David Schiefelbein: Koko Taylor’s music will reign on
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- David Schiefelbein: Koko Taylor’s music will reign on
- Award-winning blues pianist to play Friday in Daphne
- Taste of Chicago preview: Rating the music menu
David Schiefelbein: Koko Taylor’s music will reign on
Norwich Bulletin
”The interview went well and it gave me a rare glimpse into the personal life of a world-famous musician. She was no different than anyone else’s grandmother just another woman with kids only one who happened to tour the world making music. Taylor who had been talked into leaving her family’s sharecropper farm near Memphis Tenn. to pursue music in the Chicago blues scene found what she loved to do and was good at it. “The blues are practically my whole life my first priority” she told me during that 1983 interview. Then she excused herself from the phone authoritatively told her grandkids to mind while she was on the phone and came back onto the line. “It’s one of the things I love doing most – making people happy by singing” she said.
Award-winning blues pianist to play Friday in Daphne
Press-Register – al.com
Blues pianist and vocalist Eden Brent a performer who took honors for acoustic performer of the year and acoustic album of the year at the 2009 Blues Music Awards will appear Friday at Moe’s BBQ & riginal Blues Revue in Daphne. Brent a native of the Mississippi Delta is a protege of bluesman Boogaloo Ames who gave her the nickname “Little Boogaloo. ” The two were featured in a 1999 PBS documentary “Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound. ” The Blues Music Awards are bestowed by the Blues Foundation an organization based in Memphis Tenn. In addition to her two wins Brent’s “Mississippi Number ne” was nominated in the best new artist debut category and she was a nominee for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year award.
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Taste of Chicago preview: Rating the music menu
Chicago Tribune
Too bad it won?t also include the excellent ?Million Dollar Quartet? cast that rocked the Goodman. Tuesday June 30*** Aron Burton and Two for the Blues with ?Honeyboy? Edwards 5:15 p. at the Illinois Lottery Taste Stage. Burton is a solid journeyman who can deliver on guitar and unhurried vocals and Edwards is one of the last living links to the Robert Johnson era.
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