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August Wilson's words came straight from his soul
Stage and film legend James Earl Jones once said, "It's hard for an actor to go wrong if he's true to the words that August has written." As an actor and writer, I have found that statement to be true of only a few playwrights. There is usually at least...
Tags: Fences (music group), Slavery, 42 (movie), Entertainment Events, Celebrities
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PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge
Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrities, Music, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Obituaries
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Los Angeles bands swing into an old-school music revival
A nine-piece band replete with tuba, washboard, accordion, fiddle, mandolin, trumpet and guitar joyously pumped out early 20th century standards such as "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," Muddy Waters' deep blues and original tunes that would...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Rock and Roll (genre), Popular Music (genre), Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment Events
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Levon Helm dies at 71; drummer and singer with the Band
Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: "Up On Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Don't Do It," earthy and infectious...
Tags: Dr. John (music artist), Tom Wolfe, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Eric Clapton
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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and...Tags: Slavery, Blues (genre), Fine Arts, Human Interest, Arts
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Album review: Jack White's 'Blunderbuss'
Pop & HissJack White, formerly of the White Stripes, has released his first solo album, called "Blunderbuss," and Times pop music critic Randall Roberts says it's fantastic.... -
Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith dies at 75; blues musician
At 17, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith left the Arkansas farm where he was raised to travel to Chicago, where he first heard Muddy Waters when his mother took him to a club.
Inspired by the great bluesman, Smith never went home. Instead, he taught himself to...Tags: Bo Diddley, Entertainment, John Lee Hooker, Music, Blues (genre)
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PASSINGS: Doyle Bramhall, Winston C. Doby, Bruno Rubeo, Cargill MacMillan Jr.
Doyle Bramhall
Bluesman collaborated with Stevie Ray Vaughan
Doyle Bramhall, 62, a blues singer, drummer and songwriter best known for his collaborations with the late guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, died Saturday at his home in Alpine, Texas, the Houston...Tags: Platoon (movie), Bruce Beresford, Eric Clapton, Movies, Music
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Live: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bring a rebel spirit
Pop & HissTom Petty and the Heartbreakers played for tiny Cal State Northridge-based station KCSN-FM (88.5).... -
A long time coming for Joe Ely
Pop & HissJoe Ely is making a rare appearance in L.A. He will be performing with slide guitarist Jeff Plankenhorn at the Mint, and highlighting songs from ‘Satisfied at Last.’ Texas country rocker Joe Ely goes so long between shows in California...... -
Pinetop Perkins dies at 97; Mississippi Delta blues piano player
Pinetop Perkins, a regal piano player who was one of the last of the original Mississippi Delta blues musicians, died Monday of cardiac arrest at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 97.
"He was absolutely the premier blues piano player," said Bruce...Tags: Ike Turner, Celebrities and Bad Behavior, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Chicago Tribune, Human Interest
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Book review: 'Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World' by John Szwed
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World John Szwed Viking: 438 pp., $29.95 Alan Lomax was a titanic figure whose ambitions were even greater than his formidable energies. Beginning his career as a folklorist in the 1930s with field recordings of...Tags: Biography (genre), Columbia University, Woody Guthrie, African Americans, Human Interest
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