The News Review:
- Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal Sing the Blues This Saturday
- Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
- The man who brought blues to the mainstream
- Miss. festival pays tribute to Sam Cooke
- Stage(s) set for shorter festival
- Renowned slide-guitarist Sonny Landreth closes Cowpie Blues Festival
Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal Sing the Blues This Saturday
Phillyist
The proceeds will then be divided out in proportion to overall votes tallied. If you’re in town on Saturday August 8th come be a part of this awesome event. Not only will there be some amazing music you’ll get to support a ton of great causes and see a once in a lifetime collaboration of the two of the greatest blues guitarists of our time. Bonnie and Taj are promising a great show and we here at Phillyist can’t wait to see them deliver!Bonnie Raitt & Taj MahalSaturday August 8 7:30 P.
Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
Lower Hudson Journal news
“And that is jazz music at its best. “Johnny Feds of Johnny Feds and Da Bluez Boyz shared the old saying: The blues are the roots and everything else are the fruits. The smooth tones and melodies in blues music has been a jumping off point for many other genres of music in the world today he said. “The audience should listen to see how emotionally the music pours out of a blues player” Feds said. “When a guitar player or a sax player plays a note and the hair stands up on the back of your neck you get the feeling that that note is coming from some place very deep. “The players like to see younger audience members at the festival because their improvisational style often provides that unexpected moment when they realize they’re listening to a something new something beyond the comfort zone of their own playlists. “Young audiences are the most special in some regard because they aren’t prejudice in any way” Basile said.
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The man who brought blues to the mainstream
San Luis bispo Tribune
Author David Robertson an Alabama native advances the theory that though minstrel music appeared to be a debased form of racist buffoonery black minstrels were slyly mocking the racist attitudes of their white listeners. Minstrelsy was the precursor to vaudeville and ragtime “the final innovation of the minstrel show. “When a job as a bandleader in Clarksdale Miss. in the heart of blues country opened up Handy discovered the music of black blues players notably the “blue note” the minor-themed undercurrent in blues music that invariably strikes an emotional chord with its listeners. Handy worked the bones of the blues into his formal compositions and the music began to make its way into the white world. Though he did not really “make” the blues between 1904 and 1920 Handy’s “genius” “was his realizing the commercial potential of the Mississippi Delta blues music to reach beyond a regional and racial folk song and become part of mainstream American music” Robertson writes. Handy left Mississippi for Memphis.
Miss. festival pays tribute to Sam Cooke
The Associated Press
Cooke began his writing and recording career with the “Soul Stirrers” in 1951 making albums at Specialty Records. Tall and handsome with a smooth melodious voice Cooke drew crowds of swooning young women at gigs in auditoriums and larger venues that included the Apollo Theater. After six years he made the leap to secular music with a sound that melded blues and gospel. He co-founded his own record label SAR Records in 1961 signing such artists as Bobby Womack Johnnie Taylor and Billy Preston. Cooke said his brother had formed his publishing company around 1959.
Stage(s) set for shorter festival
Duluth News Tribune
* The three-time Grammy Award winning decades-spanning ?La Bamba?-singing Los Angeles band Los Lobos on Saturday night ? fresh from a show in Zurich. * The Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue featuring Tommy Castro Band Magic Dick Bernard Allison and Deanna Bogart on Sunday night. Castro won the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer of the Year and his CD ?Hard Believer? will be released next week. It?s a genre-spanning lineup says local musicologist Chris Harwood host of the KUMD 103. 3FM programs ?Soul Village? (5-6 p. Fridays) and ?Blues Alley? (6-9 p.
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Renowned slide-guitarist Sonny Landreth closes Cowpie Blues Festival
The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
“The slide just really lends itself to that naturally — the nuance colors and sounds you can get. It affected my songwriting as well” he explained. “It helped me crystallize the different influences growing up in (Louisiana) and I was fortunate to have a lot of different influences. Still blues music is “at the heart of everything I play” he said. “The soul of the blues is in there. E-mail John Sinkevics:. com>jsinkevics@grpress.