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ARTS DEPARTMENT: Music series highlights jazz blues
San Angelo Standard-Times
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Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times
(Petrusich)20090827KID RCK (Wednesday) Kid Rock a stringy-haired beer-swilling rebel from Detroit has been inching further and further away from his rap-rock beginnings and is indulging a nascent interest in rural country and blues music — mercifully the genre suits him well. This show is a benefit for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. Terminal 5 610 West 56th Street Clinton (212) 582-6600.

Goodness gratis at monthlong Free For All
Charlottebserver.com
And they’re all free. Here are some details on the ones that stand out the most to us. Signature events Blues Brews & BBQ: A barbecue competition and festival that also features blues music beer samples cooking demonstrations and barbecue for sale. 11-12 in uptown Charlotte. 11 are Sweet Potato Pie Bill Noonan and the Contagious Blues Band.

Jack White Jimmy Page and the Edge talk shop
Los Angeles Times
It gave me something to hold on to. And it turned out that it was who I wanted to be. The struggle was — how do I use this music? I didn’t want to be a white guy at a blues festival a tourist — what Davis Guggenheim calls a “note pusher” — doing a sports bar version of the classic blues from the South. But the kind of music I loved made me an outcast in Detroit. When I grew up there in the ’80s it was a minefield. There was Prince and Guns N’ Roses — and otherwise just a lot of bad music. No one in my neighborhood liked Guns N’ Roses.
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Marcia Ball at Havana on Thursday Sept. 24th
phillyBurbs.com
ver the course of her career Ball?s infectious ntelligent and deeply emotional songs have won her a loud and loyal fan base all over the world. PEACE LVE & BBQ is Ball?s fourth release for Alligator Records and her third to receive a Grammy nomination. Ball has also collected seven Blues Music Awards since 2001 including the 2009 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player f The Year award and was voted ?Most utstanding Musician? in the 2007 Living Blues Readers? Poll. Concert information is as follows:Thursday September 24thHavana Restaurant & Bar105 S. New Hope PA215-862-1933.

Discover new music at ld Capitol Blues and BBQs
The State Journal-Register
These aren’t men and women who got into show business for the chance to appear on MTV or to grace glossy magazine covers. Blues musicians are the industry’s lunch-pail crowd — storytellers who chronicle the downtrodden in eight- and 12-bar chord progressions. Take Toni Lynn Washington a Boston blues doyenne who’s one of six performers scheduled to play at the sixth annual ld Capitol Blues and BBQs festival on Saturday in downtown Springfield. Washington is a 40-year veteran of the scene who back in the day performed with legendary R&B artist Jackie Wilson.

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Column: Singin’ the Ann Arbor Blues
The Ann Arbor Chronicle
on Friday August 1 1969. ver the next two days attendees would be treated to nearly 24 solid hours of the best and most authentic blues music the country had to offer old and new from country blues to city blues and everything in between. Some reviewers had minor complaints about one or two of the performances but overall critical opinion was glowing. Norman Gibson of The Ann Arbor News perhaps summed it up best writing simply that ?the first Ann Arbor Blues Festival in history was a success from almost any point of view and those who arranged it can be proud of the results. ?The audience was if anything even more enthusiastic than the experts. Many performers received heartfelt standing ovations and the moving quiet performance by the venerable Son House that closed the festival brought tears to the eyes of many.

Lachute en Blues music festival
Vankleek Hill Review
Blues Blue Berry Jam Steve Rowe and the Late Night Blues Band to name just a few. Lachute en Blues has rented the Lachute fairgrounds and will be performing on a large stage that belongs to the Knights of Columbus. ?We have incorporated extra stages so that the artists can come off the main stage and be right in the middle of the crowd? Lachute en Blues director and musician Brian Tyler said. In order to accommodate as many people as possible and to involve the community of Lachute additional performances will also taking place in some of Lachute?s many bars and restaurants.

American roots music heads to Worcestershire
Malvern Gazette
But earnest academic debate will give way to good times at the Fold eco cafe later in the evening with a host of well-known fingerstyle guitarists fiddle and banjo players putting the theory into action. Dr Jill Terry head of English and Cultural Studies said: ?This event will bring together some of the world?s leading authorities on American roots music in one place. ?They will be examining the impact and significance of American Folk and Blues music in Britain and British influences on US styles. But it will not just be an academic event there will be live music in the evening which anyone interested in Blues and Folk music will enjoy. ? For information on the day conference to be held at the University contact Jill Veale on 01905 542173 or email j.

