart and the soul of all popular music from the mid 20th century on.
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