Music fills ptimist Park during annual festival
Mountain Home News
Fans from all over Idaho flocked to the park to check out their favorite artists and listen to some vintage blues music. The artists on this year’s bill included returning artists T-Model Ford Bill Abel Robert Belfour the B-3 Side and the Love Abiding Church. They were joined by local artists John Nemeth and the BoDo Brothers. Plans are currently in the works for next year’s festival but according to Bryant among the many options discussed include taking the festival to Boise. According to Bryant a personal goal for next year’s festival is to bring back Belfour and Ford and join them with Cadillac John a previous festival performer to perform on stage for the first time.
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Joe Henry gives his own tone to the blues
Los Angeles Times
“I typically come to things late” Henry said. “I was too busy with Leadbelly when the Clash happened. These days the easygoing musician is venturing back to some of the most harrowing music in the American canon: The tormented country blues of Son House Robert Johnson and Skip James. “To me it’s like reading Keats or Blake” he said during a recent interview in his basement studio. “It’s about engaging in the idea of mortality. It takes God sex love and death and puts them all in the same room — and grapples. It’s not all answered but it’s all engaged.

Concert review: Sugar Ray and Fastball at House of Blues
Dallas Morning News
And truly a big part of maintaining that momentum – and at least a reasonable bill-paying measure of the whole fame ‘n’ fortune thing — is to keep on keepin’ on which both acts have done releasing new albums this year. Austin’s Fastball was supporting Little White Lies and songs from that album like “Always Never” went over well but the more resonant tunes seemed to be of an older vintage like 1999’s song of romantic imbalance “ut of My Head” or the (once) ubiquitous “The Way. ” Frontman Miles Zuniga and his Les Paul did a good job of leading the band and the music was punchy and direct. Sugar Ray was next and – like Fastball – their alt-rock formula is basically the same as it was in the late 90s with a punk-pop sound augmented by the turntable stylings of Craig “DJ Homicide” Bullock. Their new album is Music for Cougars. Their sound is a bit more reggae inflected a fact they referenced with their invocation of another earlier artist who used Caribbean rhythms to mark his music – their 2003 cover of Joe Jackson’s “Is She Really Going ut With Him?” If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like when you grab pop music’s brass ring and hang on for a little bit – long enough to forgo ramen noodles but a tad shy of Bentleys and private jets Sunday night at the House of Blues you got your answer.

King of the blues still reigns supreme
Boston Globe
“I don’t like the way some blues singers rappers and hip-hoppers have been saying bad things about the ladies’’ he said before leading his eight-piece backing band in a bluesy take of “You Are My Sunshine. ’’The music – ah yes. After the George Gritzbach Band opened the concert with a six-song set of electric blues King started with the old standby “I Need You So’’ masterfully transforming the word “I’’ into an elongated “aaarrrggghhhhhh. ’’ Naturally he closed with “The Thrill Is Gone’’ but some of the other selections were not so obvious. With a heavy dose of self-deprecating humor he tore through “ne Kind Favor’’ whose narrator asks the listener to keep his grave clean. There was a splendid moment in his guitar solo when he took one note shook it full of vibrato then held it and bent it slightly until it sounded right to him. It is this mix of supreme musicianship and audience engagement that keeps King magnetic and makes each concert an event.

» Retiring barkeep to hit open road
maha World-Herald
He currently owns and operates Murphy’s Lounge and the rustic ski-oriented Lift both near 96th and L Streets and Bar Fly the 114th Street and West Dodge Road party spot. His previous establishments include Paddy Murphy’s the Wooly Bully the Sound Asylum and the riginal 18th Amendment Saloon. He used to run Fremont Street Reggae and Blues a live music venue in Las Vegas. ’Halloran an animated fun-loving guy recently sold his house and moved in with his 87-year-old father who was in poor health. “I want to take a mini-retirement to spend more time with my dad” he said a couple weeks ago. That plan was cut short when his father Ray died Aug.

What Blues Means to Nat Dove
The Santa Barbara Independent
He came at the request of Black Studies Department professor Clyde Woods. The lecture lasted for roughly an hour which Dove spent showing film photos and other images from the early days of blues music and demonstrating the musical differences between his craft and the music of the time. Dove was also greeted in Woods? classroom by some prominent members of the Santa Barbara Blues Society which has deep roots in the community and much recognition abroad. ?I think the Santa Barbara Blues Society is the oldest blues society in the world? Dove said.

Lyle Lovett maps fall headlining shows
LiveDaily.com
The 12-track set–which features the performer’s Large Band on a variety of country blues folk jazz and gospel songs–peaked at No. 18 on The Billboard 200. “We’ve always done arrangements that border on blues music that border on jazz arrangements that border on what folks might think of as ‘big band’ but we don’t really play big band music” Lovett said of the album’s title in a promotional video clip posted at Amazon. “But we’ve always had a lot of people in the band so that’s why I call the band the ‘Large Band’ and not the ‘Big Band. ‘ But invariably people refer to the band as the ‘Big Band’ and.
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heritage center announces fall music series
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She was soon performing on stage with legends like George Jones and Jerry Lee Lewis. Then in 1995 she heard a tape of Koko Taylor an astonishing voice that left a lasting impression. As a result her musical career took a dramatic turn toward the blues. Kight's music now crosses many borders that tastefully incorporate blues jazz country southern rock gospel and funk. Labron Lazenby & LA3 can lay claim to being the #1 blues and boogie band in East Tennessee. They represented the Smoky Mountain Blues Society at this year's International Blues Challenge in Memphis and made it all the way to the semi-finals. An electrifying blues guitarist Labron Lazenby (whose nickname is "LA") is unique in that he is also a master of the difficult thumb and finger-picking style made famous by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis.

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Throughout the eight-hour concert the music kept touching down in the blues. Much of it could have been called “Guitar Heroes of Woodstock” with extended jams from Mountain Ten Years After and Canned Heat. Canned Heat included three 1960s members: Fito de la Parra on drums Larry Taylor on guitar or bass and Harvey Mandel on lead guitar who played in vintage psychedelic style: sustained distorted wayward lines. Canned Heat also backed another Woodstock performer: Jocko Marcellino from Sha Na Na singing blues. The Levon Helm Band’s closing set included Band songs that were sung by Amy Helm (his daughter) Mr.

Helena Ark. home of the blues and the Delta Cultural Center
Dallas Morning News
is rich with information about the history of blues music. Instruments used by blues musicians are among the exhibits. is rich with information about the history of blues music.

New name new date great music | AmeriServ Flood City Music …
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He has been recording and touring solo since 1995 in addition to his work with The Clarks. The jazz group Scrapomatic features Mike Mattison and Paul lsen who began playing together in the mid-1990s. The duo has been schooled individually in jazz roots and blues music and has received Minnesota Music Award nominations for best R&B group and best male vocalist. Mattison also plays in The Derek Trucks Band. The Canadian group The Clumsy Lovers blends bluegrass Celtic and rock using a mandolin banjo fiddle harmonica guitar bass and percussion. “They’re described as bringing their own patented ‘fingerpicking mayhem’ ” Johansson said. “They should be so much fun live.
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They will be followed in the second set as the dynamic four-piece electric blues act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings who are gearing up to compete in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis next January present their special brand of “Blues For the People” Tickets are $7 at the door. What is the difference between Americana and Blues? Americana music has been loosely defined through the years to include the fundamentals of American roots music based in classic-style country but including all the influences that converged to give birth to early rock and roll. Blues music  is a blending of African and European traditional music characterized by its melancholy (or blue) notes expressing suffering and deprivation. Songs are typically structured in three-line verses with the third line summing up or rephrasing the sentiment expressed in the first two. MATT MNTA AND THE HT CAL BAND is led by Matt Monta on the guitar harmonica and lead vocals. A prolific songwriter with a catalog of material that grows daily he is a storyteller a poet and a righteous rebel. The Hot Coal Band is a group of keen experienced musicians who are multi-instrumentalists that also write outstanding material and provide top-notch vocals.

Woodstock music is a vivid memento
Belleville News Democrat
No Beatles Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Led Zeppelin or Beach Boys. tis Redding sang for “the love crowd” at Monterey Pop in 1967 but there was no similar outreach beyond the countercultural comfort zone at the 1969 Upstate New York love-in. ther than San Francisco-based Sly’s psychedelic soul-rock polyglot there wasn’t a single significant black soul R&B or blues performer at Yasgur’s Farm. What’s up with that Woodstock?What you do get on Yasgur’s Farm are some worthwhiles for sure. A full-of-feeling performance from Tim Hardin. A giggling Arlo Guthrie. A sweetly psychedelic Incredible String Band.

70 Year-ld Blues Legend to Electrify New York
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I light up and get into the crowd. That’s what I call ministering to the public. “Watkins’ appearance at WMRC is made possible by the Jazz Foundation of America’s Agnes Varis Jazz in the Schools Program which creates paid employment for elder notable jazz and blues artists with limited incomes and exposes younger generations of children to jazz and blues music and history. It also keeps hundreds of these pioneers from eviction and homelessness. “These national treasures all have amazing stories to tell. We consider it a privilege to be there for them after all the times their music has been there for us” says Wendy xenhorn Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation.

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He has been recording and touring solo since 1995 in addition to his work with The Clarks. The jazz group Scrapomatic features Mike Mattison and Paul lsen who began playing together in the mid-1990s. The duo has been schooled individually in jazz roots and blues music and has received Minnesota Music Award nominations for best R&B group and best male vocalist. Mattison also plays in The Derek Trucks Band. The Canadian group The Clumsy Lovers blends bluegrass Celtic and rock using a mandolin banjo fiddle harmonica guitar bass and percussion. “They’re described as bringing their own patented ‘fingerpicking mayhem’ ” Johansson said. “They should be so much fun live.
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I light up and get into the crowd. That’s what I call ministering to the public. “Watkins’ appearance at WMRC is made possible by the Jazz Foundation of America’s Agnes Varis Jazz in the Schools Program which creates paid employment for elder notable jazz and blues artists with limited incomes and exposes younger generations of children to jazz and blues music and history. It also keeps hundreds of these pioneers from eviction and homelessness. “These national treasures all have amazing stories to tell. We consider it a privilege to be there for them after all the times their music has been there for us” says Wendy xenhorn Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation.

Playing their own kind of blues
Salina Journal
For the last 15 years he’s fronted his own band Jimmie Lewin and the Kingtones. The band has made a niche in the blues music scene by playing original songs combined with what Cannon called “obscure B-sides” of records by The Fabulous Thunderbirds Ronnie Earl Albert King and B. “A lot of B-sides of records were better than the A-sides” said Cannon 58. “People haven’t heard them on the radio much if at all.

Crooners sing the blues at music festival
Reno Gazette Journal
“This is my birthday present” said Johnson taking a break from dancing. “So far it’s been really great. “About 6000 attendees were expected at the fifth annual festival which continues today at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park. Although event organizers said they were probably looking at a 20-percent dip in attendance from last year they called this year’s lineup the best ever and said everyone is having fun.

Setting the standard
Chicago Tribune
But it was the Les Paul that gave the electric guitar a voice so powerful it could lead bands instead of just chunking along on fat rhythm chords. It has always been a great blues guitar a commonly spotted rock guitar and even a jazz favorite for some because its neck and action can be tweaked to give the instrument lightning speed. Debates rage about who actually invented electric guitars back in the murky American music world of 1940 (or was it 1941?). Paul had deep roots. He was drafted into Armed Forces Radio and accompanied Rudy Vallee and Kate Smith. He toured later with the Andrews Sisters.

Woodstock-Era Youth: Led Into The Unusual
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“What kicked it off for me was Monterey” he said. “That’s when the world found out about Jimi Hendrix and saw the bands that made up the San Francisco scene. “Meanwhile on the underground FM radio — so called because it was largely noncommercial at the time — Fancher followed John Mayall and the Blues Breakers The Grateful Dead Santana the Paul Butterfield Blues Band Quicksilver (Messenger Ser-vice) and other Bay Area musicians. He planned to run away to “The City” he said and be a musician in the San Francisco scene. “I came from a very good home” he said. “That wasn’t the problem. It was the music and the freedom that seemed to go with it that I love.

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Gift brings music back to Nock
The Daily News of Newburyport
Each Nock student will receive anywhere from 18 to 20 lessons each in piano keyboard fundamentals learning how to use the basic building blocks that go into a piece of music such as rhythmic harmonic and melodic components. At some point in the course Stolar expects students to begin work on their own piece of music using whatever genre that moves them whether it’s the blues of Miles Davis or the classic rock of Led Zeppelin. “Pop music and blues music lends itself to an introductory course like this because it tends to be much more harmonically simple than trying to reconstruct a symphony by one of the masters” Stolar said. NEF executive director Cindy Johnson said the foundation agreed to fund the lab with the hope that the community would step in and pay for it with charitable contributions over the next year. Though the foundation is still trying to raise money to finish its three-year $100000 campaign to outfit literacy closets and fund virtual high school breathing life back into the failed program was something so compelling to foundation principals they didn’t want to wait until the money was in the bank. “We made the decision to fund it and try to raise the monies between now and when we need to pay the bills to keep on track with our campaign” Johnson said. “We will buy enough work stations for them to go ahead with the program in the fall.
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Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
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“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.

‘WC Handy’: new book about the man who brought blues to the mainstream
Seattle Times
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.

Maxim Ludwig tears fearlessly into uncharted territory
Los Angeles Times
"Paradise Cove" inspired by the coastal trailer park community outside Malibu where Ludwig spent some formative years was a knockout — a haunting blues-rock waltz meditation on life outside the gates of heaven. He punctuated it with dramatic pauses that demonstrated a savvy awareness of the power of silence amid the noise. "Big Black Train" let the group crank up a Stones-cum-White Stripes-worthy blues-raucousness hammered home with intuitive contributions from guitarist Eli Pearl keyboardist Evan Vidar (who is all of 18) bassist Jake Faulkner and drummer Sam Kauffman-Skloff. Ludwig also worked in several newer compositions which he said he writes at the rate of about two a day. "I'm a huge fan of people like Irving Berlin and Hoagy Carmichael" Ludwig said immediately after the set. "I wouldn't compare myself to those people but I was reading the biography of Hoagy Carmichael 'Stardust Melody' and he talked about getting up every day going into his office and writing songs. That's what I want to do: just write songs.

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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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.

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.